they're maximum cool. >> reporter: they're maximum cool? >> yeah. i think they came here and teaching us, i appreciate that a lot. >> reporter: ben, adrian, and matt hope when they leave, other combat veterans will come and continue their mission. >> you don't have to come here as a combatant at all, you can come and do this, on a very basic level. if you have a specialty, if you have an urge, this is how it's applied. it's not imaginary, it's not magical. >> this is what the germans and french did for us during the american revolution, people came over and helped us train. >> it reminds americans of all ideologies, however they feel about this war, these are everyday people who want the same things that you and i want back home, right? peace, prosperity, opportunity for a better life for their

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air raid sirens in lviv tonight and obviously in kyiv where there are ongoing attacks. a remarkable and potentially pittal moment in ukraine as day 21 of the war ghivens russian forces apparently stalled outside of kyiv, failing to meet objectives, according to a senior defense official, are nonetheless within artillery

range and have been hitting the city and suburbs relentlessly including tonight and i should point out there is a 35-hour curfew there because of fear of what may lay ahead in the next 24 to 48 hours. earlier today there were missiles that struck four buildings in the space of a single hour. however to this point they've been unable to encircle kyiv. in cities they haven't circled, devastation continues. there's new video from mariupol in the south which was hit upwards of 100 times yesterday according to the mayor. as another local lawmaker put it, today the situation there is catastrophic. >> it's not about military. it's about risks. they understand they can get mariupol with their troops so they use heavy artillery and use explosive bombing to totally destroy the city. in the last five days, they don't stop bombing in a minute.

they bomb and shell all the time. and our city is totally destroyed, totally. >> some 20,000 people are said to have made it out of mariupol today through a sort of an unofficial humanitarian corridor. people of kyiv have yet to face exactly what the people of mariupol and kharkiv and other cities are going through right now but what they are experiencing is horrific. life in the capital is incredibly danger us aous and gg more so by the minute. sam, talk to us about what you're hearing tonight. >> reporter: tonight, anderson, over the last few hours, sporadically but very heavily, there's been substantial explosions out to the west of the city. this has been an area where the russians have concentrated a lot of their firepower. even this morning, you mentioned, four people were

killed in an apartment building. that was in the west of the city. they were struck with some kind of missile. there is, though, a possibility, i think, that it is the ukrainians that are getting on the front foot now. reportedly from some government sources speaking on social media, this is looking like a ukrainian counterattack, potentially, against russian forces. we'll go to more clarity on that in daylight. and this is in all probability, if it is a counterattack, it is an attempt to focus russian military efforts on trying to defend themselves rather than on what had been anticipated, which was russians reorganizing and then trying themselves to penetrate deeper into the city, not just in the west, anderson, but also in the east and ultimately trying to cut kyiv off in the way that we've seen in mariupol and that we've seen them trying to do in kharkiv. kharkiv, of course, being another city that has been devastated by very heavy attacks indeed, particularly in the last 24 hours against civilian

targets. but here in kyiv, the combat continues as diplomacy also gets under way. there are some glimmers of hope in terms of talks with russians, at least some optimism coming from the ukrainian side, anderson. >> i want to ask you about that in a second. can you just talk a little bit about this 35-hour curfew? early on in the war, there was a very long curfew, i think it was a 24-hour one, if i'm not mistaken, perhaps longer, in kyiv. this is the first time this has happened again, since that time. is that because -- we talked to a member of parliament who says she's very worried about what may happen in the next day or two. are they expecting something, and that's why they have this curfew? >> reporter: it's been very difficult to get clarity, as you might imagine, from defense sources here.

but there are two kind of analyses. the first is, what seems to be under way is that the ukrainians are going on their own counterattack. that doesn't mean that they didn't have intelligence about a potential russian attack. and that's certainly the sort of intelligence that they're being fed externally, certainly from the united kingdom and the united states. remember, they have a very substantial help that they can provide to the ukrainians in terms of signal intelligence, intercepts. the ukrainians have got their own too. and indeed, the movement of russian troops, you recall that very large convoy that appeared to be stuck north of kyiv, that's now been dispersed. and there's concern that it has been partly dispersed in order to be part of this regrouping operation to come in from the east, and that indeed was what your guest earlier on was referring to, anderson. >> sam kiley, appreciate it, in ukraine, thank you. in kyiv, thanks.

