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Because they're so customizable, often described as legos for adults. anna personalized hers to fit her small frame. it weighs less than five pounds. >> we've had to find different components to make it as light as it can be. i would not be able to hold up a 20-pound gun and fire it where i needed to fire it. >> reporter: bryan also had anna's ar-15 style rifle decorated with a pink hello kitty decal. others took it to greater extremes. and then, there's ray, who tattooed a picture of his heavily modified rifle on his arm. when you add onto the real gun, you're going to add onto the arm? >> ye...

20 pound gun and fire it where i needed to fire it. >> reporter: bryan also had anna's ar-15 style rifle decorated with a pink hello kitty decal, others to greater extremes, and ray, who tattooed a picture of he's heavily modified rifle on his arm. when you add on to the real gun, you'll add on to the arm? >> yes, adding on to the art, yes. >> reporter: despite his loyalty to the ar-15 style rifle, there are still many who will question why anyone needs to own one. >> i would say give a proper gun range the ability to coach them through what an ar-15 is capable of and what you can do through p...

Information where exactly. >> reporter: cnn has spoken to multiple mariupol residents who say soldiers forcibly evacuated them to russia. >> some asked to say were told no. >> reporter: this testimony is from anna. we're using a pseudonym to protect her identity and a cnn producer is reading her words. like many others, she was living under bombardment in mariupol. >> they came in and said it's an order. he told us if you make a fuss, things will get worse. >> reporter: many told us that it started with a promise of evacuation. soldiers came to where they were staying and told them it was dang...

Of our interviewees. this is the town of bezimenne. this is the first stop of the journey. she described it as a, quote, registration camp where they were interrogated for hours by russians and russian-backed forces. russia claims they're to harbor refugees. another shelter here. while some saw the journey to russia as a necessary passage to safety, other, including anna, found the experience distressing and forced. this is anna's migration card, a standard document provided by russia to swri but it masks a troubling injury. they were forced to surrender their phones and passports during inten...

Interviewees told cnn they were trmped to other locations dotted across russia and russian-occupied territory. some made journeys as far as moscow and st. petersburg. the limitation on movement seemed to vary based on their access to family ties to russia. ukraine's government claims 45,000 people have been forcibly taken to russia so far, which cnn cannot independently verify. international human rights conventions prohow about forced deportation or transfer of civilians. after a week of transfers across russian territory, anna was finally given permission to leave and decided to drive to the...