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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com on a day that saw a tax on cities here continue and continuing tragedy, we also saw continued acts of bravery. we saw a russian woman who is said to work on a russian state tv channel jump onto evening news with a sign protesting the war in ukraine. just a short time later, ukraine's president thanked her. in a new message, the country said, quote, i'm grateful to those russians who do not stop trying to convey the truth. and he added this. >> translator: to those who are not afraid to protest, as long as your country has not completely closed itself off from the whole world turning the into a very large north korea, you must fight. you must not lose your chance.
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>> that said, acts such as the woman at the tv station, are riskier than ever now. i spoke to a protester in moscow last month. he initially travelled there to help care for a sick grandmother, who he is now trying to get out of the country. as our conversation revealed, though, he is already bringing out another precious item, rare ion sight into what everyday russians think about the war. >> i was just talking to my grandmother's nanny. she's an older russian woman. i asked her, what do you want the world to know about how you feel about this? and she said, i don't have the strength to protest. but if you were to tell me that you could shoot me dead and the war would end today, i would hand you the gun. and then she added, every mother in russia feels the same way. >> insight into russia is hard to come by. sadly, it's the opposite here. reality is all too apparent, and there was more of it today.
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sam kiley is in kyiv tonight. sam, are you still hearing small arms fire and detonations in kyiv tonight? >> reporter: the last hour or so, anderson, it's been much quieter. we did, as you rightly point out, some small arms fire. it's not that uncommon. and these heavy detonations probably of outgoing surface-to-air missiles either tracking missiles coming in or indeed aircraft, russian aircraft overhead. because earlier on in the day, there was a strike against an apartment block here, which killed two people and injured at least seven. and a missile was shot down and actually landed not far from where we were working. in both cases, those were in the west of the city, and fighting has also continued in the north, northwest, and northeast, and a little bit in the east too. so, pressure continues on kyiv, although in the last few days, the things -- the view has been that russians are consolidating and reorganizing themselves,
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anderson. >> sam, we know that in, according to ukrainian officials in mariupol, more than -- as many as or more than 2,500 people have so far been killed. i understand some civilians that were able to flee today. >> yeah, this was kind of a very remarkable event, somewhat against the advice of the administration of mariupol that had been trying to negotiate humanitarian corridors into government territory for the 200,000, 300,000, 400,000 people still wanting to get out of that besieged country. heading northwest towards zaporizhzhia without the agreement necessarily of the russians and made it through. this was somewhat against, as i say, the local authorities' advice. they said, well, look, if you want to try your hand, go for it. and it seems that the russians,
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perhaps just by unilateral decision on the ground, did not engage this convoy. very different result was humanitarian convoy going in the opposite direction, bringing much-needed medical supplies, food, water, and so on, that was held up again for about the sixth day in a row about 50 miles north of mariupol. so, there was a glimmer of hope that at least in some success that some people could get out. but that city has been very heavily hammered. it continues to be attacked. it's been on fire. and as we reported the other day, it was the scene of a very ugly strike against maternity hospital, which killed several people, anderson. >> yeah. there's drone footage that we were just showing a few seconds ago in mariupol, just stunning. you can really get a sense of the sheer number of fires that are raging, smoke coming out of different targets, buildings that have been hit, just smoke filling the sky on the horizon.
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sam kiley, appreciate it from kyiv tonight. want to get perspective from general mark hertling, also general allied commander general wesley clark. general clark, how does the reporting of increased fighting around kyiv or increased shelling, continued fighting, and obviously the strike on the west, how does it square with the u.s. defense officials saying the main russian defense toward the capital remains stalled? >> i think it is stalled. what they're doing is they're continuing to use fire power to keep the pressure on kyiv. it's still an antihuman attack. they don't have the manpower yet. they don't have the encirclement yet to really lay siege to the city. so, they're striking and they're terrorizing people. and, again, it's all about the psychological price on president zelenskyy. if they hit military targets, well, that's fine. but this is really about keeping up the drum beat of fear among the officials in kyiv in order
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to squeeze them into giving away the country. >> general hertling, there was that cruise missile strike, we're told, from russian bombers just a few miles from the polish border, about 26 miles from here. it had been a base where, in the past, before the invasion, u.s. forces and others had helped train ukrainian forces. it's said to have continued to have been a training center for ukrainian forces now, not by u.s. military any longer. have you seen -- what do you think the impact of an attack like that is? 35 people were killed more than 170 wounded. it's probably the largest number of fatalities in one single strike. >> it was a surprise to me, anderson. truthfully. i've been at that base several times for training events where u.s., ukrainian, canadian, british, german, various nato and non-nato partners have come
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together because it's not just that base camp where the missiles hit. there is a huge training area where ukrainian forces maneuver in that area. it is not a big base. it doesn't have that many people or that many buildings. surrounding the main base complex, which has relatively few buildings, are a lot of apartment complexes where ukrainian families that are married to soldiers live. so, it surprised me. i think it was sending a message. first of all, don't get comfortable anywhere in ukraine. as general clark said, it's a continuation of the terrorist activity. but it's also an attempt to potentially interfere with the refugee flow and perhaps some resupply action into ukraine from nato countries. because it does straddle the polish border. it's only about 20 -- as your reporter just said, less than 20 kilometers from the polish border. so, those were all the factors involved in this. but it also showed me something.
