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Translation: it is unsafe to stay the night at home. | the windows are shaking. i dropped by my place just to feed the cat. its actually why i came to the shop here, also for some bread. i will cook some pasta at home and we will go back to the basement, the temporary shelter. it is very scary in our temporary shelter. russian forces are moving to encircle kyiv in a pincer movement. if they cant take the capital, they cannot win this war, so they are likely to be throwing everything at it. missi...

Hitting other targets throughout much of the country. this was ukrainian military airbase. this is what remains of the library in chernihiv after overnight shelling. here, the aftermath of a mortar attack on the outskirts of kyiv. close to half of the citys population has already fled. those that remain are either putting up vinyl defences or hunkering down in shelters. in the southern city of melitopol, the mayor was one of those vowing never to surrender to the invaders, but russian forces pre...

>> good morning to both of you. yes, so many of them passed through here. quite a day in ukraine today, trying to come to grips with the statements that were made yesterday, russia suggesting they were going to scale back military operations in the area around kyiv, and also chernihiv to the northeast of kyiv. i had a chance to speak to the mayor of that city chernihiv this morning who tells me that des despite the russian claims they were scaling back, they actually intensified the attacks on t...

The people still died. >> that was the mayor of kyiv. earlier this morning i spoke with the mayor of chernihiv, this is the other area where russia specifically said it would scale back operations, but listen to what the mayor told me. >> translator: they are saying about reducing intensity, they actually have increased the intensity of strikes. yes, today, we had colossal mortar attack on the center of chernihiv, 25 people have been wounded, and are now in hospital. theyre all civilians. whenev...

Trapped in those areas, anderson. >> so, just for our viewers who have been following this closely -- and correct me if im wrong -- irpin is the area that we had -- that there was a collapsed bridge and we had seen clarissa ward a week or two ago on the other side of that bridge helping, along with others, as hundreds if not thousands of people were fleeing irpin. and thats the same spot where the next day lindsey dario for the "new york times" took the photograph of the family who was killed by...

After russia said it would scale back its military operations there and in kyiv. chernihivs mayor says instepped the russian bombardment actually escalated. >> translator: they have increased the intensity of strikes. today weve had a colossal mortar attack on the center of chernihiv. whenever russia says something this needs to be checked carefully. russia is deliberately exterminating civilians. >> and this new video just in shows at least two military strikes have heavily damaged a red cross ...

They have actually increased the intensity of strikes. today weve had the colossal mortar attack on the center of kyiv. 25 people have now been wounded and are in hospital. they are all civilians. >> cnn international correspondent phil black with me here in lviv. phil, were getting our first look or additional look at some of the devastation in mariupol. >> thats right, john. we know some of the basic facts, that mariupol has been under siege for four weeks, that 90% of the buildings have been ...

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