the window for this fight to escape is closing fast. we say this often, but it bears repeating. the images of this war are so hard to watch, but they are important to see. the sheer brutality of putin s war on innocent civilians in ukraine on full display. seeing pregnant women bloodied and bombed out wreckage of that maternity and children s hospital in mariupol should haunt everyone. days covered in dust and ash, some carried out on stretchers. and this attack happened during what was supposed to have been a temporary cease-fire. and then there s this image, a ukrainian family killed, this mother and her 9 and 18-year-old children had been hiding in a basement when a bomb hit their apartment building. so they decided to evacuate thinking it would be safe because, again, it was during a supposed russian cease-fire. instead they were killed in an
the image so devastating it shocked the world. a ukrainian family killed by russian mortar fire as they tried to fleeer pin. se ranking a bay area tech company, and her two children. elisa and makita, 18. and a 26-year-old member of a church group who, after helping his own family get to safety, went back to help others. this wasn t the first time the family was forced to leave home having moved from donetsk in 2014. this time, after hiding out in a basement when a bomb hit their apartment building, the family decided to flee because they thought they had been offered safe passage by a temporary
this point. frederick pleitgen is near the site of this shopping mall, retroville complex bombed over the weekend. fred, give us a sense of what you re seeing there now. reporter: hi there, john. we are actually at the site where that bomb hit or where the rocket hit. not exactly sure what it was. we will ask our photo journalist byron to go forward. just absolutely massive damage caused by that explosion. you will see that one building, taller building completely destroyed all the rooms in that building seem to be destroyed. there are a lot of cars destroyed. debris laying around there.
at one point, risking their own lives by pretending he was their own son. even while they were forced to host german soldiers in the same house. a letter in the file, written by describes how the town near kharkiv was bombed in 1943. the similarities down to the date. haunting. the germans bombed us from march 2 to march 19. every day from morning to evening. for three days we were hiding in the cellar. march 5 the bomb hit our barn. she grows emotional over the parallels to the russian army now. they destroy them deliberately. ruthlessly. because it s genocide. it s just genocide. of the ukrainian people. their bond started when she reached out to the museum a year
yesterday was sasha s 11th birthday, he spent it on a train fleeing his home. i received from candy, i really like them because i could get nothing more than that now. i will get my present one day. and at children killed when a bomb hit near her house, she could not stay in kharkiv any longer. i hit near her house, she could not stay in kharkiv any longer.- stay in kharkiv any longer. i was worried for stay in kharkiv any longer. i was worried for my stay in kharkiv any longer. i was worried for my parents. - another besieged city, mariupol, is still without aid. yesterday a red cross team heading there was detained, they have now been released but the need is growing. after five weeks of fighting, the situation is desperate. that was anna foster reporting on the latest from lviv. our corrrespondentjenny hill