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Donetsk called for a general military mobilization. a potential russian invasion weighs heavily on the ukrainian city of mariupol near the front lines with the russian separatists. fighting has ramped up in ukraine for recent days, but, of course, it's been going on for years, eight years, and the city has suffered major losses. cnn's alex marquardt reports on the toll this has all of this has taken on the people of mariupol. >> reporter: the old crimea cemetery stretches outside of the hills of mariupol in eastern ukraine. in section 21, the ukrainian flags whipping in the wind mark the grave...

Ukrainians fighting russian troops. cnn is covering this story from every angle. with correspondents across ukraine. and around the world. white house reporter in washington. with how the u.s. is responding. moscow, dubai. and we'll start in ukraine. >> battles are happening outside many o ukrainian towns at the moment. and we visited one of them. it was extraordinary to see the determination the heroism. but also to try to understand what on earth moscow forces are trying to do. fighting their way into densely populated areas. >> the bridge here hasn't been raised for as long as they can reme...

>> it seemed odd that the trump campaign had this senior official who was so closely associated with a government that had become a foreign adversary. >> that was the first red flag. >> then the republican convention's platform is changed to remove language that had been proposed that would offer lethal assistance to the ukrainians fighting russian intervention in their country. >> from his perspective, that was red flag number two. >> then you had michael flynn who was emering as perhaps the chief foreign policy national security advisor to the trump campaign. >> lock her up. that's right. th...

Managing the convention. >> it seemed odd that the trump campaign had this senior official who was so closely associated with a government that had become a foreign adversary. >> that was the first red flag. >> then the republican convention's platform is changed to remove language that had been proposed that would offer lethal assistance to the ukrainians fighting russian intervention in their country. >> from his perspective, that was red flag number two. >> then you had michael flynn who was emerging as perhaps the chief foreign policy national security advisor to the trump campaign. >> loc...

Were favorable so putin. so one of the puzzles we haven't really figured out in all that is why was that? is that just something donald trump came up with on his own, or did people like carter paige and paul manafort and others have influence. we do know that at the republican national committee, there was a fight over how to deal with ukraine and whether the republicans should call for the u.s. arming the ukrainians who are fighting russian bagged separatists in the eastern ukraine and we know that that debate was settled in a way that broke with what most of the republican establishment want...