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the czech republic, and slovenia made their way to kyiv to meet with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the czech leader says the main purpose was to tell ukraine it's not alone in its fight against russia. and this video from ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv in the east, local officials report 65 instances of shelling on monday alone with 600 residential buildings destroyed since the invasion began. and civilian evacuations were interrupted on monday by the renewed attacks. kharkiv's mayor says 50 schools plus medical facilities and hospitals have been attacked. >>. >> translator: unfortunately shelling is continuous both in the center part of kharkiv, it just continues, incessant

shelling and firing, and it seems like it has actually increased towards the evening. and we've had more air strikes, and it seems like more of them actually hitting at residential blocks and buildings, infrastructure of the city. so basically the situation is dire. >> well, people in the southeastern port city of mariupol are also desperate for help. a local official says russian troops are holding doctors and patients against their will at a hospital. >> the situation is catastrophic. i speak with my friend who today is go out decla-- likely to go from mariupol, and it's terrible because russian are terrorists, taken as hostages not only

people in hospital. they take hostages, all 300,000 people of mariupol for about ten days. >> well, farther west, satellite images show at least three russian helicopters destroyed by ukrainian forces at the airport in kherson. several military vehicles were also hit. now, the russian advance is stalled in parts of ukraine even as russian forces pound cities with shelling, usually on the outskirts. western observers say moscow's initial playbook for invading ukraine has not gone according to the kremlin's plan. cnn's phil black takes a look at why the invasion is not unfolding the way russia predicted. >> reporter: russian munitions are still having a devastating impact on civilians in key cities. in mariupol, in the capital kyiv. but russian forces are still

making little progress advancing across ukrainian territory. the core u.s. assessment hasn't changed for much of the war. >> the kremlin's forces remain stalled in many areas. >> reporter: and experts agree almost three weeks in, russia is in trouble. >> no wars go according to plan. the problem is that russia's plan was extremely bad. >> reporter: the key question, why? >> i would argue it is a mix of everything. it is a failed or botched concept of operation with plenty of wrong assumptions about the very nature of the battlefield, russia believing in a way that ukrainians would capitulate or ukraine would crumble. >> reporter: experts believe russia's failure to secure a quick, definitive win, has revealed another major flaw in its planning. >> russia's out of available combat forces to put into this fight. >> reporter: analysts say russia's limited forces are now divided between taking territory and laying siege to major cities, reducing their ability to do both tasks effectively. and that means russia must be

reassessing what victory looks like. >> at this stage, we are still talking about limited gains and goals. there's simply not enough troops potentially coming from russia or elsewhere to do a sort of massive, full-scale ground invasion of ukraine, keep that territory, hold it, and then find a very costly counterinsurrection war. >> reporter: u.s. officials say they're seeing some is early efforts to boost troop efforts with foreign fighters. >> we believe that out of syria, there are perhaps small -- very small groups of people that might be trying to make their way to ukraine. >> reporter: how the next phase of the war plays out will be significantly determined by russia's intentions in kyiv. trying to take the capital would likely involve months of bombardment and urban warfare. >> that's going to be a tough order of business. those ukrainians know every single alley, every back room, every road, every intersection.

the russians are going to find themselves in a hard fight. >> reporter: slow russian progress can help ukrainian forces by allowing them more time to prepare and be resupplied with advanced weapons from allies. but experts say it could also inspire greater brutality from russia, a willingness to escalate and destroy in order to compensate for its stalled invasion. phil black, cnn, london. >> joining me now from sydney, the director of the international security program. thanks for being with us. so we just aired a report on why russia's military plans are not going as well as they might have hoped. do you attribute that to their disorganization, their lack of planning, or a fiercer and stronger than expected ukrainian resistance? >> well, it appears as if russia underestimated what they were going to face in ukraine, and it

