odesa, like so many don't want their whereabouts filmed but are happy to speak. virginia is chief marketing officer for an i.t. company who's travelled europe and africa but joined up to fight on day one. >> unfortunately i have lost two of my friends in kherson two days ago. >> i'm sorry. >> yeah. >> they were fighting in kherson. >> yeah, they were fighting. they were in volunteer troop. so, they had no military background at all. both of them are programmers. >> reporter: we're joined by this woman, age 19, a nanny who fled russians in crimea when she was 11. we're ready to the end to defend our land, she said. the occupiers came to my home before. my family is still there. only i could leave because i don't want to live in russia. across town, mothers knit