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where residents are scrambling for the most basic necessities. ukraine bracing for a full-scale russian assault in the east. there's a heavy russian troop presence in the south and the east. the areas here marked in red. military analysts say the russians will try to take control of the entire donbas region in eastern ukraine. there are new images of a long column of russian military vehicles near russia's border with ukraine. all of them pointing towards the direction of the donbas. meantime, russian education off on monday, there were unconfirmed reports of a russian chemical attack in mariupol. cnn cannot independently verify that claim. and to the north, ukraine's president says russian troops left behind thousands, thousands of mines.

>> translator: the invaders left mines everywhere, in the houses they took over, just on the streets, in the fields. they mined people's property, mined cars, doors. they deliberately did everything to ensure that the return to these areas after deoccupation was as dangerous as possible due to the actions of the russian army, our territory today is one of the most contaminated by mines in the world. >> explosions have been heard in ukraine's second biggest city, kharkiv, as well as nearby areas. authorities say the strikes have destroyed more than 2,000 homes in the region. cnn's nima elbagir is there. >> reporter: you can see all around us just the sheer devastation. right here is the crater from where a bomb was dropped just two days ago. north of here, about 25 miles away, is inside russia. that's where the russian positions are shelling. that's where they're throwing devastation and death into

places like this in kharkiv, into civilian areas. most of the people who have been able to evacuate have already left the city. those that remain have told us it's because they believe that nowhere in ukraine is safe. they wouldn't speak on camera because they're worried what will happen when and if the russians finally arrive. and that is what u.s. and ukrainian intelligence officials believe is about to happen. they believe russian troops are amassing. that was just a mortar strike as we were talking. it's about the third or fourth that we've heard. it's coming from that direction over there. we're continuing to hear strikes. imagine what it's like to live here. imagine what it's like to be in one of these apartments, to have been unable to evacuate, hearing that every day since this war began, knowing that you cannot evacuate, knowing that as one woman told us, there is nowhere safe here in ukraine.

u.s. and ukrainian intelligence officials say that they can see russian forces amassing just the other side of the border, some 25 miles to the north of kharkiv. they believe that they are amassing to come here, and to come here as soon as they can. nima alelbagir, cnn, kharkiv. this hour, vladimir putin expected to meet with the belarusian president, alexander lukashenko. lukashenko has been a longtime putin ally. meantime, austria's chancellor is speaking out about his meeting with vladimir putin on monday, which he called very direct, open, and tough. karl nehammer says he told putin directly about the alleged war crimes in bucha as well as other places in ukraine, and he says putin blames the ukrainians for all of those crimes. nehammer also says the russian leader is deep in preparations for the next phase of this war. >> translator: at the moment, i'm not particularly optimistic

after my talks with mr. putin. the offensive is being prepared with determination. we need to confront the russian president with the facts and how we see the war. there mustn't be a vacuum with regard to the consequences of this war. >> joining me now from singapore, a former senior adviser to the u.s. defense department. thanks so much for being with us. on monday, we heard from the ukrainian president as he addressed lawmakers in seoul, and he was blunt. he said this war will only end by force. at this point, is there any evidence to indicate that he's wrong, any sign that moscow is willing to enter into good-faith negotiations to bring this war to an end? >> no, there isn't. and, john, it's good to hear from you, and i'm glad you're safe. president zelenskyy's message is very clear. it's the same message he's been delivering for months to western leaders as well, nato members, eu members, united states, that they need more supplies, more ammunition. they do need it right now. all of your previous reporting

is making clear that the russian offensive is gaining steam for a second wind, a second set of offensives. the locations, of course, that are in the crosshairs right now, kharkiv, luhansk, donetsk, especially luhansk and donetsk that have been under nominal control by russian-backed officials for nearly a decade. in as much as they have stumbled considerably in the past month, they have a greater advantage in the second offensive. clearly putin is not taking the lessons away from, you know, what we would have hoped in terms of cutting his losses, pulling back, you know, sort of agreeing to some kind of settlement. that's not what's going to happen right now. >> we also heard from the russian foreign minister, sergey lavrov, on why the russians are pushing on with this offensive, why they're pushing on with the military offensive which is now focusing on the east. here he is.

