to leave if we live that long, of course. so i don't want to leave. and i won't be leaving ukraine. we will be moving to somewhere just farther away from russian border. >> heartbreaking. to our viewers, thanks for watching. erin burnett "out front" starts right now. breaking news. russian troops advancing, making gains near kyiv and in the south. the u.s. ambassador accuses putin of war crimes. putin's forces have encircled the city where they destroyed a maternity hospital. no power, no heat. attacks between residents over food supplies. a putin critic who was poisoned twice telling the world what he

thinks putin is capable of. he is our guest. let's go "out front." good evening. i'm erin burnett. the breaking news, putin making gains in multiple cities. tonight, the sound of shelling growing louder and more insistent as russia bombards closer and closer into the suburbs of kyiv. a senior u.s. defense official says the russians are approaching kyiv from all different directions. russian forces overtaking nearby towns as they encircle the city. it's in these towns that we are seeing the new and horrible images of the fierce fighting. ukrainian forces in this image trying to free a town that's currently being occupied by russian forces. the fighting intense .

just listen to that. no word on deaths or injuries in that fighting. releasing video that shows russian tanks being attacked. ukraine is fighting, as the world knows, fighting fiercely and well. the numbers are not in their favor. u.s. officials now say they expect russian forces to adapt to some of the failures in order to overcome the challenges they are facing. that includes a greater reliance on long range artillery. artillery is one of the crudest ways to concur. it involves killing in indiscindi indiscr indiscriminately. kyiv could soon face the same fighting and crisis as mariupol, which is becoming home to one of the worst humanitarian crises of

putin's war. the red cross describing the situation there as, quote, increasingly dire and desperate. communication lines are down. no food and water coming in. according to the red cross, they say they observe people attacking each other for food. russian forces are not letting up their siege of the city. you can see the crater in the ground. apartments, offices, storefronts destroys. we will more coming up on the devastation in mariupol. a chilling warning about how the russians are treating ukrainian civilians. >> russian forces are at the least operating with reckless disregard for the safety of non-combatants. russian units launch into urban areas as they have done across ukraine. >> all this as we are learning that emergency crews in the kharkiv are battling a fire. it's something that could be

alarming because that campus houses a crucial nuclear research facility. we have reporters across ukraine tonight. i want to begin with matthew chance. he is live in kyiv. matthew, we are hearing about the russian forces getting closer and closer. we hear that fierce fighting. what is the latest tonight? >> reporter: that fierce fighting is getting closer. that's causing a big up surge in the number of people that are trying to escape towns and cities across the country to relative safety. particularly here in kyiv. there's been, according to the authorities, president zelenskyy, the leader, more than 100,000 people that have escaped from the areas of fierce fighting over the past couple of days. 40,000 just today. particularly in areas north of thecapital. there is that fierce fighting underway as russian forces approach even closer to the ukrainian capital.

the aftermath of fierce fighting east of the ukrainian capital. this is what you get when you invade ukrainian land the narrator says. russian forces attempt to encircle kyiv. ukrainian military says it has defeated a regiment of tanks and liquidated the commander. it's being attacked and destroyed. the latest battlefield win in what is proving for now to be a determined ukrainian stand. on the diplomatic front, stalemate. despite the highest level talks since this conflict began, the foreign ministers meeting in turkey, ukrainian officials tell cnn, the russian side appeared unwilling or unable to make a deal. >> we raised the issue of a

cease-fire, 24-hour cease-fire, to resolve the most pressing humanitarian issues. we did not make progress on this since it seems that there are other decision makers for this matter in russia. >> reporter: it's these scenes in the ukrainian city of mariupol provoking scorn. a maternity hospital devastated by russian forces. according to ukrainian officials, killing at least three people inside, including a child. images are circulating like this one of pregnant women bloodied. the foreign minister is insisting this was a legitimate strike on a far right ukrainian militia. not a war crime. >> at the meeting, our delegation presented facts about

this maternity hospital having long been seized by the battalion and other radicals. they have driven all the pregnant women and the nurses out of it. >> reporter: in cities across ukraine, trapped civilians are desperately escaping the fighting. these the latest scenes from north of kyiv where the city's mayor says nearly the population has already fled. with no peace in sight, ukraine's capital is emptying as russian forces advance. there's more concern tonight from the northeastern city of kharkiv. emergency workers battle a fire at the institute for physics in the city, which houses a nuclear research facility. the area has been set afire by suspected russian shelling. it is raising concerns that this is going to be an environmental catastrophe as well as a