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hitting that base with cruise missiles, with their caliber missiles, which are precision weapons, and hitting the building with precision weapons against a military target versus the area of fire weapons that they're using against cities like mariupol and kharkiv and kyiv tells me that, as general clark said, the terror approach to the citizenry is very different than the precision approach to the ukrainian military. >> and -- and general clark, we have seen just that continued just shelling of residential buildings. i mean, it becomes sort of -- it becomes sort of numb to it just looking at these pictures. and you hear kind of the daily butcher bill of two people died in this residential building. but it's important to remember, these are -- what we're seeing is a residential structure -- you know, we saw that old man walking through a park, and you
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know, a rocket or some sort of artillery hit a building right nearby him. it's important to just keep your eyes looking at this each time with fresh eyes to remind ourselves these are civilian structures. >> it is terrifying what they're doing. if you're a civilian living in that town, you're hiding out in the basement. you're scavenging for food and water. your children are frightened to death. and you have no control over it. something else has general hertling reported, that i do have precision weapons. if they could really target the defenses around mariupol and knock out the defenses, they probably would. they don't have the intelligence. they don't have the targeting system to go in after those things. and so what you have is the old soviet model. you bring a tank up next to the apartment building and you blast it. they did this in budapest in 1956. it's how they finished the hungarian rebellion there in 1956. they brought in the tanks.
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they blew up buildings. they frightened and killed a lot of people. and that is the sort of russian way of war. on top of that are these precision weapons. but you've got to have a targeting system for that. you've got to have an intelligence system that works on a realtime basis. and the only thing we've seen is this one strike really that's effective against this base, which had a bunch of people in it. i guess they were the people that had come across the border trying to help the ukrainians. i'm told that somebody posted a facebook post or some kind of social media post and explained, hey, i'm in this wonderful base and look at all these people. they're all coming in to help us. and the facebook post had the time and it had the location. and shortly thereafter, i guess the russians intercepted it and put a missile strike in there with all these missiles. but for the most part, they don't have the targeted information. and putin knows that it was the best way to finish this for
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zelenskyy to lose heart and concede. that's what's now going to happen. >> you know, general -- >> anderson, if i might add to what general clark said. you just asked ambassador yovanovitch about the training mission that occurred between the united states, canada, and germany with ukraine. all of that took place at that base. it was called the joint multinational training group ukraine, jpmgu. i believe that missile strike was sending a signal. do not partner with any nato forces. do not partner with the united states. that is, i think, just as important as what general clark said in terms of hitting the civilians that are there. but it was, again, to reinforce the lack of intelligence. the buildings at that base are on a map. they're on satellite feed. there was no military target hit
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other than the building. so, this is something that's relatively easy for the russians to get. they can hit buildings that are stationary. the problem is they can't hit military forces. they are having a hell of a time attacking against a very active defense by ukrainian forces. and it's going to cause, iwo jima, some significant problems in the next few days. it might even contribute to a culmination, meaning an end of the russian offensive operation and really them going into a defensive position. if that happens, they are really going to be in bad shape from logistics and resupply capability. >> general hertling, one thing we heard about today was the ukrainians' ability to change their air defenses almost on a daily basis. what is the significance of that? >> well, right now anderson -- i'm sorry, go ahead. >> general hertling.