>> translator: our special military operation is aimed at bringing an end to the reckless expansion and the reckless striving for domination of the united states and other western countries under their influence on a global stage. >> so now it's not just about ukraine being a member of nato. it's now about u.s. world domination. this seems to be changing the goalpost each day. >> he does. i don't think we have enough time to sort of disentangle all of the ironies and sffalse statements. at the end of the day, he's planning an offensive to cement control over territories it aggressively took, including its seizure of crimea. this is meant to be a ratification of what has been de facto territories under their control. quite frankly, looking at the damage they've done by

destroying the airport in dnipro, and they don't yet control poltava. you can imagine with this new set of operations, they still have their eyes on a very large swath of ukraine, perhaps not even just donbas, but it's too early to speculate how far beyond that they would go. clearly if they succeed in this next phase of their operation, it could well be they have their eyes on really quite significantly dismembering the country. >> the chancellor of austria was in moscow monday. a very unpleasant face-to-face meeting, it seems. he came away with this assessment. listen to this. >> translator: i made it absolutely clear to him that his attitude, his view of the war is not shared in the slightest. he sees it as a kind of self-defense operation of the russian federation. he calls it a special military operation, but i call it war. >> nehammer also went to great

lengths to point out the war crimes which have been committed in places like bucha, borodyanka, irpin, the list goes on. is it possible that vladimir putin had no idea what his soldiers were doing on the ground, that he somehow was in the dark about what was happening, the atrocities that have been going on? >> no, i don't think so, because there's obviously ample evidence to suggest that they had planned for and strategically, you know, sort of taken a decision to implement such atrocities, even as much as there are units within the russian military that have been revealing they thought they were on a training operation, they were ill equipped, other elements very premeditatively went in and commits these war crimes. at this point, i think the broader question or statement is that it's clear he doesn't care that he's committed war crimes. he's now been told by multiple western leaders and through various other channels that all of this constitutes war crimes, and in some instances genocide, or at least attempt at genocide.

so when they're in the midst of conflict and war in these aggressive operations as they are, it's not their first concern to deal with the legalities. he's only brought up international law or law of any kind in terms of responding to sanctions because when it comes to the freezing of central bank assets and the declarations that russia might be defaulting on its debt, he's saying he's going to take legal financial actions against it. in other words, he's only interested in the legal dimensions of areas that will enable him to continue to prosecute this war, nothing else. >> on those sanctions, we had a virtual meeting between joe biden and the indian prime minister, basically saying they're all on the same page when it comes to humanitarian efforts for ukraine. how important is it to get india on side right now to counter the balance of china? >> you know, i think in terms of optics and diplomacy, the efforts will continue to try to get china even more significantly and india as well to be less of an enabler of

russian operations and russian energy exports such as they have been. we know about the bilateral currency deals and other efforts. india, i don't think, is going to play along. we've had very strong statements from current and former indian officials that they see this as, you know, sort of -- not that it's not their war, that it's the west's war and this kind of rhetoric, but simply if you think about a country like india that pays a very high price for energy imports, this further pushes their economy into significant current account deficit. they don't want to have to burden their economy indefinitely with this. i think there's, again, diplomatic optics around try fog get india to make statements and pressure russia, but we know that's not going to count for anything right now. >> you're probably one of the smartest people i know. thank you for being with us. we really appreciate? >> thank you, john. stay safe, john. >> thank you. ukrainian authorities say they've completed a temporary bridge near kyiv opening a route for humanitarian aid as well as reconstruction. this is for the suburb of irpin, where the russian military has

left behind evidence of some incredibly intense battles after they retreated. cnn's fred pleitgen shows us the devastation as well as the ongoing dangers. but first a warning, his report has some graphic images. >> reporter: the tour is a sad routine for the body collectors in the outskirts of kyiv. finding corpses has become eerily normal here. a house destroyed by an artillery strike. a body burned beyond recognition. a mangled car wreck. two bodies burned recognition. a house that was occupied by russian troops. an elderly lady dead in the bedroom. these bodies evidence of a brutal russian occupation and then a fierce fight by the underdog ukrainians to drive them out. a fight 81-year-old katarina witnessed up close in her village.

