plate. she made a proper omelet in a proper omelet pan that night. the host was blown away by its lightness and its taste. you have to understand in those days, no one had an omelet pan in metro boston. we would not know where to start or a garlic press. smart mother, no more than 25 minutes, serve a meal that s rival over home cooking. pretty good? american food was focused on convenience food, frozen items and canned items that were all a advertised and touted as a great way to save time. everywhere that was packaged and processed and under plastics and inboxes. it was not recognizable. just pop them in a frying pan with a little water to produce mouth-watering fried potatoes in minutes. people discover can soup as sauce poured over the chicken soup and whatever that was your sauce. americans we eat jello. people used a lot of spam, it would not be unusual where there was grilled spam with slices of pineapple on top of it. we ate without much style flare
it s hard to explain to children what s happening. taras is afraid his father will die . 40 miles northwest of kyiv, a massive russian convoy is heading toward the capital. russian forces already on the outskirts of the city are meeting fierce resistance. the russian column that has come down here has been absolutely hammered. i don t want to show you this too much, but there s a body there. that s a russian soldier that is lying there dead on this bridge. look at this. i mean what kind of munitions does it take to do that to a car, to a vehicle? you know, i know that i was speaking to the local ukrainian commanders here. they ve been saying that they were using western anti-tank missiles to attack these columns. look. so recent the battle, this vehicle is still smoking. four days after the invasion begins, i interview olena for the first time on cnn. have you thought about trying to leave? yes, many times. one is to escape and survive. another one is to stay at
Look at us. you see? 15 years ago or something, or how many years. and this is our wedding photographs. this is 13 years ago, wedding photographs. this is my favorite one basically. me and serhei. very romantic, yes? hello, honey. i saw you at night in my dreams. you were basically holding me in your arms and proposing to me to get married. and i said, come on, we re already married. but the reality of war is never far away. a russian tank column on the northeastern edge of kyiv is ambushed by ukrainian troops and suffers heavy losses.
Like this and put it into her mouth. we slept well. katya doesn t want to wake up. it s already like 10:00 a.m., and she doesn t want to wake up. each morning or many times at night when i wake up, i have this feeling, you know, when my mother passed away. when i was waking up and thought, oh, so this was a nightmare. i was just sleeping. my mother is still alive. but now i have the same each time i wake up and i wake up many times each night i hope it was just a bad dream. i will wake up, and it will all be gone. but it s not. her life before the invasion already feels like a distant memory. serhei was so sweet. and me with my long hair. this is us again.
Place. there were explosions in kyiv, kharkiv, dednipro, odesa, mariupol, and other cities across ukraine. the first explosions in kyiv around 5:00 a.m. wake elena and serhei in their eighth floor apartment. i don t know what s going on but i m very disturbed because we basically heard explosions, and we heard i think military airplanes flying. so we woke up, and we are [ baby crying ] shh. they get their kids dressed and go outside to a pedestrian tunnel. there s no bomb shelter near elena s apartment. okay. so we are at our nearest shelter, which is this underground tunnel. we can hear hello, guys.