humanitarian one. erin? >> thank you very much. matthew chance. we talked about kyiv and the encircling there. the other place where the russians have obviously made gains and have inflicted that horrible humanitarian toll is in the south. i want to go to odesa and ukraine. nick paton w toton walsh is out. what is the latest? >> reporter: it's deathly quiet. it has been a day of anxiety. we heard sirens going off in the early afternoon. more per sissistent than we hav heard for some time. officials said that was because a russian ship appeared on the horizon and fired what they described at fire shots aimed at trying to work out what ukraine's defense would be. that has people on edge. there's been a warning of an amphibious landing. this is the first sign we have seen of ships probing the coastline here.

at dusk, we heard two, three bi bursts of anti-aircraft gunfire on the coast behind me. then it fell silent. it feeds into a pattern of fears here because we have seen pressure mounting along the black sea coast to the east of where i'm standing. let's start the furthest east, where russian troops have been in control for about a week now. we know that a second railway train has moved into that particular town from crimea. it appears carrying reinforcements. then, of course, we talked about a vital port city which has been under intensive russian pressure, bombardment of residential areas. the regional head said shethey t

ukrainian soldiers and they had taken out russian armor. he sounds confident. it appears to be in flux. regardless of what the immediate successes they have on the battlefield are, the shelling is inflicting a huge toll on the humans there. the real issue i think is quite when russia's military begins to build enough strength around that town, they seem to be moving to the north, and then feel they can move on and pressure here. i have to tell you, most people here feel there's something inevitable about odesa being probed by the russian military. it's the third largest city. mate the major port. moscow can't claim to pressure the country unless it has a go at here. we see momentum building along the black sea coast with an awful humanitarian toll. >> thank you very much, nick. i want to go to james clapper, the former director of national intelligence under president obama.

retired general mark brimmet. thanks to both of you. general clapper, emergency services in kharkiv say they are tackling the fire. the area around the institute of physics, home to a nuclear research facility. ukraine says it's doing everything possible to restore electricity to the chernobyl nuclear plant, which is currently in its second day of operating with diesel generators. you have been ringing the alarm about a nuclear crisis happening. how concerned are you now? >> i'm even more concerned, particularly watching what for me is reckless, irresponsible, incompetent or all of the above behavior of the russians with respect to the 15 nuclear reactors in ukraine. if one of these is attacked,

damaged or if there's no power for cooling, this could be a disaster of biblical proportions, not just for ukraine but for the region. i'm very concerned about it, particularly given the russians' cavalier attitude about protecting them. >> a senior defense official said today that the u.s. has seen an increase -- a shift in some of the russian strategy. we know that it has been at best blundering. there's been a shift to long range fire, bombardment, missile launches. long range artillery. what does this tell you about the strategy and how it may be shifting? >> i don't think their strategy is shifting, because they blundered in the initial phase, it doesn't mean they are off their strategy. their strategy is -- we have seen this in mariupol and we

will see this in kyiv. they encircle the city. they shell the city. they will starve the city, cutting off access to water, cutting off access to medicine, cutting off access to resupply for the fighters. then when they have reduced the city to a level that they think they can take it, then they will send in the troops. >> it's unbelievable. the u.s. today -- the white house wouldn't say how the u.s. would respond if russia used chemical weapons as part of this. they warned that russia -- it's possible they would do so. they have done so in syria. do you think it is likely that russia will use chemical weapons? >> yes, i do. i think we need to be prepared for that, particularly in kyiv. i think they will use chemical weapons if they run incur a lot of casualties.

