hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and right around the world. i'm isa soares in london. we are following the war in ukraine. >> from the u.s. perspective the end game is the strategic defeat of president pugh tip in this adventure. >> he's likely to double down and try to grind down the ukrainian military with no regard for civilian casualties. >> united states is targeting the main artery of russia's economy. >> his plans are please, we want to leave. we want to be happy. stop shooting. please. >> more is to come. worse is to come. it is wednesday, march 9th. 11:00 a.m. in ukraine. where their government has agreed to a russian proposal for a limited cease fire in

civilian evacuations in six hard hit areas. ukraine says about 5000 people left sumy on tuesday during a pause in the fighting. just a few hours earlier if you remember, ukraine claimed russian air strikes killed 21 people, including two children. the southern port city of mariupol is a part of today's cease fire. residents there have been without water or electricity now for days. ukraine claims russian forces struck an aid convoy bringing vital supplies on tuesday. meanwhile russia is moving more military vehicles and supplies into ukraine as you can see there. new video from the south shows an armor train carrying equipment in from crimea. russia is making little progress in ukraine. that's not expected to change in the foreseeable future. take a listen to the cia director's assessment. >> putin is angry and frustrated right now. he's likely to double down and try to grind down the ukrainian

military with no regard for civilian casualties. where that leads, i think is for an ugly next few weeks. >> hundreds of ukrainians are protesting the occupation of the southern port city of kherson. russian forces to control after days of heavy bombardment and shelling. the city's 300,000 people are without water and electricity and desperately need help. the un says the number of people fleeing ukraine has now surpassed 2 million. most of them are women, children and the elderly since men of fighting age are barred from leaving. poland has taken in it the most refugees 1.2 million. but just minutes ago the polish border guard announced it's now up to more than 1.3 million. hundreds of thousands of others have made it to neighboring slovakia, hungary, moldova and romania where many of them have family and connections.

other areas of europe have received some 200,000 refugees. the eu warns of humanitarian crisis will only grow more urgent. scott mclane is live for us from lviv, ukraine. one of the major cities refugees are traveling through. let me start on the evacuation corridor that opened up for civilians. talk us through what has been promised by russia and whether it's holding particularly. >> so yeah, at least on paper the routes would have opened up two hours ago and they're supposed to go for another 10 hours from now. we've just gotten word from the ukrainian deputy prime minister that ukraine has agreed to a handful of these routes out of cities like sumy. where the nuclear power plant is under russian control and mariupol and places where

humanitarian corridors have not had much success. instead running into heavy shelling from the russians in the direction of the convoys. so if these humanitarian corridors can hold today and it's not clear that they will be able to, but if they can, that will be a lot of new ukrainians fleeing that area and likely fleeing the country as well. there was some success yesterday getting people out of the northeastern city of sumy. according to local officials there some 5000 people traveling in 1000 vehicles were able to get out of the city. many of them were foreign students who had been trapped. but look, ukraine has been reluctant in past days to take russia up on its offers because initially many of the routes would have gone back into russia, something that president zelenskyy said would have just been a propaganda win for the russians. but even once people managed to get out they still have a long way to go. it takes several days to get

across the country through checkpoints or on trains. as we found out yesterday, even once people reach the border areas to flee the country, their journey is far from over. for more than a million ukrainians, the road to safety in poland is filled with checkpoints, bumper to bumper traffic and seemingly endless anticipation. valentina and her family had been waiting to cross the border for more than 24 hours and they're still nowhere near the frond of the line. >> i don't know what's waiting for me and my family. we're going into the unknown and it scares us. >> reporter: everyone in their cars is willing to wait. closer to the border, even hobble. joining lines that stretch for blocks and for hours. max is taping and zip tying leftover insulation from his heating business to his daughter's feet to make sure she's warm while she waits for

hours. you wanted to make sure your family got here safe? >> yes. he says us and that's all. >> reporter: when they get to the front of the line max will have to stay behind as a man of fighting age. his in-laws aren't leaving either. >> it's very difficult. it's so hard. my heart is ripped into pieces. my parents stayed back in kyiv region. i don't know even what is going with them now. it's so scary. >> reporter: ilona with her young daughter and god son in tow fled the heavy shelling of irpin just outside kyiv. >> it it was terrible. and we left only two days ago. sat on the last train. we didn't believe that in 21st century it can be the real war. >> reporter: valentina also fled kyiv. she's never been forced from her home but she's no stranger

