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Increased tensions with Russia and China have changed strategic dynamics in the region.

First thing i called anna because in our female team, we have girls not just from mariupol, but from earth ukrainian cities. i told gianna, the war has started and she replied, we need to urgently get the girls from their student hall to my home. to be honest, we never expected to be on such a large scale. but several days later we realized that we wouldn't be able to get out of the city because it was encircled. it became impossible to carry on living there when their air strikes started, we decided to get into a car and try and get out of the city, whatever it takes. >> and so just so i unde...

Here? >> reporter: evan says his friend was killed by russian shrapnel as she tried to escape the city. the cross bearing katya's name was made by his grandfather who dug this shallow grave because they couldn't store the bodies at the hospital. >> translator: i can't take this well when i see this. i cry, but i'm not showing this. i feel weak. weak because i cannot do anything. >> reporter: ivan is 16 years old. in two months of war, he's witnessed the innocence of childhood die before his eyes. watching ivan makes you wonder how a teenage mind copes with the horror in front of him. his famil...

It down into flour or a version of flour and they would make their own bread in this oven. and that's what they lived on for more than a month. five adults and four children hid in this underground bunker. this is where ivan heard weeks of artillery blasts and cries for help. the sounds of war that will haunt survivors forever. >> translator: i slept here. my sister and my mom slept here. and another family slept here, too. we tried to curl up and sleep here together. sometimes when things got really scary, our dads would come down and stay with us. >> reporter: ivan's grandfather says russian...

Their goal in this offensive is to take control of the southeastern coastline to create a land bridge between the donbas and crimea. strategically, it makes sense. but are you surprised russia is now spelling out their plans? >> yeah, thanks for having me, ana. the russian general says the quiet part out loud and in some ways, they're just warming up. now that they can take credit for taking mariupol, not letting those civilians leave, those soldiers leave. they'll redeploy soldiers elsewhere. they have to likely look west, look to odesa, possibly moldova as they look to expand their reach. bu...