perspective from army lieutenant general mark hertling as well as peter zwak. general hertling, this 35-hour curfew, sam was reporting on fighting he's hearing in suburbs outside kyiv tonight. what does it tell you that there is this lengthy curfew, which is and of an anomaly? does it tell you something about what they're concerned about? >> it does, anderson, and sam's reporting was excellent just now because this counterattack that the ukrainian military has been wanting to do for a very long time is happening just at the right moment. you've had multiple analysts on air that have talked about the culminating point of the russian attack. that means they can't attack any longer. so they are in a bit of confusion right now, trying to reorganize, trying to regain the initiative. and they can't.

so the russian commanders -- excuse me, the ukrainian commanders on the scene are saying, let's take advantage of this confusion, let's take advantage of this stall, let's take advantage of the dispersed logistics, and let's attack them. that's what good commanders do, they take advantage of the situation. and i think the ukrainian announcement of the overnight curfew is part of that, because they want civilians to stay indoors, they want them out of harms way, because there are more than likely going to be some really tough fighting going on in the suburbs of kyiv. >> i should point we have not been able to independently confirm a ukrainian counterattack. but obviously that is something that has been talked about. general zwak, president zelenskyy again called for no-fly zones. it's obvious he wants the maximum he can get, obviously, from the west. we also heard from white house press secretary jen psaki who said that, quote, adding aircraft to the ukrainian inventory is not likely to

change the effectiveness of the ukrainian air force relative to russian capabilities. what zelenskyy talks about repeatedly is closing the sky because they really are at the mercy of missiles being fired, rockets hitting buildings. but would having -- closing the sky in the sense of no-fly zones, so-called, would that actually stop artillery from firing into cities? >> anderson, i believe the decisive fight is what we are watching and hearing about right now. i'm trying to visualize thousands and thousands of ukrainian soldiers, home guard, partisan types with rocket launchers and grenades just seizing on this russian forces that are powerful, but they've

been there for two weeks with no respite, no rest. they're powerful, but they have to be warn out and probably afraid. and i think part of the reordering we're hearing about, reorganizing, is just trying to reconstitute their forces, because what they've lost, they've lost momentum, they've lost their morale. and i think they've lost their will to fight. and so they are increasingly trying to dump in artillery. the air power is important for high level bombers and all that. they've been able, the ukrainians have been able to take down the low fliers somewhat, but the fight is on the ground, with ground weapons. and it looks like something really militarily extraordinary is happening. too early to tell. >> general hertling, the same question to you. when zelenskyy talks about stopping the bombing of

buildings, the shells that are hitting buildings, correct me if i'm wrong, most of those shells are not coming from planes firing them, they're coming from long range artillery, tanks. you tell me. >> yeah, that's correct, anderson. i don't know the direct percentage, but i know it's probably greater than 60 or perhaps even 70% are artillery, rocket, and missile fire. so the aircraft that are actually dropping bombs are certainly a percentage of it, but it's not a significant percentage. and it's those that -- you know, mr. -- president zelenskyy is attempting to close the sky. with a no-fly zone you wouldn't be able to do that because the majority of things that are devastating the cities and are causing so much chaos and destruction are these artillery pieces. russia has always been known for their long range fires. that is part of their doctrine. so their aircraft have not been able to fly.

