valentinea in the next ward, lost her leg and her arm to indiscriminate artillery shells.witching to the ukrainian language, she makes a heart-rending plea to the president. >> translator: we used to dance, sing, do everything in ukrainian. poroshenko, mr. poroshenko, please listen to us, why don't you understand your people? be a man, be human, please stop your aggression, stop this war. >> but there is little sign of that, this once thriving city is now half empty. the forces unleashed by this conflict, greater perhaps than mr. poroshenko can control. diana magnay, cnn, donetsk, ukraine. >> let's go live to kiev. ukraine's defense minister accusing russia of launching a great war. russia's president reportedly boasting that his forces can sweep into kiev in just weeks. nato forming a rapid reaction force. so where's the off-ramp here? >> yeah, john, the off-ramp could be potentially what developed yesterday in belarus. of course yesterday in belarus, you had all sides of this conflict meeting, and seemingly representatives of the russians and separatists seemed to ease o