troops in the east and south, quote, launched offensive in all directions and claim resistance held despite the stepped up attack, several russian military commanders say trying to block the portions of kharkiv to aid advancement, clarissa ward, more from inside kharkiv, ukraine s second largest city. reporter: there s no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks, ukraine s second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day, do you see the full scale of the destruction the neighborhood of pavlovopoya hit repeatedly last week as russian forces try to push into the city, no site was spared, not even the local nursery school. so it looks like this was some kind of a dormitory.