and welcome, joining us in the united states and all around the world, i'm michael holmes coming to you line from lviv in ukraine where we continue to follow breaking developments and the russian defense ministry says it is opening humanitarian corridors from four ukrainian cities including kyiv, and in mariupol where shelling over the last few days has made it too dangerous to evacuate civilians.

two attempts at a human corridor being called off there. now these images coming to us from kyiv, i want to show those to you. these -- this is a check point, it is manned by ukrainian forces and ukrainian civilians have been evacuating through there, it's relatively quiet right now as we look at it live, but in the past few minutes, we have seen buses packed with people pulling up and people walking through there to some semblance of safety, we hope. the harsh and heart breaking reality for so many on the ground is being caught on camera, intense shelling, also hitting the town of irpin where the mayor says eight people were killed during evacuation efforts there. since the start of the invasion, russia has fired 600 missiles according to a senior u.s. defense official who says moscow now has 95% of its amassed combat power inside this country. according to the united nations,

more than 360 civilians killed as the war rages but concedes the real number is likely much higher than that, 12 million people are now in need. inside russia, anger and protest against the invasion persist, police seen, in fact, beating demonstrators and on sunday alone, more than 4,500 people were detained according to one independent monitoring group. now, ukraine's president venting his frustration saying sanctions aren't enough to stop russia and vladimir putin who he accuses of planning deliberate murderer. >> 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, our defense facilities. most of them were built decades ago when there was 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 murderer. deliberate murder. >> all right, for more now, i am joined by cnn's scott mclain on the polish/ukrainian border, good to see you up there scott, tell us more about these humanitarian corridors and the people who were fleeing. >> hey michael, yeah, they cannot come soon enough as you mentioned earlier, they've attempted these corridors for the past few days but seems neither side or at least both sides are accusing the other of violating the terms they had agreed to and so today, now that we have the russian ministry of defense saying it is now opening these corridors but going to russian so not clear whether the ukrainians are on board with this and whether or not those corridors if people do decide to take them will actually hold.

however people get out of those areas in eastern ukraine, certainly cannot come soon enough. the people we're seeing here are desperate to get out while they stale can so we're about 10 kilometers inside the border right now with poland and this is a checkpoint up there and you can see the cars are lined up for quite a ways. mark, if you just want to show the rest of the line here, it's lined up for probably, from what i can tell at least half a mile with just cars. we know that closer to the border, a lot of people are crossing on foot as well. and from across the country, they are all headed west. some are coming by road, some going on foot and as we saw yesterday, many also going by train. 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. yulia left her mother, father and husband to fight the russians. now with her mother and two boys aged one 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 handing out food and hot drinks, and 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 tetyana wanted to stay in kyiv but said the bombings were happening too close to home. >> crash, crash, crash, crash, crash. >> reporter: as darkness arrived, so did this family who said they drove 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. oxana 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. >> i don't know when this nightmare will end. i'm so tired. >> reporter: back at the station, next train won't leave

for another four hours. for the masses of people here, it's worth the wait. now those yellow city buses there, we've seen already this morning a convoy about five or six of them headed to the border, they're allowed to skip the check points here. as for the status of those corridors, there is another round of negotiations between the ukrainians and russians happening at about five hours from now. yesterday, the red cross made very clear to both parties if they're serious about making these corridors work, have to roll up their sleeves and agree not just on the fact that there should be these corridors but also on the very granular details as well, michael. >> all right, scott mclain, great reporting there. what a situation, appreciate it, scott, near the polish border. my next two guests have been with me many times over the course of this conflict before it even started in fact, director of the eurasia

democracy initiative, and ukrainian political analyst and founder of the free crimea project. i wanted to check in with you gentlemen again, update us on what is been happening since we last spoke a few days ago, where are you, what have you seen. let's start with you peter. >> hello, michael, yes, indeed we're in the same location not far from kyiv. we are still hoping to get here at some point, we feel confident the defenders of kyiv are not going to give up the city. what we're doing here is, you know, using the reliability of communications in the city and have launched an operation to try to penetrate the russia's inform inform informational blockade, putin increasingly shut down all independent media in the country, essentially no objective information get into

