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>> ONE SMOOTH MOVEMENT. GOOD. ONE MO.RE JEFF: YAKOV LYUBLINSKIY IS A MAN OF BOUNDLESS ENERGY, A PERSONAL TRAINER AT BIRMINGHAM’S JEWISH COMMUNITY CENT.ER BUT SINCE THE RUSSIANS INVADED HIS HOMELAND OF UKRAINE -- >> H IAVEN’T SLEPT MUCH EVERY -- I AM LITERALLY, EVERY EVENING I GO TO SLEEP AND EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP WITH ONLY ONE HOPE, THAT WE CAN FIND A SOLUTION TO TH E NFCOLICT. JEFF: LYUBLINSKIY AND HIS WIFE LEFT URKRANE 25 YEARS AGO. BUT FROM HERE IN ALABAMA, EYTH WORRY ABOUT RELATIVES, SOME WHO REMAIN, AND UKRAINE’S YOGUN DEMOCRACY. >> IF THAT DEMOCRACY SUCCEEDS IN URAINE, IT SENDS A MESSAGE TO RUSSIAN PELEOP THAT IT IS POSSIBLE TO MOVE ON FROM AN AUTOCRATIC REGIME. I THINK THAT WAR WAS PURELY DESIGNED TO DESTROY ANY HOPE IN A NEW DEMOCRACY IN EURE,OP OR IN RUSSIA. JEFF: HE BELIEVES IF THE WORLD DOESN’T STOP PUTIN NOW, OTHER AUTOCRATIC REGIMES MIGHT CONQUER OTHER COUNTRIES WITHOUT PAUSE. KOYAV HAS ADMIRATION FOR UKRAINIAN PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY, WHOM HE CALLS A HERO, A FEOWLL JEW WHOSE FAMILY INCLUDED SURVIVORS OF THE NAZI HOLOCAUST, JUST LIKE HIS MOTHER. YAKOV’S CAREER, AS YOU CAN PLAINLY SEE, IS BUILT AROUND BUILDINGTR SENGTH. THESE DAYS, EMOTIONALLY, HE NEEDS TO MUSTER ALL THE STRETHNG HE CAN FIND. ON THE DAY THE WAR STARTED -- >> I WAS TRAINING, AND I BROUGHT MY SON TO EXERCISE, ANDSA IIAH WAS WATCHING TV ON MY IPAD I ACTUALLY STARTED CRYING. AND MY SON SAID HE NEVER SAW ME CRYING IN HIS LI.FE JEFF: BUT THIS IS A TIME FOR TEARS. THOUSANDS OF DEAD, MILLIONS OF REFUGEES OUTSIDE AND INSEID UKRAINE, LIVES RUINED IRREVOCABLY BY THE GUNS OF W.AR >> CITIES HAVE BEEN RUINED, YOU KNOW. IT TAKES TIME TO REBUILD. EVEN IF IT STOPS TODAY, IT’S GOING TO TAKE YEARS TO REBUILD WHAT WAS ALREADY DESTROYED. JEFF: IN BIRMINGHAM, J