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To clean them up." ukrainian forces say they will continue the fight and further push russian forces away from their capital. the deputy interior minister saying they needed u.s.'s support to succeed. >> what do you need from the united states? >> everything. military support, first of all. >> reporter: weapons to help the ukrainians expel the invading army, they hope, and finally bring this suburb out of the reach of vladimir putin's cannons. there you see, don, irpin is still an extremely dangerous place, but nevertheless we were quite surprised to see that the morale of the ukrainian forces...

Ukrainians back and they're continuing to pound the areas with artillery and with a bombing campaign. >> colonel, kharkiv has come under heavy shell fire in the past 24 hours. that's according to ukraine's military. 47 strikes, as a matter of fact. is this more proof that russia plans to ease up are just flat out lies, are untrue? >> basically in a word, don, yes. here's what is happening in kha kharkiv. this is ukraine's second largest city. it's really close to the russian border. it's about 30 miles or less. fred pleitgen used to be up here in belgorod and he was able to follow all those ru...

Through these areas, it seems on the part of russian military, there seems to be a complete lack of respect for the ukrainian state, ukrainian civilians, and also on the part of the russian leadership. a complete lack of respect for its own soldiers, considering they're still saying that this was an orderly withdrawal and this was always the plan. however, if that was the plan, it shows they have no regard whatsoever for their own troops. a lot of them were incinerated in their vehicles and many bodies not even recovered, jake. >> cnn's fred pleitgen live for us in kyiv. joining us now in lviv...

Most probably a military attack. that this isn't something that someone mixed in a bathroom kitchen somewhere and threw in a single shell. this must have been been more organized. why would the regime do this, as you said, under the noses of inspectors? several reasons, perhaps because right now the sense of impunity that the assad regime has. that the international community has signaled in many different ways over the last 2 1/2 plus years that it will not intervene. that this is a message to the rebels and a message to the world that they will do at this stage what they want. >> that's some...

Innocent civilians. zelenskyy went graphic detail about the horrors being inflicted on the ukrainian people. what he and his teams and his cnn teams have witnessed in places such as the recently liberated town of bucha. >> translator: civilians were crushed by tanks while sitting in their cars in the middle of the road just for their pleasure. they cut off limbs. slashed their throats. women raped and killed in front of their children. their tongues were pulled out only because the aggressor did not hear what they wanted to hear from them. this is no different from other terrorists. >> it is o...