a life changing decision. i never thought about moving abroad, seriously, but yes, now i don t think i can come back. and if you ask about the future, nobody knows. also, i think it is dangerous for me and asya to go back, because i think we are in the list. it is a list of so called traitors and scum in the words of vladimir putin for russians who do not back his war in ukraine. polina was punished with two weeks in prison for attending an anti war rally in st petersburg. they try to give you this feeling that you are nobody here and your voice is nothing. polina is not planning to stay in armenia. she does not feel safe here. some hotels were asked by police for data of russian guests, and also in just normal routine
and if you ask about the future, nobody knows. also, i think it is dangerous for me and asya to go back, because i think we are in the list. it is a list of so called traitors and scum in the words of vladimir putin for russians who do not back his war in ukraine. polina was punished with two weeks in prison for attending an anti war rally in st petersburg. they try to give you this feeling that you are nobody here and your voice is nothing. polina is not planning to stay in armenia. she does not feel safe here. some hotels were asked by police for data of russian guests, and also in just normal routine talks, i can feel how people in yerevan cannot really get what is going on and they are on the side of my government which punished me and all my friends. so no, i don t
for a push north. at the same time the russians are trying to push south from its u izyum. if they could join them up, they would be able to circle the bulk, and that is something ukrainians say they re aware of, they re particularly worried about, but they re saying they ve got preparations to deal with it. sam kiley, cnn, in dnipro. thanks, sam. as sam was just mentioning, the city of mariupol is battered, really charred, and in parts flattened. evacuating a city is often a perilous act, thanks of course to the constant russian bombardment. matt rivers spoke to a few families who made it out on friday. reporter: the train was designated just for evacuees. if all went to plan, it would arrive here to lviv packed with hundreds fleeing war. instead, just a handful of families finally found safety, including polina and her
mariupol is battered, charred and in parts flattened. evacuating the city is often extremely dangerous because of constant russian bombardment. matt rivers spoke to a few families who made it out. reporter: the train was designated just for evacuees. if all went to plan it would arrive here to lviv packed with hundreds fleeing more. instead just a handful of families finally found safety including polina and her daughter who fled mariupol. they are furious there are not more who got out. she said so many should have been evacuated but the russians kept shelling. they are not human beings. i don t know who gave birth to them, horrific. horrific an apt word to describe what russia has done to the people of mariupol. collecting dead bodies amongst the city s wreckage a task more commonplace as it is morbid some
that is a direct quote from the mayor of mariupol who estimates 20,000 there are dead. enough to fill every seat at madison square garden. an estimated 100,000 people remain in the port sieged city. cnn matt rivers was at a train station in lviv in western ukraine today and he spoke to some who had just escaped the horrors of the south. reporter: the train was designated just for evacuees. if all went to plan it would arrive in lviv packed with hundreds fleeing war. instead, just a handful of families finally found safety, including polina and her daughter who fled marm. they are furious there are not more who got out. she says so many should have been evacuated but the russians kept shelling. they are not human beings. i don t know who gave birth to them. horrific.