"there were explosions, explosions from all sides. it was scary," she tells me. "i am in hmy house. i crossed myself and lay down. all the windows in the house were broken." the ukrainians tell us the russian troops didn't even bother collecting most of their own dead. they showed us the body of what they say was a russian soldier still laying in the woods. and that's not all they've left behind. this demining unit says they found hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance in just a matter of days, including cluster munitions like this bomblet even though the russians deny using them. "these weapons are extremely dangerous for civilians who might accidentally touch them," the commander says. there are about 50 such elements in one bomb, he says. this is a high explosive fragmentation bomb to kill people, designed just to kill people.

they blow up the cluster bomblet on the spot and then move the heavier bombs to a different location for a massive controlled explosion. the body collecting, the mine sweeping, and the clearing up of wreckage are just starting in this area, and yet this pile of demolished vehicles, both military and civilian, already towers in the kyiv suburb of irpin. if you had to picture russia's attempt to try and take the ukrainian capital, kyiv, it would probably look a lot like this. destruction on a massive scale and absolutely nothing to show for it. russia's military was humiliated by the ukrainians and caused a lot of harm in the process. and they've devastated scores of families. at irpin's cemetery, the newly widowed weep at funerals for the fallen. alla, her husband fought alongside their 21-year-old son

in irpin and died in his arms on the battlefield. yulia, wife of dmytro pasko, killed by a russian mortar shell. and tatiana, her husband promised her he'd come back in a few hours, but was killed defending this neighborhood. "i'm very proud of him," tatiana says. "he's a hero. we have many people in ukraine who have not fled and are defending their home. sasha died just 200 meters from our house where we lived." laying the dead to rest another sad task. close by, the next funeral is already under way. fred pleitgen, cnn, irpin, ukraine. let's go back to paula newton at world headquarters in atlanta. paula, there will be so many more funerals in this country in the days and weeks ahead. just one point on those land

mines. an ultimate act of cowardice to land mine a civilian area by a retreating army. that's why it's a war crime. >> we've spoken to arms experts who say this will be the legacy of this war not for months or years, but for decades to come yet. thanks so much. still to come here for us, his brutality in syria earned him the nickname "the butcher." now he's taking over russia's military campaign in ukraine. and we'll go to shang hhai for firsthand account of life in the word's l largest covid lockdown. ...because you're crazy... ...a.and you like it. you get bigger... ...badder... ...faster. ♪ you can never have too much of a good thing... and power is a very good thing. ♪

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case count went from double digits to more than 26,000. a shanghai city leader choked up at a news conference over the weekend, apologizing to shanghai's more than 25 million residents for failing to meet expectations and promising improvements. those of us living here kept to our homes. cnn the only u.s. tv network with a team living through the lockdown. in my community, we're only allowed out when summoned by workers using a megaphone and when dark out, a flashlight. getting a late evening now request to go get a covid test. my neighbors and i line up, ready for health workers to scan our qr codes, which link the results to our i.d. night or day, the testing is constant. someone in the community tested positive, so they'll test now each of us once again. we can also leave the house to line up for government distributions or to get approved deliveries. usually the most exciting part

of the day. it looked to be vacuum-sealed pork and then several boxes of traditional chinese medicine. a bunch more face masks. a box that has a bunch of fresh fruit. on top they have some frozen meat and then two antigen kits. food deliveries this plentiful are rare, so most of us spend our mornings trying to order groceries online. but orders sell out quickly. not enough delivery drivers to get through the lockdown barriers. communities like mine resorting to group buys. we come together in chat groups and try to sort food directly from suppliers in bulk. neighbors helping neighbors is a common theme across the city. we found a safe drop spot to trade -- cheese for oranges. our community's volunteers help us source food where they can, though they too are exhausted and hungry. from above, you see this metropolis quiet, eerily empty. but on the ground, there are tragedies shared daily online. this man recording his father,

who says he's unable to get admitted to a hospital in the strained system. his dad later died, he says. in this video, a neighbor capturing the wailing of a heartbroken woman, crying out that her loved one had died because of the lockdown. and this video sparked outrage on chinese social media. it shows a worker in a hazmat suit brutally killing a pet corgi because local officials worried that it might have carried the virus. the owner was in government quarantine. all of this as a result of china's zero-covid policy, a directive from the top. president xi jinping on friday praising china's zero-covid approach. state media echoing a glowing narrative, showing an orderly mobilization in shanghai with an abundant food supply and rapid construction of more than 100 makeshift hospitals with capacity to treat more than 160,000 people infected. but patients taken to those government quarantine centers sharing a very different reality online, posting videos of

unsanitary conditions and people using isolation facilities still under construction. some seen frantically running at distribution sites, scrambling for food and blankets. the uncertainty leading to this man broken, doing the unthinkable, questioning the leadership allowed, asking "where is the communist party?" david culver, cnn, shanghai. now, war crimes investigations are already under way in ukraine with survivors giving detailed and often graphic and painful accounts of what happened in their towns and cities. we will have much more on that with john vause live from lviv when we come back.

