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83-year-old lizbetta, too, is staying put. my son's life is scared and will probably leave today, she says, but i'm not afraid. and then, off she goes on her bicycle gathering storm be damned. ben wedeman, cnn, eastern ukraine. here in the united states, the man accused of shooting and wounding ten people on a crowded subway train in brooklyn tuesday is now in police' custody. sources tell cnn that 62-year-old frank james called in the tip that led to his own arrest. he is due to make his first court appearance in the coming hours, facing a federal charge for committing a terrorist or other ...

Port with near-constant shelling since the war started. russia claims more than a thousand ukrainian marines have surrendered in mariupol. ask this video aired on russian-state television -- cnn is not in mariupol and cannot confirm the report -- but ukraine denies the story, and says the city's reminder defenders have joined forces to fight until the end. another video posted on social media appears to show cluster munitions exploding in a civilian area of kharkiv. the u.n. human rights chief says attacks like this may amount to war crimes and this next video is graphic. authorities in northe...

Step because the russians are also dispersing mines from the rockets that they are sending over into here. the shelling has intensified over the last few days. regional officials told cnn this is evidence of the renewed russian military push. yeah, let's go. so, from where we are, we are pretty much surrounded by russian troops on three sides. tens of thousands of russian troops are believed to be amassing to come into kharkiv, to come into ukraine from this direction. we've got to move. the soldiers wanted us out of there. it was becoming too intense. just 30 minutes later, we saw why. this w...

Quote, conquer the donbas region in the next few days, and it is carrying out air strikes and bombings to weaken ukrainian' defenses. but many people who are still in the region are defiant, and say they are not going anywhere. cnn's ben wedeman has this report. >> reporter: all is not quiet on ukraine's eastern front. not far from the town, russian mortars warn of what's to come. ukrainian officials say the offensive in the donbas region -- the eastern part of ukraine -- has begun. perhaps, it has or perhaps this is the softening up before the

Ukraine's second-largest city. officials say at least seven civilians in kharkiv have been killed, 22 others wounded in just the past 24 hours. c cnn's nima elbagir is there. >> reporter: desolate, bare, lifeless. this is what it looks like after weeks of relentless russian shelling. the most densely-populated district in kharkiv is being bombed day after day, night after night. there are very few people left. the elderly, mostly. one man stayed behind to keep his mother safe. igor says that he lives on the 16th floor of one of these buildings with his mother. he says his mother is deeply reli...