the country about the war in ukrainian. we launched a youtube channel which seeks to get to the russians the true story of what's happening in ukraine and what's happening you see growing desperation from vladimir putin, increasingly illegal tactics where civilians are being shelled, and nuclear power plants are being essentially taken and in order to use them to black mail the west, it's getting really, really scary. as putin has realized that his operation in ukraine has not gone according to plan. >> it is. let me ask you this, what are you hoping to achieve with this youtube channel and trying to break that sort of veil that state media has over russians. what are you hoping to achieve? >> it's absolutely obvious, michael, russia is turning to the country, mocking, just like

in soviet union they control everything. social networks, tv channels, youtube, whatsoever, i went to russian independent media, nearly 200 russian independent journalists have left russia. so it's obviously very dangerous to stay in russia and be a journalist about what is happening in ukraine. that's why we're here working side-by-side with russian counterparts to tackle russian propaganda. we are giving russian public news here from ukraine. >> which is a very noble effort. peter, let me ask you. you told one of our producers something that struck me and i i think i quote you here, you said, you see women with permanent tears in their eyes. horror is visible everywhere. is it even possible to describe what is happening to the people where you are where literally a month ago or so were living

normal lives in a beautiful city? >> it is very difficult, michael. there are very few people who remain, who are old enough to remember world war ii. they are in their mid 90s, you know, so that means that there are hardly any people left in ukraine to be able to kind of relate to previous experiences of what it feels like to be in a country the entirety of which is under assault. taras and i wake up every morning and there's this split second, a moment of grace where we feel like well, maybe this has all been a bad dream, and then we wake up into this and realize it's not. we are still stuck in this incredibly dark reality, you know, the photo you referred to earlier of a family of three, a mother and her two little children yesterday being killed by crossing the bridge trying to escape the northern part of kyiv, and then there's a video of that. it is so senseless, you know, i

still can't shake it off. all these people around us are seeing the same thing, obviously, and, you know, we're living the same experiences. we're living the same videos. it is, you know, we are not able at this point to digest what we're seeing. >> yeah. taras, the thing, ukrainians and russians, they have this historic, these cultural, these language ties with each other. what are ukrainians saying now about russia, russians? how have feelings changed because of this? >> well, i think feelings generally around the country change dramatically. we have our personal story. my mother in law is one of previous ukrainian cities on the east, we lost any connection with her the last six days because russians blockade the city, bomb, trying to kill every civilian, and i think after this, millions of ukrainians

would feel, i would say, literally hatred towards russians, not only vladimir putin but russians themselves. it's hard to explain to ukrainians now that the people, it's not russians as a nation that are kilg them. people say we have to blame not only putin but the russians themselves. it was very clear yesterday, by the way, that russians who protested against this evil regime in many russian cities, it was very clear signal to ukrainians and many people to the west that russian spirit is still alive, that there are still many people who feel sorry about what's going on here in ukraine. but i would say from my perspective, from the perspective of many ukrainians, it would be very hard to forgive russians after all. >> and peter, before we let you guys go, your thoughts on that same question?

>> well, i mean, i'll just -- i obviously, you know, agree fully with taras, but michael, if you allow me to say something i think is very important so the policy makers who are listening here us. you know, now there's a no-fly zone discussion and ukrainian president has appealed to the policy makers to close the air space over ukraine. they refuse to do so for understandable reasons, concerned of a nuclear confrontation with russia but folks, putin has called the world's bluff and it's going to be time to call the bluff back sooner rather than later. putin is not going to stop at ukraine, so i'm afraid europe will have to revisit this issue. for now, though, it has to enable ukrainians to control their own air space giving them fighter jet. this is discussed now between european allies and the u.s. it has to help ukraine boost its air defenses, surface to air missiles and drones, this is very important, ukrainians are showing incredibly resilience but they need all the help they can get.