also underestimated, i think, not just the level of resistance within ukraine but the sheer scale of the effort of western nations to arm the ukrainian military. so within the first six days of military action, of the russian invasion beginning, western nations have transferred something on the order of 17,000 anti-tank weapons alone, not to mention anti-aircraft weapons and some intelligence support, we're told, that western powers are providing as well. so, you know, that's made a substantial difference, no doubt. >> in the absence of implementing a no-fly zone, which western and nato allies have said is off the table right now, are ukrainians in need of more anti-aircraft weaponry? is that the key here for them to be able to resist if vladimir putin decides to use much deadlier air strikes as he's not

advancing on the ground? >> look, one of the surprises of this campaign has been the relative lack of russian air power that's been imposed. in fact, most of the good judges still argue that the russians don't have full control of the air. they don't have total air superiority. i think if you'd asked me at the time, i would have said the russians will essentially destroy the ukrainian air force within the first sort of 48 to 72 hours. that simply hasn't happened, so that's a surprise. and i think if anything, that now what i would argue is that if the russians do start to use more blunt force, more brute force, it won't be so much through air power. it will be through artillery and rocket artillery. >> right. but that means they'd have to advance on the ground if they're going to use artillery. but why not establish air superiority earlier on from the

russian perspective? what's going on, do you think? they certainly have a much, much bigger air force than the ukrainians. >> i think one thing is a lack of precision-guided munitions, so we saw this in the russian campaign in syria, that they used dumb bombs a lot, which, you know, are capable of causing widespread destruction and are very dangerous to civilians, but don't help you very much to achieve military objectives. so that's one reason. and perhaps another reason, experts on the russian military doctrine will tell you there's a doctrinal difference here. the western mission is air power focused. the first weeks of a campaign like this, if you look, for instance, at the comparison with the gulf war in '91 or the iraq war in 2003, you know, the initial objectives are very much around air power, and you don't apply land power until you've really saturated the opposition

with air power. but evidently the russians don't operate that way. >> yeah. no, clearly not. i mean, what is the likely outcome here? at some point, the russians, whether vladimir putin, the president of russia, realizes it or not, at some point he'll have to, that his military hasn't advanced, certainly hasn't entered the city centers of kyiv and other big urban areas and entering them and holding them are two entirely different ball games anyway. at what point is there an off-ramp here for both sides for this fighting to stop because it is demolishing big parts of the country, and it is creating misery with millions of refugees having to flee their homes. >> yeah. look, i'm a little bit cautious to really of buy into the idea that the russians are losing entirely. i mean we're getting a very

incomplete and sometimes biased picture in the west, particularly those of us who follow the social media feeds very carefully. what we don't hear about very much -- first of all, we get a very incomplete picture of how the entire campaign is going. but particularly we don't hear much about ukrainian losses. i find it very hard to get reliable information on that. so without that, it's very difficult to know exactly how well or how badly this campaign is going. but with the information we have at hand, i think you have to conclude that the maximalist russian objectives look to be out of reach. so a complete collapse of the ukrainian government, you know, installing a sort of puppet regime in kyiv -- that appears to be out of reach. so the delicate -- >> i wasn't -- i wasn't suggesting that the russians were losing entirely at all. i was just saying their advance certainly doesn't seem to match their expectations. you would imagine off the top was to take kyiv, install a

puppet government, do all of that. that's not happening, and the ukrainians are extremely motivated to fight back, and they've held those forces off of the city centers where the fighting is happening mainly in the suburbs, as you know. >> yeah. so i think the really delicate, diplomatic task now for the western powers is to maintain enough pressure that you do convince the russian side that it will be impossible to achieve their objectives with military means, but not so much pressure that you actually provide incentives for russia to escalate this conflict. what we don't want to see is, you know, a sanctions regime in particular, a sanctions regime that collapses the russian economy and puts putin in a position from which they feel they have to escalate in order to get out. >> right. right. sam roggeveen, thank you so much

