hello and warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london with breaking news of the war in ukraine just ahead. >> this invasion has to stop. >> translator: we defend our children, our families, our building. >> it's going to be a ukraine, independent ukraine a lot longer than a vladimir putin. >> i believe in entire victory

100%. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. wednesday, march 16th, 4 a.m. in washington, 10 a.m. in ukraine where we're getting new reports of russian forces shelling yet another residential building in kyiv. resc rescuers evacuated 37 people from the building, two people are injured. comes two hours ahead from a virtual address to congress to u.s. congress from volodymyr zelenskyy. he's going to ask for a no fly zone over ukraine. >> translator: so what i'm trying to say, everyone needs to do to stop russia. more needs to be done to protect ukraine, to protect europe from this absolute evil. they're destroying everything. memorial complexes, schools, hospitals, residential

complexes. they've already killed 97 ukrainian children. we're not asking for much, we're asking for justice, for real support which will help us to defend our people and the whole world. >> we'll have much more on mr. zelenskyy's address and how mr. biden is assisting ukraine including live coverage of the speech at 9 a.m. eastern. back in kyiv president zelenskyy welcomed the presidents of poland, slovenia and the czech republic. the czech prime minister said his goal was to tell ukraine it's not alone in its fight against russia. president zelenskyy expressed his gratitude. >> translator: i would like to thank you for what you are doing during such a difficult time. your help is greatly appreciated. these ambassadors of wonderful, independent european countries have come to ukraine during a full scale invasion by the russian federation.

you do not fear anything. >> the scene there was in sharp contrast to what's helping elsewhere in the capitol. russian strikes on the suburbs of kyiv killed at least four people on tuesday. cnn's team has reported more air raid psy resirens and explosion. kyiv is under curfew until tomorrow morning. civilian evacuations in the second largest city kharkiv were interrupted. 65 instances of shelling on monday alone . >> the mayor says 50 schools and

medical hospitals have been hit. russian strikes have destroyed 600 residential buildings in the city since the invasion began. in mariupol thousands have been evacuated. it's a dire situation with hundreds of thousands of civilians trapped. >> we can provide up to 1/3 p our population access to water and they do not care for any utility and meds and so we in previous days have used the collective water. we've heard people are preparing and it was shelling and a lot of people killed while preparing this food together with ch children.

it's awful situation. >> you see residents walking down the street in kherson and there's a convoy of russian military vehicles rolling through the town there. the british defense ministry says moscow is calling up troops from as far as eastern ukraine. three helicopters destroyed by ukrainian forces at the airport in kherson. cnn's scott mclean is live at this hour in lviv, ukraine. talk about the east european leaders there. incredibly brave and very symbolic they're going straight into the capitol when we're seeing the scenes we do elsewhere in the city. >> reporter: that's right. kyiv is a dangerous place right now. the meeting with the leaders took place later on yesterday because it took them the better part of the day yesterday to arrive in kyiv to a train which

was their perhaps unusual method of transportation. the rail has been remarkably resilient through all of this. president zelenskyy pointed out how novel their visit was, especially when you had ambassadors and entire embassies clearing out of kyiv amidst all of what's happening in the country. he obviously said that he was grateful for their visit saying with friends like this we can win. he continued to obviously appeal for more from european leaders. we heard him tell the canadian parliament asking them to do more as well. here's what the three prime ministers said about the meeting. >> you are fighting for your lives, your freedom but we know that you are also fighting for our lives and our freedom and it's for us very important. we are bringing food support for your future not only european

path for membership. >> the next couple of days and weeks. >> okay. so it seems like nato membership, no fly zone, those things are non-starters for the moment but you hear zelenskyy is wearing them down. the polish prime minister saying they should be given candidate status and there should be a nato peacekeeping mission in ukraine. baby steps. yesterday zelenskyy was critical of nato saying the nato article 5 which is the mutual defense pact is the weakest it's ever been, max. >> let's talk about the talks between ukraine and russia. we're getting positive messages from both sides but we have to be very careful about how we interpret those. >> reporter: yeah, exactly.

