jude for that, but thanks to you, yuliya nogovitsyna, and the people around you who are helping thesend cancer treatment. yuliya nogovitsyna is a director at tabletochki charity foundation in lviv, ukraine, thank you for your very important work that you are doing and please stay safe. that does it for us tonight, i will see you again tomorrow morning him for a special edition of velshi, i will be reporting live from the ukrainian border, it's time maxlength=32> tonight, russia widens its war on ukraine, and closes in on kyiv. more cities and civilians struck, other areas cut off, with no food or water, plus the disinformation battle escalating, as the putin propaganda machine churns, what they are hearing in moscow tonight, and ukrainian tennis star trading in his racket for a rifle to defend his country, he'll be here live as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again, i'm stephanie ruhle, day 17 of the russian invasion. it is now 6 am saturday in ukraine's capital, it has been very tense overnight in kyiv, with reports of shelling just outside the cit

jude for that, but thanks to you, yuliya nogovitsyna, and the people around you who are helping theseiya nogovitsyna is a director at a charity foundation in lviv, ukraine, thank you for your very important work that you are doing and please stay safe. that does it for us tonight, i will see you again tomorrow morning him for a special edition of velshi, i will be reporting live from the ukrainian border, it's time now for the last word, with alicia midland menendez, who is in for lawrence o'donnell. >> thank you, velshi, for keeping us focused. >> now to the latest in ukraine, for the first time since putin's invasion, airstrikes are being reported in western ukraine, close to poland.

jude for that, but thanks to you, yuliya nogovitsyna, and the people around you who are helping these children in desperate need. yuliya nogovitsyna is a director at a charity foundation in lviv, ukraine, thank you for your very important work that you are doing and please stay safe. that does it for us tonight, i will see you again tomorrow morning him for a special edition of velshi, i will be reporting live from the ukrainian border, it's time now for the last word, with alicia midland menendez, who is in for lawrence o'donnell. >> thank you, velshi, for keeping us focused. >> now to the latest in ukraine, for the first time since putin's invasion, airstrikes are being reported in western ukraine, close to poland. and four people were killed when areas came under heavy fire. cal perry is in the area and he will give us the latest in just a moment. the russian assault on mariupol shows no signs of abating. civilians are remaining trapped inside the besieged city. and being forced to scrounge for food and fuel to survive the freezing temperatures. the deputy prime minister of ukraine