for joining us. really appreciate your analysis on cnn. >> thank you. >> it's this afternoon your time and this morning ukraine time. thank you very much. former ukrainian president petro poroshenko says russia's president underestimates a lot about ukraine, including the unity of the ukrainian people. this is something we've discussed over the last several weeks. now faced with losing everything they have, everyday citizens are coming together to stand against the russian invasion. cnn's ivan watson reports. >> reporter: dawn breaks over the city of vinnytsia with an air raid siren. the ground war has yet to reach this city in central ukraine, but locals aren't taking any chances. 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 sewn netting and put up sandbags. and around the wall here 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. she says f 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 here at moscow's invasion. and at the same time, examples of tremendous generosity. stacked inside a garage, humanitarian assistance trucked

in from europe. personal donations of clothes and food for the struggling people of ukraine. aid that will then be shipped off to frontline 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 and we will need help. >> reporter: is vinnytsia ready if the russian military comes to this city? >> yeah, and other cities. we have two weeks to make a good defense. today we're ready. but we don't want this. >> reporter: the war effort extends to this man and his farm, where workers labor listening to news of the war. vassily donates free food to

self-defense forces. this man 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, cnn, outside vinnytsia, ukraine. well, if you'd like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of basic things like shelter, food, and water, go to cnn.com/impact. you'll find several ways you can help there. and still to come, the refugee crisis only continues to grow as the number of those fleeing ukraine reaches yet

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about 20,000 russians have fled their own country to georgia since the invasion. georgia has had a difficult relationship with russia since it gained independence from the soviet union 30 years ago. russia's backing of two breakaway self-proclaimed republics erupted into a full-blown conflict in 2008. georgia's president is concerned about where mr. putin could turn now. >> we are all worried in one way of what putin might do next, and he's using quite a lot of these threats, some psychological, some military on all countries, including talking about nuclear arms. and georgia, as moldova has to be worried more because we have had the experience, and we have our occupied territories. so, yes, we need more. that's why we are reiterating

our calls towards the european union, and we are considering our path towards nato. one thing is sure is that if the 2008 war against georgia was aimed at preventing us of continuing our path towards euro atlantic integration, it has not succeeded. >> well, on the 11th anniversary of the start of the syrian uprising, which transformed into a horrendous civil war, thousands of syrians gathered in idlib to protest a. after years of conflict, syria's economic situation is dire, and millions of syrian refugees have fled the fighting or been internally displaced. this year's important to note that russia has also been involved in the syrian conflict since 2015, very much helping the syrian president, bashar al assad, stay in power.

cnn's jomana karadsheh has that story. and a warning, you may find some of the images in her report disturbing. >> reporter: russia's vicious war in ukraine has shocked the world, but no one should be surprised. for years, russia's ruthlessness played out so openly for all to see in syria, where countless civilians paid the price for putin propping up his ally, bashar al assad. syria is where russia boasted about testing more than 300 types of weapons. it's also where it tested the world's limits, and there seemed to be none. its war has no rules. no one is spared, and no place is safe. russia's bombed hospitals, markets and schools. the u.n. called them war crimes, but no one has faced justice. russia denies it's committed these crimes, but its cruel attacks know no bounds.

even those rushing to rescue the injured have been targeted by the infamous double-tap strikes. >> i last two of my team. in one seconds, we were trying to respond to save others. >> reporter: this man survived one of russia's most brutal campaigns in syria as -- >> we are forced to leave the city. >> reporter: his beloved aleppo was reduced to rubble. >> aleppo was like doomsday. i saw buildings collapsed on the heads of the families, member of the families, children, by using the bunker buster bombs. this is used for the military basement. that weapon was used on civilians. >> reporter: in the little that's level of rebel-held

syria, the white helmets are on alert. there's a fragile cease-fire here. they also want to help ukraine. they know russia's playbook all too well. >> they will bomb everything, and their media will say that we targeted a place for soldiers. we targeted ukrainian armies. >> reporter: so many here feel the pain ukrainians are going through, pain inflicted by the same aggressor who shattered too many syrian lives. this english teacher with his baby girl by his side appealed to the world time and time again to save aleppo in 2016. but the world looked the other way. >> i mean, i don't know why the world is not learning. let's stopping russia in syria. this affected ukraine. not stopping putin will do the same in many other countries.