perhaps don't get your hopes up just yet. this is the fourth round of talks. we haven't seen any breakthroughs. there were some on poe miss stick signs put out by both sides. the russians saying a lot of progress had already been made. the ukrainians saying the russians are, quote, more sensitive to their perspective. yesterday we got an update from the negotiator saying essentially talks for the second time had been paused and put over to the next day. they'll resume again today. he said specifically it was a very difficult and viscous negotiation process. there are fundamental negotiations and certainly room for compromise. another optimistic sign is they're actually working in subgroups to really hammer out the fine details of whatever would be -- whatever would be agreed upon. we also heard from the speaker of the ukrainian parliament yesterday who pointed out, look, of course we're not going to compromise on our territorial

integrity, but the best kinds of deals are ones where no one is satisfied. clearly the ukrainians are willing to compromise in some way. the russians have lost a lot already in terms of the sanctions against them. they may also be in the mood for compromise to try to find an exit so this conflict but as i said earlier, max, probably too early to get your hopes up about anything. >> okay. scott in lviv, thank you very much indeed. we'll be watching closely. the war in ukraine has claimed the lives of two more journalists meanwhile. fox news reporter photo journalist was killed when the vehicle he was in came under fire. 24-year-old ukrainian journalist as well was working there. she was also killed. fox says hall remains hospitalized with serious injuries. tragic news underscores the danger of covering the conflict. this past sunday u.s. journalist

brent renaud was skilled. he was shot by forces. president zelenskyy's speech to congress. president biden is about to announce another round of aid to ukraine. >> reporter: president zelenskyy and president biden expected to give major speeches on wednesday. president zelenskyy will address the congress. he'll thank the united states for the support but he's expected to ask the u.s. for more assistance. two of the major demands have been to create a no fly zone and to send the ukrainian air force more fighter jets. they have been firm nos and the high risk of transferring planes into ukraine as russia is attacking it. zelenskyy can ask for other

assistance in the speech he is going to give to congress. we will hear from president biden later on where he is going to announce 800 enveloped new assistance to ukraine. that would bring the total in the last week to a billion dollars in new lethal assistance that the united states has provided to ukraine. obviously they'll try to get that in as quick a as possible. we'll wait for specifics from president biden on what that will look like whether or not it includes the armed drones zelenskyy and other ukrainian officials have talked about that they need at this time. both of these speeches come as president biden is prepared to travel to brussels for an extraordinary meeting with nato on the 24th. that will happen with a european council. perhaps a trip to poland. he could come face to face with the millions of refugee whose have fled ukraine. kaitlyn collins, cnn, the white house. president zelenskyy has held back his criticism of the war.

he called upon the principal of defense weak on tuesday and he suggested he doesn't expect nato membership. russian president vladimir putin has said nato's spread into the region is a big reason. they say this war was never about nato membership. >> first of all, it's a reflection of reality that even before this aggression by russia ukraine was not going to get into nato tomorrow. all the more reason when putin was saying there were concerns about ukraine centered on its admission to nato, that was wrong. that was a lie. what this is about, what putin's demonstrating this is about is denying ukraine its independent existence, but what we've done in support of ukraine is to provide extraordinary security assistance that continues as we speak to make sure that ukraine has the means to defend itself. >> for more on the upcoming nato

and european council, let's talk about the visit of the east european leaders to kyiv. we've seen other western european leaders called out by that. a slight divide by what east european leaders would like to give ukraine? >> reporter: max, it was a really remarkable show of solidarity by the eastern european leaders, prime ministers of poland, czech and slovenia. going into a war zone to express their support of president zelenskyy. this reflects the fact that the eastern flanked countries feel particularly vulnerable by russian aggression in a way that perhaps other nato member countries and other european countries might not. they are on the front lines here. they went to meet with zelenskyy in kyiv to make it clear to him while ukraine is not a member of

nato, while it is not a member of the european union, they stand firmly behind ukrainian resistance to this russian aggression. it remains unclear what actually came out of that meeting, whether there were any concrete deliverables that came out of that. the symbolic nature of that having the three leaders for the first time since this war began enter into kyiv to meet with zelenskyy was a strong message that the whole world took note of, max. >> biden's message presumably coming along to brussels will be that there's wider unity, not just amongst those east european countries but across the western world in dealing with russia. >> reporter: that's right. this is something that the white house has touted repeatedly, that russia's aggression backfired. it has reinvigorated the nato alliance. this was the exact opposite of what vladimir putin had wanted. he wanted nato to become

