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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world. i'm paula newton. our breaking news this hour, russia's intensifying assault on ukraine and the devastating human toll of war. now, we are seeing new and of course disturbing images of the harsh and heart breaking reality for scivilians on the ground including those attempting to flee the fighting. now, the video we're we're about to show you is hard to watch, but what it captures is the moment that a russian military strike targets a town on the

outskirts of kyiv, killing a family . >> [ bleep ]. [ bleep ]. >> stay there. >> all right . >> medic! >> and that was him yelling

medic. now, that strike is just one of many launched by russia as it ramps up its attacks on ukrainian cities. i mean, that was not an isolated incident. now, still negotiations between ukraine and russia continue with a third round of talks aimed at endi ending hostilities. since it started ukraine has fired about 600 missiles according to an official who says moskow has about 90% of its combat power inside ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy says the sanctions rcaren't enough. >> translator: it seems it is not enough for the russian troops, not enough ruined destinies, crippled lives. they want to kill more. for tomorrow russia is officially announced an attack on our territory, on defense facilities. most of them were built decades

ago under a soviet government. they were built in cities, and now they are in the urban setting where dozens of people work and hundreds of thousands live nearby. this is murder, deliberate murder. >> so u.s. officials say there are, in fact, urgent discussions under way with allies as ukraine pleads for more help. now, secretary of state antony blinken says the u.s. is in talks with poland about the possibility of sending fighter jets to ukraine. >> we are working with poland as we speak to see if we can back fill anything that they provide to ukraine. we support them. providing planes the ukrainians can fly. >> and we go live now to ukraine where cnn's michael holmes is standing by live for us in lviv. i have to start with what has been just the devastating humanitarian toll there. we saw that video, and as i said

that is not an isolated incident. this is happening, and it is difficult at this point in time for people to really decide, right, do i flee or do i stay, and either seems to be an incredible risk. >> reporter: yeah, and some don't have a choice of weather to flee, too. a lot of people are sort of trapped in these places. i think ukrainians are bracing for the horror that has already been wrought on the people of this country to get much worse. the pounding of mauriopol, kharkiv and other cities and towns relentless. president zelenskyy he's suggesting the crucial port city of odesa could be next. it is the third biggest city in the country and a place through most of ukraine's trade passes. as is always the case in war the s civilian there suffering is

unbearable. there was that stomach churching scene of that family while literally trying to get to safety killed, eight civilians in that explosion killed in all. nationally the u.n. says more than 360 killed, but that figure is almost certainly drasticically lower than the reality, paula. >> and that brings us to the west's response. obviously everyone is devastated by what they're seeing. the ukrainians -- zelenskyy continually asking for more, and yet what form could that aid look like? because we continue to hear blunt assessments that, look, you may want a no-fly zone, but that is a nonstarter. >> reporter: yeah, we hear it here all the time whether it's government or civilians, you know, that talk about the no-fly zone. as you pointed out and others have, it's a nonstarter. it would require shooting down russian planes to enforce it, and that would lead to a far greater war. the ukrainians as you just

reported, they want fighter jet migs from poland, for example, because the ukrainian pilots know how to fly those. there were also reports some ukrainian pilots had gone into like romania to get their planes on the ground. and it was actually a chilling thing that vladimir putin said a couple days ago. and he said that anything flying into or out of a another country would make that country in his view a party to this conflaict. so it's a process to get those migs in and also something, you know, fraught with risk as well. i will say there were also calls for more weaponry to come in here, and indeed that is happening. weapons that can tackle armored tanks and so on, shoot down helicopters, even sniper rifles arriving. but, you know, you also have to wonder when that supply route from neighboring countries is going to become a target for russian planes. that hasn't really happened yet, and that would certainly be a

significant development if, you know, weaponry that's coming in from the west gets hit by the russians on the way in. it's interesting, though, paula, the ukrainians, they really do continue to fight hard with those weapons. a lot of reports of russian units of course stalling for things like lack of fuel or even food. and what you're seeing is the ukrainians doing a lot of hit-and-run with that, you know, western supplied weaponry, getting in a hit a couple tanks, getting in an artillery position yesterday. that might be a taste of what an insurgency might look like going forward. that speuperiority by russia continues. and the poupding of these cities continuing and will get worse. >> still they've not been able to get to a cease-fire where

