it only took them ten minutes to gather everyone together. they weren t talking. all they said was, quick, quick, quick! ijust had a chance to ask where they were taking the kids and to say, let me go with them but they said no. go home. because if you leave, you won t be coming back. i put to him what russia says that in cases like this, it s just taking children to safety. i lived under occupation, so i know the difference between what the russians say and what i see for myself outside of my own window. the two are totally different. there was no reason to evacuate back then. it wasn t like now, when everyone s leaving. this was abduction. they just took the children. sasha has always been withdrawn but tetyana says he s even quieter these days.
from even mentioning ukraine or speaking their own language. so, i asked tetyana what she thinks about the arrest warrant issued for russia s president. translation: it s not only putin who should be put - on trial it s all the main people, the commanders, all of them for what they did to the children. what right did they have? they knew it was impossible for us to get them back and they didn t care. phone dial tone. i called the woman in charge of the school where sasha was taken using a russian number, so there was a chance she d pick up. speaks russian. we know that five of sasha s classmates are still stuck there. continues speaking russian. but i wanted to know about that z mark the ukrainian children dressed
with them but they said no. go home. because if you leave, you won t be coming back. i put to him what russia says that in cases like this, it s just taking children to safety. i lived under occupation, so i know the difference between what the russians say and what i see for myself outside of my own window. the two are totally different. there was no reason to evacuate back then. it wasn t like now, when everyone s leaving. this was abduction. they just took the children. sasha has always been withdrawn, but tetyana says he s even quieter these days. he s told his family the children were banned from even mentioning ukraine
pounded by russia s military. tetyana remembers how frantic she was when sasha disappeared and the moment she was finally told he was at a special school in occupied eastern ukraine and she could call him. translation: he cried into the phone. - it was the first time we d spoken in six weeks. he was happy to hear me, of course, but he really cried. he wanted to come home. the children had been told their homes had gone, that everything had been destroyed. and sasha was afraid we were gone, too. sasha s town is now under attack by russian forces. ukraine retook kupiansk in september, ending almost
and to say, let me go with them but they said no. go home. because if you leave, you won t be coming back. i put to him what russia says that in cases like this, it s just taking children to safety. i lived under occupation, so i know the difference between what the russians say and what i see for myself outside of my own window. the two are totally different. there was no reason to evacuate back then. it wasn t like now, when everyone s leaving. this was abduction. they just took the children. sasha has always been withdrawn but tetyana says he s even quieter these days. he s told his family the children were banned