they are in whichever country they are in. it is incredibly touching. it was amazing to speak with natalia and i thank you to her. so we re getting some new video from the moment of the explosion at the train station that was attacked by a russian strike. we re going to have that next. plus, some more news, some more breaking news from another part of the world, a shooting at a bar in israel is escalating tensions there. cnn is live on the ground. hy. w? what do you want to leave behind? that s your why. it s your purpose, and we will work with h you every step of the way to achieve it.
natalia said she would sneak up to her mother s apartment, only to use the bathroom. one of the biggest fears in my life at that moment was if i start doing my toilet procedures, if i just put down my trousers and they would kill me. i was afraid to die without my pants on. reporter: sometimes from the flat, she could see tanks coming down the street. she recalled the women and children, mostly stayed below ground as the men ventured out for food. when they did, they would report back on the dead bodies they saw. one of our managers came and said that he had seen dead body and he recognized him. this was his neighbor, his friend, 200 meters approximately there was the street that is shown in all the magazines, in all the news, about bucha.
17-year-old son and 19-year-old daughter. a little over a mile from the town of hostomel. we heard some shots. i heard explosions. there appeared motorbiker and he was shouting, the airport has been bombed. the airport has been bombed. reporter: natalia and her kids headed home and to her mother s flat nearby, where they surveyed the basement, just in case they would have to take shelter. i can see the sky over the airport, a lot of smoke over the airport. reporter: they were waiting outside the building. something exploded again and then it was the first time i ran into the cellar. there were many, 30 people at that moment. reporter: the next morning, natalia decided her kids would be safer if they left ukraine and stayed with friends in poland. her car was old, and difficult for her to drive. but another friend in bucha knew of a reliable car with extra
they re escaping or trying to escape what they rightfully worry is coming their way. russian forces targeting civilians, like we saw revealed near kyiv this week. i spoke with a woman who endured the siege near the capital in bucha, trapped in a cellar for 14 days with her elderly mother and several other families. at first natalia said she couldn t believe russia would invade her adopted ukraine. she was born in russia, a native russian speaker, and was busy running a language school in bucha. translator: after putin s speech on the 21st of february, i just burst into tears, feeling that something was going to happen. reporter: on february 24th, natalia s mother called to say the war had started. my balcony has a view on to the highway, from kyiv to warsaw. and i saw a lot of cars leaving. reporter: she headed for the grocery store with her
seats. the bridge between kyiv and bucha, it has been exploded. and it was the main reason i decided the children should go. reporter: she stayed in bucha, tracking their progress, through borodyanka just down the road. we just got this information 30 minutes later that there were tanks. reporter: your kids got through minutes before tanks were there? 30 minutes, yeah. reporter: at the time, natalia thought the russians would never attack civilians. but this was borodyanka after the tanks came through. back in the basement we started getting to know each other, so there were families with children, with dogs, with cats. we heard shots. they were nonstop shots. reporter: she and her mother slept on plastic chairs. favorite, there was electricity and gas, though later she said both would be shut off. and there were lighter moments.