the russian aircraft have not been able to fly significantly. they are dropping some bombs. they are dropping some caliber missiles, cruise missiles from high altitude aircraft, as peter said. but it's not a lot. they are running out of those precision weapons quickly and they're using most of those to go after military targets. what you're seeing in terms of the catastrophe in ukrainian cities are primarily being caused by missiles and artillery shells and it's hard to stop those. you can't close the sky to them. what you have to do is counter battery artillery fire. that requires radar to find out where it's coming from. you need some type of high level air defense to knock cruise missiles out of the sky. the ukrainians don't have that. so they don't have the high altitude air defense. the ukrainians have very small

numbers of counterbattery radars where they can pick up where artillery is fired from. so unfortunately those long range fires will continue to rain on the cities. as peter said, it's a conventional fight right now. it's defending the cities while they're getting bombed, which is a tough thing to do. mr. zelenskyy wants all of it to stop, he's trying to pull other nations in, and unfortunately there's not a whole lot that other nations can do about this just right now. >> general hertling, general zwack, i appreciate your expertise. ordinary people are taking up arms, mixing molotov cocktails, training to defend their cities and towns and neighborhoods. cnn's ivan watson reports. >> reporter: dawn breaks over the city of vinitsia with an air raid siren. this is the entrance to a

village on the outskirts of the city, a checkpoint protected by volunteers, an ex-cop, a fireman, and an electrician. look at how this village is protecting itself, homemade tank traps which the locals call hedgehogs. they've put up netting and sandbags. around the wall of this checkpoint they've got boxes of molotov cocktails ready. this is all locally made. these are improvised defenses. and this is just one ukrainian village. just down the road, i meet nina who seems like a sweet 71-year-old grandmother. by the way, nina says if she saw vladimir putin, she would strangle him with her own hands right now. "i'm ready," she says. "if by god the russians come here, i'll shoot them all and my hands won't even shake. i'll throw grenades at them."

there is seething anger at russia's invasion and at the same time, tremendous generosity. humanitarian assistance trucked in from europe, stacked in the garage. clothes and food for the struggling people of ukraine. aid that will then be shipped off to front line cities. >> i want to say thank you for the rest of the world, for the world. i want to say that we need help. we need -- we will need help. >> reporter: is vinitsia ready if the russian military comes to the city? >> yes. other cities give us time, we have two weeks to make good defense. today we are ready. but we don't want this.

>> reporter: the war effort extends to vasily and his farm, where workers labor, listening to news the war. he donates free food to self-defense forces. he says he's doing his part to help with the war effort. he says he's planting more crops and he's going to try to grow more food to feed ukrainians who may be in need in the weeks and months ahead. one of vladimir putin's stated objectives for his war on ukraine was to demilitarize the country. instead, he has mobilized farmers, grandmothers, and electricians to form a grassroots resistance against the russian invasion. >> ivan watson joins us now. i've got to say, nina, if there is a nina in every village in

ukraine, the russians really better watch out. i mean, she was amazing. >> reporter: yeah, she actually was in afghanistan with the soviet occupation in the '80s and carried a rifle and grenades and was involved in fire fights there, she told me. and she's not the only nina. my team has talked to another grandmother on the previous day who said the same exact line. and i think it gets to -- that line being, if i had putin in front of me, i would strangle him with my own hands, which is shocking to hear, coming from a babushka, a grandmother here. this line that people repeat again and again, this is our land, this is our country, and russia is an invading force. that just drives people crazy, as you can probably understand from almost any other country in the world that was invaded by a

foreign army. >> there's a lot of ninas here in lviv who are watching what's going on and preparing as well. ivan watson, great report, i appreciate it. a preview coming up, president biden's nato summit next week, and president zelenskyy's address to congress tomorrow. we'll have a live report from the white house. also ahead, "the new york times" columnist thomas friedman and his words of warning about expecting the unexpected here. it listens, learns, adapts and antiticipates your every need. with intelligence... that feels anything but artificial. the eqs from mercedes-benz. it's the car electric has been waiting for. we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! w personal record, limu!

