make the decision to ultimately leave ukraine? >> it was hard because i always want to stay home. and now i want to stay home. so it's no safe place anywhere in ukraine. and i have to myself, myself, my kids. so it was not easy. part of my heart of my family still there, my mom's still there. my husband. my brother. family is still there. >> and alessia, what was the journey like for you and your kids? i understand it was difficult to even get to the polish border. what has it will be like since you arrived in the united states? >> it's maybe most harder part