Live Breaking News & Updates on Sergey karasev has been
Stay updated with breaking news from Sergey karasev has been. Get real-time updates on events, politics, business, and more. Visit us for reliable news and exclusive interviews.
suspected spy for the russians and brings us this report. >> reporter: this is the former headquarters of the sbu. that's the secret police, effectively, of ukraine. now, it was hit right at the beginning of the war with an air strike. clearly from the russian perspective, this is an immediate necessity to knock out the sbu's capacity here in kramatorsk because it is from this location that the counterintelligence operation would have been run. >> translator: we've been working on him for about four days. we have a complete picture of his actions. >> reporter: this is ukraine's most secretive force, the equivalent of the fbi and then some. sergey says, we have identified a person who, according to our intelligence, is committing a crime. simply put, this is a person who transmits to the russian side. the russian military, information about the locations of our units.
a school that was sheltering civilians. a survival tells cnn's sam kiley how he escaped from the rubble. >> i got slammed down by a slab, bent into a ball, another explosion, small rocks sprinkled darkness, then i looked and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey crawled out. then he dug me out. dug uncle tolia out. dug aunt ira out. we crawled all in a fog. >> and an incredible story of courage and survival. a 15-year-old ukrainian girl drives through battlefields to safety despite being injured and bleeding. cnn's isa soares joins us live from lviv. >> reporter: and this is yet again another example of what we have seen here of defiance, no matter the age and this story comes all the way from the east of ukraine, not far where the school shelter was reduced to
it is not lost on anybody here that on the eve of vladimir putin's celebration of the soviet victory in the second world war over nazi germany, it is civilians who are suffering the most in the name of vladimir putin's de-nazification of ukraine. a country with a jewish president. >> translator: i got slammed down by a slat bent into a bull. then another explosion, darkness. then i looked and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey crawled out, then he dug me out. dug uncle tulia out. dug uncle ira out. we crawled out in a fog, he said. ukraine has stalled russia's plans for conquest. the kremlin added strategic sites like oil supplies to its target list and stepped up its air-strikes against civilians in eastern ukraine hitting a residential block in the eastern
i looked and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey crawled out, then he dug me out. dug uncle tolio out, aunt ira out, we crawled all in a fog. >> in mariupol, the ukrainian government says all the women, children, and elderly are now out of the steel plant. they were trapped for weeks. it's unknown how many men are there and ukrainian troops are fending off a russian assault. first lady jill biden made a surprise visit to ukraine on monday, while u.s. diplomats returned to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it's a big step toward officially reopening the embassy. let's go to matthew chance live in moscow. what stood out to you about putin's speech this morning? >> good question. what really stood out to me is the fact that it was so low key.
it is not lost on anybody here that on the eve of vladimir putin's celebration of the soviet victory in the second world war over nazi germany, it is civilians who are suffering the most in the name of putin's denounce if ication of ukraine. i got slammed down by a slab, bent into a bull, then another explosion sprinkled darkness. then i looked, and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergey dug out and dug me out, dug my aunt and uncle out. we crawled all in a fog, he said. ukraine has stalled russia's plant for conquest, so the kremlin adds strategic sites to it list and steps up strikes in eastern ukraine, this week
to tracing attack to putin, 2018 attack in salisbury, england. >> the kremlin claiming to have nothing to do with the poisoning of sergey. >> he was poisoned by the military nerve agent novichok. >> it actually starts switching off your nerve connecters in your body one by one. if it's done properly, it will just turn you off as a body. within hours, any trace will disappear. so, it will always forever look like it was a natural death. and this is why it appears to be the preferred form of killing for people whose death will be under public scrutiny, such as navalny. there was a lot of pressure for us to start investigating.
at any time without the unnecessary fees. we'll help you go from saving... to living. ♪ play all day ♪ over the last two months we've gotten to know a mom here in kyiv named olena gnes. we've spoken many times over satellite, as they've been living, for the most part, in a basement shelter, while their father, sergey, fights the war. oli na has been documenting what life has been like from them. we've learned so much from her and her family at a distance over an internet connection. today for the first time i got to meet her and her kids face to face. here's more of our conversation. so, for now you spend days here but at night you go back to the basement. >> yeah, exactly. yes. yes.
cnn's ed lavandera joins me live from kyiv. you spoke to farmers who focus on fighting instead of farming. that's got big implications for this country and the rest of the wo world. >> major implications. a mayor of a small town said ukrainian farmers are good at two things, making bread and fighting. they prefer to grow the wheat that makes bread. but now they're realizing that sometimes they have to fight. >> reporter: this man runs a one-man dairy operation. he has six cows on a little farm just 15 miles from the front lines of the battlefield in southern ukraine. but neither russian soldiers or falling rockets have stopped the 49-year-old from tending to his work. that is sergey's house there just in the distance, and there is an unexploded rocket that landed this close, landed here about a week ago.
did you hear that rocket land? >> translator: everything happened before my eyes. the explosions erupted all around him when this strike hit. russian rockets often target his village of 500 people. >> translator: we recovered with dust, just dust and shrapnel all the way here. i fell to ground crying, not feeling my legs or arms. it was scary. for those who have not gone through this, you would not believe it. >> reporter: sergey keeps one eye on his herd and the other eye on the war. so, these are sergey's six dairy cows. and if you notice, he has them separated. he wants to separate them so they don't all get killed in one strike. he must keep the cows alive. this is the life of a farmer in ukraine. this man and his family grow wheat and sunflower on these lush, wide open fields. but the war has upended his