and ukrainians were one people. relatives bound by blood. with a shared history. a common culture. and one united soul. putin said he was liberating ukraine. but they didn't want liberating. for ukrainians, it was only one choice. freedom or death. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> days before kyiv was attacked, it looked remarkably relaxed. even though vladimir putin had brought the country with troops, he said it was a military exercise. and most ukrainians believed his lie. maybe it was easier to accept than the truth. the collective sentiment was that the storm would pass. that putin was bluffing. no one seemed overly concerned about the americans urging warnings that russia was about to strike. and then in a moment, life suddenly changed. [noise] [speaking foreign language] >> any future plans ukrainians had were gone. [speaking foreign language] >> they were only priorities now. >> it is crazy, you hear kids screaming, mothers screaming, it is so crazy. >> you can see that man holding his baby up so that he is not crushed by this crowd. the train has opened its doors, but clearly there is not room for everyone. nobody wants to miss this train. [noise] >> people are hugging and saying goodbye, and not sure if they will ever come back to this place. >> ukrainians had to evacuate, or fight. russia was trying to overthrow ukraine in a rapid blitzkrieg. for putin, ukraine is a pretend country that belonged under his iron fist. a fascist, neo-nazi state, that needed to be destroyed. that is the idea. that a bunch of neo-nazis run by a jewish president one day we're going to get a nuclear weapon and join nato and attack and devour russia. that is the reason for all of this. it would be laughable if people weren't dying for it. >> russian tanks rolled into ukraine from the north, south, and east. announcing their arrival with the letter z. sirens became the soundtrack of the country. russia started bombing, shooting, and everything in its path. but the main target was the capital, kyiv. if putin could take the city, ukraine would fall. and russia hoped the suburban town of irpin would be its way in. [speaking foreign language] civilians were killed by russian shelling as they tried to escape. >> what is going on in irpin? >> it is hell. every day, every second we are bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb. and i saw dead bodies on my street. >> the only way in or out of irpin was across planks over an icy stream. the ukrainians blew up the bridge to slow down the russians advance into the city. >> this is now a reverse evacuation where people are leaving the suburbs, heading into the center of kyiv, hoping that they can find relative safety there in numbers in the built-up part of the city. but against all odds and predictions, ukrainian forces managed to hold on to irpin, and keep the russians back. so russian forces changed strategy. since they could not get through the ukrainian army, they go over it. lobbing bombs and missiles into kyiv. 65 year old nina was sleeping when a rocket struck her apartment. >> [speaking foreign language] >> you are going to rebuild? fix everything and come back? >> oh, yes! >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> nina was born in her three room apartment. it is the only place she had ever lived. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> attacking apartment complexes like this is a terror campaign to frighten ukrainians into surrendering. but it is not working. and all of the damage here and across this country is only convincing ukrainians of the need to fight back more, or lose everything. >> and that resolve came as a surprise to both vladimir putin, and the west. putin clearly got this one wrong. he thought that this would be a walk over, that in three days russian troops were going to topple the government, that they would be celebrating victory. but this country banded together, defiant and determined. civilians volunteered and their thousands to stop the russian advance anyway they could. >> there is only one ukraine. we have nowhere to run. it is my city. it is my country. >> they were led by a president who never showed fear, and never fled. [speaking foreign language] >> the invasion inspired tens of thousands of ukrainians from across the world to come home to defend their country. miro moved to the states when he was 19 years old, joined the u. s. army, and it became an american citizen. he is fighting for the city where he was born. >> we have it saying, freedom or death. it is not just empty words. we actually mean that. there is no way that we are going to be under russian government. there is no way that we are going to go back to the ussr or something like that. no. >> miro was it just one of the ukrainians frustrated with putin's assault, and daring to believe that this was a war that they might just win. >> i think that modern ukraine and ukrainians woke up, especially now, and we are going to fight for our freedom. that is it. every single person here. >> are people here willing to die for this? >> of course. all of us. >> this is not just a resistance? when the russians come down these roads -- >> if they come down these roads, we are willing to die. we will do everything. they came to our home. trying to destroy us. the people just got united. what else do we have? we don't have another choice. we stand divided, we fall. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. ♪ ♪ bonnie boon i'm calling you out. everybody be cool, alright? we've got bonnie right here on a video call. we don't take kindly to video calls. oh, in that case just tap to send a message. we don't take kindly to messages neither. in that case how 'bout a ringcentral phone call. we don't take kindly to no... would you can it eugene! let's just hear her out. ha ha ha, i've been needing a new horse. we've got ourselves a deal. ♪ ♪ ♪ ringcentral ♪ this is not the stallion i was imagining. >> the conflict in ukraine is really about russia's identity. russia sees its origin story in ukraine. this is something that vladimir putin has wholeheartedly embraced. it is a territory that russia sees as part of the motherland. