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But these are not normal times. the owners here turned the business into a makeshift shelter. a place to house dozens of ukrainians. who just fled the besieged port city of mariupol. >> the last couple weeks were like hell. >> he and his wife and daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment. from artillery and air strikes. >> even 15, 20 minutes. you can listen to the airplane. and then the sound. bomb bomb. >> she kept a journal. march 2, day seven of the war...

Heres alexander explain what its like. >> a state of war when you walk around, show craters everywhere. i dont know where my son is since march 2. >> they talk about the fear everybody there is living with everything, everybody still in the city. they are not far from the damaged residential building, local officials estimate 80% of homes are destroyed. alexander is sharing another video showing explosions in the middle of the day. not. >> the background here asking for help including from presi...

Days. >> its a state of horror. i dont know where my son is since march 2. reporter: elsewhere reports say as many as 45 ukrainian soldiers were killed when army barracks were struck in mykolaiv. >> we are hiding from the bombing and this horrible misery. reporter: a bipartisan group of senators is visiting europe this weekend to reaffirm americas support for ukraine and its nato allies. >> we believe in peace through

One familys pain is being repeated across the country. its a criminal offence in russia to quote anything but official figures. and those are 498 russian servicemen died. that was on march 2. there has been no update for two weeks. many russians rally around their leader in times of crisis. its as if they dont want to believe the president may have taken a fatal decision. "we are doing the right thing," nikolai says. "nato wanted to set up shop right next to us in ukraine, "and theyve got nuclea...

>> the last couple weeks have been like hell. >> reporter: dmitri, his wife and their daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment from artillery and air strikes. >> each was 20 minutes. you can listen. it was like targeted, targeted. >> reporter: tonya kept a journal. march 2, day 7 of the war. nothing has changed, she writes. no electricity or heat. and there is no running water as well. they lived in a basement. when they emerged, tonya took photos and vide...

Potentially. but at least several thousand. talk about those differences in numbers. >> very wide differences in numbers here. nato is saying that if you account for the amount of number of russian military personnel who have been captured or wounded in ukraine. or currently missing in action. perhaps dez deserted. you could talk about 40,000 people. ukrainian estimate is 7,000 russian troops up to about 15,000 troops so far. the moment the kremlin is still sticking by the officially acknowledge...

They launched the site march 2. its been live just over two weeks now. translated into a dozen languages and right now it has over 20,000 listings. of course, security is a big concern. thats something that theyre working on. >> a very thorough reporting process where we can take down inappropriate listings. we give our refugee as detail guide on how they can verify the hosts and that theyre legitimate and the people theyre speaking with on the phone is the same person theyre going to be meeting...

Decision. on march 2, i was still making plans for like a week ahead in moscow. and march 3 it was already clear that we should leave now, like right now, because there were rumors circulating already that the next day martial law would be instituted in russia. that would suspend most of the liberties like free press, which im part of, and closed borders. it didnt quite happen, but when we arrived in latvia the next day we found out that my website was blocked and the russian parliament made an ...

At one point, risking their own lives by pretending he was their own son. even while they were forced to host german soldiers in the same house. a letter in the file, written by describes how the town near kharkiv was bombed in 1943. the similarities down to the date. haunting. >> the germans bombed us from march 2 to march 19. every day from morning to evening. for three days we were hiding in the cellar. march 5 the bomb hit our barn. she grows emotional over the parallels to the russian army ...

Russian people and taking aim at the kremlins digital iron curtain. in recent weeks russias crackdown on the free press has gone from bad to worse. it has forced independent journalists like an award-winning investigative reporter to flee the country. earlier this month he tweeted never thought it would come to this but i did have to leave russia, crossing the border on foot in the middle of the night with my panic-packed bags on my back and my dog in tow. he joins me now from latvia. thank you ...