thank you, michael. >> yeah. i've been interviewing both of you since well before this even began and we will continue to check in and follow your journey. peter, taras, good to see you both, do stay safe. thank you. >> thank you, michael. >> all right. ukraine's president has so far refused to leave the capitol in the face of russian attacks. coming up, what would a ukrainian government in exile look like, should the country's leadership have to flee? also still to come, with growing vladimir putin war crime investigations there are questions whether a prosecution could be successful. i speak with an expert about that, coming up.

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welcome back, president of european commission tells cnn any possible war crimes between russia and ukraine needs to be investigated, underlying the humanitarian situation on the ground is, quote desperate, now as the u.s. and europe discussing how the west would treat a government in exile should volodomyr zelenskyy be forced to flee. joining me live from brussels, belgium, what are you learning about these plans to set up a ukrainian government inexile if

that becomes necessary. >> reporter: yeah, michael, so sources telling me and colleague ky kylie atwood that u.s. and europe have been in discussions what a ukrainian government in exile may look like should that become necessary, a number of potential lviv, setting up excite in poland should ukrainian officials and zelenskyy need to flee the country entirely. these are all preliminary discussions primarily because u.s. and western officials are not really able right now to raise this directly with zelenskyy himself. he is very reluctant to engage in any of these conversations that have to do with him leaving kyiv. he is determined to stay there and fight so these conversations are happening kind of in european capitals as well as with the u.s.. and right now it looks like any kind of potential move might have to be by certain members of

zelenskyy's government who would be willing to leave kyiv and set up elsewhere to maintain that continuity of government, should kyiv fall, and should zelenskyy be unable to flee the capital. now, all of this planning comes as the situation on the ground obviously has gotten much worse with civilians being targeted with the russians kind of targeting infrastructure indiscriminately, as they have brought in heavier weaponry and tried to sustain this bombing campaign and kind of bombard these cities indiscriminately as they have had trouble maintaining hold and taking hold of the cities across ukraine, particularly kyiv. the european commission president has said that the u.s. and europe are determined to help the ukrainian leadership in any way they can because this is not only existential for ukraine, it is existential for europe and the west. >> all right. appreciate the reporting. natasha bertrand. >> not only a fight of --

between ukraine against russia, russia that chose the war against ukraine, but it's a bigger topic. it's also the democracies fighting the autocracies and, therefore, it is for us existential really to support in every way possible ukraine and its brave leadership. >> reporter: they are also calling for an investigation of potential war crimes by the russians. in an interview with jake tapper, by the way. this is something the u.s. stopped short of. they do support an investigation into potential war crimes by the russians, but they are not calling what the russians are doing actual war crimes, michael. >> all right, appreciate the update, natasha bertrand in brussels. thanks so much. and joining me now from washington is david sheffer, former ambassador at large for war crimes during the clinton administration, also the author of "all the missile souls." a it's good to have you with us,

ambassador. the icc says it is going to fast track war crimes investigations. dozens of countries asked for one, the allegations of like. how difficult is it to successfully bring a war crimes case? >> it's always difficult. it's always arduous, and it always requires a tremendous amount of expertise and detailed examination of documents, of forensic evidence, et cetera. however, in this conflict it is actually not as difficult as we experienced in other conflicts. and the reason is that the amount of indiscriminate shelling on civilian populations is so obvious, so blatant, documented by the hour by the media, by the citizens of ukraine, by governments, by overhead imagery, it is probably the most documented record of

