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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
russian military depravity turned a city into a cemetery, there was love here. just two weeks before the war began, this woman spent valentine s day with her boyfriend in the city. they took this picture at a cafe and this one after eating. and a few days later, she snapped this one of him from her window seat on the train that would take her back to kyiv. he kiss med and told, natalia, i don t know when i will see you again. reporter: resignation from a man who understood the realities of the war to come. her boyfriend, who we are not names or showing for security reasons, is a soldier in the azov battalion, a unit that has fought the russians in mariupol for months. we went to see her at her home in kyiv, where she told us her boyfriend was given a command to, quote, fight until the last drop of blood. what did you think when he told you that? i recommended him to save his
pastor. but i can t hear this. can you imagine your american city like new york, for example, and if somebody came to your city, will destroy it completely, city where you was born, where they kill thousand, thousand people, children, women, old people. and they will tell for old world, we are just save people. what is that? what is that? how it s supposed to go? but they did it. they tell people, we are savers. we save we save people here. we told them, please don t say that. we don t need russian soldier there. mariupol was one of the best city in my country.
killed. just two options. and matt rivers joins us now. do we know how her husband is doing? the last message she got from him was a few days ago. what she told us in that message was that he had took pictures in a number of handwritten pages that he called her his final letter to her. he told her, don t read them unless i m killed here. we asked her, do you think he s getting out alive. she said, in my head, i think it s impossible. but in her heart, she holds out hope. so many people going through unspeakable things in that steel plant in mariupol. few people have view of the horrors of mariupol. this pastor leads a congregation in mariupol. i spoke to him just before air time. pastor, you are close to