Normal buka earp in their names. Now conjure up images
of invasion and atrocity that sudden and violent
rebranding witnessed by a single family forced to
traverse all three on a harrowing journey through hel
The morning of february 24th Katarina Titova woke up to
the tip of the Russian spear aimed at her town. I said
oh my God war has started. We have been attacked. Oh my
God, she like many of her neighbors in history who
shared video on social media saw out her window a
critical moment of the war. Russian airborne forces
attacking Kiev's military airpo just a few miles from
her home, the Ukrainian troops began firing at them but
the Russian paratroopers manage to disembark at this
point. Did you think that you were safe here The main
problem was that you have no place to go. You're stuck.
Yes, yes you're stuck because I understood that Russi
soldier is she rushed her Children into a tiny basement
space. It is very small but it's okay when you need to
sit here for some hours, not long but they would
shelter there for days hoping the house above them
still stood as Ukrainian soldiers fought to hold back
Russian forces from taking key and like a boat. I was
sure that our house is destroyed because there was so
loud you were between the Ukrainian forces and the
Russians Yes in the middle. Yes not a good place to be
in the basement in the basement. Later that first week
they finally ventured out to see dead Russian troops
behind me. There is a Russian corpse and to their sho
A young Ukrainian couple killed by the Russians. They
had been dead for several days. We pulled them out, the
ambulance arrived, we loaded them into the ambulance.
Then we found out that they were 19 years old and were
engaged to be married, heading right toward them an
even greater danger. My husband heard from a soldier
that a massive Russian column of vehicles was heated
here. There were two options run away or fight. We take
our backpacks and we run to butcher to our friends. In
that moment we thought that in butcher we will be safe.
A city already under brutal Russian control but the
family without cell signal had no warning crossed
showed us the path they took to avoid the roads
exhausted. Their six year old daughter could barely
walk endure sweetie. Her mother says after several
hours they arrived in but it would turn out to be one
of the deadliest places of the war. So this is the
house where we lived for today's what was the most
frightening moment for you when my husband and his
friend went outside to help one man to get him home
when was shattered by Russian militants. Imagine the
situation to 11 PM. There are no street lights. I don't
know where he, it was the most horrible 1.5 hours in
all my life our plan of evacuation to Kiev will be
ruined because I can't leave him and when they returned.
Oh God, how happy I was The next morning, the famil
went on the run again this time to the key suburb of
Beer Pine. Another death trap that everyone was trying
to escape. There was only one treacherous way out the
bridge seen around the world destroyed by Ukraine to
block Russian tanks from reaching the capital. They ran
down the narrow path through shelling gunfire and
twisted wreckage. That moment, her moment of escape,
captured on the front page of newspapers around the
world was running and crying because she was very tired
and I said you may cry but we have to run. But her
husband isn't in the photograph He had stopped to help
an elderly woman get across that moment to captured by
a BBC camera. A year later, we were with them on their
first visit back to the bridge since their harrowin
escape. It's like chapter of our life and now it's
finished. This is the next chapter of our life. Her new
chapter healing from the trauma, making patriotic
jewelry and continuing to worry what another year of
war will bring. Now Katarina and her family are back in
Houston. Her husband returned to work as a school
teacher, but two of his pupils are no longer in his
classroom. They were killed in the Russian invasion
chance. Gosh, Jason last year there was this big
Russian holiday. Everyone was talking about it. They
worried Russia would launch this new major assault. But
in the end they didn't as we hit the one year mark of
the invasion is a new assault expected. Well ther
absolute fears here and stern warnings to be prepared
for Russian strikes. However, the Ukrainians themsel
appear to be launching surprise strikes on Russian
occupied territory just today. These are areas that
were supposed to be out of the range of the american
high mars. Remember that one of the main things that
Zelinsky has been asking by I didn't four including on
biden's visit to keep just this week is for longer
range ammunition. Military analysts say that the
Ukrainians would use it on the battlefield to shock the
Russians before announcing it had arrived. No official
confirmation that they've recei this, but there are
indications that the Ukrainians are on their own
offensive today certainly sends the message. We're not
just sitting ducks and it sounds like new offensives
are always possibilities without being certainties. At
this point, Jason Bellini and keith, thank you