subway station. you went to a subway station by yourself where there were many people, and unannounced, and you started singing. why did you do something like that? the whole idea is to help people forget, even if it is for a fleeting moment about the horror of war. imagine somebody like me comes and says, hey, guys, everything is fine, let s sing together, let s have some fun. forget for a moment that we re at war? yeah, this is it. reporter: and so he s visited hospitals like this one in mand troops on the front lines. songs are his answer to russian bullets, he says. empathy and good will are more powerful than any bomb. ukrainians are one of the
fled their home ten days ago. maxim shows me cell phone pictures of the cellar they hid in before coming here. dis disabled, tatiana stays in bed most of the time. she d prefer to be home. there s no electricity no cell phone signal, no water, no gas, everything is shaking from the bombing, the windows are shattered. for example, these examples. reporter: tamara tutors her grandson, timor. a retired english teacher, she s been here more than a month. a lot of people can t leave this place because of problems with health and they don t have enough money to leave and go other places. they have to stay here. reporter: 73-year-old vassily struggles to move about the shelter. he s not leaving town. i was born here, and i ll stay
couple, a pair of neighbors, who were in mariupol. they survived 40 days of bombing before they were able to get on it toward russia. in their case, it was simply a matter of convenience. for a lot of people, that is self the days. then ending up in places like estonia, decide whether to say here or find some other home in europe before they manage to get back to ukraine. yeah, in many ways it seems this is how many countries are standing up to vladimir putin, in a humanitarian way. scott mcclain, thank you. refugees fleeing to poland, over 2.7 million. many have no idea where to go next. cnn s selma abdelaziz reports from inside a polish train station which is now a temporary rest stop for thousands. reporter: this is going to be an unimaginably difficult
would prefer to be at home but what home? there s no electricity, cell phone signal, water or gas she tells me. everything is shaking from the bombing, windows shattered. tamara tutors her grandson. a retired english teacher, been here more than a month. lot of people can t leave this place because of problems with health. and they don t have enough money to leave. they have to stay here. reporter: 73-year-old vassili struggles to move around the shelter, he is not leaving town. i was born here, i ll stay here, he says. nearby, tanks at oil refinery burn after russian attack, not first time it came under bombardment, shelling comes early and often.
residents are seeking she will testify underground. many because they either cannot or will not leave. here s cnn s ben wedeman. reporter: the shelling comes early and often. with russian forces massing nearby, this is a portent of things to come. firefighters brave the threat of shelling, but few others brave the streets. -for those who haven t fled has moved underground. to stuffy shelters where safety trumps comfort. around 300 people call this temporary home on the grounds of a sprawling chemical plant. maxim and wife ida tried to keep their 7-month-old distracted. they re recent arrivals, having