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But these are not normal times. the owners here turned the business into a makeshift shelter. a place to house dozens of ukrainians. who just fled the besieged port city of mariupol. >> the last couple weeks were like hell. >> he and his wife and daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment. from artillery and air strikes. >> even 15, 20 minutes. you can listen to the airplane. and then the sound. bomb bomb. >> she kept a journal. march 2, day seven of the war. nothing changed. she writes. no electricity or heat. and there's no running water now as well. the...

Here's alexander explain what it's like. >> a state of war when you walk around, show craters everywhere. i don't know where my son is since march 2. >> they talk about the fear everybody there is living with everything, everybody still in the city. they are not far from the damaged residential building, local officials estimate 80% of homes are destroyed. alexander is sharing another video showing explosions in the middle of the day. not. >> the background here asking for help including from president biden, the city is wiping off the face of the

Days. >> it's a state of horror. i don't know where my son is since march 2. reporter: elsewhere reports say as many as 45 ukrainian soldiers were killed when army barracks were struck in mykolaiv. >> we are hiding from the bombing and this horrible misery. reporter: a bipartisan group of senators is visiting europe this weekend to reaffirm america's support for ukraine and its nato allies. >> we believe in peace through

One family's pain is being repeated across the country. it's a criminal offence in russia to quote anything but official figures. and those are 498 russian servicemen died. that was on march 2. there has been no update for two weeks. many russians rally around their leader in times of crisis. it's as if they don't want to believe the president may have taken a fatal decision. "we are doing the right thing," nikolai says. "nato wanted to set up shop right next to us in ukraine, "and they've got nuclear weapons." "well done, putin, for stopping them." the kremlin wants russians to believe that w...

>> the last couple weeks have been like hell. >> reporter: dmitri, his wife and their daughter escaped mariupol on thursday. they endured weeks of russian bombardment from artillery and air strikes. >> each was 20 minutes. you can listen. it was like targeted, targeted. >> reporter: tonya kept a journal. march 2, day 7 of the war. nothing has changed, she writes. no electricity or heat. and there is no running water as well. they lived in a basement. when they emerged, tonya took photos and videos of their apartment building pock marked with bullet holes. unexploded shells in residential stree...