Somehow, some way, first responders have pulled survivors from the wreckage of the Mariupol theater pummeled by Russian airstrikes. Hundreds of women and children were trying to ride out the shelling there. In fact, those inside tried to warn the invaders' war planes by writing "children" in big white letters outside the building ... in Russian. But they bombed it anyway, prompting President Zelensky to say everything is a target inside his country. Today's coverage begins in Odessa in Ukraine's south with CNN International Security Editor Nick Paton Walsh.

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