the battle for the key port city of mariupol rages on with more heavy fighting being reported. a u.s. defense official says the city remains contested. drone footage shows the devastation left behind. we re also getting video of smoke coming from a steel factory. ukraine says hundreds of civilians are also sheltering inside. cnn s matthew chance has images of what people are facing. reporter: these are the kids that are at ground zero in the battle for mariupol. this video posted on government social media which cnn can t
soldiers concerned this will be a secondary strikes. russia can pick and choose where they try and force brakethrough. russia more than just launching an invaegs, more than launching a war, is undertaking a campaign of terror. this is how the russians live and that evidence suggests their existence here is neither disciplined. we will keep fighting and defending. we will be doing this daily announcer: this is cnn breaking news. the battle for the donbas region now appears to be underway. ukraine s top security official said they attacked along the eastern front lines on monday in kharkiv, donetsk and luhansk. for the most part those towns
soviet leader vladimir lennon. can you give us a sense of what this means for ukrainians? so you see putin is trying to rebuild soviet union. this is his goal. this is the past. this is that i shall the past that s so unpleasant and so devastating for many of us. the fact that they are trying to rebuild it and to renew it is something that we are trying to get away from. it is something we are actually fighting, not to be dragged into the past with the soviets with their ideas and their way of life. we are moving to the future. we are the country that was and is attempting to join european union. we are building the digital economy. we are moving forward. russia is moving backwards and trying to drag all the other
appear to support ukraine s claim that it hit the russian warship with missiles. you can see plumes of smoke and large black holes on the port side of the missile. this sank last week. a u.k. government source says two british nationals fighting in mariupol have been captured by russian troops. claire, let me start by asking about the flagship that we showed on the ship. it is important because it s part of russia s black sea fleet. what more do we know? what is russia and what is ukraine saying? these pictures are the very latest we ve seen. the kremlin commented on this. dmitry pets could have said
three countries with them. this is exactly the point we are fighting and this is exactly why we will be standing firmly because it s not where we want to go. kiera, thank you very much for taking the time to speak with us and please stay safe, kiera. yeah, no more masks! whew! masks are still optional for employees, customers. well, the u.s. mask mandate you saw for public transportation is no longer in effect. the centers for disease control overstepped its authority by enacting it. major airlines made masks optional but some warn there