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world war. ukraine and europe is now facing russian shelling followed by fire burning at the country's largest nuclear power plant, in fact europe's largest nuclear power plapt. the country that faced the chernobyl disaster facing the possibility -- again a possibility -- of another. cnn's kaitlan collins tells us that the white house is monitoring the situation and president biden just spoke by phone to ukraine's president zelenskyy. the international atomic energy agency tweeted, quote, there has been no change reported in radiation levels at the zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant site. that is good news. the agency is calling for stop to the fighting and warning of nuclear disaster if reactors are hit. joining us the national security analyst. joe, i appreciate you being with us. obviously the headline on this

seems very ominous. there's a lot we don't know, particularly the location of the fire, the size of it, what it actually may mean. how concerned are you? >> very concerned. i cannot overstate the seriousness of this event. what we've seen is terrifying enough. if the electricity to this plant is cut off, if the plumbing to this plant is cut off, you could be looking at another chernobyl, another major nuclear power disaster on ukrainian territory. there are multiple ways this could get very terrible very quick. >> how does -- explain that because clearly -- i mean, from a strategic standpoint, russian authorities might want to try to take this plant offline in order to deprive the country of electricity to their cities. you're saying if the electricity to a plant is cut off, that

could trigger an incident? how can that be? >> yes. yes. if they want to take this off the grid, they should go and capture the plant and cut it -- take it off the grid. but what they're doing is physically attacking this. we've used this word a lot in the last week. this is unprecedented. this has never happened in world history, a determined attack on a nuclear power plant. what you're worried about is two things. one, for those reactors that may still be operating -- i believe there are six reactors at this facility, the largest nuclear power plant in europe -- if those fuel rods are still in the reactor and you cut off the electricity, then you're cutting off the cooling system that controls the system. and you'll be unleashing an uncontrollable nuclear chain reaction in that facility. you will have a meltdown. you will have a chernobyl. you will have a fukushima. that's what you're talking about. but even for those reactors that

are already shut down, those cooling ponds have to be filled with water. if you're cutting off the plumbing, if you're cutting off the electricity, you face the risk of those pools draining of the water, and again, an uncontrolled nuclear chain reaction that could lead to an explosion that would release plumes of radioactivity for hundreds of square kilometers. >> i should point out we do not -- there's so much -- we do not know if they are actually attacking the plant, trying to physically damage the plant, which, as you say, would be incredibly alarming, or just trying to take over the physical location and that there is gunfire and potential shelling around the plant. i don't know if that's a difference that matters at all to you. >> no. that's right. if it's a controlled attack that's trying to knock out the guards, overcome the security protecting the plant. but i'm looking at this video like you are. and this does not seem like a

very controlled attack. there is a lot of gunfire going into that plant. this does not look like a precision attack, like a careful attack to me. again, the risks of this kind of attack, the risks of what could happen to any nuclear power plant, and this, the largest in europe, is off the charts. they should immediately cease fire, immediately try to negotiate some kind of surrender of the plant where the operators could at least maintain control and prevent a nuclear catastrophe. >> now, the ukrainian regulator telling the iae that there's been no change in the reported radiation levels at the plant -- >> yes. >> -- that is positive news, is it not? >> yes, it is. and there's various sites that track radioactive release. you can find them on twitter and facebook. social media is amazing in situations like this. and so far there's to had elevated radiation coming from that area.

so, that's the good news. nothing terrible has happened yet. >> i really appreciate your expertise. it's important at a time like this. >> thank you. stay safe. for more on the larger battle, the fight in southern ukraine. for the last week or so, russian forces have been conducting a city-by-city campaign, first to re-establish the land bridge from the crimean peninsula. more on that from cnn's nick paton walsh. >> the town refuse z to give up, it seems. looting crippling life here, this russian soldier's bid to get into a cell phone store, a sign of the lawless world they brought with them, where food and medicine is lacking. and what life is left made more unbearable by the laying of trip wire mines, local officials

said. this one post online to warn others. on the other side of russian-held crimea, mariupol under siege, say, the, quote, scum have found no other way to break us. the prize in the south is this, odesa, its opera house fortified, its coastline a heart of tasks, where the tide could bring russians in with it, yet still lapse as if nothing has changed. an estonian ship sank east of here, with ukrainian officials accusing russia of shelling it to act as cover for their landing ships. any hour now when the landing force could hold ir rento view.

