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Good evening everyone, i'm ayman mohyeldin. you're watching the continuing coverage of the crisis of ukraine. for nearly three weeks, ukrainian forces have stymied the russian efforts to topple its government and bomb it cities into submission. now, russian troops are making progress in the push to take the capital city of kyiv. the just about 15 miles away from the city center. a senior defense official tells nbc news those forces could fully encircled the capital in the next week. ukraine's president is warning that his russian --

Mayor because we previously reported that the city's elected mayor who had defied the russians was abducted by armed men. and in other developments, efforts to evacuate civilians from some of the hardest hit cities continued on saturday. the government says close to 13,000 people were evacuated, and all the u.n. says more than 2.5 m 2.5 million refugees have now fled the fighting in ukraine. this as ukraine's president urged citizens to keep up the fight as russia's invasion continues. >> translator: we have to stand firm and keep on fighting every night, and every day we should be fighting fo...

Entire harbor. it's not that big. so it could be hard to get in and out. it also, poppy, shows, you know, people have been looking at our cnn maps, the areas in red where the russian troops are occupying or operating. what this shows is that even in those areas in red, the ukrainians are able to strike back. just because the russian troops are there doesn't mean they will stay there or they're safe. >> such a good point. john, also, today marks one month, right, one month into this war and we're getting a new look at what exactly russia's doing in some of those hardest hit cities. as you see t...

Said it was mi-24 helicopter that is game at 5:00 a.m. that came to hit the facility and managed to escape. again the ukrainians are not saying whether or not that's true. the video we see on social media seems to indicate that there were choppers that did hit that place. it would be very difficult for the ukrainians to actually pull that off. as you said i was down there on the ground for a long reporting from the region. belgarad in is one of the most fortified cities in russia. it's a military city. in addition you have a bunch of russian forces in between kharkiv and there pressing the off...

Russia were now solely focused on liberating this eastern region. speaking to independent russian journalists on zoom, ukrainian president volodmyr zelensky said that no peace deal would be possible without a ceasefire and troop withdrawals. however, he ruled out trying to recapture all russian—held territory by force, saying it would lead to a third world war, and wanted a compromise over this eastern donbass region. now, as the fighting has been continuing in their home country, there was an emotional and mesmerising performance by two ukrainian figure skaters in france. let's just take a ...