and speaking of somebody bringing us those stories, i want to go to clarissa ward in the capital city of kyiv. so clarissa, do you get the sense of what officials here and around the world are reporting is happening, which is that the russians are closing in on that city? >> well, it certainly is feeling that way, dana. the streets tonight just as erin was describing here, pitch black. you could hear a pin drop. in fact, the only sounds we've heard in the couple of hours since we arrived from the city of kharkiv are the church bells and air raid sirens. and we made the journey earlier on today and it was interesting to see along the roads, basically pretty clear access, but we did pass a ukrainian military convoy that appeared to have been targeted by the air. you can see the video now there. still smoke billowing. there were firefighters on the scene trying to put out the fires. i think one of the trucks was