this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm hala gorani coming to you live this hour from lviv in ukraine. we begin with breaking news right here in ukraine. not far from our live position, within the last few hours, our cnn teams here heard multiple explosions in the city's outskirts. ukrainian officials say russian

forces fired eight missiles toward a military base outside lviv. officials say they're now investigating whether there were any casualties. we understand that this military base officially called the international peacekeeping and security center, but it's a military training base for soldiers, is about 55 kilometers northwest of lviv. as you can see there on the map, quite close to the polish border. and in other developments, video posted to social media shows extensive damage in the hard-hit southern port city of mariupol. you can see an apartment building ripped apart by strikes, and just outside, cars reduced to piles and burned metal. and we've seen similar scenes of destruction in kharkiv. this is in the east, and it's ukraine's second-largest city, and around the capital of kyiv as well, a lot of destruction there in the outskirts. british intelligence estimates

that the bulk of russian forces are now about 25 kilometers, a little over 15 miles, from kyiv itself. said they're not in the city center but trying tone circle the capital. diplomatic efforts to end the fighting appeared to hit another wall, unfortunately, on saturday. during a call with russian president vladimir putin, the german chancellor and french president urged an immediate cease-fire. but a french source said mr. putin seemed determined to continue his invasion. meanwhile, ukraine's president is pleading for more support from allies. >> translator: i keep reiterating to our allies and friends abroad, they have to keep doing more for our country, for ukrainians and ukraine, because it is not only for ukraine but it is for all of europe. the evil which purposefully targets peaceful cities and ambulance vance and explodes

hospitals will not stop with just one country if they have the strength to keep going. >> reporter: the american president, joe biden, just authorized additional military assistance for ukraine after responding to urgent requests from president zelenskyy, who ju just heard from. mr. biden is also trying to intensify economic pressure on russia. that really is one of the main tools. cnn's arlette saenz and joe johns are covering these stories from washington. let's begin with arlette at the white house. >> reporter: with ukrainian president zelenskyy pleading for more aid, president biden authorized a fresh round of security assistance to be sent to ukraine. the president directing the state department to draw down $200 million worth of security assistance for ukraine. an administration official saying this would include anti-armor, anti-aircraft systems, as well as small arms to help the ukrainian people

defend themselves against russia's aggression. now while zelenskyy continues to ask for the u.s. and nato to impose a no-fly zone over the country, the two entities both say that that is a nonstarter. at the same time, the u.s. is looking to ramp up the economic pressure on russia. president biden announcing that the u.s. in coordination with g7 countries and the european union would call for revoking russia's most favored nation status. this would essentially allow for the u.s. and its allies to impose tariffs to a host of russian goods. in the united states, this will require an act of congress. and the house is expected to vote on such a measure next week with there being bipartisan support for this move. and also, as there are u.s. concerns about russia possibly using chemical weapons in ukraine, president biden said there would be a severe cost if russia went down that route, though he declined to say what that cost would entail. arlette saenz, cnn, the white

house. >> reporter: even before the president gave the green light on revoking most favored nation status for russia, it was pretty clear that both democrats and republicans in the house of representatives, as well as the senate, were very interested in putting a bill to that effect on the president's desk. but the white house told them to hold off, at least at first, that was because the president said he wanted to gin up more support from the allies. pretty clear that what they were trying to do. if the united states were to go it alone on revoking most favored nation status for russia, it would have a moderate effect on the russian economy. but if a variety of different countries, including japan, canada, uk, eu, all did the same thing, it would have a much larger effect. meanwhile, a number of united states senators and a congressional delegation now in eastern europe, in poland, visiting first with the

