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into the manhunt? >> is russia's assault as ukraine stretches into a third month journalists are getting insight how the crisis is playing out on the ground. >> there have been attacks across the country from mariupol to the southern city of nikolai and increased sirens in the west. the harrowing images of what taking place in the land taken back. >> bill: alex hogan is back with her own story out of kyiv and ukraine coming up today. if you're a veteran, own your home, and need cash, call newday usa. i'm tatiana, here to say you can get an average of $60,000 with the newday 100 cash out loan. that's at least 25% more cash than you get at a bank. it lowers your payments by an average of $600 a month, too. with today's soaring home values,
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its runway, and it's unclear where they originated from. there have been images of russia putting submarines and launching missiles in the black sea. we've seen russian ships off the coast. one hit recently. a lot of russian activity to pressure yodesa. a question many will be asking themselves, is this the prelude for a wider assault on that city or a bit to pressure it and keep military officials guessing as to what russia's goal along that black seacoast is. they did say that the move toward the black seacoast would be part of a wider bid to control that area, but they've been trying that for months, and they failed. they failed to get past nikolai
are heading west and nikolai, of a strategically vital city that is still under ukrainian control despite being under attack since the beginning of the war. joining me now is nbc's raf sanchez, he's live from ukraine. raf, one is the latest on what you're hearing, particularly about this visit by secretary austin and secretary blinken? it's four in the afternoon where you are right now and we haven't heard anything yet. >> ali, four in the afternoon on this orthodox easter sunday here in ukraine. we have not yet seen any side of secretary blinken, nor secretary austin. but that doesn't mean that they are not in kyiv, this visit has been planned in utmost secrecy for security reasons. the obvious reason concerns that the russians might literally target these senior members of president biden's cabinet. but less, obvious that the russians might try to disrupt this visit one way or another, trying to prevent president zelenskyy from getting this face to face meeting with senior american officials, that he has wanted for so long.
20 kilometers west of mariupol. officials say russians have been dumping thousands of bodies in them. there are four sections of graves here measuring 85 meters each. that's equivalent of roughly four football fields, gillian. it is definitely larger perhaps as much as 10 times the size of the mass grave that we visited in bucha. the mayor of mariupol saying at least 20,000 civilians have been killed there. it comes as you mentioned russia claims that in addition to the eastern donbas, control of southern ukraine is also part of this phase two. the mayor of nikolai who we talked to yesterday says they are getting pounded and whether or not they're the next mariupol. a little bit of what the mayor had to say. listen. >> we are under bombardment every day. they use cluster bombs that kill. i ask all the people who still live in the city to leave the
this once-puslibustling city whs now practically desert d. >> the playgrounds are empty. the pigeons indifferent to the air-raid siren, and so it would seem are the people. i close my others when i am walking around, says nikolai, because it's all the time. as fighting flares to the east, north, and south, the few residents left in kramatorsk carryings on. the train station ten days ago of a russian missile strike that left almost 60 dead is closed. trains don't come here anymore. the buses, oddly enough, still run. overnight, a russian missile struck. there were no injuries, this time. nearby, signs of an earlier bombing. after almost two months of war, constantine is fatalistic. i am not suicidal, he says, but
used? >> think about the revenge of geography. in other words, you can change a lot of things on a battlefield. you can't change the terrain. thus, as you point out correctly, jonathan, out in the cities, onto the plains of ukraine. it's a vast -- think kansas. and as a result of that, that armor can move both the tanks, the armored personnel carrier, and yes what the russians envision is a sweeping set-piece kind of battle like we haven't seen since the second world war. we'll see, a, if they can deliver that, and b, ukrainians have plenty of firepower that we have given them to put a real sense of defense in front of the russians. so it's going to be quite striking to watch. about ten years ago, when i was supreme allied commander of nato, i spent a fair amount of time with my counterpart, general nikolai, and he would talk endlessly about thousand
syria. one of the cities hit by russian missile strikes over the past 24 hours, the head of the donetsk region says at least eight buildings were destroyed, as well as educational facilities. the artillery shelling lasted throughout the night. cnn's ben wedeman has more now from what was a once-bustling city, which is now brack prosecutecally deserted. >> reporter:-let playgrounds are empty. pigeons indifferent to the air-raid siren, and so it would seem are the peep. i chose my ears when i am walking around, says nikolai. as fighting flares to the north, east, and south, the few residents left in kramatorsk carries on. the russian missile strike that left almost 60 dead is closed. trains don't come here anymore. the buses, oddly enough, still