odesa, like so many don't want their whereabouts filmed but are happy to speak. virginia is chief marketing officer for an i.t. company who's travelled europe and africa but joined up to fight on day one. >> unfortunately i have lost two of my friends in kherson two days ago. >> i'm sorry. >> yeah. >> they were fighting in kherson. >> yeah, they were fighting. they were in volunteer troop. so, they had no military background at all. both of them are programmers. >> reporter: we're joined by this woman, age 19, a nanny who fled russians in crimea when she was 11. we're ready to the end to defend our land, she said. the occupiers came to my home before. my family is still there. only i could leave because i don't want to live in russia. across town, mothers knit

camouflage netting while their daughters fight, her staying behind to defend kyiv. >> we know the danger. we know that it will come. but we didn't know when will it come. and i asked them, children, come here. please, be safe. come to me. but, no, mom, please stay alive, stay safe. but everybody lost -- sorry, sorry. everybody wants to be independent, to be free. they decided to stay there, and i can't influence that decision. but i pray every day, i pray every night for them to stay alive. >> the defined words of ukrainian soldiers of snake island, who told a russian ship

where to shove it, echo here. >> [ bleep ]. >> russian ship [ bleep ] you. it's the logo now in ukraine. >> reporter: they'll need more than high spirits in the days ahead. >> nick paton walsh joins us now from odesa. i mean, that mom, you know, it's just -- i mean, listening to her, you know, she's -- she just wants to protect her kids and yet she's proud of them of course for fighting. and she's, you know, telling putin where to go. i mean, it's just extraordinary. there are so many moms like that. you know, we see them here in lviv. we see them in kyiv. we see them everywhere. and probably there are moms like that in russia who are sick that their sons are in that convoy or foot soldiers in this war that, you know, they don't even want.

>> no. i mean, look, in the 20 years i've been seeing this standoff between ukraine and russia in which moscow has been so desperate to retain its supremacy over its neighbor. we've never imagined that we could be at a point like this, frankly. even the notion of the conflict that broke out in 2014 and 2015 when i covered the first protest in 2004 in central kyiv, that seemed farfetched. and to be standing here and hearing you talk, anderson, about the possibility of some kind of nuclear accident, whatever ends up developing, but the notion that open warfare is occurring across ukraine is just gut wrenchingly startling. and to hear her voice the fears of so many here that families are split apart, they may never see each other again, we see daily people making decisions about where they're going to be for next week but also possibly the years ahead if indeed the russian occupation goes forward in the way we think we're seeing

it happen right now. it's utterly shocking in europe in 2022. and i think the thing that's so chilling, having observed putin for over 20 years, is that we are seeing something that seems so far removed from rational that the plan when we're talking about nuclear power stations and the destruction of civilian infrastructure and a game plan which appears to have no notion of how it might in the future control civilian areas, that leaves you with this awful feeling about how knee linguistic this operation may end up being, anderson. >> nick paton walsh, i appreciate it. your reporting is so personal and so poignant. and it really brings us in that room with that mother. i really appreciate it. it's so important. thank you. we go next to kyiv and cnn's matthew chance. matthew, is this one of the nightmare scenarios for government officials in -- in

kyiv? despite the nuclear plant -- >> reporter: yeah, of course. yeah, it's not just for the officials in kyiv, of course. it's a nightmare scenario for everybody in the world to think that there would be fighting so intensively in the area where europe's biggest nuclear power plant is located. you know, there's been a warning already from the iaea, the u.n.'s nuclear watchdog saying they're gravely concerned about the situation because it's the -- it's the first time really that there's been such fierce fighting in the vicinity of an operating nuclear power plant. and so obviously the risks are significant. the ukrainian foreign minister has said that this fire, fire coming in from all sides, is obviously a great deal of military activity taking place there. and there is a building, as we've been reporting, in the sort of compact, in the area of

the nuclear power plant, that is on fire. and frirefighters have been struggling to get to it. i have to stress -- we should stress that the moment the reactor, one of six reactors, one of them is not on fire. that's not what's happening right now. it's a building, a training building apparently, that is on fire. but obviously the risks are there. you know, when you've got such fighting in such close proximity, you can't rule that out. and of course in this country in particular, you know, it's particularly resonant because this is where chernobyl is. this is where in 1986, the world's biggest nuclear accident, most serious nuclear accident took place. and it's still very vivid in the memories of people in this country, people in russia. it was the soviet union back then of course. and the idea that that could be repeated again in this horrific situations that unfolding across

