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Ukraine is preparing to defend the birthplace of its democracy to the bitter end. sam kiley, cnn, kyiv. >> thank you for being with us this hour. im john vause. we will be back live in lviv, ukraine, with hala gorani in a moment. but we leave you this hour with 7-year-old amelia. you may remember her performance earlier this month "let it go" from inside a kyiv bomb shelter. it was heard around the world. well, amelia has now since made it safely to poland. she performed the ukrainian national a...

And holding the big cities. theyre really having to use crude weapons in order to terrify the civilian population into leaving, like in mariupol. talk to us a little bit about -- i mean the ultimate, i imagine, target for vladimir putin would be kyiv. so far, though, the city has resisted. >> absolutely. they tried to take cities, but they cannot enter and take control over ukrainian cities. they did it in kherson, but keep protesting. people keep resisting, and they basically russians dont know...

America does not accept refugees for now. the biden administration looking for ways to speed up applications. for now, world vision is helping these refugees and tens of thousands more in romania alone. their needs deepening. >> the people that are coming now, these people really, really need help, and there are a lot of people. we were at the border, and i was at the border and talked to a lot of people that didnt have any money, any plan. >> reporter: julia and her 8-year-old son david, named ...

Ukrainian officer. president volodymyr zelenskyy said on monday that mariupol is being, quote, reduced to ashes but that it will survive. the eu foreign policy chief calls this bombardment a massive war crime. the russian defense ministry, meanwhile, claims more than 62,000 mariupol residents have evacuated to russia in, quote, complete safety. but the city council says that thousands were, in fact, taken against their will. in kyiv, authorities say a recent missile strike on a shopping mall has...

Mother in kyiv every morning. >> its like, hello, mom. are you okay? and we talk and talk, and shes saying, yes, it seems like its been quiet night. and then im speaking to my husband and my friends. >> its like a full-time job. >> not full-time job, but you have -- you have to be sure that everyone is okay because its nothing for sure now. nothing. >> reporter: she wants to go home, but when? when do you think you can go home? >> oh, god knows when. nobody knows. >> reporter: miguel marquez, cn...

Crime. ukraines president has echoed that sentiment but insists that the city will survive. >> translator: hardworking, honest city of mariupol, which is being destroyed by the occupiers and being reduced to ashes, but it will survive. >> meanwhile, russias defense ministry released this video showing mondays attack on a shopping center in ukraines capital. youll remember we showed you yesterday the first images of the aftermath of that attack. russia claims that the mall was being used to hide ...

Well, eight years ago, he was leading protestors in song during ukraines revolution, and now, hes put down his guitar and he is fighting on the front lines to save that independence from a russian invasion. heres cnns sam kiley. >> reporter: singing to protestors in kyivs independent square eight years ago as a rock star, he helped drive a pro-russian president from power. now, the lead singer is in uniform fighting vladimir putins invasion the old-fashioned way.

Welcome back. im hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. weve now learned that ukrainian forces have just regained control of mac areeve, a city west of the capital, kyiv. and to the south, a ukrainian officer says bombs are now falling every ten minutes in the besieged city of mariupol. the city has spent weeks under almost constant attack by russian forces. this video shows the moment a russian strike hit some factory buildings there. local officials say at least one major steel plant h...

The capital is under a curfew until wednesday morning local time. russias war in ukraine is now approaching the one-month mark. the fighting has left hundreds dead and caused untold damage across the country, and theres no end in sight to the suffering unfortunately. cnns alex marquardt has our story. >> reporter: across ukraine, the sounds and scenes of war. these air raid sirens in the western sanctuary city of lviv while snow covers the debris after russian air strikes destroyed these residen...