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Children are doing now in mariupol, no food, no drinking water, no electricity. it was minus 5 this night. they have no heat. they are sitting in cold basement. >> her small family is living in a bomb shelter with hundreds of others. she says they can only survive another few days. then they will have to surface. perhaps to face more of this. sam kiley, cnn, zaporizhzhia. i'm going to bring in journalist and author, sebastian young, history may be on the side of ukrainians in this war. his latest book is "freedom," sebastian joins me now. thank you, i appreciate you joining us. >> thank you....

>> reporter: it may seem extraordinary, but these are the lucky ones. they've escaped from the shadow of a nuclear power system. this is good fortune. this is a volunteer center from zaporizhzhia. it's empty. she's been waiting a week for news from home of her husband evgeni and daughter yessia. this morning she got a brief call. how's your daughter doing? >> my daughter told me she loves me. >> reporter: of course she does. >> she is alive. she is doing like all the children do now in mariupol. almost no drinking water, no electricity. it was minus 5 this night. they have no heat. cold baseme...

There is also a sense that zelenskyy could win. that if he holds off long enough that his fighters are good enough that every time they engage with the russians, the russians fall apart. >> ainsley: newt gingrich said we need to be sending over the weapons that will destroy their warships that are in the black sea because they are trying to take over the ports and all of those cities down on the southern region i was reading this morning 15 aid workers that were grabbed from the russians. >> brian: yep. >> ainsley: over there trying to give water and supply food and supplies russian take aid w...

Russia has managed to exert some control and it is struggling to hold onto the east. so it's a major climb down nothing like what russia said it would initially do, which was to take over all of this country, including kyiv, in just a matter of days. >> richard engel tonight, thank you we're learning more about the desperate situation in mariupol from those who have made it out of the city. tonight, gabe gutierrez has a rare and exclusive look inside a city under siege. >> reporter: in mariupol, no one is safe run fast, this mother says don't cry, run fast. the child does sobbing. this is a ...

Water, no electricity, it was -- last night they have no heat and sitting in cold basement and some cots. >> her small family is live inning a bomb shelter with hundreds of others. she says they can only survive another few days. then, they will have to surface perhaps to face more of this. sam kiley, cnn. >> now, ukrainian officials often use two words to describe attacks like this -- war crimes. but the nation's top prosecutor says the current legal structure is not enough to investigate alleged war crimes in ukraine, so she called for new investigative mechanisms as part of a special war cr...