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Violence. but for some, ukrainian women, there is no choice but to stay and support their loved ones who have gone to the front. anderson cooper spoke with several of them in lviv. >> reporter: in a volunteer center in lviv, moms whose husbands and children have taken up arms gather supplies for those fighting further east. >> translator: we understand we need to hold strong. like a fist. like this. and we have very strong faith. we believe that we will win, and this will hold us together. >> re...

Gas system was damaged by the russians in that district, in that region. so there is no gas. you cannot cook, no utilities at all, and total, brutal, nonstop, constant, bombing of everything. civilian buildings, streets, hospitals, dorms, schools, blood stations, everything. itsjust unimaginable. you cannot even imagine in europe, that is a nightmare, how its there, how people are doing now. and everything is like... the city runs out of all the goods left, like medicine, there was no fuel from ...

Shoulder. shes recruited women to pack boxes around the clock. >> nonstop, nonstop. >> reporter: everything is donated, medicine, toiletries, all kinds of food. you are looking for things that are easy to prepare for troops at the front or families. nothing stays here for long. the work is hard. the war is harder. angelas husband left for the front yesterday. >> my husband yesterday. >> reporter: hes a doctor, a veteran of the soviet war in afghanistan. >> does it help the work here to stay busy...

>> thats true, and the conversation that ive had today with people, they, of course, are watching live time what is happening in their country. they are reading the news, and emotionally given the fact many of them cannot reach their family members, this is a very traumatic moment. just take a look at some of these people here. everyone is exhausted. everyone has red eyes. they either are sleep deprived, they have been crying, they have only grabbed what they can, this woman is holding just a sm...

Who are doing their part for the ukrainian war. >> reporter: in a volunteer center in lviv, moms whose husbands and children have taken up arms gather supplies for those fighting for their east. >> translator: we understand we need to hold strong, like a fist, like this, and we have very strong faith. we believe that we will win and this will hold us together. >> irina works for a group called angel on your shoulder. shes recruited more that be 100 women to pack boxes around the clock. >> nonsto...

Nonstop. it adds insult to injury. and i was talking to a friend who was another iconic anchor, and he said that now, he turn on tv, russian tv, and he said that the brainwashing is just beyond belief. what is shown, what you are showing on the ukraine side, the same thing is shown on the donetsk, luhansk, and those poor people in the -- they want to be russians or affiliated with the russia is being abused and threatened and killed by the ukrainian forces, but those nazi forces that is being pr...

Continue to advance, so too will the west continue with sanctions that continue to raftchet up th press pressure, hala. >> melissa bell in paris, thanks so umuch. cnns anderson cooper spoke to the women preparing care packages and supplies for the soldiers and their families in need. >> reporter: in a volunteer center in lviv, moms whose husbands and children have taken up arms gather supplies for those fighting further east. >> translator: we understand we need to hold strong, like a fist, like...

Need to hold strong, like a fist, like this. and we have very strong faith. we believe that we will win, and this will hold us together. >> irina works for a group called angel on your shoulder. shes recruited more than 100 women to pack boxes around the clock. >> nonstop, nonstop. >> everything is donated. medicine, toiletries, all kinds of pre-packaged food. theyre looking for things which are easy to prepare or you can just add water to for troops at the front or families. nothing stays here ...

Supplies. >> translator: we understand we need to hold strong, like a fist, like this, and we have very strong faith. we believe that we will win and this will hold us together. >> she works for a group called angel on your shoulder. shes recruited more than 100 women to pack boxes around the clock. >> nonstop, nonstop. >> everything is donated. medicine, toiletries, all kinds of prepackaged food. theyre looking for things that are easy to prepare or just add water to for troops at the front or ...

>> yes. a lot of it. thank you so much. back to kyiv where there have been russian troop movements overnight, as we understand. the mayor klitschko can us now. what can you tell us about this? i know you have been out and about to see where troops are moving. what are you seeing? >> good afternoon. good morning, everybody. kyiv is a target. that is why the russians try to make a circle around kyiv. thousands of russian soldiers north of our city right now, they fight. they are in bucha, irpin, s...