show kindness. everybody needs to help. everybody. we need to coordinate. this is the message. >> reporter: a medical student fled ukraine and has returned to help other students stuck in ukraine. she joins us now. thanks so much for being with us. i'm glad you were able to get out. as i understand it, you went to ukraine a year ago to study medicine in cukraine. the university was roughly in the middle of the country, so when the first bombs were dropped on kyiv, you were hiding in a bomb shelter and decided to leave. take us through the first part of your journey from where you were to the border. >> thank you. thank you for having me. so we left last week saturday morning. we left last week saturday morning. we used a bus. a group of swathi students.