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The army does not surrender, the people do not surrender. the whole of ukraine is fighting heroically. >> lets get more on the latest developments. salma abdelaziz joins me from ukraine with the latest. salma, we have been seeing yet again russian forces getting ever so closer to kyiv. though still on the outskirts. what can you tell us about their advance in the last 24 hours or so? >> reporter: well, isa, we do understand according to western intelligence agencies that russian tanks are just a...

>> translator: we will also defend. ukraine doesnt surrender, the army doesnt surrender, people dont surrender. all of ukraine is fighting heroically. >> new satellite images show that civilians in mariupol are being targeted by missile strikes. and a pro-russian opposition politician has declared herself mayor in melitopol following the kidnapping of the mayor there. joining us, nbcs matt bradley is in ukraine. kelly cobiella joins us from poland and leigh ann caldwell is in washington. welcome...

Dnipro river. that runs the length of the country. this was a place seen as a safe haven and changing the calculus and outlook of the government in kyiv. as always, as for president volodymyr zelenskyy, defiant remaining in the capital. just today seen, took videos of himself walking around the city. visiting wounded soldiers at a hospital and rewarding them for their sacrifice. heres what he had to say. >> translator: russia lost 74 planes, 86 helicopters and thousands and thousands of equipmen...

More of these capabilities. thats their message to the west. thats their message to our country. yes theyre fighting heroically and theyre talking about that but they also need more weapons to keep fighting. >> ambassador, we also saw from zelenskyy today that hes fired two top generals he called traitors there. talk about the significance of that or the message something like that sends. >> well, its interesting. i mean, remember, ukraine for a long time, you know, actually the soviet union but...