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Automated alert: our administration would like to inform you that a fire has started in the building. for that reason, please go to the ground floor and from there, leave the building. this is what russia does to cities, it bombards them, it besieges them, it surrounds them. it terrorizes entire populations. and if these tactics are unfamiliar to you, then you haven't been paying attention, because this is the russian attack play book, perfected in over ten years of war in syria. we know that russia bombs hospitals. so here at the city's hospital number four, they keep the wounded in hallways ...

Mother in mariupol, weeping and saying goodbye. she fears she will not survive the night. >> here's the thing about mariupol. it is geographically close to russia. it is a russian-speaking city. some residents say, they fell like they were first and foremost ethnic russians, perhaps, ahead of ukrainian national identity. and there was just this inability to comprehend why russia would start trying to kill people like them in their own homes. just, they could not comprehend it. as dmitri, the man we just heard from. in report said, we've been told that rugss and ukrainians are brothers. i can't...

I mean, sitting in the cellar and even she haven't left the cellar since the beginning of the war. just staying inside, unfortunately. and the last day i saw my father and he begged me, please, guys, leave. leave somewhere. i don't know where. just escape this. escape this. and he was crying. >> reporter: dmitri and his wife and daughter piled into a car with friends and spent 15 hours driving through russian front lines to escape the siege of mariupol. their parents refused to leave. >> i don't know if i am going to see my parents or listen to my parents again. it is like living from day the ...

Attention, because this is the russian attack play book, perfected in over ten years of war in syria. we know that russia bombs hospitals. so here at the city's hospital number four, they keep the wounded in hallways — away from the windows. miss valentina has been hit by shrapnel. "i have a poem for you", she says. translation: these stupid russian shrapnel pieces - i will carry all my life. but as long as my heart still beats, i will still live and love. and so too, will eight—year—old dmitri, now that this has been removed from his skull. this is the war that russia has fought before ...

So too will eight—year—old dmitri, now that this has been removed from his skull. this is the war that russia has fought before, and is fighting again. we don't know the rest of ukraine's fate, but kharkiv has already shown what is coming next. translation: defend us, we will ride together, - we will win this war, and all our heroic people will gather to rebuild our beloved ukraine. this city of a million plus people has emptied out. let me bring you some of the latest pictures from the city of kharkiv, civilians sheltering in the metro station of ukraine's second largest city, sitting on ...