buildings, shelling the shelling is now primarily in the northeastern out skirts in an area called saltivka and that s a very important area strategically for the russians because they have a supply line moving down from the north from russian city of belirad down to the donbas city and isium which is very important for them at the moment so the thing people in kharkiv fear is as russia tries to neutralize ukrainian counter offenses that potentially kharkiv could become the next mariupol and they see these images, new mass graves, hear the harrowing reports of people who were forced to take a shovel and dig these graves for water and food and understandably, it gives them a shiver of fear down their spine because they re so keenly aware of the fact that they are potentially vulnerable to that as well, i would say, though, anderson, it would be a very
coming out of kharkiv, got very close to a missile attack when you were with some paramedics. what does the world look like in that area, kharkiv is the second-largest city. reporter: it is just relentless bombardment, i mean it s nearly nine weeks now that kharkiv, day in, day out, has been under fire. cruise missiles into government buildings, shelling the shelling is now primarily in the northeastern outskirts, and that s a very important area strategically for the russians, because they have a supply line moving down from the north, from a russian city down to the donbas area and to the city of isium, which is strategically very important for them at the moment. and so the thing the people in kharkiv fear is that as russia tries to neutralize ukrainian counteroffenses, that potentially kharkiv could become the next mariupol, and they see these images new mass graves,