divided, especially from ukraine. he wanted them to cease their eastward expansion. they're dropping the request for nato but in terms of the unity among nato and in terms of reinforcing that posture on nato's eastern flank to deter potential russian aggression against those nato countries, this has united them. this war has united them in a way that we haven't seen over the last decade certainly. that's a message that the white house has said repeatedly, is that this is a new sign of how important the nato alliance is, how important the eu alliance is as well in sending a message to russia that its behavior is unacceptable here. they're going to be discussing today during this defense ministerial meeting the possible fwhalt there might be a permanent nato troop presence in the eastern flanked countries to reassure them against any

potential russian aggression further west. on top of that we have seen discussion about sending further surface to air missile systems to the eastern countries air defense systems that could potentially ward off nif errant russian missile entering that country. a lot of discussion about bolstering and strengthening nato against russia. the exact opposite of what putin had hoped to flish. >> thank you very much indeed. the war in ukraine has disrupted the health care system. there is a massive short the tage of insue lynn. the shortage of fighting disease could be a problem. the u.n. says more than 3 million people have now fled ukraine since russia's invasion started nearly 3 weeks ago. many of those people are women, children and they are the elderly as well. as the refugees spread across

the region, cnn has found a few who decided to turn around and head back to the war zone. cnn's ed lavandera has their story. >> 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 mostly been men returning to join the ukrainian fight but in front of the sign reading train for ukraine, women are waiting for hours for a ride back into the war zone. near the front of the line we found tatiana. she came to poland to bring her two adults 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 half of the passengers in this line waiting to cross the border back to ukraine. this woman 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. >> reporter: do you feel like this is a way of fighting for your country? >> of course, she says. we have all become united during this time, each one doing what they can to help our military. women are doing it and menace well. standing with several women we met maria haligan. she's going with 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. i have to do this. i will do it for my country, for my relatives, for my friends. >> reporter: what stands out to me in this line of people going back to ukraine is there are so many women. why do you think that is? >> i'm not man, i can't kill, i'm woman, keep balance and help and be kind and care about relatives, family, friends and all there. now it feels all ukrainians my relatives. >> before she leaves 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. the train leaving platform 5 disappears into a war zone where safety is a dream. ed lavandera, cnn, poland. there are growing fears

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welcome back. people in mykolaiv, ukraine, are desperate to escape. this is a critical route on the advance to odesa. it appears a ground assault on the ground could come at any time. cnn's nick paton walsh reports. >> reporter: this is the war down which russia's war of annihilation may lurch, and its emptiness speaks only of what is to come from russian held kherson up here to the fighting force of mykolaiv. they know what it is to be in russia's way. out of 18 homes, 10 are left. no electricity, gas, water or heat. the only ones left are those who

can't leave. they're young, edgy, guns raised. unsure who we are. press written on our vest and our press cards slowly sli calms them down and they apologize. but this is not an army in full control of its destiny. the trenches are where the rockets land every night. some are from odesa, moscow's eventual target here, others from just down the road. saying this house is over there? >> that's mykolaiv. >> reporter: it's important to see what tools ukraine has been left with by a world that seems so concerned. they fight for their homes but tell me they captured russians who seemed unaware why they were even here.

they said they can't understand what's going on. they can't understand. back there they're being shot for retreating so they advance or surrender. dusk in mykolaiv has sounded this way for weeks. unbroken morale takes different forms and this is a police chief driving a birthday gift to the governor with a captured russian machine gun soldered onto it. it does not distract from the seriousness of the twilight world in which his colleagues w work. any drunk or man changing his car battery after curfew could be a russian sabateur. there is no way to check by looking in phones and trunks.