so, yeah, i think it's very probable russians will use chemical weapons. >> what should the u.s. do about it? is there -- we understand the possible cost of involvement. does that mean there's nothing that would cause a u.s. response? >> well, first, i think it unlikely that this administration will issue a red line in advance. >> right. >> president obama did that with syria and it didn't turn out so well. president biden and vice president biden lived through that. the administration is going to have to make a policy call on the use of chemical weapons. to me, that is a red line. i can say it, because i'm not responsible. to me, we cannot sit still, we the west, we nato, we the united

states cannot sit still if the russians use chemical weapons against -- particularly against innocent civilians. >> we have been watching kyiv in the first days, it would fall within four days of the invasion. here we are weeks in. is the fight for kyiv going to be -- how much longer do you think this goes? >> goodness, if you take a look at sieges in modern day warfare, look at mosul, aleppo. it's going to depend on the capability of the forces, the ukrainian forces. their ability to maintain sufficient ammo stock. more than anything else, the will of the fighters to continue to fight. it could go on for months. it could go on for years if the

ukrainians decide to fight to the last man. >> certainly, there's every indication right now. there's no weakening of their will and resolve. thank you both very much. i appreciate you. next, u.s. officials say putin's forces have encircled mariupol, that would give them the land bridge. the russians bombed a maternity hospital in mariupol. what exactly do we now know about that attack? a russian opposition politician who survived two poisoning attacks. he will talk about what putin is capable of. plus, the first lady of ukraine. what is she saying about putin's invasion tonight? ♪ ♪ ♪

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breaking news. the mayor of mariupol accusing vladimir putin and the russian army of genocide. a senior u.s. defense official warns russian forces have encircled the city. this is russia's ministry of offense claims the bombing of the hospital was a, quote, completely orchestrated provocation. phil black is "out front" with more. i warn you some of the images are graphic and disturbing. >> reporter: when you hear a

ukrainian city is under siege by russian forces, this is what that means. no one knows how many people have been killed in mariupol. but it's too many to allow the care and dignity that usually comes with death. relatively few images have escaped mariupol since the siege began. these were captured by an ap photojournalist who says he saw around 70 bodies in this trench over two days. they arrived wrapped in whatever people could find and use, plastic bags, even carpet. this shows why it's likely there are many more. mariupol suffering from above. before and after satellite images reveal extraordinary devastation in commercial and shopping areas, residential neighborhoods, too. russian munitions are steady wiping out this city.

it's unlivable. there's no food, water, or power. ukraine's president says a child in mariupol has died of dehydration, probably for the first time since the nazi invasion. during a meeting in turkey, the ukrainian foreign minister asked his vrussian counterpart for a humanitarian corridor. >> unfortunately, he was not in a position to commit himself to it. he will correspond with respective authorities. >> reporter: that means lavrov has to ask his boss. russia's top diplomat was comfortable repeating russia's explanation for bombing a maternity hospital in mariupol on wednesday. the russian version says, there were no patients or staff in the buildings. just soldiers. this was the reality.

captured in the moments immediately after the blast. an obviously pregnant woman is stretchered from the site. another hurt, bleeding, walks out carrying what she can. russians often honor the bravery and determination shown by their own citizens who were beseieged by nazi forces. now russia is inflicting that same suffering on the people of mariupol. phil black, cnn, london. now a member of ukraine's parliament who grew up in mariupol. his parents are there now. i really appreciate your time. i know this is hard because your parents are there. i want to ask you about them. first, when you look at your city and the attacks that are happening there, that maternity hospital that was bombed by the russians, the russians saying that that's a completely orchestrated provocation, that they were provoked to bomb the

hospital, what is your response to that? >> i just want to add that russians several hours before said it was nazis' nest. the same day they said that we are developing chemical weapons against edgethnical groups. disgusting what they said and what they are doing. we didn't have military in the maternity hospital. we don't have such tradition at hospitals to have military. it's a new hospital. it was reconstructed during last year. everybody seen -- all the world seen the pregnant women. if they are nazis, i don't know. doesn't look like this. >> you are from mariupol. these are images of the place

you grew up. it's destroyed. we are hearing horrible things about what's happening there. dehydration, no food coming in, no water coming in. the red cross says people started to attack each other for food. what we are hearing about mariupol is horrific. this isn't just a place you are from. your parents are still there. have you been able to talk to them? do you know if they are okay, what their situation is? >> four days ago, last time when i heard them, it was four days ago. as for yesterday, i know that they were alive. i don't know what's going on now, because there's no heating, no water, no gas, no electricity in mariupol. there's no mobile network. several spots in the city there are spots of mobile network. so people just live in basement. melting snow to have water. preparing food in open fire. that's reality.

