People keep under a 35-hour curfew as Russia steps up its deadly campaign of airstrikes, US as Russia has launched around 1000 missiles since the invasion began and that is Ukrainian spacing harrowing decisions about whether to stay or try to flee West. My next guest decided to stay and keep with her daughter rather than risk the dangers on the road. Christina Corbin joins me now. Christina thank you for joining us. We really appreciate it. So let's talk about this. I'm sorry to be talking you under these circumstances. I know the nights are in key have been very tough. There's been more explosion than the end-sirens tonight. So how you holding up? I'm alright. We're all right. We're very fortunate to have you know made it this long. Through all of this and be relatively safe while being in the epicenter of it all. But it's definitely overwhelming. It's definitely exhausting emotionally, totally. So you know how to say exactly how we are. You're there and you know we see the videos right? That's how we can run that's the only relation we have to this. So the video is a devastated residential building is coming out of key. It's heartbreaking really. What has life been like in the city just over the last several days? I mean it's pretty dead outside. Obviously if you're in the center of town there are sirens going off at all hours. You're told to go underground or seek shelter. If you're in safer parts of town you were just using your own best judgment. Obviously during the day you can go outside but there is risk involved. So you have to be careful. So even like going to the store you're always risking something potentially because there's things flying and falling from the sky. You know mental eyes. And it's not the best thing to look at. The question many people for you might have is why did you say? Why did you say so many people got out of you and the daughter. She's just two years old and you were trying to avoid having to leave at all costs. So tell me about why you made the decision to stay. Well at this point and even very early on because so many people were fleeing right away. It's just the roads are so blocked. The borders congested. It's pure mayhem even just trying to get across a border safely. So my relative that didn't go into them six days just to get to a neighboring country. What should have been a six hour drive potentially. So just things like that and having a toddler makes it that much more difficult and then obviously you shouldn't drive during curfew hours. So you have to make stops. The count for potential danger. Maybe you run out of gas. Maybe you run out of food. You never know for what will be on your path when you're going and it's and showing very very dangerous. You also tell us so Christina this is your home and you shouldn't have to go. Do you believe Ukrainian forces can keep Russia out of the city? Yes I do. I feel like we're doing a pretty fantastic job at it and I have strong hope and believe that we will ultimately. Russia keeps bombarding the city and the situation keeps deteriorating even more. Do you think they'll become a point where you'll decide to leave? Well obviously it's a decision that we visit and revisit on a daily basis. Obviously we have time to freak out and we're like okay should we go. But then we reevaluate. We're like no it's still seem dangerous we're relatively okay but obviously if you know something lands super close to us or we feel that there's personnel that is not safe around us then yeah we probably will have to throw our bags in a car and leave. Because you just don't know. I mean you don't know what you're going to experience when you leave with a truck. Exactly. It could be worse than just staying but yeah. As I understand it's not just you and your daughter that you have several family members staying with you. How's that been? How are they? They're good. I mean it's definitely different. We've never you know been huddled under a one or two like this. Especially under these circumstances but it does feel better being together. It feels a little safer knowing that we're together and not maybe spread out all over town and worrying about one another. So that's a really a certain sense of that makes them. You know and the view in the people of Ukraine never asked for this war and yet violence is knocking on your door which from message tonight to people watching and or listening. My message is pretty much stayed the same. It's that if it can happen in a you know tree democratic country like Ukraine then it can essentially happen anywhere. So it's just something I think people should think about Ukraine did not want this like you've much stated and people country and definitely happen anywhere but we are definitely very grateful for all the love and kindness we've been showing from all the other countries. It's really beautiful. How much longer do you think you can know about here? Yeah. I mean we'll see. Thank you Christina we wish you the best. You'd be safe. You and your family. Okay. Thank you.