Today we're seeing new video of the rumble and smoke of explosions in Mykolaiv along the Black Sea, and more intense fighting in and around the capital, Kyiv. Putin is proposing new escape routes, all on roads that lead to Russia or Belarus. Zelensky says the Russian side simply wants to watch his country burn. In this episode our CNN correspondents and their teams on the front lines bring you the very latest.

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