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let's bring you up to date on the latest developments in ukraine this hour. russia's ministry of defense says it is opening humanitarian corridors today from four ukrainian cities. they are the capital kyiv, also kharkiv, sumy, and mariupol. we have images we can bring to you live. this is in kyiv. civilians have been passing through this checkpoint manned by ukrainian forces. we've seen people, including

children walking through on foot. looks quiet now, but there had been a lot of people going through, bus loads, in fact, over the last hour or two. who nodes how long they have been waiting to get out. we've also seen those buses emptying where you are looking right there now. you can see a bus there right now, in fact. people making their way through to hopefully some semblance of safety. meanwhile, hundreds of thousands of people are being trapped in mariupol for the past two days. attempts to open evacuation routes were canceled because of heavy russian shelling according to ukrainians. the mayor of the city says his city is without power, heat or water. they haven't even been able to collect the dead. a u.s. defense official says russia has fired 600 missiles since the invasion began, and 95% of the amassed combat power that was outside ukraine's borders before this began is now inside the country. now, more than 1 1/2 million

refugees have fled ukraine since this invasion began. the u.n. says it is the fastest growing refugee crisis in europe since world war ii. some ukrainians staying behind, of course, to support the fight. these are civilians here working at a molotov cocktail factory here in lviv. now, pole ambassador has taken in the most ukrainian refugees since the invasion began. cnn's arwa daman is at the polish/ukrainian border and takes a look at how volunteers are helping those fleeing the fighting. >> reporter: what we're starting to see is this sort of sad rhythm that starts to play out in reception centers like this one. the buses arrive. the people file off exhausted, mostly women and children, but then there is this pretty incredible effort by an army of volunteers to provide them with food, water, diapers, toys for the children, clothing to replace everything that it is they had to leave behind. you also need to remember that

just because someone has managed to reach safety, they are so far from being even remotely okay. those who have been able to flee, the vast majority of them, are just utterly racked and consumed with guilt and fear. fear for those who were left behind, guilt because they actually had to make that impossible decision to leave. and for the vast majority, it really has boiled down to saving their children. but they have left their men behind. their husbands. their sons. their fathers. conversations here start to take on a different and perhaps to a certain degree unique feel because you have to also keep in mind that poland and ukraine, the populations are all -- they're quite close, and so conversations here are no longer about how high, you know, how

are you today. it's hi, oh, my friend called me. he's decided to go to ukraine to fight. or, hi, my relative inside ukraine, we haven't been able to get hold of them. and so the way that the war is percolating over the borders, permeating over the borders, that is having a separate impact on the polish population here, who is also now trying to figure out how to absorb these hundreds of thousands of ukrainians who are coming across the border. but it's also worth noting that when it specifically comes to this conflict in ukraine, the reception that we're seeing for refugees from all of ukrainie's neighboring countries, it's quite different reception. we've seen refugees from other parts of the world in the past, and i have to say it's quite

heartening to see that at least in this conflict, refugees are, in fact, welcome. >> that was cnn's arwa daman reporting for us there. now, scores of children are being evacuated from orphanages while the war rages on. 200 children waiting on a platform in a lviv train station after fleeing their orphanage located in the conflict zone. jackets and winter hats, these kids are all ages made their way aboard a fleet of buses bound for their new, hopefully temporary home in poland. the pain of the exodus evident on the face of the director of the orphanage. >> translator: my heart is being torn apart. i'm sorry, it is tough. when families are separated, it is very hard.

i simply lack words. and i feel so sorry for these children. they're so young. >> hundreds of children from orphanages across ukraine have already crossed the border. around 700 of them now living in the hotel southwest of wausau. a hotel has opened its rooms and halls to refugees and says it will keep it that way for as long as needed. moldova has opened a huge stadium to house some of the refugees. nearly 1,000 people staying in one location. our ivan watson is there on the scene and filed this report. >> reporter: governments are still trying to wrap their heads around the size of the refugee exodus now coming out of ukraine. and this is just one example to help illustrate it. it is a stadium in the capital of moldova where you have hundreds of people staying.

