with daughter yana, when three months later, bombs hit kyiv. we woke up at five o clock because there was explosions. we are very happy that our daughter was sleeping and she didn t hear these sounds. air raid siren wails orla guerin voiceover: the dawn of a frightening new era in europe. i kyiv, a city of 3 million, awoke to sirens. it was frightened, frightened, - because when we started to drive from our house, we saw a lot of broken cars, - people and it was frightened, yeah. it was frightened.
0leksandr and viktoria are also a couple. they were on a birthday getaway to paris the day the war broke out, but all theirfamily including children were in ukraine. i m in paris, but now my mum, my sister is in kyiv, and there is bombing, and, like, news about tanks nearby and it was, i mean, it was not the best experience in my life. so you went away for the weekend to paris? yeah. basically. and never returned. yet. yeah, so. around kyiv was russian occupation and we were very scared. and it is the thing when we play
[girls giggling] we re gonna take to ukrain right now, where ten people ar dead and 55 injured afte another round of russian cel shelling in the recently recaptured city of kherson responded to the christmas eve attacked with this message o his telegram, saying quote these are not military facilities this is not a war according to the rules to find. it is terror, it is killing fo the sake of intimidation and pleasure matt radley is live for us i kyiv what can you tell us about thi latest attack? this was something that happened six weeks after her son was liberated. this is one of the four cities that russians took over.
of nuclear weapons, we have seen him talk about of of nuclear weapons, we have seen him talk about of course the mobilisation, hundreds of thousands more mobilisation, hundreds of thousands more troops, just while we have been oft-air more troops, just while we have been on-air this more troops, just while we have been on air this morning he has announced the formation of a joint belarus and russian the formation of a joint belarus and russian troop formations that potentially could be used in the war, potentially could be used in the war, dragging that country into the war. escalation is really all we should war. escalation is really all we should expect from him now on. we have should expect from him now on. have just should expect from him now on. - have just been speaking to a guest in kyiv, his organisation advises the ukrainian military, subtly the government, and in terms of the targeting these soft targets by russia, you know, schools, apartment buildings, residenti
weapons? thank you very much for your time, thank you. the - weapons? thank you very much for your time, thank you. the attacks l your time, thank you. the attacks came after a warning from president putin. , ., ., , ., , putin. there is no doubt that this is an act of putin. there is no doubt that this is an act of terrorism. putin. there is no doubt that this is an act of terrorism. aimed i putin. there is no doubt that this is an act of terrorism. aimed at l is an act of terrorism. aimed at destroying russia s critically important civilian infrastructure, and this was devised, carried out, and this was devised, carried out, and ordered by the ukrainian special services. . . , and ordered by the ukrainian special services. ., ., , , , , services. that was present put in s-ueakin services. that was present put in speaking earlier. well to discuss all this, we can turn now to mykola bielieskov, a research fellow at national institute for strategic studies, a group which advises t