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country's borders. welcome to the show, everyone. it is now 8:00 a.m. in lviv, ukraine, and we're getting a clearer picture about russia's goals in ukraine. russia's military now confirming its objective is to take full control of ukraine's black sea coast. and key to that is a city that we've been talking about for days now of mariupol, where an unknown number of ukrainian troops as well as civilians are trapped inside a large steel factory, a large steel complex as you can see it on your screen. ukraine's prime minister spoke about the dire situation as he met with u.s. officials...

sensely casualties of this invasion. french voters decide their country's future leader. it's an election that could cause a major shift in world politics. welcome to the show, everyone. it's now 9:00 a.m. in ukraine. we're getting a clearer picture of russia's goal in the country. russia's military now confirming it's objective to take full control of ukraine's black seacoast. ukraine's president wants that only to be a prelude to russia envancing into other countries. and key to the russian plan is the city we've been talking about for a while now, mariupol, where an unknown nu...

And ultimately, it's probably more likely that the russians are putting this kind of propaganda out to distract ukrainian military attention away from the main effort, which they would all agree, is what they would call the capture of the donbas region at the least. the importance of maiupol is theres still about 1,000 ukrainian troops in the steel manufacturing area of that port city, fighting back. fighting hard. still, even though they are completely grounded against the russian forces. now, they are drawing a lot of russian forces into that fight, that could otherwise be spared for a push ...

For a push north. at the same time the russians are trying to push south from its u izyum. if they could join them up, they would be able to circle the bulk, and that is something ukrainians say they're aware of, they're particularly worried about, but they're saying they've got preparations to deal with it. sam kiley, cnn, in dnipro. >> thanks, sam. as sam was just mentioning, the city of mariupol is battered, really charred, and in parts flattened. evacuating a city is often a perilous act, thanks of course to the constant russian bombardment. matt rivers spoke to a few families who made it ...