ambassador there and members of the 82nd airborne out of fort bragg, north carolina. later on sunday, they are expected to visit the border. joe johns, cnn, the capitol. >> thanks for those reports from washington. according to the u.n., nearly 2.6 million refugees have now fled ukraine. it's just a staggering number. so far, germany has taken nearly -- taken in nearly 123,000 of the displaced since the invasion began. more than two weeks ago. but poland by far has received the highest number of refugees. more than 1.5 million. obviously poland borders ukraine to the west. ukraine's government says around 13,000 endangered civilians were evacuated on saturday, but according to the deputy prime minister, no one was able to escape the besieged city of mariupol, which is surrounded by russian troops and

russian-backed fighters as well. a member of the ukrainian parliament explained to cnn the desperation and gratitude that many ukrainians are feeling. >> three or four days ago, people said we areare fleeing t the within cities. right now they just say, we're fleeing somewhere, anywhere, we just want to go somewhere, we don't know where. so fleeing farther to the west, then fleeing to poland, which has been actually magnificent and generous with us, accepting our people, helping them out. and i am super grateful for that. >> it is the kindness of strangers for many refugees that's been a saving grace in a time of war. cnn's miguel marques introduces us to one family in romania trying to ease the plight of those escaping the conflict. >> reporter: 31 refugees from ukraine under one romanian roof.

all different ages, all nationalities, all staying free of charge. >> i want to show people this first. this says so much. what this is? >> this is the shoes of our refugees and volunteers. for the moment i think some of them are out in the city, so there might be even more shoes. >> reporter: it's a lot of everything. from laundry to home-cooked borsht. alina and her husband ari and a whole bunch of volunteers in their rural romanian home. so far hosting more than 60 refugees from ukraine. elaina from kharkiv has cancer. "i was diagnosed with cancer," she says, "i was supposed to have the operation and was prepared to have it february 24th." the day the war started. her surgery in ukraine canceled.

she now has it planned for romania and is getting the support she needs from her new romanian hosts. 19-year-old nigerian eamon jajobi was studying and playing soccer in ukraine and is waiting for a flight to qatar. >> i didn't expect people like this especially europeans. i've never seen anything -- i didn't expect them to be this welcoming. >> because you're african? >> yes. that is one. that is one. >> we've all heard the stories of africans and indians being treated differently on the border. >> this is completely different. all completely new. i'm very proud of them, very appreciative of what they've done. >> reporter: olga and her daughter are waiting for a flight, their town being pounded by rockets and artillery. some of her russian friends don't believe it. >> i know him from 4 years old.

and he called me, "what has happened?" i say, "i am underground now, i can't tell you, it's all full, we have bombs on our houses." "oh! can't be! go home!" from kyiv, sasha, his wife, and five kids have nowhere else to go. how do you explain the war to your children? "the older kids understand what's happening," he says, "the younger ones don't, but even when our windows broke from the bombing, i told them it was an earthquake." he says the war will end, but can't say when or what that end will look like. for now, refugees, volunteers, strangers. >> we help each other, no matter our race, sex, sexual orientation, color of the skin, so on. >> reporter: trying to make an

uncertain world a little less strange. miguel marquez, cnn, romania. >> there are always some good people. as the fighting grinds on, would ev swe've seen ukrainians from all walks of life taking up arms to defend their country. the youngest member of ukraine's parliament joins me now live from kyiv. thanks for being with us. what's your experience been so far, a little more than two weeks since this russian invasion of your country? >> thank you very much. the experiences that we are in kyiv preparing for, battle for kyiv, all the incursions we've had in the city first week, now we are basically fighting on the outskirts of the city trying to keep the western supply routes open, trying to prepare our capital for whatever comes.