to tragedy. [ speaking foreign language ] >> my husband died at the chernobyl nuclear power plant. do you understand? and that's what they are doing now. they are destroying the whole world. it is outrageous. people around the world shall not be silent. >> reporter: this elderly couple fled kharkiv but only after spending eight days sheltering in a metro station. on the eighth day an explosion shook the hideout. >> the women were hysterical. i understood this was not going to pass. this horror cannot be endured. the fear. the crying children. when i saw a pregnant woman entering the metro i understood this could not be forgiven. >> reporter: from here many have no idea where they'll go when they get to poland or when they might be able to come back. now many of the people we met near the border say they had family or friends in poland or elsewhere in europe that they plan to stay with for the time

being. the unhcr says what they're worried about is that the next wave of refugees won't have the same connections outside the country, won't have the same resources and therefore will be much more vulnerable. most people, almost everyone that we talked to said they, given a choice, wouldn't leave at all. they're less worried about where they're going and more worried about having a homeland to come back to. and isa one more point on the humanitarian corridors, that's that even if 5000 people are getting out of sumy that's a drop in a bucket in a city of a quarter of a million people. mariupol, the ukrainians estimate there's 200,000 people who want to get out of that city. even if you have one or two days of corridors, that's not going to work. they'll have to work long term to get everyone who wants to leave actually evacuated. >> yes, ever deepening humanitarian crisis. you'll keep our eyes peeled.

appreciate it. ukraine's president redane maines define. volodymyr zelenskyy echoed winston churchill's wartime vow to fight to the very end. [ applause ] members of parliament gave him a standing ovation. mr. zelenskyy urged more action against russia [ speaking foreign language ] >> strengthen the sanctions against the terrorist state. recognize it as a terrorist state. find a way to make our ukrainian sky safe. do what you can. do what you have to. >> mr. zelenskyy supports british prime minister boris johnson's commitment to a new marshal plan. he was also grateful for the uk plan to phase out russian oil imports by the end of the year. ukraine's president thanking his u.s. counterpart after joe biden announced the u.s. would

be banning all russian energy imports. volodymyr zelenskyy said he's grateful for the powerful signal to the whole world. the eu announced plans to move away from russian energy by the end of the decade. the moves are meant to punish russia for its assault on ukraine, but mr. biden warns americans will also feel the impact. >> this is a step that we're taking to inflict further pain on putin. there will be cost as well here in the united states. i said i would level with the american people from the beginning. when i first spoke to think said defending freedom is going to cost. it's going to cost us as well in the united states. ment republicans and democrats understand that. republicans and democrats alike have been clear we must do this. >> it appears every day americans are on board as well. a new reuters poll found 80% of

those surveyed support stopping oil and gas purchases from russia during the war in ukraine even though that means prices of course will climb. and speaking of prices, we've laughter already seen a big jump with the price of gas in the u.s. at an all time high. the price of a gallon of regular gas stands at $4.17. we are seeing more corporate backlash this hour amid russia's assault on ukraine. the new york times says it's pulling all correspondents out of russia. this marks the first time in more than a century that the paper will have no reporters on the ground there. in just the last hour, heineken announced it will stop the sale of its beer in the country. coca-cola announced it's suspending business there. and 32 years after the first mcdonald's opened in russia, these were the images back then. just imagine that. the company says it will temporarily close all of its

restaurants across the country and pause operations. cnn monitoring all of this for us. anna, there's a lot for us to talk about. let's start with russian energy. that decision from president biden is mostly symbolic. but what about europe? the problem has always been that europe hasn't been able to wane itself off russia oil and gas. >> it can do it but it's going to take a lot longer. that's why they announced they would slash dependence by two- thirds. but you can see why, it's to do with the reliance. we can show you a chart just looking at the difference between the u.s., uk and eu. it correlates to the time frame. now russia is not happy by the announcements yesterday. there was a presidential decree overnight from president vladimir putin saying they're going to ban and restrict certain exports and imports. no detail as to what. that could be metals. it could be wheat.

it could also be energy. there have been plenty of threats regarding energy. interesting that the eu commission president was speaking to a german channel ard and reaffirmed they now have the eu has enough liquefied gas to see it through this winter. it's showing russia that after all of these threats they are standing ready and they are committing to this. right now we've spoken about this a bit, but 70% of russian sea born gas is unable to find a buyer. that's according to jp morgan. the discount for russian oil is now about $25 cheaper a barrel than brent, so it's working. >> is it having the effect on putin and the oligarchs around him because the concern is of course that may hobble the population. what are you hearing from the industry? they can't fly. they can't buy anything they want. what is left? >> you have to feel really sorry for ordinary russians given the number of businesses backing out in recent days and just every minute frankly we're

