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Ukrainian capital Russian forces moving closer and closer to the city even

as Ukraine says it defeated a column of enemy tanks.

He now described as a fortress in this third week of the war.

Also breaking new attacks in the same city where Russians brutally bombed a maternity and

Children's Hospital. The outrage is growing and the death still rising with

local officials now forced to dig mass graves.

CNN correspondence around the scene, covering this war from key locations in Ukraine, in Europe,

and here in the US. We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States

and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. This is CNN breaking news.

Tonight U.S. officials say Russian forces are making new progress in their slow but punishing push

toward the heart of Ukraine's capital. We'll get a live report from CNN's

Larissa Ward. She's in Kyiv in just a moment, but first CNN's Orrin Lieberman has other breaking news on the war.

Russia's siege on the Ukrainian city of Marioole is only growing more devastating.

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