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Second-largest city, kharkiv, came under intense shelling on monday. we have been seeing chilling video of a residential area get getting blasted. the city's mayor says at least nine civilians lost their lives in all of that. the u.n. says there have been reports now of more than 400 civilian deaths, since the war began. that is probably an underestimate. kharkiv was being shelled the same day, and ukrainian -- at the same day as ukrainian delegations were holding talks near the belarusian-ukrainian border. ukraine's president says the russians were actually syncing up those attacks with those...

Have 15% of the ukrainian army that are female. so, this is a pretty good number. and we are super proud of women who are joining the army. the resistance numbers are even higher. because women, even the ones who fled, are turning back and saying that we are going to fight alongside our men. this can be a real miscalculation on russian side, on putin's side. the war is not just with the army, it is with the whole ukrainian nation. including women who are fighting as hard as man. but training to firearms, training to defend the country, and stand up, and bigger amounts of people who are opposin...

Continuously. they have made it a stuff slog to move further south. make no mistake, mr. putin still has at his disposal significant combat power. he hasn't moved all of it into ukraine but he's moved a majority of it. >> despite the ukrainian resistance, there are fears they will face intense fighting. ukraine could soon be overwhelmed. one source said the rate at which cities could fall is alarming. now there were negotiations between the russians and ukrainians on monday. ukraine's president said the russians were, in fact, syncing up attacks with those negotiations. >> translator: today wi...

Russian forces are deliberately targeting things that are not military but to provide safety and survival for civilians like electricity, gas, water. when you look at the shelling aftermath, you see houses completely destroyed and reduced to rubble. again some of this in civilian areas, not military targets. ukrainian troops patrol the area, hoping to use the town as a launch pad to take the capital on russian side. richard engel has been embedded there with the ground forces. >> this is the suburb that is holding out, that is resisting against the russian invasion. >> the streets here are com...

>> i tell the people, we never give up. because it's our land. it's our city. it's our family. we depend on our future. the reason of the war from russian side is actually senseless war. but the reason why putin do this war because we want to be democratic european country. and putin want to rebuild russian empire. and without ukraine, it is difficult to do it. it is his dream to rebuild solidly the soviet union. we don't want back to ussr. we see our future as democratic european country and part of european family. . >> the mayor of hostumel was reportedly killed by russian