back and live with me and learn polish. his father died two years ago. i was literally going to fetch him in three or four days, and then the war started. and i had to go back and get him. i went as far as zaporizhzhia. but then the rest of ukraine was occupied and i couldn't get any further. >> i traveled a thousand miles and got so close but couldn't get the final two hours. what happened? why not? >> translator: the journey was -- is very difficult there. one of the towns had been under fire since the first days of the war and i wasn't able to get through. they blew up the railway bridge, so it wasn't possible to get there by rail.