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he'll have this nato meeting in brussels, it's pretty extraordinary how quickly that's put this together, president biden and 30 other world leaders talking about what this response will look like. we've seen how coordinated they've trying to be over the last several weeks in response, whether punishment for russia, personal sanctions on putin himself and his inner circle, trade sanctions. that's part of why president biden is going to this trip. he will go to a previously scheduled european council meeting as well. one big question is whether or not he will go to poland. we're told white house officials are working on that. that's where they've seen the vast majority of refugees enter in from ukraine into poland. whether he goes and meets with them, speaks with them, that remains to be seen although it is likely, anderson. the white house hasn't said whether or not president biden would try to meet with president zelenskyy while there, obviously that would come with a lot of

challenges given that zelenskyy is still in kyiv as russians are still attempting to encircle it, but it's something the white house says it's considering. >> both biden and zelenskyy are giving significant speeches. president zelenskyy was critical in a speech today, pushing european leaders to do more, obviously he wants some sort of a no-fly zone. what's anticipated for what he's going to say tomorrow? >> reporter: we'll hear from president zelenskyy to congress at 9:00 a.m. eastern and three hours later you'll see president biden come out and speak. we know what president zelenskyy is expected to say, a lot of it has to do with what he's said to other governments as he spoke to the canadian parliament today, asking for more assistance from the west, praising what they've given so far, to be clear, but saying he needs more. he wants a no-fly zone over ukraine, and that's something the white house has said a pretty firm no to, they repeated it again today.

president biden will speak at 11:45 a.m. tomorrow according to the white house schedule that just came out, anderson. he will talk about what the white house has done so far for ukraine and what they plan to do going forward. we're told by sources tonight that will include $800 million more in security assistance for ukraine. that is new money that they are spending to try to get this military equipment, this lethal assistance to ukraine. of course the question, you know, of how they get that there, president biden said today, has become exceedingly difficult, though they still have been able to do that. he will get specific, we're told, tomorrow. what exactly this $800 million is going to go to, we know zelenskyy will likely ask for armed drones, these easy mobile air defense systems. we'll wait to see if president biden mentions that, although anderson, we're told by officials he's not expected to say yes, we'll do a no-fly zone, because that would get the united states into world war iii. he also is not expected to say

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european countries which we mentioned earlier, president zelenskyy was extremely optimistic about his country's chances for survival. he said with friends like this, ukraine can win. tom friedman is a columnist for "the new york times." in the war over ukraine, he writes, expect the unexpected. he is the author of a number of bestselling books, including "the world is flat." tom, you write in the column how every war brings surprises and that for, the three biggest ones so far are, quote, the extraordinary acts of cruelty, courage, and kindness that this war is revealing and inspiring. talk about that a little bit, about what you have taken from this. >> thanks, anderson. again, hats off to all the reporters over there. the cruelty refers basically to putin's whole strategy now, which is just to ravage the country, to simply ravage it. because his whole thesis for the

war has obviously blown up. the idea he was going to come over there and decapitate the, quote, unquote, nazi leadership and the country would fall back into the lap of mother russia. it's completely blown up. now it's a just a policy to blom the place to smithereens and then strut around the wounds like a peacock. but one wonders what he's going to do the morning after that. think about how weird this is. he told his own people and the world for months that ukraine was part of the very soul, fabric, and culture of russia. and now that it's resisted that, and proven that's not the case, he's just going to smash the place to bits, but never explaining how it went from one to the other. so that's the cruelty, the mindless cruelty. you know, the courage is the russian woman journalist who went on the evening news, basically, like someone who

stood behind walter cronkite during the vietnam war, and held up a sign. >> marina ovsyannikova. >> yeah, that this war is all a lie. anderson, we're both in the news business. do you know the courage that took, to do that in an authoritarian state like russia? i think one of the most interesting things, anderson, she was immediately arrested. we thought we would never see her again. she was fine and let go. i think that's a huge sign of weakness by putin. i think he was terrified she would become an international martyr and an example for other journalists. and then the amazing creativity and inventiveness of people going on to airbnb's platform, on their own, it wasn't like airbnb ordered this, and in an emergent way, suddenly renting rooms. now over 490,000 nights of rooms from people in ukraine for the

sole purpose, not of obviously visiting those rooms or sleeping in them but simply to transfer money to them. so it's like their own, you know, autonomous people-to-people foreign aid policy that's transferred millions of dollars now to help ukrainians who may be hiding in their basement get through this crisis or at least have some resources when it comes out of -- when they come out of it. amazing creativity of people. and you have to salute all of it. >> i want to put that picture back up of marina ovsyannikova -- i want to make sure i get her name right -- marina ovsyannikova, not only her bravery. i don't know that walter concite was ever so dead-eyed on the hair, that anchor looks dead behind the eyes. there's a lot of talk about the end of the global community, the death of globalism.

