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Translation: it is unsafe to stay the night at home. | the windows are shaking. i dropped by my place just to feed the cat. it's actually why i came to the shop here, also for some bread. i will cook some pasta at home and we will go back to the basement, the temporary shelter. it is very scary in our temporary shelter. russian forces are moving to encircle kyiv in a pincer movement. if they can't take the capital, they cannot win this war, so they are likely to be throwing everything at it. missile and artillery strikes continue to hit other targets throughout much of the country. this was a ...

Hitting other targets throughout much of the country. this was ukrainian military airbase. this is what remains of the library in chernihiv after overnight shelling. here, the aftermath of a mortar attack on the outskirts of kyiv. close to half of the city's population has already fled. those that remain are either putting up vinyl defences or hunkering down in shelters. in the southern city of melitopol, the mayor was one of those vowing never to surrender to the invaders, but russian forces prevailed and the cctv footage shows him being abducted by russian soldiers with a bag over his head, ...

>> good morning to both of you. yes, so many of them passed through here. quite a day in ukraine today, trying to come to grips with the statements that were made yesterday, russia suggesting they were going to scale back military operations in the area around kyiv, and also chernihiv to the northeast of kyiv. i had a chance to speak to the mayor of that city chernihiv this morning who tells me that des despite the russian claims they were scaling back, they actually intensified the attacks on that city. he told me it is a confirmation that russia always lies. listen. >> translator: today we h...

The people still died. >> that was the mayor of kyiv. earlier this morning i spoke with the mayor of chernihiv, this is the other area where russia specifically said it would scale back operations, but listen to what the mayor told me. >> translator: they are saying about reducing intensity, they actually have increased the intensity of strikes. yes, today, we had colossal mortar attack on the center of chernihiv, 25 people have been wounded, and are now in hospital. they're all civilians. whenever russia says something, this needs to be checked carefully. >> so we also have some new footage a...

Trapped in those areas, anderson. >> so, just for our viewers who have been following this closely -- and correct me if i'm wrong -- irpin is the area that we had -- that there was a collapsed bridge and we had seen clarissa ward a week or two ago on the other side of that bridge helping, along with others, as hundreds if not thousands of people were fleeing irpin. and that's the same spot where the next day lindsey dario for the "new york times" took the photograph of the family who was killed by the mortar attack that was striking the very area where those people were leaving. they were leav...