again, it is our capital, it is the foundational city for our history. we cannot give up on it in any way. >> you're a politician. have you ever handled a weapon? were you in the military? or is this your first time? >> i'm by no means a soldier. i'm a rudimentary soldier at best. trying to learn skills of soldiering every single day with various people that i try and work with in different modes and units. the point is that we are organizing. we are organizing in every way we can to try and resist the russians and whatever they throw at us. >> what is it like going from just living a pretty ordinary civilian life, to suddenly becoming the defender of your land? in an existential battle, really. >> well, it's not so much a choice as a reality. we are fighting against second-biggest military in the

world and that wants to destroy our nation, our country. the point here is that, again, we are by no means at a point of a choice. we have to become and learn to be the soldiers that we were not just two weeks ago. because again, it as battle for our very existence, for our very independence. >> have you been close to the front lines, or so far have you just prepared for an eventual -- >> i've been to the front lines many times. i've been to the front lines almost every second day, i'm going to the front lines. my soldiering skills aren't the most useful, so my usefulness is in terms of getting -- also getting different things that soldiers need. >> what is your expectation for what might happen? because the concern is that these armored vehicle columns outside of kyiv are moving in a way that could suggest they're trying to encircle the capital. is that one of your worries?

>> they are trying to encircle the capital. they are trying to cut our western supply routes. they have been going to the cities on the path to the western border with european union. and they are trying to cut our supply lines in every way and the balls have been raging for the last couple of days in those small towns, in and around kyiv, that you have seen with russian shelling buildings, with tank battles unlike anything since the second world war. and the point here is that we are basically having to defend and try and keep that supply route open. >> what do you -- i know that nato allies and western nations are sending weapons. the president zelenskyy has called for a no-fly zone. but western nations, including the united states, have been quite clear they do not want to

explore that idea for now, worried that this might lead to a direct confrontation with russia. what would you like western nations, who want to help you repel russian invaders, to do now? >> we've said, give us the means to create that no-fly zone ourselves. we're shooting down russian planes every single day in good number. the point is, we have more means to do so, we have more planes to do so, we will be able to do it much more effectively. the russian air is not so much in terms of effectiveness as in terms of their number. the point is to keep shooting down those planes and keep that ability by the russians to cause chaos and horror in different parts of my country from realization. so the point here is that we are trying to request either the west wake up and see the fact that it's causing human

catastrophe right now in the making. ukraine and the west can do something about it. or give us the means for us to do something about it. because again, we are live including a moment, one of which you know from history, something should never happen again. now it's happening again. and you can do something about it. i'm just wondering how many pictures, how many photos and videos, you have to see to realize that this is -- that this is something that has to be stopped. >> and just lastly, do you have any hope -- i know it would be a very small glimmer at this stage -- that there can be some sort of diplomatic avenue here, that russia maybe is going to realize that its effort that it thought would be a lightning strike is taking much longer, that it's taking much higher losses, and that perhaps there's some way of de-escalating this situation on a diplomatic front? any hope at all, from your

perspective? >> putin has pretty much done everything possible to be imaginable here. in the response, in the first response by our president to mr. putin's claims about the history between our countries, we've stressed diplomacy, we've stressed our need to try and work on diplomatic solutions and steps in that direction. but mr. putin launched a full-on invasion since then. the only point we've agreed on with mr. putin is the matter of humanitarian corridors, and he has shelled them every single time in those besieged cities all around ukraine. the point that is mr. putin himself doesn't want diplomacy, hadn'ts that victory. we will not give to it him. we are fighting and we will keep fighting, will do whatever we can to get our country to be free at last. >> all right, ukrainian member

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specific reason. >> reporter: first russia seized chernobyl, site of the world's worst nuclear meltdown. a week later, zapor zea. now power cut from chernobyl and more than 200 plant workers held host along, alarm bells are ringing. >> translator: this was terror at a new level. ukraine has 15 nuclear plants and the russian military has forgotten chernobyl and the world's tragedy. we cannot go on like this. there has to be clear misunderstandings, clear commitments, not to go anywhere near a nuclear facility when it comes to military operations. >> reporter: some have called the targeting of such sensitive infrastructure a war crime. do you think that these nuclear plants are going to be targeted specifically? >> they are extremely callous, they don't give a damn about civilian casualties. but i'd be surprised if they