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general known as the butcher of syria to lead his invasion of ukraine after stiff resistance humiliated russian troops trying to capture the capital, kyiv. many now fear that general alexander dvornikov will usher in a brutal new phase in this war. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: the steel-eyed new commander of russian forces in ukraine has a reputation u.s. officials and analysts say for barbarity in war. >> we're probably turning another page in the same book of russian brutality. >> this general alexander dvornikov, his nickname is "the butcher". >> reporter: general alexander dvornikov, 60 years old, just appointed by vladimir putin to direct all russian military operations in ukraine. as commander of russia's southern military district, general dvornikov had been overseeing russian troops in ukraine's southern and eastern regions. but it's his track record during

russia's campaign in syria which earned him the nickname the butcher. >> they called him a general who is known to be tough, known to be disciplined, and he didn't care what he hurt. he didn't care what he killed. >> reporter: the syrian army under president bashar al assad was not doing well in its civil war against rebel forces when putin first sent russian troops there in 2015 to back them up. general dvornikov was the first commander of russia's military operations in syria when the russians and syrians set their sights on the northern city of aleppo. the russian and syrian offensive against aleppo was vicious. barrel bombs and other munitions targeted densely populated neighborhoods, causing widespread civilian casualties, which analysts say dvornikov played a major role in. >> this was an effort to intimidate whoever was on the receiving end of that. >> reporter: but the syrian campaign was not dvornikov's first brush with savagery. >> he fought in his early ranks

when he was a young major lieutenant colonel in the chechnya war in grozny. >> reporter: dvornikov was a division chief of staff and then a division commander when russian forces fought their second campaign in chechnya and left the regional capital grogrozny in ruins. >> he's known to be disciplined. he's known to be no sense of humor. he's known to be business-like. he's a professional soldier. there's no doubt about that, except professional soldiers don't kill civilians. >> i would anticipate we're going to see a lot more attempts at trying to cower and kill civilians within ukraine. >> reporter: military analysts and u.s. officials believe russia's generals want to present vladimir putin with some kind of tangible military progress in ukraine ahead of may 9th. that's when russia celebrates victory day, marking its defeat

of nazi germany in world war ii. can general alexander dvornikov pull that off in two analysts we spoke to have serious doubts, saying they don't think he has the resources to do that. brian todd, cnn, washington. well, the seven week long offensive by the russian military there, there's no shortage of evidence of war crimes being committed in ukraine. the netherlands, sweden, and germany have pledged more than $2.5 million to the international criminal court to help investigate and prosecute any such crimes. and ukraine's prosecutor general already looking at thousands of cases with the number growing each and every day. cnn's jake tapper has our report. >> reporter: about 90 minutes outside lviv at this pink school, up the stairs, past the paw prints, in this grade school classroom, there's a war crimes investigation under way. ukraine's prosecutor general's office has deployed teams of

investigators to villages and shelters nationwide with a mission. build a case strong enough to punish russia in international courts. ukrainians who have fled their homes and are willing to testify are asks to give detailed accounts of the language, uniforms, timing, and actions of those who wronged them and destroyed their lives. >> translator: the main idea of it is to officially set the status of these people as crime victims, for example, because they will get their right for compensation in the future. >> reporter: irina was a chief ecological prosecutor in southeastern ukraine before the invasion. but since march 28th, she's been collecting war stories from people sheltering in the west. even as her own village remains under russian control. >> translator: after i moved here to the relative safety in western ukraine, i heard the call from the prosecutor general's office that this group

would be created. so i went and joined. i didn't hesitate even for a second. >> reporter: neither did vasil, a witness from bucha. >> translator: it was important for me to tell but also hard to tell. i'm still shaking. >> reporter: he's a longtime paramedic who says he helped the wounded back home. >> translator: there were people watching the equipment moving along the street, and they were shot at. two people were running into a cellar, and one of them was killed. >> reporter: he along with his family sheltered at home for ten days. >> translator: me, my son, and my brother were in the house, and my wife and my daughter were in the cellar. >> reporter: he says he had a pitchfork ready to defend his daughter and son. >> reporter: if they came into my house, i woulds you other the pitchfork to kill them. if i got killed, it wrotould be easier. >> reporter: his friend in a neighboring village was not as lucky. >> translator: she called me on the 26th or 27th of february. she has a mentally ill, disabled

