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A world away. >> live from new york, it is saturday night. snl's cold open featured the spiritual anthem of ukraine. >> across midtown manhattan, a show of solidarity. ♪ ♪ ♪ and a ukrainian opera singer brought to tears. his entire family is still in the now war torn country. >> i want to help my family and my country. i am here in this hard moments. >> and so, at the met opera, house he is teaching his peers his country song with this last minute performance. >> we have brave people, we have our freedom. it is our country. >> back in kharkiv, ukraine, amidst reports russian troops were ...

>> sergei is an opera singer, turned volunteer. he was shot seven times as he tried to evacuate a local residence. >> who was shooting at you? >> sergei's body should heal in time and he celebrated with an old italian song of resistance. ♪

Families strolling past the theatre that was loved by so many, including an opera singer who managed to flee. you know, it's so devastating, it's a very personal story for me, as well and as for a lot of actors and musicians who sang there. it's even more devastating to know that this place actually was a shelter for more than a thousand people, including children. despite the all too visible devastation in mariupol, russia claims that it does not bomb cities and did not bomb the theatre. officials in kyiv say russia is carrying out a genocide. the intention of russian aggressors is to destroy...

That was loved by so many, including an opera singer who has managed to flee. it's so devastating. at the very personal story for me as well as lots of actors and musicians. know that this place is a shelter than more than 1000 people, including children. today, in moments of quiet, some were getting out, leaving their homes and their city with what they could carry or drag. we all left the building, this woman says. i was the last.

In the hope that she would survive. >> sergei is an opera singer, turned volunteer, who was shot seven times, as they try to evacuate local residents. >> who was shooting at you?