the numbers can swell to more than 800, and each day hundreds of people then leave to move into europe, and then there are hundreds of additional arrivals who come here. the people i have spoken to describe fleeing explosions, fleeing attacks on their cities and homes. and all of them are wrestling with this terrible question, how do i rebuild? how do i start a new life when my country has been invaded by the russian military and nobody has any idea when this war will come to an end? the moldovan authorities are overwhelmed. they say there are 230,000 refugees that have come through their borders in just nine days. they are expecting many, many more. that is just a fraction of the 1.5 million people displaced by this conflict. every person you talk to here

has a story of loss and fear, and no answer for their children of what the next day may bring. ivan watson, cnn. >> if you would like to help people in ukraine who might be in need of the basics of life, shelter, food, water, warm clothes and so on, go to cnn.com/impact. there you will find several ways in which you can help if you choose to do so. i'm michael holmes live in lviv, ukraine. let's go back to rosemary church in atlanta for our continuing breaking news coverage. rosemary. >> michael, thank you for your incredible reporting. appreciate that. well, jews in ukraine are fleeing the russian invasion bound for israel. a live report from jerusalem just ahead. plus, we are following moran ti-war -- more anti-war protests inside russia. thousands were detained on sunday alone.

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more than 4500 people were detained across russia sunday in connection with anti-war protests. that is according to an independent human rights monitoring group tracking detentions in the country. in st. petersburg, video posted to social media shows anti-war

protesters in a violent altercation with police. cnn geolocated and verified the authenticity of the video which was taken on sunday. cnn also contacted st. petersburg police to ask about the nature of the arrests, but did not receive an immediate response. in new york city, the war in ukraine has shaken a tight-knit russian and eastern european neighborhood known as lilttle odessa. cnn's paolo sandoval shows this band of support for the ukrainian people. >> reporter: in south brooklyn's neighborhood of brighten beach, the signage. >> you can live here your whole life and not speak a word of english. >> reporter: but lately says moscow native michael, it's the

support for ukraine that is prevalent in this eastern european enclave in new york li little odessa. it is one of the largest russian-speaking communities outside of europe. >> right now everybody is ukrainian. everybody is ukrainian. as a show of solidarity, people are posting in their store fronts, on facebook, ukrainian flags. to show that we are, the people of ukraine, we're against the war, and we want the bloodshed to stop. >> reporter: they stay in close contact with ukrainian americans online and on air. >> some people are understanding, and they are -- they regret that negotiations did not go the way putin wanted. but nobody is supporting this military action and the bombing of innocent people. >> reporter: questions about how

to get humanitarian aid to ukrainians caught in the conflict dominate calls into his show. he's also heard from local business leaders, one of whom is shedding russian branding right off his store front. bobby rack man had "taste of russia" taken down just this week. >> just wouldn't be the right thing to do to keep the name. >> reporter: a ukrainian flag now hangs in the bustling shop's window while a new name is considered. >> businesses are changing their name. either to show solidarity with ukraine or take out russian from their name so customers will not boycott them or confuse them with russian-owned businesses which right now are under very heavy sanctions. >> reporter: this new york city subway thunders overhead, life goes along this brighton beach neighborhood. one that feels especially close to home here. paolo sandoval, cnn, new york.

there is solidarity for ukraine with a country close to russia. kazakhstan allowed this demonstration in the largest city. about 2,000 people attended, shouting slogans like "no war" and waving ukrainian flags. there were even yellow and blue balloons on a statue of lenin. they stressed neutrality in the conflict, but there have been calls by some western lawmakers to extend sanctions to countries supporting russia. the israeli government is preparing for what could be mass immigration from ukraine. officials say more than 10,000 israeli citizens have now left ukraine, and israel is taking in jewish refugees. joining me now from jerusalem is cnn's hadas gold. good to see you, hadas. what is the latest on these jewish refugees arriving from ukraine and what does the future hold for them? >> rosemary, there is something

