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morning. >> this is a war of terror against the civilian population. there is no other way to describe it. >> cnn's nic robertson is in uman, the once quiet city now scarred by a single devastating strike. >> reporter: residents asleep as a russian missile ripped through their apartments. rescuers in this small central ukrainian city, uman, on the scene fast. sergei was one of the first. >> translator: there were terrible screams of children. the explosion was very powerful. the houses started to shake in the nearby areas. the first one we pulled out was a living woman who was put in the ambulance, but she died in hospital. >> reporter: the death toll climbing through the day. this lady telling us she heard the missile, put her kids in the
>> russian missile strikes across ukraine today setting apartments ablaze, killing innocent people while they slept in their beds and one of circulating online shows the real impact of russia's attacks on civilians. one woman's apartment shattere by the strike . just outside, devastation amid the flames. as dawn broke in the central locked in a desperate race against time after a missile caused apartments to pancake onto one another. more than 20, including at least four children were killed in this one walk alone. sergei was saying "my neighbors are gone. no one is left. the russians among worst than him one they want to kill just because we don't want to work for them. another strike killing a
missile ripped through their apartments. rescuers in this small central ukrainian city uman on the scene fast. sergei was one of the first. >> translator: there were terrible screams of children. the explosion was very powerful. the houses started to shake in the nearby areas. the first one we pulled out was a living woman who was put in the ambulance, but she died in hospital. >> reporter: the death toll climbing through the day. this lady telling us she heard the missile, put her kids in the bathtub, and pillows over their heads and hoped they'd live. fighting back tears, she said, so many children live here. a fgaping concrete and rubble wound where those innocent lives shattered. the first missile strike in uman since march last year.
ukrainian, and i published them -- a nonfiction book about history of homeless people in the world. but yes, before the beginning of a new onslaught, i would say up to 40% of ukrainians are russian speakers. now probably the number fell down to 23%. this war, and putin himself, are killing the russian language culture in ukraine. but still, the is a minority of russian language writers, as well as there is a -- in crimea and other languages. ukrainians is a rich multicultural country. of course, -- but, it is all everything about ukraine, it belongs in ukraine, it's the culture. >> let's talk about the book. and that these. first, the b dictate sergei's behavior, he put a pause there,
resistance. today, we are reading a modern ukrainian classic, a defiance of those. but also in celebration of this country's great culture. today's velshi banned book club future is grey bees by the prolific ukrainian author andrey kurkov. ironically, set in eastern ukraine where flagrant censorship is occurring right now. grey bees takes place in 2014 right after the russian annexation of crimea. the book follows a beekeeper name sergei who lives in virtual solitude in the gray zone of the dundas region. neutral and unmoved by the politically-charged and very dangerous war surrounding him. sergei's greatest investment in the conflict is what will become of his regional beekeeper society. as the novel progressives, sodas soared's view on the war. especially after witnessing the way russian forces treat his friend and fellow beekeeper. grey bees is every bit a book about war, but the devastation on the pages and not from a bloody battle, but the monotony of the whole thing. the characters in grey bees
quote, communism, human can learn from the bees. any reprimands, then says why are you actually people when they reject an outsider. clearly this mirrors sergei's inner growth. tell us more about that. >> sergei is a typical representative of dundas region, the dan bau's penalities. it's a huge country with 26 regions. the regions are different, like different countries, western ukraine, the mountain region is completely different from the steep region of kherson. of course in donbas it was live alive until recently. it was supported by the russian media one of the favorite tv channels -- it broadcasted victims and had a tv comedies and comedy shows. so for sergei, this was an
there is no, my button is bigger than yours, the way president trump did. he is calm, he is resolute. tony blinken as well -- it's an excellent presentation. this is pitch perfect. this is exactly the way you face down nuclear bluster like this. >> the other thing -- >> julia, the president of moldova -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> i was going to say, it's not just the public posture that matters. we have to remember what is also happening is the back channels, where people like cia director luike william burns and other people in the biden administration are privately, but very directly, telling putin and other people in the kremlin, like the head of the spr, the russian spy service, sergei --, what will happen if they were to use a nuclear weapon, whether on the battlefield or elsewhere -- so, conveying those threats, not publicly, not my button is bigger than your button, but
is doing great, it�*s always going according to plan and russia will keep protecting its own citizens and the people in the donbas. still he says that. the fact he doesn�*t mention any new offensive on the battleground doesn�*t mean it won�*t happen again. so, he can absolutely announce that tomorrow or later today or in a few months. it�*s all about his unpredictable nurse. a5 today or in a few months. it�*s all about his unpredictable nurse. as we see problems on the battleground there are problems with shipments, with supplies, to russian soldiers and russia is struggling. still there is no sign of any problems at all in his annual speech.— all in his annual speech. thank you for our all in his annual speech. thank you for your analysis, _ all in his annual speech. thank you for your analysis, sergei. - professor paul moorcraft is a former ministry of defence officer and is writing a book on