hello, ladies and gentlemen. this is your guide, elena, and all our family. katya. teras. and over there, derina. elena lives in kyiv with her husband and their three children. it s two days before the russian invasion. the u.s. is warning an attack may be imminent. like many ukrainians, elena doesn t think russia will invade. you know, everybody right now is following the news in ukraine because basically we don t know what is going to happen. yes, and of course there is a lot of anxiety in the air because like right now, at this moment right now, today, everything is absolutely fine. but i don t know and nobody knows what s going to happen
Tomorrow. the routines of daily life in kyiv continue. in the afternoon, she takes her 4-month-old daughter, derina, to pick up her other kids at school. katya is 7, and horace is 5. as night falls, they head home. my neighbors are at home. it s not like everybody left kyiv because they are afraid of the russian attack. teras, hello. the kids tell elena their teachers have prepared a bomb shelter at school.
Are trying their best to celebrate easter this weekend. katya and her mum offered to bake traditional cakes and have been inundated with orders. it s a distraction from what s happening at home. translation: the houses - around our work are almost all destroyed or burned down. they took direct hits. we are fortunate to have connections still with relatives. apart from one grandmother, ourfriends and relatives recently started to reconnect. because they bought new sim cards from the russians and now they have internet access. checking new photos every day and see what happens to the places where you are born, where you grow. we get the pictures of my school. it s out of windows, it was directly hit to the flat.
Near mariupol, there s more evidence of mass graves. satellite pictures show how another existing cemetery is claimed to have been extended over the last month the ukrainians say to hide evidence of war crimes. those who escaped mariupol are trying their best to celebrate easter this weekend. katya and her mum offered to bake traditional cakes and have been inundated with orders. it s a distraction from what s happening at home. the houses around ours were almost all destroyed or burned down. they took direct hits. we are fortunate to have connection still with relatives. apart from one grandmother, our friends and relatives were simply started to reconnect. because they bought new sim cards from the russians and now they have internet access. we re checking new photos every day and see what happens to the places
Evidence of war crimes. those who escaped mariupol are trying their best to celebrate easter this weekend. katya and her mum offered to bake traditional cakes and have been inundated with orders. it s a distraction from what s happening at home. translation: the houses around us were almost - all destroyed or burned down. they took direct hits. we are fortunate to have connections still with relatives. apart from one grandmother, ourfriends and relatives recently started to reconnect. because they bought new sim cards from the russians and now they have internet access. checking new photos every day and see what happens to the places where you are born, where you grow. we get the pictures of my school.