airbnb is one example. this has shown sort of the interconnectedness of things in an interesting way, you write about. >> after every big global crisis, 9/11, 2008, the pandemic, you can set your watch by it, someone writes that globalization is over. globalization gets slowed down sometimes. it got slowed down by world war ii, okay? but people's desire to connect, and the technology enabling it, is not going away, okay? and one of the most interesting, unexpected twists of this, again, expecting the unexpected, is china has its own vaccine, turns out its vaccine is not very effective against omicron or not effective at all. they've now got a huge outbreak there. they operated on a quarantine policy over the years of just zero tolerance. so they never during the past two years built up much herd immunity. they've got a spread of omicron now that's forced them to close, basically, close down cities like shanghai, stopping

manufacturing, and guess what, not using much oil. so this morning, the price of oil, that one thing that vladimir putin can sell and get money with, crashed, basically, fell from 130 down to $100. and there is china, because of how it dealt with covid, affecting putin and how he's going to be able to manage his economy. and so everything is still connected. i would say another thing, anderson. one of the oldest saws in foreign policy is, china and russia, they play chess, we play checkers, we americans, we don't get it, we just plodding, we play checkers. but you know what? old sleepy joe, just playing checkers, moving from red to black down the board, meat and potatoes, putting together an alliance, i would say he's done pretty darn well.

and the people who play chess, vladimir putin has been playing russian roulette, he just blew his brains out. and the chinese are really flummoxed because they get wheat, they get corn, they get fertilizer, they get oil from russia. all of these are rising in price. and how is that going to affect their lower and middle classes? they're sitting there thinking, boy, i really would like to see the americans fail there, but holy mackerel, this war is causing real inflation in commodities in my own country, and that's not good for old xi jinping. >> you write that there will be more surprises and they won't all be pleasant. do you think there's any hope of this ending anytime soon in your view? >> you know, i think the real wild card in this, anderson, is what we can't see. the west, the alliance, dropped the equivalent, as we've said before, of an economic nuclear bomb on russia. but the blast radius of that

bomb moves out rather slowly. so right now, russia is heading to a situation where it will have no domestic or international airlines, because its airlines are actually owned by irish leasing companies. you can't take a bus from moscow to vladivostok. its currency has been crushed, basically, in relation to the dollar and other western currencies. they're not going to be able to get microchips to do manufacturing. so this is going to slowly build up. in 30 days, their economy is going to be in a very, very perilous state. and i think that's when putin will be sitting there thinking, i'm bogged down here, my economy is being crushed, and guess what, maybe tomorrow, five journalists will come out, and then maybe ten. so i wouldn't want to be in his shoes right now. i don't think it's a simple matter. but the bomb we dropped on his

economy, it will very slowly build an explosion and it's going to be a huge, huge problem for him. >> tom friedman, always fascinating, thank you so much. >> thanks, anderson. up next, breaking news, and a report over a ukrainian offensive. and the u.n. says more than 3 million people have left ukraine as russian forces continue their assault. some brave ukrainians have come back to help lp defend the coun, and not just men in the war zone. details on that, ahead. ce-dailyl can dramatically improve symptoms... rinvoq helps tame pain, stiffness, swelling.g. and for some...rinvoq can even significantly reduce ra fatigue. that's rinvoq relief. with ra, your overactive immune system attacks your joints. rinvoq regulates it to help stop the attack. rinvoq can lower your ability to fight infections, including tb. serious infections and blood clots, some fatal; cancers, including lymphoma and skin cancer;

