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Will be fought to prevent kyiv from being encircled. >> and let's talk about the south, as well. i mean we saw the extensive damage in mariupol. the russians have been able to take two towns. but they are not able, still, to completely take and occupy and hold big cities. what's your take on the southern part -- that southern front -- where russia is obviously trying to create a contiguous territory, swath of territory, in the south? >> yeah, mariupol is a real obstacle and they are doing everything they can to reduce it. and they lack the forces to actually go in and -- and clear it, block by...

Morning after facing repeated shelling from russian forces. president zaleski says ukraine will never bow to ultimatums from moscow or occupation and its cities. jonathan hunt joins us on the ground from lviv. jonathan? >> carley and todd, good morning to both of you. the southern city of mariupol has been described by ukrainian officials as hell on earth. seeing the new images that we have seen this morning, it is very hard to argue with that description. the destruction across that city is so widespread, so intense, so complete, that mariupol itself barely seems to exist. block by block, str...

You have russian soldiers in a hospital using patients as human shields. you have ukrainian forces basically street fighting now, street by street, block by block, apartment building by apartment building and stuck in the middle are hundreds of thousands of civilians, some of whom can't get above ground to bury loved ones because the shelling is so intense. add to that, the russians allowing green corridors to flow back into russia for theover use reasons is not an option for the people in this city who have been cut off and shelled into basically oblivion. if you go to the black sea coastline...

This new tactic as well that we were just hearing from our correspondent on the ground there, gabe gutierrez, kind of taking hostage these local mayors, really kind of using a ground game, it seems, urban warfare, russian soldiers now taking place in -- taking -- using these tactics of urban warfare because it seems as if their tactics earlier were not necessarily working. >> that's right out of their playbook. they'll go in, take people off the streets. they used this in chechnya to their advantage, used kidnapping and murder and assassinations to take out key people within cities and towns a...

You are asking me how is the situation on the frontline? there is a frontline everywhere. >> reporter: the u.s. also looking to keep the economic pressure on russia in the wake of its attack against ukraine. president biden announcing the u.s., eu, and g7 countries will call for revoking russia's most favored nation status. essentially, allowing for the u.s. and its allies to impose tariffs on a host of russian goods. now, here in the u.s., that will require an act of congress and house speaker nancy pelosi says her chamber will take up a vote on that next week. arlette saenz, cnn, the white h...