nato ministers including u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin meeting with nato secretary general stoltenberg. listen in, they're in brussels. >> meeting with the leaders next week for an extraordinary nato summit. at our extraordinary defense minister meeting today we will of course address the brutal invasion of ukraine by russia. this is devastating for ukrainian people and it will also change our security environment and we'll have long lasting consequences for our security for all nato allies. nato has responded in a united and swift way. nato allies have imposed severe sanctions on russia. allies provide significant support to ukraine, military support, national support and we

are reinforcing our collective defense. hundreds of thousands of troops on heightened alert. hundred thousand troops -- u.s. troops in europe and then 40,000 troops mostly on the eastern part of the alliance supported by naval and air forces. and of course united states and you personally, secretaries austin, you are playing a key role in these efforts to really increase and strengthen our collective defense. more u.s. troops in europe is a strong message of trans atlantic unity and we are extremely grateful for your support to what we do together in eastern part of the alliance.

i met u.s. troops in the last few weeks and i was struck by their commitment by the men and women in uniform from the u.s. there is no stronger message than having forces from north america serving in europe. at the meeting today we will address the immediate consequences of russia's invasion of ukraine but we will address the long-term consequences and our alliance to further strengthen our defense and to remove any room for miscalculation or misunderstanding in moscow about our readiness to protect and defend our allies. nato has a responsibility to ensure that this crisis does not escalate beyond ukraine. that is why we have increased the presence in the eastern part of the alliance.

once again, secretary, it's a privilege to have you here, secretary austin. >> secretary general, it's great to be back in brussels and let me thank you up front for your continued steady leadership, especially -- i mean, it's -- we value that leadership, especially at a time like this. and i think based upon that leadership we've been able to make some very quick decisions that were well thought out and act upon those decisions. i think our presence here sends a signal to the world that we remain united in our support of ukraine and we condemn russia's unprovoked and unjustified invasion into ukraine. and so ukraine is a

legitimate -- has a legitimate and sovereign government and certainly we support their ability to defend themselves. we'll continue to support them going forward. we've been clear throughout that we believe that our commitment to nato, our article 5 commitment is our plan and you can expect as the president has said a number of times that we will abide by that commitmentment and so it's great to be back here again. i look forward to a good day of discussions and, again, thank you for your leadership and thanks to all of my colleagues for what they continue to do to remain united in their support of ukraine and, again, i look forward to a great day. >> thank you.

>> nato secretary general and secretary austin there ahead of their meeting with nato ministers in brussels. they are reiterating they have a duty not to allow the ukraine war to escalate across the borders. we'll bring you updates, of course, about the meetings as they continue through the day. still ahead the russian journalist who staged a dramatic anti-war protest is now out of police custody but we'll discuss whether that's truly the end of her legal troubles. ur zzz's... and d get back to your rhythm. feel the power. beat the symptoms fast.

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update on breaking news out of ukraine at this hour. volodymyr zelenskyy will address leaders during the coming hours. he will ask for additional weapons for ukraine and no fly zone, something the u.s. and nato have ruled out so far. cnn has also learned u.s. president joe biden is expected to announce more security aid after mr. zelenskyy's speech. meanwhile, we're learning russian strikes have hit a residential building not far from kyiv's city center. ukrainian officials say at least two people were injured. no word yet on whether anyone was killed. on tuesday russian attacks hit four residential places around here. the city is under a strict curfew until thursday morning. we're also getting a new look at the damage left behind in some other cities. this is drone footage from a town in northeastern ukraine where shelling and bombs have ripped open massive craters on the ground and reduced homes to

rubble. the russian journalist who was arrested after this dramatic anti-war protest during a night tv broadcast is speaking out about what she endured in police custody. >> translator: those were indeed very difficult days of my life. i literally spent two days with no sleep. the questioning lasted over 14 hours. i wasn't allowed to contact relatives or friends. i wasn't provided any legal assistance. i am in quite a difficult position. >> so far she's been spared prison time. instead she was fined 300,000 rubles, a little under $300. that wasn't for breaking onto the tv set, it was for a message she recorded before on air protests. >> translator: dear russian people, it isn't smart. go and do not be afraid.

