Ukrainian capital to meet with zelenskyy. they discussed aid for ukraine. they also offered to help investigate war crimes committed by the russian troops. cnn correspondents are covering the region here. they had this conflict covered from every angle. nima elbagir is in kharkiv. we begin with matt rivers here in la viv with the dire situation in mariupol. reporter: weeks after russia began an offensive bombardment to take the city and still ukraine s government says mariupol has not yet fallen. the keyport on the southeast coast of ukraine increasingly a symbol of both ukrainian resistance and russian military goals. ukrainian officials are holding up the city as a symbol of a heroic fight with an aide to president zelenskyy saying on facebook the two different units defending mariupol have managed to link up and are continuing the fight. one of them released a message they, quote, did not give up
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For the foster kids who need it most at helpfosterchildren.com hello, everyone. i can michael holmes coming to you live from laviv in western ukraine, where we are tracking the uproar and alarm over
Full-scale russian invasion. the u.s. is also taking no chances in ukraine, relocating staff from the embassy in kyiv, to the western city of la viv. some ukrainians are also not taking a chance with this mother, putting her 6-year-old son on a train to stay with relatives in western ukraine, so she can join the fight against russia, if it comes to that. it was very hard. i was looking to his eyes yesterday, and he was saying, mom, i love you, mom, i love you. nothing is value, just freedom. and between death and freedom, we choose freedom. with me now to talk about this, nbc news chief foreign correspondent, richard engel in ukraine. evelyn farkas, former senior adviser to the supreme allied commander in europe. john cipher, a former cia clandestine officer who spent time working in russia. he s also co-founder of spy
Others. well, joining me now here live in la viv is a global affairs analyst. a senior fellow at the atlantic council. good to have you here on set with us to talk about this. before we get going, i mean, it s an important day. ukraine has been at war for eight years and that was sort of precipitated by the events in the mydan, which was it. so it s a significant day in tlard. absolutely, michael. on the way here, i saw many of the churches are commemorating the anniversary of the slaughter of the so-called heavenly hundred. and tomorrow is the anniversary of the illegal annexation of crimea. on the one hand, putin might take advantage of this numeralology, so to speak, to do something. but on the other hand, they re commemorating this. one quick thing on that, michael. a lot of ukrainians tell me very few people, if any, have been prosecuted for that mass slaughter so many years ago. when it comes to the current situation, let s talk about putin s intent.