danger if they tried to flee. this house in the nearby village of shevchenko took a direct hit. bombardment is less frequent now. it's just calm enough for 72-year-old natalia to pack up and go. "it's impossible to tolerate this anymore," she says. "i'm already an old woman." a neighbor will drive her to nearby mykolaiv. shrapnel riddled his car and shattered the back window. "i'm not afraid to die," says natalia, "but i'm just not ready. i haven't gone to confession yet." in an adjacent town, yuba shows me the potato cellar she hid in for days. "it's cold here," she says. "there was no electricity for two weeks." as fate would have it, she did well to stay down there. one day a rocket landed in her