they can get civilians out of there. of course another busy day of news from ukraine ahead and we appreciate it. now, we're uncovering more evidence that russia is hitting civilian targets as michael and i were just speaking about in ukraine and of course killing innocent people. cnn's alex maryquardt in a smal village west of kyiv. >> reporter: take a look at this, houses all around this area were hit in that russian air strike. what you're looking at here is the remnants of the house of a man named igga we spoke with earlier. he lost five of his family members as well as a friend, his wife and his wife's friend and his mother-in-law were in a car when the strike happened. they were killed. his daughter was in the house in

her wheelchair, and she was also killed. we spoke with him earlier today. he said that obviously that he is just empty. he seemed disoriented. he's horrified by what's going on, and he says he doesn't know what he is going to do now. the russians have said that they're only going after military infrastructure. that is clearly not the case. this home has nothing to do with the military. there is nothing within miles that has anything to do with the military, so that begs the question, are the russians really bad at aiming? is that why they've killed hundreds of civilians and they've hit all these residential areas? or do they simply not care? is it that they are simply just trying to bomb the ukrainian population into submission? and it looks more and more like that they be the case. now, the russians have said that they've agreed to allow people out through humanitarian corridors, but we've already seen today bombing north of here

near an area where people are trying to get out, where people have been killed. so it does certainly appear that all bets are off, that certainly we cannot believe what the russians are saying when it comes to their intentions here. very clearly not just going after the military infrastructure but hitting civilians as well. >> and that, of course, is alex marquardt, we thanked him for his reporting there from ukraine. for more i'm joined by kimberly dosier, a cnn global affairs analyst and time magazine contributor, and she's coming to us now from washington, d.c. kim, thank you so much for weighing in here. it is really tough to look at alex's report undering this is the russian game plan. it is to hit those civilian targets. officials have been blunt in telling people, look, we can't step in here in the way that ukraine wants us to. do you see anything that would change that even on the margins,

kim? because obviously there is a lot of outrage and trepidation really that the worst is yet to come for ukrainians. >> well, if ukraine could get a ahold of those jet fighters it's asking for from poland in quick order -- i'm talking about in two or three days, not in two or three weeks -- then maybe something like that, could they get another shipment of those turkish drones that have made such a difference on the battlefield? that could happen them slow the russian advance. but unnfortunately what we don' see is ukrainian troops recapturing territory. i've been listening hard for those reports. they have been effectively keeping the russians from taking the airport. last i checked that's one of the airports russia has tried to seize so it i use it as a way to

bring in supplies and tep up its attacks. but at this point this is a holding action by ukrainians with slowly every day russian forces using brutality to break ve resistance, drive civilians out and drive the military to cover as it takes mile by mile by mile. >> and unfortunately, kim, as you know it is the russians making the calculation that that civilian resistance is actually a military asset, which is why they continue to hammer it. we just heard in the last few hours from jenological mark hurtling, a cnn krcontributor, o says he has seen reports that tells him they're bogged down. but does it really matter and i'm interested you're continually looking at this. we've got russians still have a lot of superiority whether it's on the ground or in the air and now hear stories of more mercenaries perhaps not just

from chechnya but from syria. >> the thing is, yes, the russian plan for battle isn't team to survive first contact with the enemy. it didn't go the way they had expected, and yes, they've been frustrated and slowed down by everything from very effective ambush attacks to effective drone use to the fact that it seems they did delay their attack until the olympics was over. the ground got warmer, and some of those tanks had gotten caught in mud. yet we still see the maps every day like an inkblot growing from the areas that russia has seized. zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, has warned that the next target is odesa. and it does look like the troops are moving in that direction. now, here's the thing, once they've got all of those major port towns, that also means it's one more area from which they

can resupply. you can also see that the troops in the south, the ones that have apparently come up from crimea, they're battle hardened, and they are just churning through the forces in their way. now, from the ukrainian side they are doing the smart thing, which is the civilians have to flee. and the army has to retreat to fight another day and to go into another mode, which is the full on insurgency mode. so even if the russians do capture everything on the map, all the major populated areas, a new phase of the war would begin. but we're going to see hundreds if not thousands of people lost between now and then, and i don't see at this point diplomatic or military momentum out there able to stop it. >> yeah, in fact, in the next few hours, right, we're embarking on a third round of talks and little has been shown for the two round of talks that came before.

kimberley dosier, i really appreciate you being with us here. thanks. just ahead as the fighting intensifies a number of refugees only continues to grow. we'll look at the desperation many ukrainians are facing as they try and flee by train.