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> mr. gorbachev, tear down this wall. >> reports of protestors heading towards red square, coming onto vehicles. >> in 1991, the soviet union collapsed. >> the soviet union is dead. president gorbachev accepted the inevitability, and then signed a death certificate of the soviet empire. >> ukraine declared its independence from the ussr. >> there is a new country tonight, ukraine. >> the collapse of the soviet union was a fundamental tragedy for vladimir putin, and he wants to fix it. he believes that ukraine is the country that got away, that ukraine must be re-incorporated into russia. he believes that he is correcting history, that he, himself, is an agent of history. that is a profoundly dangerous kind of person. this is a war that was launched because of a mad historian. [noise] [noise] vladimir putin's war plan was to rapidly overpower the ukrainian military. but the russian army was not up to the job. soldiers abandonned their vehicles. tanks ran out of gas. you could imagine the morale boost that that gave to the ukrainian people, that this vaunted russian army was stuck by the road, and the ukrainians were coming up and mocking them, and towing their vehicles away. it felt good, and it reinforced that belief that ukrainians had before the war, that they could win. [noise] >> with russia's special military operation stalled, putin resorted to an old and brutal strategy, flattening and destroying cities, to break the ukrainian spirit. he made an example of the city of mariupol. mariupol is an industrial city of 400,000 on the sea of azov. it lies 35 miles from the russian border. >> it is very quiet here. >> we stayed in mariupol for about three weeks. mariupol lies exactly in between russia and crimea. crimea has been an ex to russia, meaning it is now russian territory, so it stands to reason that putin would want to create a land bridge to connect russian territory to russian territory. if he will build a land bridge from crimea to russia, he would have to go through mariupol. >> and he is six months, and you are -- >> i met olga and her husband and her two children for the russians invaded. they lived a comfortable life and had no intention of leaving the home they love. >> the wheels on the bus go round and round, all through the town. >> we want to live a normal life, play with our children and go to work. we don't want to think about the war. but now, we have to prepare for maybe an escape from our city, from our home. we need to prepare our kids. >> they also prepared to defend themselves. >> [speaking foreign language] >> it was the first time olga, a teacher, had ever held a gun. her husband, an i. t. consultant, also joined a training. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> right before the invasion, the people of mariupol went to the streets to say to putin, do not invade in our nation. >> we do not feel that we have to be saved by him, because we speak russian, no ukrainians person is going to kill us. we do not feel that someone has to do this. >> putin has said repeatedly that there is a genocide going on here against russian -speaking people, against those that are sympathetic for moscow? you are russian, is there a genocide here? >> no, there never has been. this is not the truth. this is totally a lie. it is a complete lie. this has never happened. >> [speaking foreign language] >> desîte their pleas, putin attacked variable without mercy. putin was attacking civilians directly to force the people into submission. >> [noise] >> across mariupol, thousands were dying. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the city quickly became a living hell. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [noise] [speaking foreign language] [noise] >> russia even bombed the maternity hospital. this woman and her unborn child died from their wounds. the family lived through this nightmare hiding in a bunker for 15 days. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> after the maternity hospital was bombed, olga and her husband knew it was not safe. even though mariupol was surrounded, they managed to escape. the fighting continued. >> many around the world were appalled by what russia was doing in ukraine and started to protests, even inside russia. their voices were quickly silenced. putin responded to dissent with mass arrest and shutting down what little free media russia had. >> he elevated state propaganda to dangerous levels. ukrainians, all of them, the government and the people, were nazis. any russians opposing the war or even daring to call it a war were traitors as scum. putin's approval ratings went up. >> ♪ ♪ ♪ >> putin wanted to make russia great again and restore russian pride. there are few things more dangerous than a nostalgic dictator. ready to style in just one step? 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>> [speaking foreign language] >> now she is back drawing outside. down the street, i met 88 year old -- she was distraught and overwhelmed. >> [speaking foreign language] >> she had survived world war ii, but for her, this had been worse. >> [speaking foreign language] >> the russian troops had just left, and she was struggling to take it all in. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> and here we saw early warning signs of how russian troops were treating civilians in areas under russian control. we met andre, russian troops fired on him as he was trying to escape. his wife and daughter were with him in the family car. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> his daughter survived, but his wife died in the car. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [noise] >> ukraine's surprisingly fierce counterattack was soon inflicting heavy russian losses. within the first month of the war, nato said russia lost up to 15,000 troops. as many losses as the country suffered during a decade in afghanistan. but putin didn't seem to care how many troops needed to be sacrificed. for him, conquering ukraine was key to his goal of restoring soviet glory. it was also personal. settling an old grudge that went back to the winter of 2014. when revolution was in the air in kyiv. an opposition movement looking west and embracing democracy, and taken to the streets to demand that ukraine's then pro russian president stepped down. it was known as the maidan revolution. named after kyiv's main square. this woman was among the protesters. >> we became a family on the revolution. we saw that we could do everything, we can change ukraine, we choose the european path. >> [speaking foreign language] >> my dawn lit a spark. protesters forced out putin's lack and at long last ukrainians got a taste of freedom. >> something changed in the brain of people, because you understand that nothing is as valuable, just freedom. >> [speaking foreign language] >> and between this and freedom, we chose freedom. >> putin was enraged, and immediately retaliated by seizing the crimean peninsula and sending forces into eastern ukraine to incite a pro russian separatist rebellion. the street revolutionaries from maidan including adriana headed east to stop the severance. she joined the army as an assault troop. she said they were totally inexperienced at first, but learned quickly or died. >> it is very hard to kill a person, especially watching his eyes. i understood that if i would not kill the enemy they would kill me or my brother in arms. so i need to do this. >> eight years of fighting against the separatists not only gave ukrainians combat experience, it turned this country into a nation of warriors. >> at war, it is easier to defend than to attack. because we know every single street here, and every single terrain. >> do you think you are going to win? >> right now it looks like we are winning. we are pushing them back. and some parts, we don't, but i think we will. because first of all, their army and their soldiers are demoralized. >> russia's entire northern front around kyiv collapsed. the kremlin claimed it was merely adjusting priorities, shifting away from kyiv to focus on the east. but the russians were beaten. and their surprise collapse allowed ukrainians, for the first time since the war started, to go back into towns and villages that have been under russian occupation. what they found was horrifying. welcome to your world. your why. what drives you? what do you want to leave behind? what do you want to give back? what do you want to be remembered for? that's your why. it's your purpose, and we will work with you every step of the way to achieve it. at pnc private bank, we'll help you take care of the how. so tell us - what's your why? ♪♪ >> the ukrainian fight back bloodied the russian so badly, it pulled all their forces from around kyiv. it was a humiliating defeat for putin. after the russian withdrawal, what the ukrainian army found shocked the world. the russians had acted more like marauders, than a modern army. they came, they killed, looted and raped, and then retreated. bodies on the streets had their hands tied behind their backs, executed at close range. the entire town of bucha, north of kyiv looked like a crime scene. residents told me how their families and friends were hit by machine guns by russian forces. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> when president zelenskyy toured the area himself, he described what he saw as a genocide. it was apparent that the war was taking a toll on him. russian claimed the images coming out of bucha were all staged, and that ukrainian actors pretended to be dead. there was still blood on the sidewalk outside iyrena's home. her husband oleg was executed. oleg was a welder. he never served in the military because of a bad back, nor held a weapon. russian soldiers pulled him out of his home, which they set on fire, oleg was wearing slippers. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> putin has de-humanized the ukrainian people. once you call people nazis, you can't really get much lower than that. you are saying that they don't even deserve to live. we only know what happened in bucha because russian troops were driven out. putin says russia is now in control of mariupol. the scale of the atrocity there can only be imagined. this family is thankful that they made it out of the city. olga, daniil and their two boys drove 2000 miles through five countries and ended up in norway. >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> in just six weeks, putin's war forced more than 11 million ukrainians from their homes and tore families apart. andriana, the battle hardened mother and soldier, stayed in ukraine to fight. that meant saying goodbye to her six-year-old son. >> yesterday, my son was with my mom in the west of ukraine. i said goodbye to him, and, yesterday, i had a feeling that it could be the last time, the last day that i see him. >> [speaking foreign language] [speaking foreign language] >> i understood that i need to write letters for the future for him, to explain to him who i am and who is his father. can we take a five minute break? 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[speaking foreign language] ♪ ♪ ♪ >> despite it all, ukrainians still believe they can win. they know what is at stake if they lose. the first line of their national anthem sums up their fighting spirit. [speaking foreign language] the glory and freedom of ukraine has not yet perished. >> this war has elevated that -- of ukrainians and their image around the world. people may not have had a clear impression of who the ukrainian people are, or where ukraine's. now they now. perseverance at even winning the first round against russia, may not be enough to win what is likely going to be a long war. russia has learned from its early mistakes. putin appointed a new general ran the war. alexander dvornikov, dubbed the butcher of syria, known for his brutality and complete disregard for civilian lives. tough days are coming. after witnessing the atrocities in bucha firsthand, president zelenskyy said diplomacy and sanctions were no longer enough. >> we need heavy artillery, armed vehicles, air defense systems and combat aircraft. anything to repel russian forces and stop there were crimes. >> the united states and europe have praised president zelenskyy, but nato leaders have said repeatedly they won't intervene and won't impose a no-fly zone to help ukrainians deliver a knockout blow to russia. and why? because vladimir putin has 6000 nuclear weapons. >> putin is showing to the world is that if you have a new look, and you can prove it, and wave it around, you can do whatever you want. >> and our way, this family dreams of home. they want to one day return to mariupol and rebuild. 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