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Developing stories. in the eastern part of the country, heavy fighting. and the northeastern part of the country, kharkiv. for the past 24 hours, we've seen heavy fighting that seems to be increasing. video showing russian soldiers behind armored personnel carriers. the city of kyiv saw a bit of a break, though there is growing concern that the russians are still moving to the north towards the city of kyiv and they'll continue their assault on that city. here to the west we're seeing a city that is trying to support both of those erts, that is soldiers moving to the east and civilians continu...

Crimes with his use of weapons like thermobaric vacuum bombs. these bombs suck all of the air out of the area they're dropped in and leave a blast zone that can damage people's internal systems, internal bleeding, ruptured organs as a result of these vacuum bombs, cluster bombs also being used on a preschool in kharkiv. i will talk with a man fled kharkiv and a ukrainian member of parliament urging us to take more action as their people are defiant. >> people are tired. the men are signing up by tens of thousands to defend ukraine, old guys, fat guys, skinny guys. everybody to defend ukraine. ...

Interest rates, for example doubled to 20%. people are lining up to try to get foreign currency out of the atm. people looking for their visas are not going to get them now. there was an iron curtain during the cold war. it feels as this the iron curtain is going up against between the west and russia in is a much more westernized country than it was during that cold war. it is difficult to see how that happens without really a sense of revolt from the middle classes in russia. >> it's such an important part, keir and staggering that the sanctions are already having an impact. we have seen tho...

The glimmer of hope in the underground bunkers where people have created an entire life for themselves but we've also been seeing absolutely gruesome pictures come out of the last 24 hours of a mother and her two children killed in a suburbjust mother and her two children killed in a suburb just north of kyiv, and these are images that come out every day, so those able to escape say that they are the lucky ones. with me now is, anastasia, who fled kharkiv. she managed to bring some pets with her as well, so tell us the situation that you left in kharkiv. alejos it was terrible. 0ver situation ...

And we could hear the shelling and everything and that was after the night when we actually saw shelling and we saw explosions in kyiv. i just told my husband, like, just cover him with your body, talking about my son. just cover him with your body whenever it starts. >> reporter: as we talk to more and more people on the ground here in the city, we're hearing harrowing stories of people who left kharkiv and were stranded for ten, 12 hours on highways while the bombings were happening and him. and when you get here, you still have 50 miles to the border and then you're faced with a backup of u...