the country is just terrifying. as i say, for ukrainian people, ukrainian officials and the people around the world, anderson. >> so, the damage today in and around kyiv seem to be -- and elsewhere in the country. some of the images are just startling, even though they're not surprising, given russia's history. but it definitely seems to be worth targeting more residential areas, even more aggressively than we've seen before. is that -- is that accurate? >> i think it is. i mean, look, i mean, they're shocking images, if not surprising images. i was just looking at some of the video we've been broadcasting from a region just outside of the ukrainian capital with an apartment building absolutely devastated. you know, there's an russian column that's devastated and destroyed in the streets in the

square outside from another location. there are these horrific images that have appeared, which i'm not sure we cleared for our air at this point, but i've seen them, of people screaming in the aftermath of what appears to be some kind of strike or munitions, something like that. i mean, it's absolutely horrific that civilian areas are now being targeted. and of course, you know, if it's true -- and it probably is -- that the russians sent in an underpowered invasion force in the first instance and didn't make the kind of tactical gains that they expected to make and that they have now decided to ramp up that military pressure and to really, you know, pile in and to throw everything they've got at this to make sure they win this war, then you are going to see these i civilian casualts skyrocketing. it's inevitable. you've got millions of people in close concentration where the

fighting is happening. so, we are going to be seeing more and more horrific scenes just like this. >> matthew chance, so appreciate your reporting tonight and always. thank you so much. coming up next, more on that nuclear plant, the fighting there, the implications with retired general spider marsh. later my visit to a nato hospital here in lviv where children are being treated for cancer, and they're coming here from all over ukraine because their treatment has stopped elsewhere. nina has a plan based on what matters most to her. and she can simply f focus on right now. that's the planning effect. from f fidelity.

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ukrainian authorities tell international regulators that so far radiation levels are normal at europe's largest nuclear power plant in southern ukraine. that is very good news. radiation levels are normal. fire broke out after it came under russian attack, and according to the local mayor, firefighters cannot reach the scene because of the combat. these are closed circuit camera

images we are showing to you. before the break we spoke to a nuclear expert who called the situation very dangerous. but we should also emphasize we do not yet know about what is precisely happening there. i always think it's important to find out about situations, to not get freaked out because there's a lot we don't know. we're going to get perspective on that but also the larger battle in that part of ukraine and the larger russia campaign. joining us general james "spider" marshal, peter zwak. we heard nick paton walsh talk about ukrainian cities. can you just show us where those points are and where they're so important strategically for russia? >> absolutely. let me show you. that reporting is quite phenomenal. cnn needs to pat itself on the back frankly. this is absolutely up close. it's personal. it's real.

it's timely. it really gives everybody wonderful insight. what's so significant about the coastline here is if russia can control that, it controls access from the black sea. it suddenly makes ukraine a landlocked country. under normal circumstances, if they were not under assault, this would be extremely difficult for ukraine, their industry, their agriculture, their economy would be adversely affected if they could not access the black sea. that's the intent down here of russian forces, clear to keep in mind that kyiv remains the center of gravity. that's where they need to achieve their primary objective. they need to get that accomplished in order to have everything else try to tumble or at least come under the control of the forces there. but it's so important that they're down here. not only do you create this, you end up creating a zone. russia now has the ability to

maneuver at will. that's what's most important about what's taking place down here right now, anderson. >> general zwack, when you see what's happening at this nuclear power plant, and, again, a lot we don't know, but a lot on the face of it doesn't sound great, particularly the images we saw of tracer fire hitting the building at a plant. it didn't look like in the movies you would think if a specialized squad was going to take over a nuclear power plant, you don't really think that they would be firing at a building like this. you would think it would be done more precisely. how risky is an attack in or around a nuclear power plant? >> great question. what -- what stuns me is the fact that this is indiscriminant. it is seemingly undisciplined.

it is criminal. and the local commanders, for whatever reason -- in fact the entire operation in ukraine is increasingly, in my mind, for the russians become kind of ad hoc. and local commanders and firing -- i don't see organized fire strikes. there are different units firing at different things. it's chaotic. so, i think what's happening around the nuclear power plant -- which in a very sensitive industrial region for ukraine, and this is really important. this whole greater area in upper donbas, that is part of stalin's industrialization project. that's part of what the old soviet union had as its industrial heart. and i believe in part why putin is so driven to bring back ukraine and all that industrialization created a great famine in the '30s.