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general clark. either one. general clark -- >> what they are doing, as we talked about earlier, using stinger missile. those are man portable missiles. the individuals who are carrying those missiles can move around. they are hard to target. they had no radar signature like most air defense systems have, like the russian air defense systems have. so, you can shut down a larger system that has radar and rockets that are aiming at the higher level. you can't shut down an individual soldier with a stinger man pad, man portable device, over his shoulder. i think as you're moving those around, they are getting intelligence from some of the ukrainian territorial forces that are seeing flight paths of helicopters and aircraft. and so they quickly reposition the individual with the stinger missiles to intercept those aircraft on flight paths that are repeatedly used, which also
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showed us how ineffective the russians are being in terms of understanding they've got to change their flight paths, not go down the same sorts of routes on more than one occasion. they're not doing that. so, they're setting themselves up for air defense ambushes. >> i will tell you also -- >> go ahead, general clark. >> i was going to say also, they're capturing some russian equipment, and they've been very, very effective at conserving their own remaining assets. so, when you hear those missiles going out of kyiv, those aren't -- those aren't stingers. those are, you know, things like books. these are the main missiles and they've got them. and they've captured some other ones. the russians are really the best source of equipment for the ukrainian army in many cases. they're abandoning equipment that's being taken over, and of course the ukrainians know how to use it. so, it's -- they've done a remarkable job of hanging
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together their defense. >> general clark, general hertling, appreciate it. i'm sorry for the delay and stepping over you. sadly tonight in a country full of sadlies, there is more news from the city of mariupol. it concerns a woman whose name we still don't know but whose image of a bombed out maternity have been seen around the world. the pictures are tough to take. the story is as well. phil black has that, as well as another of hope. >> reporter: we don't know this woman's name, but we can see the desperate effort to rescue her from the devastation of mariupol's maternity hospital. she's hurt. there are terrible injuries down her right side. she appears -- by the glass that hit her moments ago, but she's conscious and clearly concerned for her baby. at another medical facility, doctors worked to save them. this surgeon says they tried to
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resuscitate the woman while also performing a cesarean delivery. they couldn't revive her or her child. they both died. russian officials claim the hospital was being used by ukrainian troops, and all civilians had left before the attack. the evidence shows that's not true. children, patients, staff all experience the terrifying blast that created this crater. we do know this woman's name. mariana. hurt and bleeding, she walked through the chaos after the explosion. the next day, she gave birth in another hospital. she and her husband had named their daughter veronica. the strike on mariupol's maternity hospital has become a defining moment in a war already notorious for its brutality and
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great suffering inflicted on the innocent. phil black, cnn, london. >> that is just horrific. coming up next, there's breaking news in what would be an extraordinary high level summit next week in brussels. we'll have the latest on that. and a busy day of high stakes diplomacy in ukraine today. we'll be joined by fareed zakaria. later a report from romania, refugees in their words of what they have left behind. i'm covered for everything. which reminds me, thank you for driving me to the drugstore. earn big time with chase freedom unlimited withth no annual fee. how do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours. can you be free of hair breakage worries? we invited mahault to see for herself that dove breakage remedy gives damaged hair the strength it needs. even with repeat combing hair treated with dove shows 97% less breakage. strong hair with new dove breakage remedy. number oneeauty brand not tested on animals. we have to be able to repair the enamel on a daily basis. with pronamel repair toothpaste,
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for military assistance. kylie atwood is with us. do we know much about china's possible involvement? >> listen, what we've been reporting over the last few days, anderson, is that russia has asked china for military and economic support as part of this invasion into ukraine. we don't know exactly what prompted that, but it's significant that this came after they began their invasion into ukraine. and notably just today the pentagon spokesperson said the united states believes that russia isn't as far along in this invasion as they thought they would be at this point. the state department spokesperson saying that russia gravely has miscalculated this. so, it appears that they're going to china when they have faced hurdles -- unexpected hurdles -- as part of their invasion. national security adviser dick sullivan met with his chinese counterpart today and very explicitly voiced u.s. concern
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about china's support for russia. and we were told he was very clear in saying there would be implications not just for the u.s./china relationship but also for china's relationship with countries around the world if they went forth with this support for russia's invasion. the state department isn't confirming that china has provided this support, but they say that they're watching this space incredibly closely, as the united states has watched russia and china grow closer and closer not just over the last few days or weeks but really over the last two years. and they're watching to see what that close relationship will look like in the face of this crisis. >> there's the possibility of a trip by president biden next week to european nations. i assume part of that must be concern among nato countries about the security of their own borders. >> yeah, that's right. we're reporting tonight that president biden may perhaps travel next week to brussels to meet with other nato leaders.