>> reporter: it's been more than five years since he was forced out of his home. life is not the same, he says, but life does go on. right now he says he just can't stop thinking of ukraine. >> none can understand ukrainians. none of the world but syrians. none can understand them more than syrians. we will understand. we understand them more, and this is why i cannot nowadays -- i cannot teach well. i cannot do anything because i'm just following what's going on in ukraine. in fact, what's affecting me a lot that all the world is repeating the same mistake. >> reporter: the mistake of letting putin get away with it all. the impunity in syria that may have emboldened him to invade ukraine. many here feel their fate is now tied to ukraine. if putin is not stopped, they fear russia will unleash hell here again to help assad reclaim what's left of this devastated land. jomana karadsheh, cnn, istanbul.

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welcome back. i'm hala gorani live in lviv, ukraine. our top story this hour, cnn crews in kyiv are reporting a busy night of explosions in the capital. the city is now under a strict curfew until thursday morning. and this comes after russian attacks hit at least four residential buildings around kyiv within the space of an hour on tuesday. kyiv's mayor says several people were killed in those attacks. we are also getting a new look

at the damage left behind in some cities. this is drone footage from a town in northeastern ukraine where shelling and bombs have ripped open massive craters in the ground and reduced some homes to rubble. meanwhile -- and this is a bold move by some of these eu leaders, who traveled to kyiv tuesday to meet with the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, in person, reaffirming their support for ukraine's fight and calling on the eu to grant candidate status quickly. now, the russian journalist who staged a dramatic protest against the invasion during a live tv broadcast and released a video slamming what she called kremlin propaganda has been fined and released from police custody. but the kremlin's crackdown on anti-war messages continues unabated. cnn's nic robertson has that story. >> reporter: these are editor

marina ovsyannikova's last moments before arrest, bravely protesting russia's war in ukraine. her banner, "no war. do not believe the propaganda. they tell you lies here," seen live by hundreds of thousands of russians on the state's prime propaganda channel, channel 1. in court the following day, found guilty of an administrative offense, organizing an unauthorized event, fined 30,000 rubles, about $280. an apparent reference not to storming the set but to a video she posted on social media shortly prior, calling for protests. >> translator: go to the rallies and do not be afraid. they can't arrest us all. >> reporter: russia has banned all anti-war protests, but they continue. more than 900 arrested this past weekend. almost 15,000 since the war

began according to an independent human rights group. most getting a beating, a fine, an overnight detention. unclear if the kremlin is trying to minimize ovsyannikova's extraordinary prime-time protest or if she'll face stiffer charges later. initially, state media reported investigators were considering charges under russia's new draconian laws that prohibit what it calls disseminating false information about russian forces and can carry a maximum 15-year jail sentence. ovsyannikova, whose father is ukrainian and mother russian, appears to have expected to be silenced. her prerecorded social media post pulling no punches. >> translator: what is happening now in ukraine is a crime, and russia is the aggressor country. and the responsibility for this aggression lies on the conscience of only one person. this man is vladimir putin.