son who went out on the street to look at the tanks and machines, and they just shot him dead. >> translator: how many people died and who knows how many will die? >> reporter: 63-year-old natalia is a retiree from kharkiv, who testified today about the brutality she witnessed by russian soldiers. >> translator: i can't say a good word about these people. i can't even call them people. maybe they have no brains at all. i don't know what they're thinking and how their mothers are bringing them up and giving meat to this war. >> reporter: she says she sheltered in her basement for six days. the windows have been blown out of her house, and her sister is dead. >> translator: she had a heart attack in the cellar where she was hiding because of the big stress. >> reporter: still, natalia is not sure her story or any reparation for it means much. >> translator: how can they be punished? i don't think that they will be punished severely. only god can punish them. what they have done, it cannot

be repaid by any money. >> reporter: by now, most have seen horrific images of war crimes on cnn and other news outlets. but there is much more too horrifying to show and much more news media have not seen that is being added into evidence. with a click, witnesses can upload videos and photos to this website created by the prosecutor general's office of ukraine. the interviews, however, are done in person. >> translator: people often cry during their questionings and so on, and it is much easier for the person who is in the same room to connect to the people being questioned and to find a better line of investigation. >> reporter: the sad truth, this part of the world has a lot of experience when it comes to such prosecutions. lviv university, in fact, is the alma mater of the two lawyers who came up with the legal concepts of prosecutions at nuremberg for genocide and for crimes against humanity. in fact, one of those former law

students here was working with the allied powers in 1942, preparing for those prosecutions at the same time members of his family here in lviv were being rounded up and killed because they were jewish. those ideas and laws hammered out between u.s., british, and soviet powers to go after nazi crimes will now be used to go after the grandchildren of those soviets. >> translator: i call russians cockroaches now, and i want to destroy these cockroaches. i want to crush them forever. >> reporter: vasil says he would join the military if he could. >> translator: i would fight, but my eyesight is minus 9. i wouldn't see. >> reporter: instead, he's giving the court a clearer view of what the russians have done. >> translator: yes, i can't help any other way. >> reporter: jake tapper, cnn, lviv, ukraine. i'll have a lot more from ukraine at the top of the hour. for now, let's hand it back to

paula newton at cnn's world headquarters in atlanta. i guess what the end result will, we just have to wait. >> the fact that they are already at it, though. john, thanks so much. appreciate it. we are following as well a politically tumultuous week in pakistan. the country's prime minister is taking office 24 hours after leaving the campaign to oust his predecessor. we'll take a look at the challenges. level to rescue damageged hair. discover 10 x stroronger hair with new dove hair therapypy rescue and protect.

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a struggling economy is the top priority for pakistan's new prime minister. shehbaz sharif is calling for unity after an incredibly dramatic week which saw his predecessor ousted from office. cnn's sophia saifi has more details on pakistan's new leader and his challenges ahead.

>> reporter: a political whirlwind in pakistan. on monday, shehbaz sharif was sworn in as the country's new prime minister just a day after his predecessor, imran khan, lost a no-confidence vote. it was a dramatic start for the new leader in which more than 100 lawmakers loyal to khan resigned in protest. despite the chaos, sharif vowed to begin his term by tackling yet another problem in the country -- the economy. >> translator: at this point in time, only the poor man is devastated and destroyed. i will provide some relief to them on behalf of this coalition government and would like to say that at the very least, we will raise the minimum wage to 25,000 rupees. >> reporter: sharif blames khan for mismanaging the economy and led calls for a no-confidence vote against him after urging him to resign. just over a week ago, khan announced he was dissolving

parliament and calling for early elections to avoid the vote. but that move was struck down by the country's highest court. and on sunday, there were loud cheers in parliament after khan lost the high-stakes political battle. >> the resolution for a vote of no confidence against mr. imran khan, the prime minister of islamic republic of pakistan, has been passed. >> reporter: sharif is the younger brother of three-time prime minister nava sharif, who was convicted of corruption charges in 2018 but later left the country for medical treatment after serving only a brief part of his prison sentence. the new prime minister is said to have support in the pakistani military, which had distanced itself from khan. sharif also has allies in china after playing an influential role in a multi-dollar deal between the two countries and says he wants to improve relations with the west. khan remains defiant after his

defeat and says the u.s. was behind his downfall, which washington denies. he also says he would not support an opposition government if it succeeded in ousting him. >> translator: i will not accept an imported government. i will go out to my people. i do not belong to a political family. neither my father nor any relative was in politics. >> reporter: thousands of khan's supporters have been protesting in major cities around the country. yet another challenge for pakistan's new leader on this dizzying first day in office. sophia saifi, cnn, islamabad. coming up for us, cnn visits a preschool and day care where children are already getting a sobering lesson on war and peace in ukraine.

