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• Kherson would be Russia's largest metropolis to date.

• Ukrainians claim that street clashes are taking place.

• As its gains slow, Russia bombards additional cities.

• Kharkiv's city center has become a bombed-out wasteland.

• According to Zelenskiy, Russians "have instructions to eliminate us."

(Reuters) - Kyiv/Kharkiv, Ukraine, March 2 (Reuters) - As air strikes and bombing wrought havoc in places that Moscow's bogged down forces have yet to win, Ukrainians said on Wednesday they were fighting on in the port of Kherson, the first large city Russia claimed to have seized.

Russia has yet to fulfill its goal of ousting Ukraine's government after over a week, but it has murdered over 2,000 civilians and destroyed hospitals, kindergartens, and residences, according to the Ukrainian emergency services.

Over 870,000 people have fled across Ukraine's borders as a result of the invasion, and punitive sanctions have shook the global economy, with rising oil prices heightening worries of a humanitarian crisis.

The bombing of Kharkiv, a 1.5 million-person eastern metropolis, has left its center a wasteland of wrecked buildings and trash.

"The Russian 'liberators' have arrived," jokingly bemoaned one Ukrainian volunteer as he and three others struggled to drag the lifeless body of a guy wrapped in a bedsheet out of the wreckage on a large plaza.

The top of a police headquarters in central Kharkiv fell after an air attack on Wednesday morning, enveloped in flames. According to authorities, 21 people have been murdered in the city as a result of shelling and air attacks in the past.24 hours, plus four more hours on Wednesday morning.

Moscow denies targeting civilians and claims to be conducting a "special military operation" to disarm Ukraine, which has a population of 44 million people.

Since President Vladimir Putin authorized the Feb

. 24 invasion, Apple, Exxon, Boeing, and other foreign corporations have abandoned Russian markets, leaving Moscow financially and diplomatically isolated.

"He believed that if he rolled into Ukraine, the entire world would fall apart. Instead, he encountered a wall of power he could never have predicted or imagined: Ukrainians "In his annual State of the Union speech on Tuesday, US President Joe Biden remarked.

Many were flying Ukrainian flags and sporting the country's blue and yellow colors as they stood, cheered, and yelled.

Russia said that it has dispatched delegates to Belarus for a second round of peace negotiations. If Russia wants to discuss, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said it needed to cease bombing.

On Wednesday, Moscow said that it had taken control of Kherson, a southern provincial capital with a population of roughly 250,000 people strategically located where the Dnipro River empties into the Black Sea.

"The city has not surrendered, our side continues to defend," Zelenskiy advisor Oleksiy Arestovych said, denying that Kherson was completely under Russian control.

Russia was also bombing the port of Mariupol in the south, which it claims it has encircled in a ring around the whole Sea of Azov. After a night of severe attacks, Mariupol's mayor declared the city had suffered numerous casualties. He did not provide a total number of casualties, but claimed it was impossible to evacuate the wounded and that water supplies had been cut off.

"The Russian Federation's hostile occupying troops have done everything they can to prevent inhabitants from leaving the city of half a million people," mayor Vadym Boichenko said in a live broadcast on Ukrainian television.

On the other two main fronts, in the east and north, Russia has left nothing to show for its advances, with Kyiv and Kharkiv, Ukraine's two largest cities, holding out under more heavy shelling.

In a radio interview, British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace stated of Putin, "We are going to see... his cruelty intensify." "If he doesn't get his way, he surrounds cities, bombards them mercilessly at night... and then tries to break them and go inside the cities."

'ORDER FOR US TO BE ERASED'

On Tuesday, Russia destroyed the major television tower near a Holocaust monument in Kyiv, the metropolis of 3 million people where civilians have been hiding at night in the underground metro.

In his most recent address to his country, Zelenskiy stated that the attack demonstrated the Russians were capable of doing so "I have no knowledge of Kyiv or our history. But they've all been given orders to obliterate our history, our nation, and ourselves."

Earlier, in an interview with Reuters and CNN, a fatigued and unshaved Zelenskiy, dressed in green military fatigues and speaking from a strongly guarded government facility, told Reuters and CNN that the bombing must cease in order for peace negotiations to take place.

"At the very least, stop bombing people, simply stop bombing people, and then come to the bargaining table."

According to Western nations, Russia's primary advance on the capital, a massive armoured column stretching for kilometers down the road to Kyiv, has been essentially stuck in place for days. On Tuesday, a senior US defense source noted issues including as food and fuel shortages, as well as indicators of dwindling Russian army morale. find out more

"While Russian troops are claimed to have advanced into the heart of Kherson in the south, overall advances across axis have been restricted in the previous 24 hours," the British Ministry of Defence stated in an intelligence update on Wednesday morning.

"This is most likely due to a mix of continued logistical challenges and strong Ukrainian resistance."

It said that Russia was taking out heavy air and artillery strikes, particularly in Kharkiv, Kyiv, Mariupol, and Chernihiv in eastern Ukraine.

After months of denials, the Kremlin has decided to go to war, shocking Russians who have come to see Putin, their 22-year ruler, as a deliberate strategist. In a rerun of the post-Soviet economic collapse in the 1990s, people have been compelled to queue at banks to save their savings.

Ukraine announced that more than 1,000 volunteers from 16 nations were in route to fight with Ukrainian forces, and that any Russian captives whose mothers came to collect them would be released.

So far, Moscow has not provided a complete accounting of its casualties, but Ukraine claims to have killed roughly 6,000 Russian soldiers and kidnapped hundreds more. Images on the internet show burned-out Russian tank columns surrounded by bodies.

Putin's top critics have been imprisoned or pushed into exile, effectively eliminating domestic opposition. A spokeswoman for leading opposition figure Alexey Navalny tweeted from prison that Russians should oppose the war every day.