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that would be an extraordinary meeting, an in-person meeting. and of course it's coming as nato allies grow increasingly concerned about the possibility that there could be russia/nato confrontation as these russian strikes are coming up right along the ukraine border with poland just over the last few days, coming within miles of that border. anderson? >> kylie atwood, thanks very much. joining us now is fareed zakaria. fareed, what do you think of china? would they go through with providing military or financial aid to russia? >> it would be a big step, anderson. so far the chinese have really been trying to play a game where they are supportive of russia in general. they've talked about a relationship or a partnership with no limits buchlt at the same time, they're caught in a trap. the principle criticism of the
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beijing regime of the united states for the last 20 years has been that the u.s. violates the sovereignty of nations. you know, iraq, afghanistan, lib rah. here you have a blatant violation of state sovereignty, the invasion of a country and annexation of its provinces. and the chinese are silent. they also have an awkwardness that i hope washington is playing up more. in 2013, china actually gave ukraine a security guarantee. it's a complicated story and it's not entirely clear why they did it, but they did. so, they have a very difficult situation where they have to at the same time support russia while deal with some of these issues where china has really been on the other side. so, they so far have not really done anything that would be materially assisting russia. to do so strikes me that that would cross a rubicon. it changes the nature of the relationship.
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and then it raises the stakes where for the united states and the west, you are now up against really what was the great alliance of the cold war, communist china and communist soviet union all over again. >> there's got to be concern in china about the growing unity of nato in all of this. i mean, a resurgent nato is not something china i would necessarily want to see. >> not at all. and in fact, you're absolutely right. the chinese think about international relations very abstractly and theoretically. before asking themselves about a particular, they ask, what is going on in the world? and they always argued that basically the west was declining, the east was rising. that was the mantra. xi jinping says it many times. right now what's happening is the west is reunifying, getting resurgent, getting revitalized. it may turn out to be a -- this is going to be a long, complicated, difficult issue. but that sense of
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purposelessness that one -- that you could have criticized the west for a month ago no longer exists. so, the chinese are surely asking themselves, in a war in which they have most of their economic ties to the west -- i think roughly speaking trade with europe and the united states put together is probably five, six, seven times higher than trade with russia. in a world like that, do they really want to have a prominent an antagonist between the west and the east. >> colleen was talking about the possibility of the president going to europe sometime soon. how important could a trip like that be, especially as russians are striking further west, closer to polish borders? >> i think this is very important. everything right now is all about holding the western alliance together and ratcheting
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up the pressure and ratcheting up the support for ukraine. and in order to do that, there are weaklings in the alliances. there are countries that think to themselves, we could benefit, we could trade more if the sanctions were relaxed. everything that could be done to force that unity, to encourage that unity, and to really make clear what the stakes here are, if the west is to have a future as the upholder of a certain set of values, rules of the road for the international system, it's going to have to prevail in this case because this is the most blatant violation of that system that we've really had in decades. and it comes from a leader who seems determined really to tear all that up. so, if the west cannot prevail in ukraine, it becomes very difficult to see how the west will be able to continue to say, we are upholding values, norms, institutions that we want the rest of the world to adhere to.