it killed close to 4 million ukrainians. and you think ukrainians are fighting them now? this has picked a gigantic, gigantic scab. bottom line, indiscriminate, undisciplined, criminal, chaotic. and it kind of matches what we've seen outside of ukraine and kharkiv as well. >> general mark, the ukrainian defense ministry said today destroyed 20 russian vehicles north of kyiv. can you show us where that convoy is in relation to capital? and i don't know, it's hard to tell when you think you can get there because we're not sure exactly what the holdup is. but it seems like -- is part of the holdup for them just that they're trying to build, like a logistics hub and they don't really -- why do you think this convoy is stalled like this? >> yeah, anderson, what i think is really taking place is you

have antonov air base here. that was the arrowhead that was initially taken down by the russians literally a week ago. we're at v plus 7, v plus 8 right now. so, they've been at this a week. and you can see the level of penetration is so minimal everywhere because they stalled coming out of the block. what has happened here, they achieved some initial success. they haven't been able to get into the city. let me blow this up for you. out here is where -- yeah, antonov airfield, excuse me, right here. then you have kyiv right here. when you start getting into kyiv, this is incredibly compartmentalized. and also you've got nippeser, which comes down here which separates the forces. the convoy has come down like this. it's here, and it's stalled because it can't get offloaded here and start moving into positions to prepare for an assault. that's the primary problem they're dealing with right now.

>> that's fascinating. james "spider" marsh, i appreciate it. general zwack as well. just ahead, i want to share with you some of the parents and children and doctors we met here in lviv in specialized children's hospital. we cover war and we have these masks and talk about what the soldiers are doing and the fights. and all of that is of course a main part of war. but there are also children fighting right now. they're fighting cancer. they're fighting heart disease. they're fighting all the things that kids around the world fight and adults have to fight. but they're doing it in the midst of a war. and right now there are kids in the city who have come from all over ukraine because they can't take cancer treatment anymore because they're in a hospital treatment here and they're hoping to get out to poland to get to a better hospital. and i want you to meet some of them ahead. we'll be right back. g boi house. big boi kitchen! big boi waterfall shower!

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you may have seen pictures earlier in the week of children in a cancer ward in kyiv who had to be taken down from bomb shelters and treated there and they can get infections there and they can die from those infections. it's not a sterile environment for them. so, some of those kids have their parents -- their moms have taken them now to lviv.

and the last couple of days, hundreds of kids with cancer have come to a hospital. and tonight nearby here, not too far from here, there are kids in rooms that are filled with kids who have cancer, whose lives hang in the balance. their treatment is being interrupted because of air ride sirens. they have to go down to the basement, get unplugged from ivs. they are the youngest victims of this con flekflict, and i want o meet some of them. the fighting hasn't come to lviv, but the war's littlest victims have. this children's hospital is full with kids being treated for cancer. more than 100 have arrived here in the past few days from ukrainian cities already under attack. >> how did they get here? >> different ways. so, they try to get in bus and train. most at night they arrive and we try to get them from the trains

and the railway stations. so, people just push them because it's panic. >> the doctor has barely slept in three days. what do you need here? >> first of all, we need the information to describe there is a problem. so, we need to stop the violence and get the treatment for kids. and the second thing is the shortages in the short future. >> he's trying to get as many kids as possible into hospitals in poland to save their lives. >> a lot of them will die because of these shortages of docs and these treatment breaks and not only for cancer but a lot of other things. and we know that and we are desperate. >> the rooms here are crowded, and conditions are less than ideal. >> we have constant air alarm. we've had four of them last night, i guess. >> air raid sirens? >> yes. and then we have to have all

these kids grab and taken into shelter. >> every time there's an air raid siren, even if it's a false alarm -- >> yeah, yeah, yeah. there's a mask. it look like -- i've never seen, like in the movies. a lot of kids and mothers crying and just running somewhere. >> what game are you playing? how do you play? 8-year-old alexi has brain cancer. he's been making good progress in kyiv until the war stopped his treatment. he got here four days ago with his mother. >> how are you doing? >> translator: it is difficult because we've gone through such a long way of treatment. we've been getting treatment for a year now, and when we had such little step to make to the finishing line to the happy end, this dream abruptly stops. >> tomorrow she'll take alexi by bus to a hospital in poland. she's left her other children

