and from laura debonis. ♪ ♪ >> (speaking ukrainian): (speaking russian): >> (speaking russian): >> narrator: since the start of the war, thousands of ukrainian children have been taken and held in russian-controlled territor >> (speaking ukrainian): >> narrator: this is the story of ukrainian families and investigators trying to track down missing children and collect evidence of alleged abductions. >> basically, they try to erase our identity as ukrainians. they try to impose their distorted version of history. we're still hoping to bring them back home. they are still our children. ♪ ♪ (swing squeaking) ♪ ♪ >> (speaking russian): ♪ ♪ (explosion roars) ♪ ♪ (explosion pounds) >> narrator: when russia began to bombard ukraine in the early days of the invasion, nadiya was no longer in mariupol. but most of her family were still in the city. >> (speaking russian): (glass clanking) >> narrator: nadiya's sister tried to escape with her children, husband, and parents. the streets of mariupol were increasingly dang

koo and patricia yuen, committed to bridging cultural differences in our communities, and from laura debonis. >> tony and i have known each other since we were probably about two years old. his mother and my mother went to school together, pulaski high school. and our grandparents, when our parents were younger, you know, they'd play cards. so they were pretty good friends. (song continues) i don't know, we just started seeing each other, you know, spending a lot of time at each other's houses, and he just asked me out, so i said okay. (chuckles) we were crazy about each other. so i said okay. we had to spend lot of time together, you know, and i could just picture myself spending the rest of my life with him. (song continues) and our expectations were, i thought, you know, you find the man that you like and get married, and you have a family and get a house, little white picket fence. you know, all those little fairy tale-type things. um... some of it came true, but some of it, as far as the bumpy roads, i didn't expect, either. you know? i knew they weren't going to be all peaches and crea