they cannot arrest us all. >> for more i'm joined by nina. she's been penalized for that video but not the act. does that mean there could be another penalty coming down the line? >> that's right, max. that's something we don't get. she appeared in court after having disappeared for about a day and a half and she was charged with organizing an unauthorized event. she pleaded guilty to that charge and was fined a pretty lenient fine of $280, the equivalent thereof in rubles. if you take a look at how impactful her protest was. when i brought a stack of today's u.k. newspapers she was on the front of the daily telegraph, the financial times, the guardian has her on the front page saying fined but freed. the question is whether or not she busted onto the live tv set where she worked as an editor might actually mean she could face another more draconian fine. russia in the past two weeks has

passed new legislation tightening the reins of free speech again, meaning that if you refer to what the kremlin calls a special military operation taking place in ukraine, max, as a war, you could end up with a jail sentence between 3 and 15 years. we believe she's a mother and so it might be that that might impact any future sentencing, we just don't know at this point. but the kremlin called her act hooliganism. president zelenskyy called it heroic. it's captured the attention of france's president emmanuel macron and said he will discuss her case and that france might be able to offer her asylum or diplomatic protection at the embassy in moscow. we don't know more. >> we don't know how widely it's been seen, that video, in russia either, do we? that presumably is what the kremlin might be concerned about, that that would incite other people to do similar things. >> well, obviously it only aired

for a snippet of about 5 seconds. you could hear her shouting in the background, no to war. don't listen to what they're telling you. they're telling you lies. social media has been restricted in russia, too. facebook, twitter, instagram is extremely popular as well. we know obviously she had that video pre-recorded that was disseminated by human rights organizations. that was the one that obviously incurred the charge of $280. she pled guilty to that unauthorized protest and then charges resulted as a result of that. we don't know how widely inside russia people accessed that. you get around these rules where virtual private networks, vpns, but the leaders are being tightened in russia. the ceo of goldman saks says

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ukrainian troops wounded battling forces are speaking about their experiences. the soldiers are treated at a hospital where they're pushing back a russian advance on the city which has been under attack for days. once stable, they'll be moved further west and away from the russian attacks. they described harrowing moments in the battle. >> translator: we started to attack the enemy and came under enemy fire. our tank, the turret, stopped working. the russian tanks came and we barely managed to get away. >> translator: we did not manage

to leave because we were hit by a shell. my guys jumped away. i couldn't get away because half of my leg was torn away. then i got out, rolled over to the guys and crawled over to a rolled where military picked us up, loaded us into a pickup truck and brought me to the hospital. >> russia's president underestimates a lot about ukraine. 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 from the city with an air raid siren. the ground war has yet to tleech city in central ukraine but locals aren't taking any chances. this is a village into vinnytsia. look at how this village is protecting itself. homemade tank traps which the

locals call hedge hogs. they've sown netting and put up sand bags. 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. >> reporter: just down the road i meet a woman who seems like a sweet 71-year-old grandmother. she said if she saw vladimir putin she would strandle him with her own hands right now. >> translator: i'm ready, she says. if by god the russians come here, i'll shoot them all and my hands will be shaking. i'll throw grenades at them. there is seating 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, food for struggling people of ukraine. aid that will then be shipped off to the front line cities. >> i want to say thank you for the support for the war. 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 the city? >> yes. yes. other cities view us ready. we have two weeks to make good defense. today we're ready but we don't want this. >> reporter: the war effort extends to this gentleman and his farm where workers labor listening to news. 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 demill tar rise 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. much more ahead. do stay with cnn. kills 99.9% of bacteria detergent alone, can't. are you one of the millions of americans who exexperience occasional bloating,

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is the bain of their existence. they unanimously passed a measure making daylight savings time permanent across the united states. but first it has to pass the house and be signed by president biden to become law. the proposed change would take effect in 2023 and then clocks would never again have to be adjusted. thanks for joining me. i'm max foster in london. our breaking coverage of the war in ukraine continues with "early start" with christine romans and laura jarrett. you are watching cnn.

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this is cnn breaking news. it is wednesday, march 16th, 5 a.m. in new york. thanks for getting an early start with us. i'm christine romans. laura has the morning off. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we begin with president zelenskyy pleading for a more direct western intervention to save ukraine. in just hours ukraine's president will take that appeal for aid to congress and the american people in a video link address. zelenskyy is expected to sharpen the calls and help acquiring fighter jets. later today president