>> translator: you know, we got lucky. we advised people what to do. those inexperienced ran to the basement. i was running in my apartment. my windows there are broke nguyen shell fragments. i ran there depending on where they were shooting. it was a big mess. but we survived, you see. survived. thank god. alive. also, for my daughter, your dad is alive. >> gosh, this is so heartbreaking. kharkiv is one of the ukrainian cities hit by those russian strikes over the past 24 hours. and this comes after ukrainian troops recaptured several villages east of the city in a series of counterattacks. ukraine's foreign minister says one of russia's attacks targeted a holocaust memorial in kharkiv. shelling has left much of the surrounding region in ruins. earlier i spoke with emma grant harrison. she's a senior international affairs correspondent for "the guardian" in the uk and she just recently left kharkiv after reporting extensively from there