what will you do? this is my country. this is my country. i must do it. not poland. this is my home. reporter: and there is heartbreak for those who stay. svetlana lost her husband in a rocket attack sunday that killed nine outside a shop. the violence here is a chain of moments of blinding grief. pieces left to wonder alone.
moments of blinding grief. pieces left to wonder alone. that woman, her husband lying there still in a pool of blood. were you surprised what the ukrainians told you that the russian soldiers had said to them about being shot? if they go backwards, they go forward, but they don t really know what they re doing? some of it we have to say with a degree of skepticism the things we re told by one side about the other. and bear in mind the geneva convention about war. but it is interesting because it
reporter: and there is heartbreak for those who stay. svetlana lost her husband in a rocket attack sunday that killed nine outside a shop. the violence here is a chain of moments of blinding grief. pieces left to wander alone. nick paton walsh, cnn, mykolaiv, ukraine. such powerful reporting.
sunday that killed nine outside a shop. the violence here is a chain of moments of blinding grief. ( . pieces left to wonder alone. i should point out that the tension there, the grief, all of that is feeding hundreds of miles away here in the situation in the third largest city in ukraine of odessa. we have been hearing sirens here. during the day there have been reports from local military officials of shelling in the settlements outside of this key
moments of blinding grief. pieces left to wander alone. nick paton walsh, cnn, mykolaiv, ukraine. the director of the you re ratios democracy initiative joins me now from near kyiv. thanks for being with us. you re staying in the country. you ve told our producers you have no intention of leaving. what s morale like right now among ukrainians near the capital? well, this is what you heard in the previous segment, i don t want to go to poland. this is my country.