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>> reporter: yeah, that's right, hallie. ukrainian resistance really mounting this counterattack and trying to fight back and really gain some ground against those russian forces. and we have started to hear of gains in the area around kyiv, but the fighting is intensifying. in places toward the east like kharkiv. and as you said, mariupol. this is the city, the besieged city that we continue just to hear horrifying reports from. and as you mentioned, ukrainian authorities now saying that around 300 people died in that theater attack, that bombing, several days ago. that was of course the thea...

Russian state tv largely avoiding scenes of destruction, like the theater attack in mariupol, instead playing up the shelling by ukrainians on pro-russian forces in the eastern region of donetsk and luhansk. what are russians being told right now >> they're being told that the purpose is to demilitarize and denazify, whatever that might mean. >> reporter: a russian expert says the majority of the public gets their information through state tv, where the truth is hard to find for example, viewers are told rising gas prices in the u.s. are a sign that american sanctions are backfiring and shown ...

Ukraine. and where the southern city of mariupol has suffered some o. -- of the worst horrors. 300 people were killed in an air streak, in the war's single deadliest attack on civilians. joining me is a member of mariupol's city council. thank you for joining me in these difficult times. relative to the particular theater attack what more can you tell us about the people that were killed there. who was seeking shelter there, and i want to add that we're going to show some video. it was taken of people that were sheltering inside. it was posted on the mariupol telegram group. the city governmen...

Lifted. that curfew was set for 35 hours. one person died in this attack. still british intelligence says that russia's invasion has largely stalled on all fronts. vladimir putin's forces are resorting to older, less precise weapons that could lead to more civilian deaths. they are about to get a big boost of weapons from the u.s. and nato, we're hoping to get more answers, minutes from now, on the situation from secretary of state antony blinken who is expected to speak live. cnn's sam kylie is in kyiv for us. first nick paton walsh with the latest on the theater attack. what do we know from ...

Friends who get out from mariupol, and the stories are real terrible. the people go out to make some food from the basement. >> horrifying, and here you describe many killed in the theater attack as being pregnant women, perhaps those who had to seek a different form of shelter when the maternity hospital was bombed some two weeks ago, an atrocity. your city council says that russian air strikes, you describe it as having turned mariupol into the ashes of a dead land. you talk about people who leave a basement just to try to scrounge for food, and they take their life in their hands when doing...