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The strikes over the weekend in lviv shattered that city's feeling, even if it wasn't a reality, but a feeling that it was relatively safer than, obviously, the brutality that we've been covering, really in horror, for weeks now in mariupol. can you sort of -- can we start in the west and then we'll move through to the east? >> yeah, sure. i mean, you're absolutely right. i mean, lviv is an area that really has kind of escaped the violence of the war that is really permeated the east. tens of thousands of families from the east were fleeing to lviv. my colleague spoke to one family, a mother a...

Is that right? >> yeah, it's very -- you know, being in kyiv is very interesting. i have been here about two weeks and i was -- you can see the increasing number of people coming in each day, more and more. i mean, i think there is really just such a desperation to get back to some form of normalcy. you go to -- you can go to a few restaurants now where they're pretty much bustling. you hear sirens. the war is never far away. there are a lot of checkpoints, sandbags across the city, these anti-tank barricades that you really don't want to get too close to. but at the same time, there are a lot...

Have a very different concept of time, but this will be a big battle and as we've been reporting, you've been reporting, it will be a much more conventional style battle than this slaughtering of innocence we've seen so far. >> there's no indication that those features will diminish as the brutality has been rewarded in russia, the soldiers who carried out the atrocities in bucha have been recognized by putin himself. i'm sure that doesn't tell you anything new, but what should the rest of us take from that? >> honestly, nicolle, it does tell me something new. i wrote my first piece about puti...

Rewarded back in mother russia. putin awarded honors to the same russian army brigade that ukraine has accused of committing -- war crimes. at war with one another. one calls what happened in bucha a genocide, which it clearly was. the other rewards the soldiers who carried it out. it's where we start the hour. joining us now, npr white house correspondent live from central ukraine. we have some of the pictures you've taken from your twitter feed, and i want to start by putting up this one. this is, thank you, u.s. taxpayer, what can i say? it looks like a ukrainian after a russian tank is blo...

I am the commander of the azov regiment, he says, and i call on the leaders right now, mariupol at the steel factory, hundreds of civilians are sheltering. they found their only available shelter was next to ukrainian soldiers who were still defending the city from russian invaders. i urge the politicians of the civilized world to organize a proper green corridor to ensure safety and provide immediate evacuation for everyone. >> mariupol on the brink of possibly going one way or the other, right? possible collapse as russians today confirmed the announcement yesterday by ukrainian president ze...