getting ready for an attack. jonah fisher met volunteers going through a crash course in weapons handling. we have been invited to a school building in lviv to see volunteers being given a crash course in handling a gun. lesia, a grandmother, is here with her architect husband, yuri. we need to be prepared. translation: normallyl wouldn t even point a gun| at an animal, but this is now a time to learn how to hold weapons and shoot them. as one by one the volunteers take their turn, we re interrupted by the awful soundtrack of this war. air raid siren. so you can just hear there, the air raid siren has gone off. some people are leaving, some people are carrying on.
hours later, president biden denounces president putin asa warcriminal. i think he is a war criminal. western ukraine has escaped relatively unscathed so far. for weeks it s been a sanctuary for the displaced, those fleeing bombardment. lviv, though, has been a city getting ready for an attack. jonah fisher met volunteers going through a crash course in weapons handling. we have been invited to a school building in lviv to see volunteers being given a crash course in handling a gun. lesia, a grandmother, is here with her architect husband, yuri. we need to be prepared. translation: normallyl wouldn t even point a gun| at an animal, but this is now a time to learn how to hold weapons and shoot them.
we re invited by yuri and lesia back to their apartment to see their new guns. this is normally for hunting. bought after russian air raids in western ukraine this weekend. translation: it s sad. it s very sad. sometimes it seems like a bad dream. it s not right. this shouldn t be happening. music plays. how many russian soldiers have been killed in what the kremlin still refuses to call a war? it s criminal offence in russia to quote anything but official figures. steve rosenberg looks at the human cost of putin s conflict.
ijust cried out some curse words to them. usually, i don t. away from the protests, empty shelves at some local supermarkets but for now there is still food to be found here. remarkably, ukrainians are still in control of the mayor s office, for now. you can hear shelling outside, says the deputy mayor yuri stelmashenko, not far away and we are getting used to it. the russians have allowed us to keep working but it is not clear how long that will last. western countries apply more sanction to increase the pressure on moscow. talks between ukraine and russia continue and ukraine s president hints at what might form part of any future negotiated settlement. translation: ukraine | is not a member of nato. we ve heard for years that the doors were open but we also heard that we could notjoin.
there, the air raid siren has gone off. some people are leaving, some people are carrying on. in the basement, those on the gun course mingle with the local children and mums that have decided not to flee ukraine. we find yaryna, a doctor at lviv hospital. she s out there training. herjob is to save lives, but she says she s now ready to kill. i stay here for terror and i defend under bombing, under different military troops. and i stay under fire. and you re ready to pull the trigger on that gun if it comes to that? if i have no choice, yes. when the all clear sounds, we re invited by yuri and lesia back to their apartment