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The beatles song "yesterday" to comfort his newborn son just after the onset of the war. ♪ oh i believe in yesterday suddenly ♪ >> he recently tweeted that his son artie, the youngest of three turned 6 months old, and that was august 9th. and alex joins me now from bucha, a place that has endured so much suffering in this war. alex, its good to see you. i was surprised when my team told me you were back in bucha. of course we know bucha, especially for the massacre that happened there, that ...

Audience, is it takes worth of the abstract, war still in, abstraction its maps its nato is things like that. talking to ukrainians brought it out of the obstruction, for our viewers. but i think the opposite was true, at the ukrainians learned that the world cares about them. that the world cares about democracy. in the early days they were asking for help and over and over again, it may not be with everybody in ukraine wanted, but they got it. they got europe to sanction russia on oil. they go...

Tell me about this. -- >> it is absolutely heartbreaking to watch the people come out of mariupol. because frankly, they were almost catatonic. a lot of them were sort of a motionless, which, to me is even worse than the showing of a lot of emotion, because it just shows the amount of trauma that -- a lot of the people that we met have been living in basements for 4 to 5 weeks, they havent even seen the sky, they pulled up here in buses, their journey was arduous, they had no idea if they would ...

>> [ speaking non-english ] >> reporter: everything changed on february 24th says kyivs police chief. they invaded our country and started killing people. its very difficult for any country to prepare for this because you never expect such cruelty. the cruelty, the sheer wait of loss for alexander is hard to comprehend. this is where the shots were fired he says. and where the car was on fire. his family like others tried to flee the russian advance. they came to bucha from ukraines war in the e...

Its very hard, just must be restored. everything must be done to destroy the russians, to destroy the nation completely. probably you cant say that, but i want this whole nation to not exist at all. so that they would not be so much grief. so much grief, too much for any nation to bear in a war that still shows no end. david mckenzie, cnn, bucha, ukraine. >> with me right now is vladimir amelia and hes the former ukrainian minister of infrastructure and he left to join ukrainian forces on the fr...

Cruelty. the cruelty, the sheer weight of loss for alexander is hard to c comprehend. >> this is where the shots were fired and where the car was on fire. >> reporter: his family, like others, tried to flee the russian advance. they came to bucha from ukraines war in the east. they were happy here. madry and kim were inseparable. the boys, a joy for their father. but as they escaped bucha, he said a russian armored vehicle struck their car again and again. everyone died. only alexander lived. my...

That will be seared into the minds of people who covered it and watched it. tell me about this picture. >> there were about 500 people who died in bucha. this was a particular burial search. 21 people who had numbers, not names. it was searing hot, it was at the high noon. this is an august, as you pointed out. this is months after bucha went through this horrific events that went through, the torture, the killing, the mass murder of people, civilians, people found tied up shot at gunpoint. peop...

Ukrainians have been killed during this war. which just surpassed the six-month mark. cnns david mckenzie takes a closer look at how ukrainians are reeling from the impact of past horrors and bracing for new ones. and we do want to warn you, that the images are graphic in this report. zblrnl in bucha, they lived in pi peace and had familied. they they died in a war that no one here wanted. behind each number, an unknown victim. a live worthy of fathers prayer. even person had their own life, and...

Everyone died. only alexander lived. [crying] my oldest would have been 10. my youngest 5 he says. its very hard. justice must be restored. everything must be done to destroy the russians, to destroy the nation completely. probably you cant say that but i want this whole nation to not exist at all so that there would not be so much grief. so much grief, too much for any nation to bear in a war that still shows no end. david mckenzie, cnn, bucha, ukraine. up next, secret files fall out the nati...

Prayer. each person had their own life and each had one and only one he says. its not just bodies that we are bur burying, for us these are people that lived once. people to whom the russians brought suffering and death. bucha is synonymous with the brutality of russias war of choice. when the army retreated, they burnt our tanks were cleared, bucha seems almost normal now. almost but not. not here, not anywhere in ukraine because they are still discovering the dead, the police forensic team gat...