the ukrainian patrols that will be the first to see any advancing army. here on the border, with the russians just over there, there is no sense that things have been conclusively resolved, not at all. it s just a pause in what remains a very tense situation. this major grew up in a border town, his father served in soviet times. now his task is to help keep moscow out of ukraine. translation: the independence of ukraine is enshrined in all our documents, it is in our constitution. as a military man, i need to protect this. we drove south, along the road towards kyiv. to hear the voices of those who must live with the tension of these days.
it s just a pause in what remains a very tense situation. major khomenko grew up in a border town, his father served in soviet times. now his task is to help keep moscow out of ukraine. translation: the independence of ukraine is enshrined in all our documents, it is in our constitution. as a military man i need to protect this. we drove south along the road towards kyiv, to hear the voices of those who must live with the attention of these days. the tension of these days. this is slavutych, a soviet model town built after the nuclear disaster at nearby chernobyl in 1986. a place where evacuated workers and their families could start life again and where they know the cost
translation: the independence of ukraine is enshrined in all our documents, it is in our constitution. as a military man i need to protect this. we drove south along the road towards kyiv. to hear the voices of those who must live with the attention of these days. this is a soviet model town built after the nuclear disaster at nearby chernobyl in 1986. a place where evacuated workers and their families could start life again and where they know the cost of dramatic upheaval. what year did you move in here? in 1989. just before the berlin wall fell. like this couple, married 40 years. he s ukrainian, she s russian.
in a border town, his father served in soviet times. now his task is to help keep moscow out of ukraine. translation: the independence of ukraine is enshrined in all our documents, it is in our constitution. as a military man i need to protect this. we drove south along the road towards kyiv, to hear the voices of those who must live with the tension of these days. this is slavutych, a soviet model town built after the nuclear disaster at nearby chernobyl in 1986. a place where evacuated workers and their families could start life again and where they know the cost of dramatic upheaval. what year did you move in here? in 1989. just before the berlin wall fell.