behind in kyiv. >> translator: my youngest is 3 and my oldest is 16. they have to stay there, and my heart is breaking. i am grateful we can go and continue the treatment and help my child who really needs it now. but on the other side, i'm so worried, as i'm leaving my two other kids behind. >> that is an impossible decision to make. >> translator: yes, but we have to made it so far in the treatment, and i have to strong belief the treatment will be successful. >> in another room, we met this boy. at 2, he survived a heart attack, a stroke, and stomach cancer. now eight, the cancer has come back. his mother, natalia, is with him around the clock. >> translator: we have only gone through one course of chemotherapy. now we are doing more blood tests. so far the results are not good. we are preparing for the second course of the therapy. you know, it is very difficult

now. and with wh the sirens go off, the doctors come and disconnect him from the treatment. >> what is it like to be a mother trying to protect a child during this war? >> it is so difficult. i cannot just put it into words. do you understand it is impossible to put it into words because every mother wasn'ts their baby to be healthy. >> how do you explain what is happening? >> translator: i am trying not to involve him much in the situation, not to traumatize him. when we are running, he asked if we can take a break. he wants to walk a bit. he wants to walk around his room a bit, as he is constantly bedridden getting the treatment. at first when we are going down to the bunker, he was getting very scared. what is going on? everyone is running to hide.

>> it's scary to see the other people who are scared. you're very brave. there is no shortage of bravery in this place. these kids, these moms, they've been fighting for years. >> translator: please help us. it is very difficult for us here. help us to save our country. there is everyday news we here about invasion. but our big city, kyiv, capital of ukraine, and the rest of our land is bombarded. people are running away from there, and we do not know what waits for us. we just cannot know. we hope that the whole world will help us to stop the

aggressor. >> if you would like to help those kids and others here, you can donate to the globalgiving.org. i'm going to put this on my twitter account and instagram account as soon as i get off the air because it's a long link there. it's not very user friendly. i'll post that if anyone wants to help. and the doctors say that money will help their hospital and others. we're staying on tonight's breaking news. the fire at the nuclear power plant in southeastern ukraine. fareed zakaria will join me next. we'll also discuss the newest round of sanctions by the white house today targeting the russian oligarchs. will they do anything to pressure vladimir putin? that is next.

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foreign minister's comments today that any war between it and nato would be potentially nuclear. and putin, speaking on state tv, claiming that everything was, according to the translation, quote, going according to plan. well, it is as we reported, only expected to get worse. i'm joined by fareed zakaria. the fieging around the nuclear power plant, zaporizhzhya, what does it say about the military capabilities? we had on general zwack earlier who was talking about the inprecise fire, the chaotic fire around this plant. >> clearly things are not going to plan. we've seen that from day one. the hope was that kyiv would fall instantly, maybe the government would be overturned. none of that is happening. really none has gone according to the russian plan. but what worries me is that what

that is likely to do is to make vladimir putin more determined that he is going to get kyiv no matter what, get control of this country no matter what. and you are seeing the russians are operating with a greater degree of brutality. so, you don't see much by the way of russian -- this army is not nearly as confident and fearsome as people thought. but it is turning very brutal. it is turning indiscriminant. and that, in some ways, is even more worrying. >> a french official said today after president macron's phone call with vladimir putin that the worse is yet to come. it's clear it is going to get worse. i mean, we're already seeing this, you know, greater attacks on residential areas, you know, multiple missile strikes in a residential area. we've seen that a number of times. apartment complex has just been

decimated near kyiv. the images of that are just starting to -- that's a hole right through the apartment complex. where do you think this is going? how do you see this going? >> i think it's going to be very bloody. putin is determined to take control. but as you point out, the problem is when you're trying to take control of cities, you're almost doing it block by block, anderson. and as you take a block, holding that block, this is what we discovered in afghanistan and iraq with the american army. holding the block is even more difficult because now you've got to keep stationary forces there and someone can call a molotov cocktail, fire a grenade, something or the other. so, it's going to get very messy. so, i think that what i come back to is he is determined to do this. he has an army that is much, much larger than the ukrainians. i think it's a ten to one advantage that russia has in terms of military spending.