that is reality what russians do. my heart is breaking when i think about my 67 year old mother and 69 year old father, who is in minus five celsius temperature preparing food in open fire because somebody wanted them to do so. >> i'm so sorry. to not know if they are alive, i think it is hard for people to understand that fear and that pain. do you think mariupol can hold, given the humanitarian disaster that's unfolding there? >> they are holding. we are preparing, because we are mobilizing our army. i think that all the world have seen during last two weeks that we resist. we will fight.

we will continue to fight. we will finish this war with a win. the mariupol, it's the most problematic place in this war now. it is humanitarian catastrophe. they have 350,000 people that no supply of medicine, no supply of water or food. we have food several days more and the hunger can break out in the center of europe. i think that all of us have to understand that if the first part of this war -- the first week was an ordinary war, army against army, then when russia and putin understood they cannot beat us on the battlefield, they just decided to kill all our children and our parents. they are just blocking cities and start bombing them.

in mariupol, every 30 minutes bomb drops on the res idential areas. the residential district where i grew up is totally destroyed. every building around -- my school, my university, my building where i grew up, all the buildings around it, all of them were hit. university is destroyed. it's something like somebody is killing your past a little bit. the problem is, it's not just your past and your imagination. it's 350,000 people as a hostages. that is a strategy of putin, to take these hostages and to have himself like a state terrorist. all of us, we have to understand, where is our line? this line is 350,000 people in mariupol with hunger. maybe this line is tactical. maybe this line is bombs from

airplane to the maternity hospital. we have to decide, at what time we will join this world war iii that started two weeks ago. on which side? it's not enough just to say that we are like churchill. when the war -- it's not the state of war anymore. it's state of mass murdering. when it's mass murdering, you have to decide not to just say that you are churchill but being one. >> thank you very much. i really appreciate your time sharing that with us. hope that your parents are going to be okay. >> thank you. next, the u.s. says putin could be on the verge of using chemical weapons. will he? we will talk to a russian

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russia has been using belarus as a launching point for the, quote, vast majority of its fighter jets. that's according to the latest intel out of nato. it comes as the russian foreign minister issued a stunningly brazen lie. two weeks after putin ordered russian troops to invade, lavrov says this today. >> translator: we do not plan to attack other countries. we did not attack ukraine. >> making that claim, i mean, in front of the cameras and the world. russia launched an invasion in the early hours of the morning with missile attacks across

ukraine and has bombarded it with artillery, bombed hospitals, schools, the country completely under attack by russia. the russian opposition politician who survived two poisoning attempts on his life in 2015 and 2017. he traveled from moscow to washington where he met today with members of congress about ukraine. i appreciate your time. you hear lavrov say, we do not plan to attack other countries and we did not attack ukraine. it's even for putin's inner circle, for his foreign minister, a brazen lie. what does it suggest to you that he says that? >> well, we have george orwell's 1984 come to life. this is what we are living in our country. we have been for a long time. the astonishing fact is most

russians don't know that the putin regime launched this criminal military aggression against ukraine. if you watch television, you are presented with this alternative reality, this made-up world where it's actually the west and some imaginary ukrainian neo-nazis as they call them who are to blame for this. there is no large-scale war. there's a so-called targeted special operation that has not harmed civilians. our viewers can decide for themselves after watching the images you have been showing them. just a week ago, the russian so-called parliament passed a law krincriminalizing not just opposition to the war but saying there is a war. you can get up to 15 years in prison if you say that what pup putin's military is doing this.

this is the reality we are living with in russia today. >> there is concern the u.s. and other western intelligence services have raised that russia may use chemical or biological weapons in ukraine, either directly or through a false flag operation. they have been saying there's bio-weapons labs. try to blame somebody else. putin falsely accused of u.s. of developing bio-weapons in georgia as he invaded there. do you think he is going to launch a chemical or biological attack in ukraine at this point? >> there are no limits to what vladimir putin can do. the world has seen this loud and clear as we are witnessing this large-scale land war, this large-scale war crime happening right at the heart of europe.