called the law of return which states that anybody who is jewish or has at least one jewish grandparent can immigrate to israel along with their families. with this large jewish population, there are potentially hundreds of thousands of ukrainians who are eligible. and as we are seeing, more than 1 1/2 million refugees flee ukraine, israeli officials are bracing themselves for a wave of immigration that they have not possibly seen since the fall of the soviet union. the children peer out of the airplane windows, entranced by the commotion down below. a red carpet arrival for these ukrainians. now refugees escaping war for a new life in israel. this is one of three planes of ukrainians that arrived on sunday to tel aviv's airport. including one with some 90 orphans welcomed personally by the prime minister naftali bennett. with many mothers on this flight, originally from odessa, came without her husband because of ukraine's compulsory

condescription for all men of fighting age. >> it's hopeful. are you hoping he'll be able to join you here? >> i hope he can come to us. but he's helping right now, and i hope it will stop soon and we can be together. >> reporter: she and her two sons spent more than ten days making their way to poland before catching the flight out. >> i was planning about to come here, but when the war start, it was immediately decided. >> reporter: she is from kyiv. she thinks many more jews will soon decide like her, to make their way to israel. how does it feel to come here having been through what you've been through for so many days? >> i think i'm still shaken because i've seen war, in front of our house the russian was -- so it was dangerous and we had like a real panic. >> reporter: under israel's law of return, anyone with a jewish

grandparent who converted judaism is eligible. with tens of thousands of ukrainians eligible to return. with them fleeing so quickly, israeli authorities set up a processing center along ukraine's border to expedite what can be a lengthy process. >> literally tens of thousands. we set up various hot lines and there are border points, five or six border points neighboring with ukraine. and every day we are getting in the thousands of requests, and we're trying to take care of all of them. >> reporter: after pushback from the ukrainians, israel is now also considering allowing ukrainian refugees not eligible under the law of return to enter the country with a special work visa. the interior ministry says they are on track to receive 15,000 ukrainians by the end of the month. for these exhausted families, torn apart by war, traveling for

days, the most important thing is that they made it out. >> i'm tired. i'm excited, and i feel that i'm in a safety place, and i feel a lot of support. >> reporter: and, rosemary, on the diplomatic front they are still trying to act as mediator just a day after his surprise trip to moscow, the israeli minister naftali bennett had another phone call with putin. he will meet with the secretary of state antony blinken. rosemary? >> all right, we'll watch any progress there. hadas gold joining us live. appreciate it. still ahead, one carried a weapon. the other carried flowers. how a bride and groom both defending ukraine managed to have their wedding in the midst of war.

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their love. the singing is for a kyiv military couple who decided after 20 years together it was time to tie the knot at their military checkpoint on sunday. they had never been officially married until russia's bombs began to fall. they are both members of ukraine's territorial defense unit and became husband and wife in front of their fellow fighters. congratulations to them. well, 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 the peace. one woman who is an i.t. employee working in japan says the losses in her home country are heartbreaking. >> the house where my parents lived was destroyed by a missile. my parents miracly -- miracle

cally, survived. >> a flash mob of musicians were in trafalgar square. a renowned russian pianist led 200 musicians as they played the ukrainian national anthem and other songs composed by ukrainian artists. other spectators gathered around the makeshift stage. participants said the gesture is meant to show their hearts are with the people of ukraine. and thank you so much for your company. i'm rosemary church. take good care of yourselves and your loved ones. cnn's coverage of the situation in ukraine continues now with isa soares after this.

very credible reports of attacks on civilians which could constitute a war crime. >> the situation in my country every day getting worse. >> it's also the democracies fighting the autocracies. >> i left my heart there in

ukraine. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i'm isa soares with more of our breaking coverage on the war in ukraine. civilians across the country are facing a growing humanitarian crisis as stark as well as disturbing images show the harsh reality on the ground. but in just the last two hours, the russian defense ministry said it is opening humanitarian corridors from four ukrainian cities. you can see there on the your map including kyiv, mariupol. civilians passing through a checkpoint manned by ukrainian forces. we have seen people including children walking through on foot. who knows really how long they have been walking. we've seen them pack b