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ukraine every day. many have traveled long distances and braved freezing temperatures in their struggle to get to safety. now, the exodus has been so overwhelming in neighboring countries that tent cities such as this one in maldova have been popping up near borders. the u.n. says more than 1.5 million people have fled ukraine since the war began. that's just extraordinary. and the crisis is escalating at a pace europe has not seen in decades. >> we have not seen in europe -- i'm talking about europe now -- a crisis escalating so fast since the second world war. that's a long time because, of course, in europe there have been many refugee crisis including in the balkans but it was a longer period of time. now it's ten days. 1.5 million in ten days. >> just staggering. as the war intensifies, the

desperation only grows for those hoping to escape the violence. cnn's scott mcclain reports now from a train station in lviv. >> reporter: with each new round of bombing and shelling comes a new wave of people seeking refuge outside ukraine. many arrive in the western train hub of lviv where people are lined up out the doors of the station for the next train to poland. those who wait are almost entirely women, girls and boys who suddenly look a lot like men. this family fled central ukraine. she left her brother, father and husband behind to fight the russians. now she's going to poland with her mother and her two boys aged 1 and 16. >> translator: when my husband left he said to our son, you're the man of the house. and now at 16 years old he's become a grown man. our children need to have a childhood. they shouldn't become adults under these circumstances. >> reporter: well over a week into the war there are swarms of

volunteers handsing out food and hot drinks, in heated tents for a break from the frigid winter cold. but sometimes tempers still flare. this woman says she's been here since 5:00 a.m. with her 10-year-old son. >> translator: i don't have any other choice. i came from far away. i need to evacuate my child. my husband stayed. >> reporter: exhausted and frustrated, a volunteer suggests she try a bus to the border. there are line-ups for those, too. standing room only to make the 50-mile journey to the pedestrian crossing to poland. 72-year-old cancer patient tatyana wanted to stay in kyiv but said the bombings were hitting far too close to home. as darkness arrives so does this family who say they drove for three days across the country from a village near kharkiv. they're trying to figure out

where they can stay the night but seem resigned to sleeping in the car. she says her elderly mother and husband stayed behind. she not only has to get her own children to safety but her friend's daughters, too. >> translator: i don't know when this nightmare will end. i'm so tired. >> reporter: back at the station the next train won't leave for another four hours. but for the masses of people here, it's worth the wait. scott mcclain, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> so so far one port city has held the russians off, but the repercussions of stalling the invasion are deadly. coming up our report.

breaking news. hello. i'm paula newton. the latest developments this hour from ukraine, more and more civilians have being killed as russia escalates its attacks. now people are trying to flee the invasion were stuck at an evacuation point in a suburb of kyiv. the mayor says at least eight civilians were killed across the district. hopes for safe routes meantime out of mauriopol were dashed for a second day on sunday.

the governor of the region says heavy russian shelling made evacuation far too dangerous to attempt. nato and the u.s., though, continue to resist. president zelenskyy it was calls for a no-fly zone. the u.s. says it is working with poland on possibly providing fighter jets to ukraine. and russia is cracking down on anti-war protesters there. independent monitoring group says more than 4,600 protesters have been detained there this weekend again. and we go now to in fact the ukrainian defense in the city of mykolaiv and that's kept it from falling into russian hands so far. nick paten walsh reports the civilian death toll is rising. we have to warn you viewers may find some of these images disturbing. >> reporter: putin needs it but he's having real trouble getting

it. drive to the last ukrainian position outside the port city of mykolaiv, and you can see the mess made of the kremlin's plans. it's from the denazification they ridiculously claimed to be enacting is charred, its occupants captured or dead. their missiles on display along with their names. says the army of russia. further down this road are the rest of the russian tanks, but one was left behind. and now farmers, pensioners and bemused locals are picking it over. the model may be newer but the empire it seeks to restore is long gone. he's just saying it goes forward but doesn't turn around. the same can't be said for its

crew who fled. the ukrainians here are little gleeful this keeps happening. they left the tank? >> they needed to do that. >> reporter: okay. they didn't have much of a choice. >> yeah, they didn't have a choice. >> reporter: then a warning. there's a helicopter coming. a helicopter is spotted, and we have to leave. rushing in the weapons this dated has hit the russian goliath with again and again. but the kremlin is sure to impose a cost on anyone it can . rockets have slammed into homes

regularly. this woman thinks she has broken her back. the house collapsed on me, she says, and then they pulled me out. there are no other patients in this hospital. all the injured treated here died in their beds, we're told, including one 53-year-old man brought in on sunday morning. across town the rockets apparent cluster munitions that seem to fall just anywhere. another rocket landed up the street here. from cars to vegetable gardens -- at the morgue the toll is growing. at least 50 bodies, they told us, 20 of them incinerated in a

russian missile strike on the naval port, they said. the bodies so often of the elderly who would have survived being a soviet citizen but not this. he's worked here 13 days straight and is from crimea where russian state propaganda still calls this a special operation against nazis.