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we've just got new satellite photos from kherson. they show the results of a ukrainian strike today on the kherson airport. you see large plumes of smoke from burning russian helicopters, at least three of them. this is the most destructive strike, military strike the ukrainian military has conducted against russian helicopters that we know about since the war began. another image taken by a drone hovering above a nearby village also shows a large plume of smoke rising from the airport. the strike was significant enough that it was detected by a nasa system which is used to

track large fires around the world. according to the nasa data, it happened at around 1:42 p.m. local time. it comes at the end of a day that saw a number of people fleeing ukraine, topping 3 million, according to the united nations. a growing number of people are returning to the country to help fight. it's not just men going back into the war. here is cnn's ed lavandera. >> reporter: the rail line from ukraine ends at platform 5 at the train station in poland, after refugees walk off, this same train will go back. for weeks it's been mostly men returning to join the ukrainian fight against russia. but in front of the sign reading "train for ukraine," women are waiting hours for a ride back into the war zone. near the front of the line, we found tatiana. she came to poland three days ago to bring her two adult daughters to safety. now the 40-year-old is going home to a town in eastern ukraine near the russian border.

"ukraine is equally important for men and women," she says. "we're the real ukrainians. women have the strength and will and the heart as well." by our count, women accounted for about half of the passengers in this line waiting to cross the border back to ukraine. irina brought her grandchildren to poland. she's returning now to be with her family in odesa. how worried are you about your safety? "i'm anxious," she says, "but the feeling has become dull over time. i just want to be next to my family." we met maria. she's going to kyiv to be with her husband and family to fight, in her words, russian terrorists. >> if you know what you need to do, it's impossible to feel nervous or something like this. i have to do this. i don't do it for my country,

for my relatives, for my friends. >> reporter: what stands out to me in this line there are so many women. why do you think that is? >> i can't kill. i'm a woman. and my work, keep balance and help and be kind and care about family, friends. but now i feel that all ukrainians are my relatives. >> reporter: before she sleeves, she shows us a heart-shaped ukrainian flag given to her by polish children to protect her. those returning walk past a carriage that reads, "safety above all." but the train leaving platform 5 disappears into a war zone where safety is a dream. >> ed, what struck you about talking to all these people going back into ukraine? >> reporter: so many of them had just come over into poland

several days ago. and they said that that feeling, it was almost too peaceful, to serene on this side of the border and they felt kind of helpless. and they wanted to go back to help in whatever way they could. the reasons varied, as you saw from our reporting there. i think the one the women we spoke to in that line is they felt a sense that their return was a symbol of solidarity, a symbolism of resistance for the russian forces that are in their country. anderson. >> yeah, we've heard that a lot, and it's an incredible sentiment. thanks a lot for the reporting from poland tonight. up next, an unforgettable moment for some kids at a school. the children are ukrainian and the school is far from home.

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the horrors of this war and its toll on children, we want to share a moment of tremendous

humanity for some refugees. take a look as two ukrainian kids, an 8-year-old girl and a 10-year-old boy walk into a school on their first day. this is the reception they get from other kids they've never met. [ applause ] >> i mean the first day of school is hard for any child but to be a child who's left ukraine, left a war zone, come to a country, the children's

grandmother lives in italy, which is why they're there. she was visiting her village not far from lviv when the war began. she was able to bring the two grandkids and her daughter back with her. this is their first day at school. we wish them well. we'll be right back. ys, graduat, i'm m covered for everything. which reminds me, thank you for driving me to the drugstore. earn big time with chasese freem unlimited with no annual fee. hohow do you cashback? chase. make more of what's yours.

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stay with cnn for the latest from ukraine. the news continues right now. i want to turn things over to "don lemon tonight". >> a a couple questions for you. i understand kyiv is under a curfew tonight. air raid sirens are going off there i understand moments ago, and explosions are being heard in the suburbs surrounding it. it's the capital city. are they bracing for a rough day? >> yeah, you know, it's a 35-hour curfew, so it's not just the normal nighttime curfew, which is in most cities here in lviv, so certainly that would seem t