>> reporter: that she was allowed to speak following her conviction perhaps unexpected. her harsh treatment and detention likely not. >> translator: the interrogation lasted for more than 14 hours. i was not allowed to contact my relatives or provided with any judicial help. i was in a rather tough situation. all the comments will be made tomorrow. i just need to rest today. >> reporter: the question for some now, is her protest an indication putin's propaganda machine is faltering? >> no matter whether she had spent, you know, days preparing for that or hours, it definitely shows a change in the mood of those working on russian state tv. >> reporter: the continuing street protests show how many russians remain ready to put their liberty on the line. heartwarming for ukrainians, but so far, the numbers nowhere near the tipping point for the

kremlin. nic robertson, cnn, london. well, the war here in ukraine has claimed the lives of two more journalists. the tragic news underscores the danger of covering this conflict. fox news reports veteran cameraman pierre va chef ski and freelance journalist were killed as the vehicle they were traveling in came under fire near kyiv. they were working with fox for benjamin hall when their vehicle was attacked. hall was injured, and he's been hospitalized. their deaths come after american journalist brent renaud was killed this past sunday. ukraine blames russian forces for all three deaths. i'll have more from ukraine later this hour. first let's bring in john vause in atlanta. >> hello. thank you. we'll take a short break here. when we come back, the ties that bind. we'll take a closer look at the relationship between china and russia and why beijing is

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whether it comes to its relationship with moscow, beijing has delivered the diplomatic equivalent of butt out to the u.s. china was walking a fine line when the war began, but as the conflict drags on, support for russia has become increasingly obvious. cnn's david culver has our report. >> reporter: beijing fighting back against the u.s. warnings not to help russia in its invasion of ukraine. today a foreign ministry spokesperson strongly urging the united states not to undermine china's legitimate rights and interests when dealing with u.s./russia relations, adding, china and russia will continue to conduct normal economic trade cooperation, but might that

cooperation soon include military support? >> beijing would think of this as a tightrope walk, but i think from the perspective of most external observers, they see beijing as being an active support for moscow. >> reporter: sources say russia has asked china for drones and pre-packaged military food kits or mres. in a seven hour meeting monday in rome, china's top diplomat told u.s. national security adviser jake sullivan that china wants peace and could serve as a mediator, adding that beijing is also providing emergency humanitarian aid to ukraine. >> chinese government are juggling between several different goals and try to be friends with all parties involved. >> reporter: china is already russia's biggest trading partner and likely the only superpower that could help slow russia's economic free fall. about three weeks before the invasion, president xi jinping and vladimir putin announced an energy deal totaling about $100 billion, including

construction of a new gas pipeline. beijing also agreed to purchase 100 million tons of oil from russia over the next ten years. then there's agriculture. the same week, the west launched severe economic sanctions on russia, beijing announced details of a new wheat deal, expanding imports from all regions of russia. it adds to what was an already massive surge in russia/china trade. chinese state media says in 2021, trade between the two jumped $150 billion over the previous year and includes russian seed oil, barley, and beef. every dollar counts when you're losing customers as quickly as russia. and as the west cuts russian banks out the dollar denominated s.w.i.f.t. system, russia could look to settle its debts using chinese currency instead, those some analysts believe all of china's potential economic relief efforts still won't be enough to backfill the massive void in russia left by western nations. and with china's russian trade volume dwarfed by beijing's

deals with the eu and u.s., the economic risks might be too great for china. >> it is doing deep, significant harm to china's interests to attach itself to the burning and sinking ship that is vladimir putin. china has backed the wrong horse. >> reporter: but with a stated willingness to mediate the crisis, china appears to still be straddling how best to keep its economic ties to the west without abandoning its ideological allegiance to a fellow autocracy. david culver, cnn, shanghai. we'll take a short break. when we come back, the u.s. war veterans traveling to ukraine, training volunteers for combat. up next, they explain why they're compelled to get involved in someone else's fight. ( ♪ ) what can i du with less asthma? with dupixixent, i can du more— beginners' yoga.

