we come back to the shelter for the night. i still sleep in the shelter. you still sleep there. i m afraid of sleeping at home. i know that i just wouldn t sleep till morning if i stayed home. right. i will just stay on high alert, listening to the noise. uh-huh. and in the shelter, i m like, okay, i close my eyes, and i can relax a little. have you noticed the kids changing during these last two months? oh, yes. they grew up a lot because they faced something that in normal life, children should not face. they are playing with, like, at war. and now it s like part of our life. today in the morning, taras woke up and said, mommy, could you please take a look at the news.
continued to document her family evenings, sleeping in a basement shelter, never knowing if they would survive through the night. hello, ladies and gentlemen. this is your guide to only ark and all of our family. katya, horace and over there our baby and daddy. olena lives in kyiv with her husband sergei and their three children. it s days before the russian invasion. the u.s. is warning an attack may be imminent. like many ukranians, olena doesn t think russia will invade. you know, right now everybody 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.
in bucha some 12 miles from olena s basement shelter, ukranian forces discover evidence of potential war crimes. ukranian authorities in bucha lead us into a basement they call a russian execution chamber. it s a gruesome scene. five bodies, their hands tied behind their backs, shot. russian troops often left bodies of their victims where they fell. this person was killed riding a bicycle. this man was most likely bringing potatoes home to his family. more than 400 bodies are found. i was watching all the details of these dead bodies just to remember, just to remember this forever and not to forgive. never, ever to forgy and not to
tomorrow night cnn brings you a unique look inside the war in ukraine through the eyes of a mother caught in the middle of it. our anderson cooper gives us a preview. thanks, pam. we ve all seen a lot of images of the war in ukraine but this is something we haven t seen, the war through the eyes of one mother as she shelters in a basement with three children in kyiv. her name is elena. she was a tour guide before russia invaded. she posted videos about ukraine on youtube. when the bombs started falling, she decided to keep it rolling, keep a video diary of what she and her kids and her husband were experiencing. they moved into a basement shelter and have spent the entire war there every night, never knowing if they would survive through the night. i talked on elena on 360 a few weeks ago and was finally able to meet her in kyiv. when i saw the video she shot, i
basement with her three children in kyiv. her name is olena gness. she was a tour guide and used to post videos on youtube. when the bombs started falling she kept recording and she decided to make basically a video diary of what she and her husband and kids were experiencing as they moved into a basement shelter never knowing if they would survive through the night. i talked to olena on 360 since the early days the war and was able to meet her in kyiv. when i realized how much video she had shot and i started to watch it, i realized what an extraordinary thing she had created. it s a view of the war we ve rarely seen before, very intimate and poignant, very personal, and she s really just a lovely, thoughtful, caring person. this is the war diary of olena gness. here is a brief clip. in the morning against all odds kyiv is still in ukrainian control. the latest update is that we