getting more news. in the last hour heineken pulling out operations. that adds to coca-cola, pepsi, starbucks, z mcdonald's. you mentioned that in the lead in. mcdonald's may be late to this party and boycot mcdonald's has been trending but they are closing 847 stores. they don't franchise as much in russia as they do in other countries. they own many of these locations. that's 62,000 employees that will not be working still being paid a salary, but russia -- mcdonald's is iconic because it opened in 1990. you saw the crowds. that was as the cold war had had ended and the soviet union was coming to an end. people were celebrating the absolute icon of american capitalism. it is symbolic it is closing. you'll see, you know, high streets in russia increasingly with closed up shops. shelves emptied of western

products. even though there is a strangle hold on russian media and censorship, people will be questioning at this >> we've also seen in the last hour or so the rating agency, fetch, warning of an imminent russian default. basically that means russia won't be able to pay off its debts. anna stewart, appreciate it. thank you very much. still ahead right here on the show, ukraine's president continues to call for a no fly zone over his country. why western leaders say the idea could only escalate the conflict, not solve it. you are watching "cnn newsroom." ♪ ♪ ♪ new gold bond pure moisture lotion. 24-hour hydration. no parabens, dyes, or fragrances. gold bond. champion your skinin.

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>> translator: on day 9 we listened to the meeting of nato countries and we saw no results we were looking for. no courage. yes, i don't want to offend anyone. they can't even close the skies. there is a need to rebuild

european security from zero. >> ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy once again calling for a no fly zone over ukraine. so far the u.s. and its nato allies have denied ukraine's request for a no fly zone arguing it would only escalate the situation and risk a direct conflict between russia and nato. u.s. is ramping up defenses on nearby nato territory. on tuesday we learned u.s. is sending two patriot missile batteries to poland and defensive deployment. poland floated the proposal but the u.s. says it would be too risky. cnn's oren lieberman explains. >> reporter: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has repeatedly asked the u.s. and nato for a no fly zone over

ukraine. he has been refused. u.s. and nato leaders saying it's too close to awe declaration of war because it requires shooting down russian planes from the sky should they violate it. after that was a request for mig 29s that they already know how to fly to help them challenge the russian air force for control of the skies over ukraine. poland put out a statement earlier on tuesday saying they had a proposal in place and were ready to hand over all of their mig 29s to ukraine. as they said they would hand over their aircraft to the u.s. at the airbase in germany. then it would be up to the u.s. to get them to the ukrainians. after hours the pentagon said it was not tenable. john kirby said the prospect of the fighter jets departing from the u.s. nato base in germany to

fly into airbase contested with russia over ukraine raises serious concerns for the entire nato alliance. it's simply not clear to us that there is a substantive rationale for it. the pentagon said they were in touch for polish authorities on the possibility of this happening. the u.s. said they're okay with poland transferring the mig 29s, but it's a decision of the polish government. and they said they were blindsided and surprised by poland's offer. can the u.s. and nato get their aircraft to the ukrainian air force remains an open question with little statement of how it will work. oren lieberman, "cnn newsroom."

so our viewers are aware, we are not disclosing your location for security reasons. in the last 24 to 48 hours there. >> so we're witnessing what, in fact, we expected and what we warned the west because we were saying in ukraine if they start a full scale war, we will not be able to protect europe. the center of ukraine. people are sayingving their liv.

the last people in the center of the country, having big cities and more resources for our army, for our police and forother volunteers who are physically fighting with russians on the ground. it is reality. friends and relatives, i wanted to take my daughters out of kyiv. they are somewhere else. my older son is in kyiv. he said he will stay in kyiv but, again, it is a location with a lot of complexity and logistics. my first journey to kyiv to lviv to the western border took almost 27 hours and that's like the standard for travel

throughout ukraine. in usual times it takes from 6 to 7 hours. so it is massive and we expect european union will try as much as possible for rules for ukrainians to stay. we expect mass support for ukrainians. running away without any understanding where they will stay, what they will eat, where they can sleep and so on and so forth. >> it is -- >> another thing -- >> go ahead. >> let me finish one detail. another thing we expect the simplification of the united kingdom and united states to enter people in. especially we had a lot of cases where parents, for example, they had u.s. visa or u.k. visa but kids or other members of their family, they don't. so we ask the officials of

united kingdom and united states to simplify the entry procedures for these people. again, for everyone in u.s. to unde understand just women, kids. all men are staying inside ukraine. for one side, most men don't want to leave ukraine. for another side, we are prohibiting any exit of men. >> really a call for the u.s. and u.k. to fast track entry to our countries. let me ask you what you're seeing on the ground in terms of what the u.s. and nato allies can do here. as you heard in the last few minutes from our reporter, poland has offered to send mig 29 jets to a u.s. bears in germany. replenish your air force.

