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To clean them up." ukrainian forces say they will continue the fight and further push russian forces away from their capital. the deputy interior minister saying they needed u.s.s support to succeed. >> what do you need from the united states? >> everything. military support, first of all. >> reporter: weapons to help the ukrainians expel the invading army, they hope, and finally bring this suburb out of the reach of vladimir putins cannons. there you see, don, irpin is still an extremely danger...

Ukrainians back and theyre continuing to pound the areas with artillery and with a bombing campaign. >> colonel, kharkiv has come under heavy shell fire in the past 24 hours. thats according to ukraines military. 47 strikes, as a matter of fact. is this more proof that russia plans to ease up are just flat out lies, are untrue? >> basically in a word, don, yes. heres what is happening in kha kharkiv. this is ukraines second largest city. its really close to the russian border. its about 30 miles...

Through these areas, it seems on the part of russian military, there seems to be a complete lack of respect for the ukrainian state, ukrainian civilians, and also on the part of the russian leadership. a complete lack of respect for its own soldiers, considering theyre still saying that this was an orderly withdrawal and this was always the plan. however, if that was the plan, it shows they have no regard whatsoever for their own troops. a lot of them were incinerated in their vehicles and many ...

Most probably a military attack. that this isnt something that someone mixed in a bathroom kitchen somewhere and threw in a single shell. this must have been been more organized. why would the regime do this, as you said, under the noses of inspectors? several reasons, perhaps because right now the sense of impunity that the assad regime has. that the international community has signaled in many different ways over the last 2 1/2 plus years that it will not intervene. that this is a message to t...

Innocent civilians. zelenskyy went graphic detail about the horrors being inflicted on the ukrainian people. what he and his teams and his cnn teams have witnessed in places such as the recently liberated town of bucha. >> translator: civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road just for their pleasure. they cut off limbs. slashed their throats. women raped and killed in front of their children. their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did...

It is very hard. it is true. we want the world to know that the russian soldiers are making out of ukrainian children. they are raping and killing our women and killing men so they wont be able to fight against them. >> we are very grateful to those who deliver the truth. please do not stop. do not get used to this war. speak the truth. >> thats why were here in ukraine to bear witness, to bring you that truth. especially amidst the kremlin lies. not just from where im standing in lviv but from ...