>> yeah. they also have been -- >> fighting. >> yeah, they were fighting and they -- they were in volunteer troop. so, they have no military background at all. both of them are programmers. >> reporter: we are joined by lira, 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 are still there. only i could leave because i don't want to live in russia. across town, mothers knit camouflage netting while their daughters fight. hers staying behind to defend kyiv. >> we know the danger. we know that it will come. but we didn't know when will it come? and i ask them -- children, come here, please. be safe. come to me. but they didn't want.