the tragedy is that this was predictable. so many people for years and years warned the world about just who vladimir putin is and what this will lead to. one of the loudest and clearest voices that provided those warnings was a russian opposition leader who was murdered on putin's order. he said that vladimir putin is not just authoritarian, not just corrupt but increasingly psychologically deranged. it's evident for all the world to see. for years and years, western democracies and western leaders -- this includes american presidents of both parties, have opted for what can only be described as a policy of appeasement toward vladimir putin when it was clear -- >> i am curious -- >> he had so many different wars before. the war in russian civil soociey society. those warnings were not heeded.

here we are today. >> i wonder though when you say psychologically deranged -- there are many who believe that. i wonder if what you think about those who say that he is actually not. he is a rational actor. the majority of the russian people blame the west for the pain they are suffering as a result of sanctions. therefore, giving him more power to move further. do you think it's possible that that is true? >> it's not. in fact, when you said the majority of russian people support what he is doing, that is not accurate because in an authoritarian state you cannot measure public opinion. >> my point is, how do you know? how do you know they would rise up if they could? >> first of all, what we know for a fact, that thousands of people across russia have been going out to demonstrate against this war at great personal risk. according to the latest count by human right groups, more than

10,000 arrests were made in the last week across russia as people went out into the streets to say this is not our war, this is not done on our behalf. just walking on the streets, riding in public transportation, i hear what people are saying. this is not at all 2014 when the majority of russians did, as much as i don't like to admit that, that is a fact that in 2014, most russians were on board with putin an annexing of crimea. this is not the case today. there's growing certainty among many people in russia not only on our side, on the opposition side, but on the pro-regime side that this is the last war that vladimir putin launches. he overstepped this time. there's not a way back for him and his regime. what is important now is that as western democracies rightly prioritize supporting ukraine and providing the help and assistance to ukraine to be able to withstand this criminal aggression, the western democrat

says a-- democracy provide the truth to russian people. just as putin has been launching a war against ukraine, he launched a successful blitzkrieg against independent media outlets in russia, shutting down every single one. radio stations, television channels, media outlets and so on. what is important just like in soviet days when the west would beam radio signal to provide the truth, to provide the objective information to millions of people behind the iron curtain, so today western democracies i believe it's important that they step up to provide objective truth, objective information in the russian language for russian citizens to open their eyes to what the putin regime is doing. at the end of the day, the only solution to this will be when putin is out of power and only russians in russia will be able to do that. >> thank you very much. i appreciate your time tonight. >> thank you for having me. we are getting new details,

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border crossings. sara, i know that you have been struck by the children and so many children that you have seen crossing the border. it struck us, too. it's haunting and harrowing. tell me about what you are seeing and experiencing with the children you are seeing. >> reporter: it is so disturbing i think is the best way to put it, to see the number of children that we are seeing who will at this age -- some are infants and unable to understand what is going on and being held tightly in their mother's arms. some of them are teenagers. it goes the gamut. they understand exactly what's going on. we have talked to some of them. they told us that they were frightened, that they heard bombings, that they heard car alarms going off because the bombs were so close. the fear they experienced. we see small children who, as

you know, often are resilient. they try to play with toys. there are agencies and people volunteering to try and cheer them up, giving them toys, giving them chocolates as they stand in line, sometimes for hours on either side of the border. then they are all bussed to this place. this has changed a lot since we first got here. it used to be all the refugees were outside. there were tents set up to help feed them and cloollege them an offer them rides. they opened this old what used to be sort of a mall, and now it is inside. people can keep warm. the temperature has dropped to minus six degrees. it's just getting colder and colder, even though with are getting closer to spring. it really feels frigid here. these families are trying to weather all of this. >> thank you very much. ukraine's first lady speaking out, condemning putin's

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finally, an emotional and powerful day in court. the victims and the families of the highly addictive drug oxycontin of the people who died from it. the family members of addicts including this man who has been fighting addiction for seven years. he said to the family, you poisoned our lives and have the audacity to blame us for dying.

i hope you hear our names in your dreams. i hope you here the skraems of the families who found their loved ones dead on the bathroom floor. i home you hear the sirens. i home you their heart monitor as it beats along with a failing pulse. the settlement says they must pay up to $6 billion to settle oxycontin lawsuits. half a million americans have died from overdoses. "ac360" starts now. long range bombardment and lies. throws the russian tactics going into week three of the war in ukraine. as to the potential of encirclement, it has redeployed. you can see the tire tracks and vehicles in the small town, according to the company that produces them.