>> reporter: they show us the corpse of a russian soldier and ask us to film him up close, which we don't do. loathing here set in deep and lasting with each body in the ground. french president emmanuel macron and russian president vladimir putin discussed evacuations and of course the safety of ukraine's nuclear power plants in a phone call on sunday. now, that's according to a read out from the kremlin. the french president expressed his concern, of course, about

the safety of the nuclear power plant after russian forces attacked and took control of it last week. now, the head of the international atomic energy agency says russian forces have switched off some mobile networks and the internet at that nuclear power plant meaning officials are unable to get reliable information from the site through those normal channels. now, the iaea also says they're concerned about problems with food availability and other supplies at the plant. ukraine is home to some of the largest nuclear power plants throughout all of europe. the russian military has also seized control of the chernobyl nuclear disaster site. now to get more on this i'm joined by mariana, a research associate in the project on managing the atom at the harvard kennedy school belford center. and i thank you for being with

us this evening. and given your expertise how concerning is it right now russia isn't even agreeing to an exclusion zone around these nuclear plants in ukraine? what kind of risks are we looking at here? >> well, paula, it's extremely concerning. these are very high security facilities. they require special -- especially trained personnel to operate them. they're very, very rigorous safety and security protocols that need to be executed at all times. and we really don't know how this operation is going to happen under the military administration, under the military command. we know the ukrainian nuclear operator had informed the iaea that the personnel, the management of this power plant were told to report directly to this military occupying force

that, yes, a new shift of workers were allowed to come in after the shelling, after the power plant was taken over. the previous shift had worked there for almost 24 hours under the shelling. this is extremely dangerous. we can imagine these people who are operating, you know, a radioactive and nuclear facility, and they're working under duress. and not only that, they are clearly concerned about the safety and well-being of their families that live in the town nearby. and mean, most of the town is the actual, you know, families and workers of the power plant themselves. >> yeah, you make such a good point there, this is under duress literally but also the fact as you said they are worried themselves not just about their safety but the families they aren't seeing. you also point out, though,

despite all these risks there are safe guards, and some of these plants, all of them, in fact, are built with the redundancies built in and those safe guards. what are some of them? >> so in -- you know, in the condition of a shelling or some kind of explosions, the nuclear reactor is protected by a very robust reinforced concrete shelter, a confinement chamber, so we called. and of course there are cooling systems in operation to keep the reactor running safely and smoothly. there's a water that's supposed to be pumped into the reactor at all times. that water supply depends on pumps. pumps depend on electricity. should the main electricity go out there'd be a power outage. there are redundancy systems like the diesel generators. so, yes, of course, these

facilities are designed to be robust, to be safe and to be secure. these protocols are constantly updated in cooperation with the iaea and its safe guards regime. but, of course, paula, none of these have been designed with a view of a full-scale military operation. that is unprecedented in history. >> you know, you have ties to ukraine. you steadied there. i don't have a lot of time, but can you speak to the dedication of the ukrainians that are likelily safeguarding these plants right now? >> i mean, these people are true heroes, right, because it's not only the safety and security of their facility or even of their country. we know that a nuclear accident anywhere is a nuclear accident everywhere. we've lived through chernobyl, and we've lived through fukushima daiichi accidents. we know the impact that takes,

and the impact could go well beyond the borders. so these people are really doing an incredible job under very difficult conditions for the sake not only their countrymen but for the region and who knows maybe the world. >> yeah. scary days ahead, and we certainly hope those negotiations lead to more safe guards for all those nuclear power plants. thank you so much. really appreciate your expertise. now, earlier cnn spoke with anna. she's a former special policy advisor to joe biden. in fact, when he was the u.s. vice president and also during the russian invasion and annexation of crimea. she says she feared something like this would happen especially as the russian president continues to isolate himself. i want you to listen to this interview. >> in 2014 this isn't something we would have foreseen.

