Covering the anticoup demonstrations in moscow. he said the world saw those protests thanks to cnn and that s why he refused the kgb orders. he told me if the coup had succeeded, he would have been sent to siberia or simply xeg kutd. a few months later in december 1991, i was back in moscow to report on the collapse of the soviet union, giving independence to its former republics including, of course, ukraine. if someone had suggested then that russia years later would attack ukraine, i would have never believed it. and e everyone, i m so anxious to see how this current historic moment in russia unfolds. to our viewers, thank you very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. in the meantime, jim acosta picks up cnn s special coverage right now.