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>> fareed zakaria, thank you. to the refugee crisis next and the ongoing struggles of those who manage to escape the war zone, we'll take you to romania where more than 400,000 ukrainians arrived since the invasion began. and y'all got electric cars? yeah. the future is crununk! (laughs) anything e else you wanna know? is the hype too much? am i ready? i can't tell you everything. but if you want to make history, you gotta call your own shots. we going to the league! as a struggling actor, i need all the breaks that i can get. at liberty butchumal- cut. liberty biberty- cut. we'll dub it. lirty mutual customizes your car insurance so you only pay for whatou need. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty. liberty. liberty. liberty. ♪
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the number of refugees escaping ukraine has grown to
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almost 3 million according to the united nations. most have fled to poland but more than 400,000 have fled to romania. each one has a story. >> reporter: they arrive by the hundreds, normal ukrainian citizens one day, refugees the next. >> this is just, we have no idea what to do, where to go, and when we will be able to return to our homes. >> reporter: this woman is from kharkiv, ukraine's second biggest city, which has been devastated by russian artillery and rockets. when i was packing my clothes, she says, i thought it would all be over in three days. for many just arriving on romanian soil, emotions. one woman cries, as a volunteer hands her a bottle of water. >> all the romanian people are
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mobilized and help with people. >> reporter: romanians stepping up trying to make ukrainians feel a little bit at home. dennis closed his restaurant in costanza. he now serves meals free to refugees. >> we closed the restaurant and are coming here to help these people. chicken, pork. >> reporter: and for all those getting out, a few going back in. alexander is returning to mykolaiv. russians have hammered the city. and you are willing to die for ukraine? we all die, he says. hen adds, i'm afraid to die, but i'm not a coward. this man from odesa, along with their daughter, their dog, and two cats, she says they left because of what they heard was
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happening in places already controlled by the russians. i've heard about the violence, she says, and killings of peaceful people without any reason. she added, i had to leave. i was too stressed about it happening to me and my daughter. >> and miguel joins us now. is the number of refugees in romania or getting to romania, is that increasing? >> it is increasing but at a much slower rate. for instance about a week ago it's about 30,000 a day. it's about half that now. the concern for officials in romania is they believe those internally displaced in ukraine are moving toward the borders. and as the russians move west, they are afraid there will be another tidal wave of refugees if the fighting gets closer to the border areas. just ahead we'll be join bid one of the reporters of a fascinating "new york times" story about the u.s. investigation that's trying to determine the owner of this
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new reports from the "new york times" details the american investigation into this superyacht. it's currently docked in an italian coastal town. according to multiple sources, it's not just an another asset of a russian oligarch, although there are indications it could be associated with russia's president vladimir putin. michael, this is really fascinating. what was it that raised suspicion this yacht might belong to putin? >> believe it or not, anderson, it was a tip we got over "the new york times" tip line over a couple weeks ago. a former crew member of the yacht, or said he was a crew member, told me that the yacht was putins, that the captain had told me it was putin's. it was widely known throughout the entire crew it was putin's. and when putin would go on the boat, boss on, he called it, all the foreign crew members would be off the boat, and it would be manned by russian crew members.
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he told me this. i checked it out. it seemed to have some credibility. the captain of the ship, i talked to him and he completely denied it. it was somewhat of a mystery. we're starting to unravel it a bit now. >> so, who is investigating whether the yacht belongs to putin, and what happens if authorities determine it's his? >> right. so, we're probably never going to find a document that says this boat belongs to vladimir putin. that's just not going to happen. it's going to be owned by probably another oligarch or somebody within the state apparatus. and indeed the italian press -- and we have not confirmed this. but there are some italian news outlets that are saying, indeed, it is owned by this former ceo, an underling of one -- one of putin's underlings, a former pig breeder. if the government, if the u.s. government -- and they are saying -- the u.s. government is now saying there are links to putin, this yacht does have links to putin.
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if it is determined, then the u.s. is going to have to talk to the italians, and the italians are going to have to make up their mind whether they should confiscate this boat. >> and from what's known about vladimir putin's travels in this -- and where this yacht has been, do they intersect? >> there could be an intersection. we don't have putin's complete travel schedule, but this boat's only about two and a half years old. and both summers that it's been in operation, 2020, and '21, it's gone to the russian port of sochi on the black sea. and we know putin likes to go, spends a lot of time there in sochi. so, we haven't seen any photographic evidence or any evidence that he was on the boat ourselves, but, you know, that's where american intelligence would step in and they would have a much better picture than we would about putin's movements and whether they intersect with the boat's schedule. >> and what is a yacht like that cost? >> $700 million is one estimate that we've seen. so, not cheap.
