hello, ladies and gentlemen. this is your guide, elena, and all our family. katya. teras. and over there, derina. elena lives in kyiv with her husband and their three children. it s two days before the russian invasion. the u.s. is warning an attack may be imminent. like many ukrainians, elena doesn t think russia will invade. you know, everybody right now is following the news in ukraine because basically we don t know what is going to happen. yes, and of course there is a lot of anxiety in the air because like right now, at this moment right now, today, everything is absolutely fine. but i don t know and nobody knows what s going to happen
tomorrow. the routines of daily life in kyiv continue. in the afternoon, she takes her 4-month-old daughter, derina, to pick up her other kids at school. katya is 7, and horace is 5. as night falls, they head home. my neighbors are at home. it s not like everybody left kyiv because they are afraid of the russian attack. teras, hello. the kids tell elena their teachers have prepared a bomb shelter at school.
in the morning, against all odds, kyiv is still in ukrainian control. so the latest update is that we are alive. i am alive. this is derina. she s sleeping on the floor, and some other people in the shelter woke up. it s already morning. it s like 7:00 in the morning. teras is sleeping over here. it s very important that we survived this night. now the day has come. you know, at night, everything looks much more scary for people. so as you can see, even many people left the bomb shelter right now because it s more than
i state here because this is my home. if you guys afraid too, then i have no option not to be afraid, yes? if i leave, nobody else is going to come and protect my home and protect me. so it should be me, it should be my husband, it should be my neighbors. we should protect ourselves. we should fight ourselves. i don t want to sacrifice my children. i don t want to sacrifice myself. i don t want to be a martyr for something. i just want my peaceful, normal life back. i just want to go back to my bedroom. i want my husband back into my bed. i want, you know, just to have normal, peaceful life that i had before. there are moments in the basement when life seems almost normal. for the first time, derina started to grab her feet into her hands and to do, guess what,
had had. some clothes, some blankets for children, and i even took some toys for them. so i took these for taras. i took these for katya and these, derina already had this one, so it s enough. yeah, these are kids who are playing and laughing. children are children. an apartment building in chernihiv, some three hours north of kyiv, is struck. at least 33 people are killed. russia continues to claim they re not killing civilians or