were going to deliberately target the missiles to deliver nuclear power plants. although when the sociopathic president putin, anything is possible. >> it's energy extortion, nuclear energy extortion in this case. it also is extortion of the ukrainian people because it's going to harm their ability to gain heat, have electricity. this is a diabolical maneuver by vladimir putin. >> reporter: ukraine is home to 15 nuclear facilities with two taken already. russian forces are now approaching ukraine's second-largest nuclear site. >> they've been targeted as a means to control the power supply to ukrainian cities and towns as a way of, in turn, controlling all aspects of ukrainian society, trying to put a stranglehold and a squeeze on ukraine civilians. >> reporter: now clear power makes up almost one-quarter of ukraine's overall energy mix after coal and natural gas, most of which ultimately comes from

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i'm hala gorani live in lviv, ukraine. the russian invasion on this country coming close to the city where i'm standing right now. about 2 1/2 hours ago, russian air strikes hit a large military base near lviv. it was close enough that cnn crews on the ground here could hear the explosions. about 55 kilometers, we understand, northwest of the city center. ukraine says russia fired eight missiles on a base that includes a training center for peacekeeping missions. so far, no word on casualties.

we'll bring you the latest when we get it. meanwhile, russia's defense ministry had released this video reportedly showing paratroops taking over an air field in ukraine. russia did not say which air field it reportedly captured, or when. cnn could not independently confirm if the video accurately shows what's happening on the ground. this is what the russian side is really seeing. ukraine's president says close to 13,000 people were evacuated from the areas near the front lines on saturday. this video shows people who came to an area near kyiv to get away from fighting elsewhere. the footage shows people crammed in a van. you see it, desperate to get to safety. one man says his family lacked food and water. and to make things much, much worse, came under rocket attack as they tried to escape. a dire warning from ukraine's former leader to russian president vladimir putin and his military.

petro poroshenko spoke to cnn's anderson cooper a short time ago from kyiv. >> russian officials say their forces are now some 15 miles from kyiv, slowly moving in the outskirts. what do you make of the security situation right now in kyiv? do you believe kyiv can be encircled by russian forces? do they have the capabilities? >> look, i'm in kyiv. in the center of kyiv. and you are right, maybe 15 miles, we have russian tanks. but they are not moving because ukraine unarmed forces stopped them. and during the last seven days, they cannot move one single meter ahead. but we have less and less ammunition. and we do not allow, we are not giving up, we are not forgive putin for these type of things. and i am absolutely confident

that we will fight in every single house, every single street, every single water in kyiv in kharkiv, in all of the cities would be hell for russian soldiers and would at the end of the day the hell for putin. with this situation, just the more you help us to increase the effectiveness of ukrainian armed forces, the weaker would be putin. and this, why the security of the whole world, security of u.s., security of u.n., security of nato, would be higher. please, we need to be united. the same way like putin do three mistake. mistake number one. he always made his army. i'm proud that me as president created this army in the year 2014. point number two. he underestimate ukrainian armed

forces. and point number three. he underestimate unity of ukraine and that he cannot blow up, cannot break our unity. and he underestimate the unity of the whole world. because after the 24th of february, the transatlantic unity, european unity, unity of the whole world, demonstrating unity of the general assembly of the united nations. only five nations support russia. syria to north korea. and this is the basis of their support. and 141 nations support ukraine. and ukraine now providing the beginning, the end of the russian fight. >> petro poroshenko speaking to anderson a little bit earlier. with a meese yeah blackout in russia, many families there are desperate to find out what