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up a hell of a fight. while nato and the u.s. insist they will not spend troops, a small group of american war veterans went any way, training ordinary ukrainians to defend their families, their homes, the country. cnn's anderson cooper has the story. >> reporter: in lviv, men who have never fought now train for war. they practice clearing rooms in a stack formation. using hand signals to move in silence. it's a two-week crash course in combat, the bare essentials to stay alive. >> actually, it looked really great. >> as always, just get clear of that doorway, right? >> reporter: matt gallagher served in iraq. adrian did two tours in afghanistan. both american army vets who have come here to help. >> exactly right. you guys look good. >> okay, thanks. >> think about where you were two weeks ago. >> reporter: outside, ben bush

prepares another group of volunteers. he served two tours in iraq as a marine. >> there is a suspected patrol in the area of one or two people. we're not sure. squad leader, are there any questions? >> reporter: ben, matt and adrian are not working for the u.s. military or government. they're not being paid by anyone. they bought their own tickets here and are doing this for free. what made you want to do this? >> i came to this country for the first time in 2015. i fell in love with the country. i met my wife here. so it was personal connection. >> and our personal connection was to him and to the overall effort of a democracy fighting to be a democracy. >> i kind of landed on an old line from "for whom the bell tolls" what are we born but to aid one another. looking at any son and that line, i felt like this was a

unique opportunity to help show them how to be the men, grown-up adults i aspire for them to be. >> reporter: two weeks ago, the volunteers they trained had no idea how to clear a building or move as a unit. most have never fired a gun before. >> these are teachers, bus drivers -- >> welders. >> who want to protect their neighborhoods, protect their homes. many of whom never thought they'd be in this position. >> we've been doing everything we can to give them the tool set they need to survive, because they're going to defend their city one way or another. >> reporter: some have modern rifles, but others train with antique ones, loaned by a local gun collector. i think i saw, is it a tommy gun? >> that would be from the collection. >> i mean, is that literally a tommy gun from the 1930s? >> oh, yeah. >> wow. >> they've got some kind of

weird machine gun i think i've seen in movies before. >> all the new weapons are being sent to the front. this is what they have here now. and if the war comes here, that's arguably what they're going to have to fight with. >> and they're here every day, dutifully, working as diligently as any marines i have ever trained, and i've trained a lot. and they don't complain. they continue to move. they are at the point now, we've worked progressionally to make -- to make the leaders emerge, because leadership is going to be necessary for coordination, for anything. and they have emerged. we now know that there is bone to this organization. and that gives me a great deal of confidence, because i'm not going to be here forever. and that's hard for me, the closer i get to them. >> we'll do it again differently later, right? always differently. well done. [ applause ]

>> reporter: the volunteers cover their faces for their own safety. they know what russia is capable of, but they also want vladimir putin to know they are ready. >> reporter: on the last day of the training course, volunteers get the chance to fire a weapon. they're given just ten rounds for target practice. there is not enough ammo to spare. >> already on the firing line. you're clear to fire. >> reporter: they're practicing ak-47s, but they haven't been issued their own.

there is simply not enough to go around. they've had to buy whatever guns they can find on the open market, and even then it's hard for them to find ammunition. this 20-year-old volunteer says firing the ak-47 was something of a wake-up call. >> now today i understand that there could be the person who want to shoot me. >> reporter: what do you think of the american guys who have come to help train? >> they're really cool. they're maximum cool. >> reporter: they're maximum cool? >> yeah. i thank them that they came here and they're teaching us. i appreciated that a lot. >> reporter: ben matt and adrian hope when they leave other veterans will come and continue their mission. >> you don't have to come here as a combatant at all. you can come here and do this on a very basic level. and if you have a specialty, if you have an urge, this is how it's applied. it's not imaginary. it's not mythological.

we're actually doing this, and you can see the effect. >> this is what the germans did for us when we were in a similar situation during the american revolution. people came over and helped us train. >> it just reminds americans of all ideologies, all politics how i 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 children. >> reporter: anderson cooper, cnn, lviv, ukraine. >> i'm john vause. hope to see you right back here tomorrow. our breaking news coverage continues with hala gorani live in lviv. that's up next after a short break. to design solutions to help you manage payroll, benefits, and d hr today, so you can have more success tomorrow. ♪ one thing leads to another, yeah, yeah ♪

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