forensic experts are struggling to identify the dead after the huge blaze that swept through the complex in kremenchuk. our europe correspondent nick beake sent this report. it s hard to tell that this was a shopping centre, but when you get closer, there are signs. russia admits it fired missiles yesterday but says they only landed nearby and then a fire spread here, to what it claims was an empty building. everyone we met today said all that is lies. i saw the fire and a lot of people from here, from here, just running. danny was in his coffee shop opposite. run into safety place and listen childrens, girls. a lot of screams.
and the kids goes away to find the safety place. and it s notjust my story, but understand that i haven t seen my wife and my kids, eye to eye, more than two months, just only by the internet connection. and i am a happy man, because i know that they are in safety place, and someday we will be again together. but, unfortunately, a lot of ukrainian husbands never will go back home, cos they already killed by russian soldiers, by russian fighters. so what i tried to do,
seen my wife and my kids, eye to eye, more than two months, just only by the internet connection. so, and i am a happy man, because i know that they are in safety place, and someday we will be again together. but, unfortunately, a lot of ukrainian husbands never will go back home, cos they already killed by russian soldiers, by russian fighters. so what i tried to do, like, by the creative tools to describe this drama, this war drama in our country.
far. then we then we started to look through the news, and we realized that it s the war began. then we find out that my husband couldn t go with us, and it was most difficult in this situation because the war. he said that i must save our child and go to the safety place and he convinced me to cross the border alone only with my child. what was that like at the border? i imagine so difficult to say good-bye to your husband for now. it was very, very hard because i don t know poland, polish language.
other surrounding countries. i want to bring in now sophia keleznik. she is a student who fled ukraine through poland and she now joins me from chicago. sophia, thank you very much. how are you doing? hello. thank you so much for inviting me to tell my story. and i want to thank the americans for accepting me and now i am in a safety place. so thank you. welcome to the united states. you are now with family and friends in chicago after a very long journey. so again, are you okay? what s up? yes, i am okay. thank you. so i have set a place and i have food and water and good relax and sleep. yeah, i m fine. you were at university in lviv. then you saw a phone call from your father at 6:00 a.m. and knew that that wasn t good. so tell me what happened after that. yeah. so i m from kyiv.