The deputy mayor of Mariupol on Ukraine's southeastern coast, says intense shelling is "destroying our city." The assault follows Russia's first military gain as they now control the southern port city of Kherson. As the bombs fell, Vladimir Putin was telling French President Emmanuel Macron in a phone call that the war would continue. Meanwhile, Ukraine's leader Volodymyr Zelensky makes an impassioned plea for a no-fly zone while aiming a broadside at his Putin: "You are not a czar." 

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