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are going strong in many countries. thousands of people gathered in kyiv's twin italian city of florence to watch the ukrainian president speak on a big screen. you see it there as flags in ukraine's blue and yellow colors waved above their heads. and the speech broadcast to dozens of european cities holding protests. zelenskyy called for more sanctions against moscow and a no-fly zone, he says. ukrainians also gathered in israel, they gathered with israelis in tel aviv to denounce the invasion and chant slogans, many of them had that same message for russia. >> just go out of ukraine. just leave those people alone. they're normal people. they don't want war. they don't want anything. they just want independence. >> hundreds packed a historic square in munich with signs saying 62 "stop putin," "putin

kills ukrainians," comparing the russian president to the brutal soviet dictator joseph stalin. a ukrainian government hotline is aiming to help ordinary russians find their loved ones sent off to war. many of them are desperate to find out what's happened to troops since moscow tightly controls information about them at home. cnn's alex marquardt spoke with workers at the hotline in kyiv in this exclusive report. >> reporter: these are the voices of russians -- parents, wives, siblings -- desperately search fog answers. calling to find information, anything on russian soldiers they've lost contact with who are fighting in ukraine, who may be wounded, captured, or even killed.

>> reporter: this russian wife, like many others, has turned to an unlikely source for help, the ukrainians. in a ukrainian government building, christina, her alias, is in charge of a hotline called "come back from ukraine alive" which ukraine's interior ministry says has gotten over 6,000 calls. christina asks that we don't show her face. your country is being invaded but you also feel the need to help these russian families. why?

>> reporter: the russian relatives who have called this hotline say they haven't heard from their soldiers since the invasion. the hotline, which russian families have found on social media or through word of mouth, gave cnn exclusive recordings of a number of the calls. >> what are some of the calls that stick out to you, that you remember the most?

>> these are the notes from one of the calls. in fact this call came from the united states. the relative of a young russian soldier trying to find him. she told the ukrainians that his parents are no longer alive, that the grandmother in russia is quite sick. we have his birthday. he's just 23 years old. and he was last known to be in crimea right before the invasion. now the ukrainians don't have any information on him, but if they do find him or get some information, they can then call his aunt back in the united states. data from the hotline shows thousands of calls, not just from all across russia, but also from europe and the united states. >> hello, is this marat? >> yes, it is. >> reporter: we got through to three relatives in the united states of russian soldiers

believed to be in ukraine who called the hotline, including a relative in virginia of one who also found the soldier's i.d. and photos on a channel of the social media app telegram. also dedicated to finding the whereabouts of russian soldiers. >> we do realize that all the signs are pointing to that he is most likely killed in action. but we're trying to locate infor information, where his body could potentially be found, maybe hopefully alive. >> is the russian ministry of defense telling anything to the family? >> family is trying to not get contacted by anybody, because everyone is so scared in russia. everyone is scared to talk. everyone is afraid of law enforcement agencies attracting

attention. >> reporter: marine yeah told us her cousin's parents have had no contact with him, no information on whereabouts or on his condition. are they being told anything? >> no, no. they called, they tried to find him. but, like, no one is answering. >> is that why you called this ukrainian hotline? >> yes, that's why i tried to call, yes. >> did you get any information? >> no, nothing. i was hoping that he's still alive. >> reporter: the vast majority of the calls do not result in immediate information for the families. back in kyiv, christina makes clear that the call center isn't just designed to offer answers, but to galvanize russians against the war.

>> reporter: sympathy for families, but also one more way to try and undermine the russian war effort as ukraine fights for its very existence. alex marquardt, cnn, kyiv. >> earlier i spoke with jill dougherty, who covered russia for years as cnn's moscow bureau chief, is now a georgetown university professor. i asked what she's hearing from russians about this conflict. >> i think it depends on what russians you're talking about. so if you take, let's say, the voters for vladimir putin, which would be middle-age d people wh are not necessarily on the internet, big buputin supporter they are watching russian state television. what they are getting is a diametrically different vision of what's happening in ukraine. they are not seeing the death and destruction in the main part of ukraine, in kyiv and some of the other cities.