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usf says nearly two-thirds of all ukrainian children -- think about that, two-thirds -- have been displaced since the start of the russian invasion. and nearly half of the more than 3 million children are believed to still be inside the country. they may not have enough food. on monday, the ukrainian ambassador to the united nations read a letter publish add few days ago. he told a security council the letter was written by a 9-year-old boy to his dead mother. the ambassador says she was killed by russian troops when they tried to escape their town by car, and he says the boy stay unde ed in that car until local residents rescued him. >> thank you for the best nine years of my life. many thanks for my childhood. you are the best mama in the world. i will never forget you.

i wish you good luck in the heavens. i wish you to get to paradise. i will try to behave well to get to paradise, too. >> itself tough for him to get through that letter. at a private daycare and preschool here in the united states, many of the children and their parents were, in fact, born in ukraine. and because of the conflict, they are being taught a lesson already about war and peace. cnn's gary tuchman went there to parma heights, ohio. >> reporter: it's called the ukrainian academy. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. >> so today, we are going to speak about war and peace. >> reporter: in the cleveland suburb of parma heights, ohio. >> can you raise your hands if you have grandparents in ukraine? >> reporter: almost all of their parents were born in ukraine, and many of these children were, also, born there. this is a private preschool, daycare, as well as an after-school program.

for children ages 6 months to 12 years. >> are we in just state of peace? or are we in a state of war in this country? >> peace. >> peace. what about ukraine? >> war. >> reporter: the feeling here is that, although what's happening in ukraine is frightening, it's important for these children to learn about it and talk about it. >> what can you say about soldiers in ukraine? how -- how you feel about them? >> that they're brave. >> they brave? right. >> soldiers help people. >> if someone comes to your house, start destroying it, taking your stuff, you know, would you be happy about that? >> no. >> do you think this is right? >> no. >> when another country like come into another country and taking stuff and bombing and do you think this is right? >> no. >> no? who came to ukraine? >> russia. russia. >> reporter: the teachers ask how the children are feeling about all this. >> worried. >> worried? >> scared.

>> scared. what other words is war? how can we describe a war? >> sadness. >> sadness. >> my family is -- well, are very scared for my great grandma, my relatives that are also in war, and it's very anxious. >> i hope because some russia people are good and saying stop to the who's being bad. >> so not all the russian people are bad, right? there are some people who just, you know, say no war, please stop it. they are asking the president. >> yeah. it's not because of the russian people. it's because of -- of the president. he's greedy and trying to take over the country. >> what is your dream? just what would you dream about right now if you are thinking about ukraine? another president in russia? okay. >> that every -- every single

[ inaudible ] and that war never happened. >> reporter: roman and helena are the owners of the academy. do you think your students here are now prouder to be ukrainian american than even before this war? >> yes, i think they are proud about their roots. that they ukrainians and about ukrainian standing strong. >> staying together. >> reporter: before we say good-bye to the students, i get to talk with them a bit. if you had superpowers, what would you do? if you had superpowers? >> save the good people. >> save the good people? >> yeah. >> that's what you would do as superwoman? >> yeah, yeah. and like, make the house fly into the air. >> make the house fly into the air? >> yeah. >> fly to safety? >> yeah. >> reporter: the laughter of children who have a lot on their minds. the children here are also learning about charitable giving. they and their families have

donated each amounts of food, clothing, medical supplies. the owners of the academy took the donations, flew to poland themselves, drove to the border, and those supplies are now in ukraine. but more supplies of donations are coming in. that's why this truck container is here. the donations are inside. as it fills up, the owners will take them out and again take a plane to poland and deliver it to ukraine. this is gary tuchman, cnn in parma heights, ohio. >> tragedy. those kids have to learn about any of that this moment. i am paula newton. i will see you right back here tomorrow. our breaking news coverage continues with john vause live in lviv, ukraine, and rosemary church here at cnn center. smart bankers. convenieient tools. one bank withth the power of both. chase. make more of what's yours.

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