With him. his mother didn t survive. it is not lost on anybody here that on the eve of vladimir putin s celebration of the soviet victory in the second world war over nazi germany it is civilians who are suffering the most in the name of vladimir putin s denouncing of ukraine, a country with a jewish president. i got slammed down into a slab, then a ball. then rocks sprinkled, darkness. then the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergei crawled out, then dug me out, dug out our uncle and aunt. we crawled all in a fog he said. ukraine has stalled russia s
After ukraine says russia bombed a school that was sheltering civilians. a survivor told cnn how he escaped. translator: i got slammed down and then another explosion, small rocks sprinkled darkness. then i looked and the dust settled in a ray of light appeared. sergei crawled out and then dug me out, doug uncle and aunt out. we crawled all in a fog. joining us now, cnn senior global affairs analyst, bianna golodryga and max boot, sister fellow with the council on foreign relations and columnist at the washington post. it s great to have you both here. you both are americans who were born in the former soviet union. so, beeianna watching, this was muted vladimir putin. what do you take from that? he was a bit more subdued.
President. translator: i got slammed down by a slab bent into a ball, then another explosion, small rocks sprinkled darkness. then i looked and the dust settled and a ray of light appeared. sergei crawled out, then he dug me out, dug our aunt and uncle out. we were all in a fog. reporter: ukraine has stalled russia s plans for conquest. so the kremlin s added strategic sites like oil supplies to its target list and stepped up its airstrikes against civilians in eastern ukraine. this week hitting a residential block in the strategic city of kramatorsk. ukrainian politicians refer to putin s campaign ideology as a fascist creed they call rusasim. they shoot prisoners, torture women and children, they rape they loot. they go step by step towards