and look at the indiscriminate nature of the war even at a nuclear plant. so, my fear is that what we are beginning to watch is a cornered putin, a putin for whom things have not gone according to plan. but that is not somebody who maybe will quietly surrender. it is somebody who is going to double down. he's going to get more erratic. he's going to get more vengeful against the people of ukraine. this is -- this is a very scary time. >> the new sanctions announced by the white house tonight against russian oligarchs, again, you know, it's not going to stop the fighting right now. is it worth while? >> i think what's worthwhile is the way in which the white house has rallied the world, gotten everybody on board. the sanctions have been very tough, tougher than against any major economy before. they're exacting a real price. i think going after the oligarchs is a good next step.

i think that escalating these sanctions makes sense. i fear, anderson, that the only one that will mat ser the ultimate one, which we will have to think about, which is oil and gas. because all of the other things we're doing, even with these oligarchs, this is an indirect way of getting at some of the people who support putin. we have devoted a heart of the issue. the heart of the issue is the oil and gas revenues that keep the russian state afloat, that keep putin in power. and there are ways to do it. the united states today is the world's largest producer of oil and gas in the world. we could ramp up production. we could suspend sanctions on venezuela and get venezuelan oil going. we could suspend sanctions on iran, get iranian oil going. we could talk to the saudis. you know, i know all of it sounds a little unfathomable, but we are facing an existential crisis. vladimir putin is trying to destroy the world order that was

built after 1945. and he is decimating a nation in doing so. the battle -- we have joined the battle. the only question now is, is the united states and is the civilized world or is putin going to win? and the best strangle choke pressure him is to cut off his oil and gas revenues. there is a lot of oil and gas in the world. we can find ways to turn it on. but deny russia the revenues that come from -- kill the goose that's laying the golden egg. >> fareed zakaria, appreciate it, thank you. we're monitoring the fire at that nuclear power plant. we'll also bring you any new information as we get t it. coming up, the man who was once the richest oligarch of vladimir putin. how far he thinks putin could go in this war. thatat's next. liberty mutuals your car insurance so you only papay for what you need. only pay foror what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪

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update now in our lead story, the fighting the fire at

europe's largest nuclear power plant in southern ukraine, joining us now by phone, plant spokesman, andre, tell us what is happening now at the plant. >> hello, do you hear me? >> yes, yes. >> in zaporizhzhia, this location, biggest power plant in europe. now, being contained and any moment may result in nuclear accident. damaged and on fire. one of six of our units is operational now. all six of our units are loaded with nuclear fuel. firefighters are not allowed to enter, and fight the fire. we ask americans to close the

air space of ukraine. please, help us. >> where is the fire located? >> fire is located on the building in the nuclear power plant. >> so it's located in a building, it's not -- >> on fire -- >> you're saying there are multiple fires? >> it's not fire on the reactor. >> reactors are not on fire. >> reactor -- the building. >> is this from gunshots? is this from missiles? from rockets? from mortars? what is the nature of the attack?

>> all weapons are in the russian federation, all weapons, from air, from tanks, from rockets, many, many arms. >> who is in control of the plant? >> ukraine. ukrainian now at the plant, being there, safety in nuclear power plant now, but at any moment, it may result in nuclear accident.

>> you say any moment it may result in a nuclear accident. what exactly could -- how could that happen? you're saying buildings are on fire, the raeeactors are not on fire. >> russian federation, to continue shooting at the nuclear power plant, a unit of nuclear power plant, unit one, unit two, have damage. >> andrii tuz, i appreciate you talking to us, thank you very much. >> thank you, help us, please. >> that's andrii tuz from the nuclear power plant, again we'll take a quick break, and be back with more.

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going to be obviously, continuing to cover the fire in the nuclear power plant in southern ukraine, news continues, i'll turn it over to don lemon who joins me now. >> anderson, i think it's important to continue your reporting, you just spoke with i believe the power plant manager, i was just getting ready to come on the show. >> the spokesperson. >> what is the spokesperson saying, i understand the fighting is stopped and they're monitoring the radiation levels a lot we don't know, but he did give you some information. >> he, again, his english was not great so it was a little confusing. my understanding was he was saying the fighting seems to have been continuing, that firefighters can't fight the fire, he's saying because of the fighting that's been going on. he says there's multiple fires in buildings at the plant. the reactors themselves are not on