translator: i want to see the sun so when our houses are rebuilt, we can live if peace, we can live in ukraine, because this is our native home. reporter: a ukrainian official in mariupol saying a planned evacuation has been thwarted by the russian military. he says at least 200 civilians who thought they were on a bus headed to safe points were instead taken into russian-controlled territory in the east. russia capturing dozens of small towns in eastern ukraine, but uk officials say russians have not made any major gains in the last 24 hours. and this as russia reveals its end game in this invasion. top military officials say they plan to take full control over southern ukraine and the eastern donbas region. let s bring in scott mclean in lviv. what more can you tell us about these missile strikes in odesa? reporter: hey, fredricka. one city counselor in odesa called these an easter gift from vladimir putin. this is not the kind of gift that you want to get. we re talk
finalize the war. there is a diplomatic way, and there is the military way. so any healthy and sane person always chooses diplomatic way because he or she knows even if it s hard, it may stop the losses of thousands, of tens of thousands. and with such neighbors, hundreds of thousands and maybe millions of victims. victims, losses of people, we don t want that. and any leader, whether he wants that or not, he doesn t have the right to deny it subjectively because it will be a subjective decision to deny the diplomatic way. and it s also important for our partners, i may say, because we are constantly speaking about that and made certain step for the diplomatic solution of the military conflict and the war with russian federation, our partners, both european and the partners from beyond the oceans, the united states, canada, everybody sees that what russia says and was saying during all these times, that ukraine itself doesn t want to everybody could see it was the kind of p