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And the last day, i saw my father. he begged me, please, leave, leave somewhere. i don't know where. just 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'm going to see my parents or listen to my parents again. i don't know. it is like difg from day to day. today we are alive. maybe tomorrow, maybe not. >> reporter: in the relative safety of this arcade built to entertain children, the kids welco...

>> death and displacement have come to everybody's doorstep. but there are many here who are determined to hold on. john sparks, sky news, kharkiv. a ukrainian mp originally from mariupol says that russia is trying to starve the besieged city. the mp joins us now on the program. dmitri, great to have you with us today, and i do hope you're staying safe and well. and as i understand it, you are a member of parliament for kyiv but from mariupol originally. you must be absolutely disappointed with the home town. >> it is hard to see. everything i knew has been destroyed. my university. my neigh...

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 — 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 t...

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 and is fighting again. we don't know the rest of ukraine's fate, but kharkiv has already shown what's coming next. translation: defenders, we...

>> the last couple weeks have been like hell. >> reporter: dmitri, his wife and their daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment from artillery and air strikes. >> each was 20 minutes. you can listen. it was like targeted, targeted. >> reporter: tonya kept a journal. march 2, day 7 of the war. nothing has changed, she writes. no electricity or heat. and there is no running water as well. they lived in a basement. when they emerged, tonya took photos and videos of their apartment building pock marked with bullet holes. unexploded shells in residential stree...