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>> wow. yikes. michael forsyth, thanks. it's fascinating. ahead, a spotlight on the youngest victims of the war who remain stranded in ukraine, newborns given birth by surrogates who are waiting for their parents now to pick them up, as bombs drop around them. the question is, can their parents get in to pick them up and take them out? that's next. our home and auto policies to farmers, you could save yourself an average of seven hundred and thirty dollars. (customer) that's something. (burke) get a whole lot of something with farmers. ♪we are farmers.bum-pa-dum, bum-m-bum-bum-bum♪ i may have moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. or psoriatic arthritis. but we are so much more. we're team players and artists. designers and do-it-yourselfers. parents and friends. if joint pain is gettingn the way of who you are, it's time to talk to your doctor about enbrel. enbrel helps relieve joint pain, and helps stop permanent joint damage. plus enbrel helps skin get clearer in psoriatic arthritis. ask your doctor about enbrel,
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the ukrainian capital of kyiv was rocked by heavy explosions again today. among those being shuffled to safety are many newborns given the gift of life by surrosurrog. they're trapped by the violence and waiting for their parents to come get them. as this war intensifies, their fates are more and more uncertain. cnn's sam kiley has more. >> reporter: this is precious cargo, not cash in transit but week-old baby lawrence in
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transit to a new life. born to a surrogate mother under bombardment in kyiv. he is raced through the ukrainian capital to a nursery in the southwest of the city. it's perilously close to russian troops and easily within range of their artillery. this is a gauntlet his new parents will have to run when or if they come here to collect him. now he'll be among 20 other surrogate babies destined, it's hoped, for new lives in argentina, china, spain, italy, canada, austria, and the u.s. parting from the child she carried as a surrogate, victoria is inevitably tearful. her pain intensified by uncertainty. >> translator: it is even harder that he is in a place where they are shelling, and when will his parents get to take him away because of it. it's really hard. >> reporter: this missile struck about 500 yards from the nursery
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while we were there. >> there are constant explosions we can even hear in the basement, and the russian military is reportedly consolidating and planning to push in further into the city from the east, so the future of these children is even more in doubt. how long will it be before it's impossible, completely impossible for their new parents to rescue them. >> the nannies cannot join exodus. her husband and daughter have already traveled to safety 130 miles south. >> translator: these babies can't be abandoned, they're def defenseless. they also need care. we really hope that the parents will come and pick them up soon. >> reporter: an argentine couple collected their child the day before, but a combination of the pandemic and now war has meant that some are have been stuck here for months. >> translator: it all depends on
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the strength of the parents' desire. i met with parents who came to kyiv to pick up their baby. they had tears in their eyes. they had waited 20 years for their baby, and there are such couples who are afraid because there is a war going on here. >> reporter: these infants are oblivious to the doubts over their future and the dangers they've already survived. there's abundant hope that it stays that way, sam chkiley, cn k kyiv. >> it's just awful to think about. hopefully somebody might be able to figure out a way to maybe move those infants at least to poland where they could be safe and the parents could come and pick them up. for those wondering how you can help with the humanitarian crisis overall here in ukraine, you can log on to cnn's impact your world page. our team has put together a list of ways to save. go to cnn.com/impact. we'll be right back.
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there's a qr code in the bottom of your screen. it will take you to a podcast that i've been doing while here. you can just take up your camera, point it to the qr code, and it will take you there. the podcast is called tug of war. last week i talked to clarissa ward about what it's like behind the scenes reporting on the situation here in ukraine and in kyiv where she has been for these last weeks. in the episode most recently posted, i have a really in depth conversation with cnn's international security editor, nick paton walsh who's been reporting from the southern part of ukraine for weeks. we talk about the challenges covering a war when one side is deliberately lying and his approach overall to talking to people while they're experiencing the trauma of war. it's a fascinating conversation, it's really not stuff you see on the show every day.
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i hope you listen to it. you can scan your camera over the qr code as we mentioned or you can find it in your favorite podcast app. stay with cnn for the latest from ukraine. we want to turn things over now to "don lemon tonight". >> we know that zelenskyy has been speaking to his people tonight. he has a message, my question, anderson russia has been stepping up their shelling of military and civilian targets. how is this destruction impacting the resolve of the ukrainian people and their ability to really defend their own country? >> it's certainly driving -- look, we've seen more than 2 million people, 2.5 or 6 million people leaving already, so i mean, it's certainly driving a lot of people out and a lot of women and young children and they're trying to open up humanitarian corridors as you know. i think it's also really stiffened the resolve. i think the level of hatred now here for what russia has done, what vladimir putin has done, you feel it everywhere you go, and you see it in the people who
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are volunteering to not only to fight but if they're not picking up a weapon, they're volunteering to fight in other ways. >> anderson, great coverage. i enjoyed watching. be safe, we'll see you tomorrow. thank you very much. this is "don lemon tonight." here is our breaking news, of course explosions heard in kyiv tonight as russia expands its assault. and meanwhile will this moment breakthrough in russia that has been really under the iron grip of putin's propaganda. a woman, an employee of russia state tv channel bravely interrupting a live news broadcast holding up a sign reading no war, stop the war. do not believe propaganda. they tell you lies here. we're going to get more in depth on this coming up tonight. you don't want to miss that. also, this is happening as the pentagon believes moscow is broadening targets in western ukraine after failing to make much progress over the weekend. the u.s. warning china not to help vladimir putin with military o