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It basically cuts ukraine in two. the side here which connections to russia and this side which connects to europe. a vital piece of ukraine to fight over. and it has been obviously very intense here in the past days. there are no winners here. shreds of lives that need collecting. vladimir is here helping himself to a hotdog. the other vladimir, putin, wants to steal lives here whole for his wider vision of empire restored. for the people in this town, it means afternoons with the noise of rockets landing in the streets. at dusk, the balance of power changed again. shells landed around ukrain...

Particularly because getting in and out of country is so difficult. how is that happening? there have been -- there's been no evidence of any kind of airdrops of arsenal. how are the people of ukraine, whether it's the military or their civilians, able to receive any new assets? >> well, i don't think that the russians have air superiority. and you saw today some, you know, magnificent coverage on cnn of a russian attack helicopter flying very low and by the tree line trying to avoid any kind of surface-to-air missile. it looks like it was hit by a stinger. so until the russians can establish ...

Would like to address the president of the russian federation once again, there is fighting all over ukraine now. let's sit down at the negotiating table to stop the death of people. >> there is fighting all over ukraine, there are casualties all over this country. we are covering every angle of this breaking story as only cnn can. our reporters and correspondents on the ground, throughout the country. cnn's matthew chance in kyiv, where we are hearing air sirens. nick paton walsh in kherson right now, and we have yaroslav in kyiv as well. i want to begin with nick, i understand you're hearing...

0ne one of the opening salvo is in russia's war on ukraine. a metal strike on an airport in the west of the country. in kyiv today, a frightening new dawn for europe and ukraine. this city of 3 million awoke to sirens and an invasion. soon, a panicked exodus from the ukrainian capital, as the eu spoke of one of the darkest hours since world war ii. and darkened skies as a russian attack helicopter is targeted airport outside kyiv. ukraine says several were shot down. the invasion was by air, sea and

Since then it has been a lot quieter and a matter of minutes after we heard that attack helicopter. a report was circulated amongst locals here which we think was from the local government's facebook page saying that the defenses of the city had, in fact, been overwhelmed. and again, that now means that the russians have control of that key bridge. it runs from crimea, a southern peninsula down in southern ukraine, which is being controlled by the russians since 2014. the bridge goes over the river and then heads up towards kyiv. as we've seen, we think in the last 24 hours russian convoys hea...