we of course feared he would push further into the east, that he would try to take a city like mauriopl in order to create a lands bridge to crimea, but this kind of all out assault on the entire country honestly wasn't something we believed at that time would happen. but in terms of what changed, i do believe we're probably looking at three things. one of them is what happened in belarus, the sustained protests, how close belarus came to actually getting rid of l lukashenko, a dictator who's the only one in power longer than putin in europe. and clearly putin responded very aggressively to that. the second is putin's complete mismanagement of covid. at one point we had officials from russia 1,000 people died a day, and some estimated over the course of a year russia lost a

million people even if they weren't all classified as covid deaths. clearly that had a tremendous impact. and third is just he's been increasingly isolated. we've seen that he has lost or gotten rid of any advisor that might have challenged him in any way. and over the course of the last year his rhetoric has completely mirrored the most ultra-nationalists in his circle. and i think you see this kind of isolation and this kind of echo chamber is one of the reasons that he anticipated this invasion would be quick and easy despite the fact that, i think, any analyst would have predicted this was -- the ukrainian people would not have greeted russian soldiers or any of the other analysis that seemed to have factored into the decision to do this. >> okay. still to come for us new details on the arrest of wnba star

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more companies are severing ties with russia over its invasion in ukraine. american express is just the latest credit card company to end operations. it's globally issued cards will no longer work in russia. the company is also ending

operations in belarus, which is a close kremlin ally. and streaming giant netflix is joining entertainment companies pausing operations in russia. it will stop selling and providing its video service there. netflix hasn't said what will happen to existing subscriber accounts or when it will reevaluate the matter. now, there is a lot of mystery surrounding the arrest in russia of britney griner. a customs officially reportedly found cannabis oil in her luggage last month, but news of the arrest just went public over the weekend. cnn "world sport" anchor don riddell fills us in. >> one day after we learned that the american basketball star brittney griner had been arrested in russia the u.s. government suggested it was helping to work with her case. secretary of state antony blinken spoke briefly about

griner's situation. >> with regard to the individual you mentioned there's only so much i can say given privacy considerations at this point. let me just say more generally whenever an american is detained anywhere in the world we, of course, stand ready to provide every possible assistance. >> much about this case, however, remains unclear. news of griner's it tension only arrived on saturday when russia's federal ust canms service said an unnamed female basketball player had been arrested at an airport near plus cow in february. a russian news agency later identified the u.s. citizen as griner. a custom service claimed griner was carrying vape cartridges containing oil in her leggage. as a result she could be facing a jail sentence of up to ten

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churches around the world are praying for the people of ukraine, like this anglican church in japan where some ukrainian nationals lit candles and prayed for peace. one woman who is an i.t. employee working in japan says the losses in her home country are just heartbreaking. >> the house where my parents lived, 16 floor of building was destroyed by a missile. my parents are mirackly survived as their floor was not impacted that much. right now they have evacuated 20 kilometers from the impact place. but the place where i was born, where i grew up, the place is destroyed. >> so a peace rally for ukraine was held over the country in a

country typically a close ally of russia. about 2,000 people attended in kazakhstan to support ukraine and denounce the russian invasion. crowds shouted slogans like no war and waved ukrainian flags. the foreign minister has stressed its neutrality in the conflict. amid war and bloodshed, a couple in ukrainian is focusing instead on their growing love. we want to meet the newlyweds who decided there is just no time like the present. she carried flowers. he carried his weapon. both dressed in military fatigues, walking together in step to the tune of "here comes the bride." this is love in a time of war. the military chaplain led the ceremony taking place near a checkpoint in kyiv. since both bride and groom are part of ukraine's territorial defense unit. the venue may have been

unconventional, but still rings were exchanged. vows were made, and a blessing was bestowed on the happy couple, who have been together for 20 years. they say an official marriage meant much to them until now. valeri says we decided to get married because we live in challenging times. you never know what's going to happen tomorrow. his bride lesia adds "we need to live in the moment. we must take as much as we can from life." members of their unit attended the ceremony holding white roses. and what's a wedding without cake? champagne toast and there was even an honored guest. >> i want to get a present for everyone. but the present for every ukrainian is to finish the war. every ukrainian have just one

goal, to stop the war. to stop the killed civilian people, women. it's huge hope for everyone, not just in ukraine. >> a fleeting distraction from the bloodshed in ukraine. a reminder of what the country is fighting for. we've seen incredible resilience from ukraine. i want to thank you for being with us. i am paula newton. it is now nearly 7:00 a.m. local time in ukraine. and we will continue to have breaking news coverage from there. we'll continue right after the break.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm michael holmes coming to you live from lviv in ukraine. we are following breaking developments in russia's assault on this country and the brutal reality for so many civilians on the ground. now the video we're about to show you, it is hard to watch. it captures the moment a russian military strike hit a town just outside the capital, kyiv as ukrainians were attempting to flee the fighting.