reuben johnson joins us now to tell us story. first, reuben, you must feel so lucky to be alive. tell us what happened when you were driving to the train station near kyiv? >> well, thank you for having me, first of all, and thank you for staying on this very important story. what was happening was we were driving to a train station to try to get an evacuation train that would have taken us to the west of ukraine and eventually to poland, and the road that we were told was open was blocked. when we tried to go around the roadblock, there was no one present but as soon as we tried to skirt the roadblock out of nowhere appeared russian soldiers and they just began shooting. they never asked us to stop. they never gave a warning. it was just, you know, shooting at anything that moves. >> well, specifically, what did you learn when you were in captivity? i mean, you were there for days upon days, and specifically, i'm wondering if the russian soldiers' conversations gave you a glimpse of what was happening with the invasion from their perspective? >> well, like everybody else, in rus