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>> [gunfire]. >> [loud explosion]. >> harris: the shelling is relentless. in mariupol in the eastern part of ukraine. it's an important port city. this is the story across the nation of ukraine now. president zelenskyy is saying civilization itself is at stake. >> nobody knows whether world war iii has already started and what is the possibility of this war if ukraine will fall. in case ukraine will fall. it's hard to say. we have seen this 80 years ago when the world war ii started.

As we come on the air, more american help may be headed to ukraine soon with president biden just signing a bill into law to send more than $13 billion there. a new lifeline as the white house announces the president is heading to brussels next week to meet with allies about putin's unrelenting war, a war where more and more residential areas like the one you're looking at in kyiv are being targeted. this was the scene earlier in kharkiv helping a woman escape from a building there, bringing her down. and once they got on the ground everybody scrambling for cover after a russian fighter jet fl...

And all of a sudden we heard these guns shooting very close to us and we just ran into the bomb shelter. maybe this was someone -- i don't know what it was, but it was very close. and in the daytime we heard the loud explosion. maybe that was air defense that worked and hit a missile or something. we hear explosions and the guns. and like we are in the northwest of kyiv, so what you know about, it's -- we are very close to the position of russians who are coming, in position of the ukrainian army who are protecting us. we feel safer in the basement, like psychological. we are underground, the ...

You must have been very upset. 0ur district is destroyed. i feel destroyed. in my heart, i feel destroyed. like my country, unfortunately. loud explosion. this is what the refugees have fled from. others are drawn towards the war zone. this isjens. originally from switzerland, but who lives in dublin. we met him on the flight out. so, we met you at dublin airport. tell me, why have you come to poland? in order to go to ukraine and fight with the ukrainian military.

The russian military is shelling convoys, drivers are being killed. what happens to these cargoes, i can't tell you. many were taken back. >> president zelenskyy claims russian forces have taken 2,000 children out of mariupol and into russia. ukrainian officials say it's part of a wave of civilian deportations. cnn's ed lavandera joins me now. thank you for joining us here from the region. you are just back from the polish border. i want to talk to you about that. let's talk about the blast in kyiv what do we know? >> reporter: just after 1:00 in the morning here in ukraine. our teams in kyiv ...