how from us streeting is this or do you believe there is a chance of this happening? >> unfortunately neither ukraine nor west was prepared for this full scale war. ukraine was warning the west and was warning the united states that it may happen. we were explaining during the year that putin russia is evil. finally it's happened and western politicians, they are not really preparing. they are not really prepared for that. they continue to measure risk and they continue to take a decision. put continue said he is attacking because he thinks ukraine is a ground for attacking russia. he is taking ukraine because of his conflict with nato and the

united states. keith and david, it's already a fact. it will be not much to do. the price of oil, yes, may raise. they don't want to combat with russia. modern russia is very much different now it is the way how to kill them economically.

that's the only way they influence. another comment from my side asking what you guys can do. last 48 hours was very good on our demands on suspension of the business with russia. >> yeah. >> the least of the american companies who left russia is very good. i want everyone to accept the fact that this is not suspension of the business. as long as putin russia exists, none of the business shall be restarted in any form. nonsense of the taxes of these shall be paid to russians, because all of this money will be converted on two things, russian currency and

kleptokratz. >> andre, i appreciate your taking the time to speak to us. stay safe and thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us here on cnn, sir. >> glory to the british. >> we are monitoring the evacuation routes and cease-fire in ukraine. that is our top story. there is an urgent need to find safety after russia hit and killed civilians in recent days. we'll have the latest after this short break.

welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm isa soares. an update on our breaking news out of ukraine at this hour.

ukraine has agreed to humanitarian roots for a limited cease-fire today. the plan allows people to evacuate in six areas. the corridor will stay in operation today. government officials say 5,000 people will be able to leave on tuesday. that evacuation came hours after an overnight russian airstrike killed 21 people including 2 children. after today there's the no escape but being trapped in the besieged city of mayor riupol ie south. they are holding 3,000 citizens hostage there. in the northeast, strikes on kharkiv. the city has not fallen to the russians. u.s. estimates as much as 8 to 10% of russia's military assets used in the invasion have been destroyed or are inoperable. the ukraine military has lost

about the same amount. selma is joining me now. let's talk about the cease-fire. cease-fires are always so fragile. what can we expect here? >> this is the latest cease-fire went in place at 9 a.m. local time in ukraine today. stretches across five cities. russian troops say they're going to observe silence. guns will fall silent. ukrainian forces have as well negotiated with the red cross to develop the humanitarian quarters to let families move out. we can see for several days promises of humanitarian corridors that will be bombed by russian forces. you mentioned mariupol, 300,000 still stuck inside. the u ukrainian people trying to

leave were bombed. you can imagine trying to pack it and leave in the middle of the night. you trust the russians to hold the fire. you trust for the corridors to work. what we are talking about is a best case scenario, that they could leave their homes, become homeless, displaced, that this refugee crisis only grows? so by no means does this corridor, even if they worked, fix the conflict itself. diplomatic efforts have stalled so far but we do have a glimmer of hope here. we understand as early as tomorrow we could see talks take place between the russian foreign minister and ukrainian foreign minister. the question is how direct will these negotiations be. we're looking at a cease-fire holding for 12 hours. people of ukraine need more than that. >> absolutely. i know you will stay on top of that. these people have no water, electricity, no food. extremely dire situation. thank you very much.

chinese president xi jinping says western sanctions will be detrimental to the entire world. he voiced his opinion during a virtual summit with the french president and german chancellor on tuesday saying sanctions will affect not only russia but also the world's finance, energy, transportation and supply lines. notably president xi again refused to condemn russia's intervention of ukraine. natasha bertrand is live in brussels. let's go to beijing.

china has strategists saying the right things but doing almost nothing. you mentioned how mr. xi refused to -- continued to refuse to denounce the war. they have reaffirmed the relationship with russia and they continue to parrot a lot of kremlin's key talking points including how nato is the root cause of this conflict. they also, of course, criticized russian sanctions. a lot of them will be negatively affected but there's another dimension to this. a lot of people mentioned despite the status of an emerging super power, it lacks a

will to get deeply involved in global crisis outside of the comfort zone which is a narrowly defined set of issues. so that's why i think you see all these signs from xi jinping really even though when he mentioned the word mediator there's usually quantifiers after that. that is when the time is right. indicating it is not going to happen that could stop the bloodshed on the ground right now, isa. >> steven, stay with us. i'm going to bring in natasha bertrand. given what we heard from steven jiang said, do we believe they can move the needle and pressure putin? >> well, isa, they believe he can. the question is whether or not he is willing to. the european commission believes they can pressure him to

implement a cease-fire. the question is whether he is willing to leverage that relationship to do so. the european foreign policy chief said that he also believes that china could pressure putin to try to end this war or at least allow humanitarian assistance and the humanitarian corridors to remain open and unhindered. the secretary of state in a recent visit to lithuania said china's actions are speaking much louder than its words. china has softened its position a bit saying they do support ukrainian sovereignty. they will make efforts to send aid into ukraine. blinken reiterating they see china as firmly behind russia here. there have been no concrete changes to their behavior that would suggest they are ready to open a diplomatic channel and serve as mediator here.