they're seeing the war in the donbas region in which russians have been under attack, and of course the kremlin is saying it's genocide, which is not correct. but in any case, they're seeing a very distorted picture of really what is happening overall in ukraine. so what they think is that russia is defending russia, that ukraine is being used as a tool by nato and the united states to attack russia. so those people are on board with putin, at least at this point. then you have younger people, people who are more open to the west, who are on the internet all the time. and they have a different view. in fact, of course we've seen these protests against the war and people, sometimes quite brutally, arrested or at least detained. so it depends on who they are. but i think the factor that will have an effect will be these sanctions. because, you know, ideological

support for the president is one thing. but when the rubber hits the road, or as they say the refrigerator issues come out, and people really are dealing with an economy that's tanking, products that they can't buy, massive inflation, they may very well decide, this is not worth it. now, my question is, who will they blame? will it be putin? or will it be the west? and we don't really know that yet. switching gears here, it's been two years since the coronavirus was declared a pandemic. after the break, a status check. where it's still raging and where people are trying to get back to new york.

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people across the southern united states under freeze warnings. now, police in new york are looking for the suspect in a knife attack at the city's famous museum of modern art. authorities say a 60-year-old white male, a regular visitor at the museum, in fact, stabbed two employees in the neck, back and collar bone. he had been denied entry because of two previous incidents of disorderly behavior at the museum. police say he became angry, jumped the reception desk and stabbed the employees. two victims were rushed to the hospital and thankfully are expected to survive. now, two years ago -- yes, two years ago the world entered a global pandemic and now some countries are trying to phase-out some of those covid restrictions while others are having to re-implement them. take a listen. just over two years ago the world health organization confirmed what we all feared, the virus spreading across the globe would only get worse.

>> we have therefore made the assessment that covid-19 can be characterized as a pandemic. >> first identified in wuhan, china, the virus has snaked across continents for two years rise up in different epicenters, retreating, then reinventing itself in the form of more contagious variants. now as many parts of the world are relaxing restrictions some parts of china seem like they're going back to scare one. on saturday they recorded the highest number of new daily cases since the pandemic began triggering now rounds of mass testing in major cities, targeted lockdowns, and some schools back to online learning. in hong kong hospitals are overwhelmed with covid-19 patients in the latest and most deadly wave of the virus there. there have been about 3,700

deaths in hong kong since 2020 with most of them in the last three weeks, though there are signs infections are peaking. photos on social media show body bags piling up inside a covid-19 hospital ward. city officials say the high number high number of deaths is due to unvaccinated senior citizens and they they've added more space to store the bodies. there was a time two years ago italy faced similar dire conditions, but it's almost like a bad dream the country is only now waking up from. today people walking mask-free outdoors and the italian prime minister says they will soon end the covid-19 state of emergency. hard hit new york city once the epicenter of the virus in the u.s. also rolling back its covid-19 restrictions. no more mask mandates in schools

and no more vaccine requirements in restaurants and gyms. >> my whole family of five had it, took six weeks to get better so -- but i'm generally happy. i think it's positive we could all move in that direction. >> reporter: a world wounded and cared trying to get back to what it once was, but with more than 6 million people lost and the virus still on the move, there is really no telling how long this lull will last. >> we go from one global emergency to another. back to ukraine now. we want to show you what was a moving and somber moment earlier this week in kharkiv, ukraine, when a violinist performed inside a bomb shelter. ♪ it's haunting, isn't it? now, underneath a makeshift

spotlight in a concert dress this professional violinist performed under ground as russian forces attacked the city overhead. she's been posting videos of herself playing on instagram saying this tune is a song her grandmother would sing at family gatherings. the violinist has no plans she says to leave kharkiv. there's so much grief and loss there still. i'm paula newton. stay with us. our continuing coverage of the conflict in ukraine begins right after the break. life... doesn't stop for diabetes. be ready for every moment, with glucerna. it's the number one doctor recommended brand that is scientifically designed to help manage your blood sugar. live every moment. glucerna. with unitedhealthcare medicare advantage plans, there's so much to take advantage of. like $0 copays on virtual visits... - wow! - uh-huh. ...$0 copays on primary care visits...

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