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Again, mostly underground. the capital of kyiv is slowly being strangled. the russian armies now on three different sites. it really is only the western approach that is still open. the road leading to lviv that is still open. people there are wondering when that will be shut -- richard engel reporting a tall residential buildings now are being shelled indiscriminately. here in the western part of the country, where it's supposed to be safe, supposed to be quiet, 48 hours ago, the city woke up to the sound of distant explosions and airbase just 15 miles from the border, with poland hit by eigh...

>> that's what russians war against the civilians look like. destroyed buildings, destroyed infrastructure. city bus just got hit with a rocket. lives are being lost. that's the war that russia started. says the city of kyiv. and many cities in ukraine were destroyed. lives were taken. that's the truth, these images is the truth of russian war against ukraine. putin's war against ukraine. that's what it looks like. >> joining us now from kyiv is alexander, international desk editor at the ukrainian news publication.

Hospital and returns to hospitals, but it covers all of life and death in ukraine in these two weeks. what else have you seen that gives you some sense of where we might be going? >> thank you, lawrence, for the generous introduction. happy to be with you tonight. i kind of have a sense of great tragedy and loss. very visceral. exemplified, for example, in that scene that you read from the children's hospital in kyiv where young victims of the conflict, like that young boy are bringing brought as well as all these other children, hundreds of children who have been in the hospital, waiting for ...

Because it's not so easy, but it's possible to flee to kyiv. a lot of buses are going from kyiv. a lot of trains are going from the true chain stations. from the central train station and the western station. in the western direction, people are going. >> and, how about supplies of water, food, at this point in kyiv? >> it became much better for the last week. so, i visited three chains just to check food in the supermarket, and most of them, except one, are full of groceries. it's not a lot of varieties, but still, everything is possible to buy. the worst situation is mostly with the canned f...

He also said "they were wrong," words aimed at those who thought ukrainians would be frightened and wouldn't fight. it comes as nato is expected to agree to send more troops to eastern europe at an emergency meeting in brussels on thursday. for the latest, here's gareth barlow. for ukrainians, it's the war that should have never begun, for president putin it is the special military operation that was supposed to take days. but a month on, the brutal conflict continues. in the face of superior forces, ukrainian soldiers and civilians are digging in, preparing the capital, kyiv, for the full for...