so there are a lot of questions here, particularly raised by our cnn reporting that chinese officials during the reporting asked russian officials to delay any potential invasion of ukraine until after the olympics so as not to upstage this huge event put on by china and valued by xi jinping. there is an element did the chinese know this was coming? if so, why didn't they do more beforehand to prevent it from coming? there was a joint chinese/russian statement there saying that they opposed the enlargement of nato. took a lot of western officials by surprise. they took notice of that statement as evidence that china seems to support russia's ambitions. china now saying of course that they oppose the humanitarian crisis but they are not willing to play a meaningful role of

mediator. >> action matters. natasha bertrand, steven jiang, appreciate it very much. there appears to be a possible thaw in relations between venezuela and the united states. two americans have been released and it seems oil has a lot to do with it. that is next..

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the u.s. president said they were wrongfully detained but will be able to hug their families again. we have the story. >> reporter: isa, at least the two u.s. citizens have been released from prison in venezuela since tuesday night. just days after two top officials visited caracas for the first time in two years. one of them is from the group the citgo 6, a group of oil executives from the american organization citgo petroleum. the six men were contained in caracas which they denied. their family and lawyers have accused the venezuelan government as pawns to expert pressure on the united states. we have covered them extensively here on cnn in the past. a cuban american citizen has spent more than a year in

venezuelan prisons on terrorism-related charges has been released. these releases show how widespread the consequences of the russian invasion on ukraine have been around the world. the diplomacy is moving at the fastest rate, after they personally met with the venezuelan strong manic lass ma dndur -- man nicolas maduro. they're replacing russian crude oil imports which have been banned by the white house on tuesday. they're trying to use the potential trade deal between washington and caracas as a wedge to distance nicolas maduro from his close ally, vladimir putin. isa? >> stefano pozzebon, thank you.

his parents, the president told him, feels horrible they haven't been able to bring their son home yet and that he said he's not going to stop trying. reed was sentenced to 9 years in prison for endangering the life and health of russian police officers after a night of dri drinking. he has denied the charges. reed's family is concerned this will make the situation even worse. family and supporters of brittney griner are increase ily concerned moscow will try to use her as a pawn. the two-time basketball authorities have detained her. u.s. lawmakers said it will

be very difficult. there are no diplomatic channels to russia's invasion of u krags. a dual russian/american citizen has been charged with acting as a russian spy inside the u.s. court documents say she failed to legally inform the u.s. government she was working on behalf of the kremlin. she's also accused, among other things, of making false statements to the fbi and conspiring to commit fraud. despite a full on investigation, the people of ukraine think they can win the war. a look back on the last two weeks of the war in ukraine.

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tomorrow marked two weeks since the start of the russian invasion into ukraine. hundreds of ukrainian lives have been taken. more than 200 people have fled. here's a look at the war so far.

♪ ♪ my family was divided by war. i left my heart there in ukraine. >> translator: she said, i'm not afraid. >> we're hoping the international community will help us. ♪ ♪ >> i just want to live in peace and freedom. >> so this is good-bye? >> temporarily. >> difficult times but we are optimistic.

we are fighting strong and we will win. >> i told her, if something will explode or whatever, she needs to hold her sister and don't run to me. stay there and be there for her. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> we are living in real hell. i never imagine something like that can happen in 21st century. >> we're a strong country. strong people. strong nation. >> i brought here a child and i want to go back. >> ukraine today is the most brave -- bravest nation in the world and i am proud of that.

♪ ♪ ♪ and if you would like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of shelter, food and water please go to cnn.com/impact. there you will find several ways you can help. that does it here for me on "cnn newsroom." i'm isa soares in london. our breaking new coverage continues on "new day" with brianna keilar and john berman. you are watching cnn.

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supersonic wifi only from us... xfinity. this is cnn breaking news. good morning here to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, march 9th. i'm john berman with brianna keilar and moments ago ukraine says it's agreed to a russian offer for a cease-fire to get civilians out of six areas. i've circled them here on the map so you can see roughly where they are. one of these areas is mariupol right down here which is completely surrounded by russian troops. we'll spea