so who's staying? well, just to name a few of the brands involved according to the tracking, rebok, brooks brothers, nine west, avon's cosmetics among them. subway still has 406 locations still operating in the country though they say their operated by franchisees. thanks for joining us. our coverage continues. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. i'm paula newton at cnn headquarters in atlanta and begin with breaking developments out of ukraine where officials are rejecting russia's demands to surrender the besieged city of mariupol. that deadline was scheduled to end this hour, in fact. mariupol has been the scene of some of the worst attacks by

russian forces leaving behind widespread devastation like the one you see there, and of course, unfortunately, countless casualties. while so many civilians remain trapped amid the heavy bombardment, 7,200 were evacuated from mariupol sunday, and that was through just four humanitarian corridors, and from what we know, though, tens of thousands could be still in that city. and as the fighting of course around that city rages, we're learning a senior russian naval officer has been killed. a total of five have also been killed since the invasion began. and in just the last few hours several explosions have rocked kyiv. one you see it there was caught on cc tv video. we're told rez vejs and business areas have been hit, at least one person has been killed. ukraine's president spoke with cnn earlier today.

in a wide ranging interview warning this war in ukraine could lead to an even larger conflict. listen. >> we're losing people on a daily basis, innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us, kill us. if we demonstrate the dignity of our people, our army that we are able to deal a powerful blow, we are able to strike back, but unfortunately, our dignity is not going to preserve lives. so i think that we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating, a possibility of talking to putin. but if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war. >> meantime the white house says

u.s. president joe biden will travel to warsaw, poland, on friday after his meetings this week with g7 and eu leaders in brussels and will discuss the response to the humanitarian crisis created by russia's war on ukraine. we've seen of course the carnage unleashed by russia's unprovoked attack with no concern it seems given to innocent civilians sheltering from the violence. and now we're waiting to learn more about these latest strikes including one that hit an art school in mariupol. an advisor to the city's mayor says officials are still trying to find out exactly how many people survived that bombing. earlier we learned the building was acting as a shelter for about 400 people. we also still don't know how many survived the attack on a theater in the city four days ago. you'll remember this theater. it was also being used as a shelter for as many as 1,300

people. so far 130 have been reported to have survived. and we're just learning about an attack on a care home in eastern ukraine. it happened nine days ago. the head of the luhansk region says 56 elderly residents were killed when a russian tank opened fire. cnn has not been able to independently verify that claim. some of the repeat fighting has been around kherson. they're pushing out the attack to surrounding villages in the drive to try and seize mykolaiv. and that is a crucial city in russia's quest to control ukraine's southern region. and of course it's important port cities. ukrainian forces have held the russians back so far, but as nick paten walsh reports, they haven't been able to limit the destruction of russia's relentless missile strikes and of course the shelling. a warning, some of the images you're about to see are graphic.

>> reporter: this is what the slow route of russia in southern ukraine looks like, kyiv's forces are pushing close to kherson, the first city the kremlin took. here so many people being evacuated day by day, and the area quiet in contrust to these impacts we see all around in the fields, just constant barrage over the past days. the bus is the last way out. the village has been ukraine's last position for days, so this is what russia left of it. the noise is the village gas main leaking furiously. putin's war of annihilation was sure not to overlook this school, its front torn off by a

missile. it is hard to imagine life returning here even when the shelling stops, which just now it does not. we run-down for cover. the marines here are mobile, pushing forwards where they can. kherson's nearby airport, their prize. a former lebanese soldier working in tv married to a ukrainian. >> two weeks ago this place had life and now nothing. >> reporter: the bus has filled with anyone left who wants to leave, anyone who can move themselves. we are asked to take those who cannot. and who remember the last time

war came to europe. as we leave, shelling hits the village. it had become a deathbed riddled with cast imnition mines, this man said . >> reporter: over days the road out of there has been fought over. its pockmarked concrete lined with these tiny peaceful worlds ripped open. this woman was in poland when

rush russians took her hometown kherson, where her children are. he can't hear the blast at his age but sent his wife to live with his daughter in the city. he has stayed to protect whatever they have left. shelling hits the road out again. and we drive past the earth putin's shells have happily scorched as his army slowly loses. whatever ground here it gained, ukraine's guns pushing them back. but moskow imposes a cost. these barracks torn in two reduced to rubble by missile strikes that killed dozens of ukrainian soldiers some as they slept friday morning in one of the worst known losses of the

war. this trauma unit struggles with some of the 40 injured. one soldier asking for his friends by name. not all injuries involve blood. this soldier was in bed on the third floor when the blast hit, and he found himself on the second with both legs smashed losing consciousness .

>> that night the kremlin's blunt force hits another target around mykolaiv. moskow may be losing ground here but does all it can to crush and stifle what it cannot have. nick paten walsh, cnn, ukraine. >> for analysis i'm now joined by lieutenant colonel daniel l. davis. he's a retired u.s. army officer and senior fellow and military expert at the defense priority's think tank. so difficult to really look at military strategy when we see the devastation there among civilians. i mean, let's deal first with this ultimatum apparently that the russians gave to ukraine. they rejected it. mariupol they say will never surrender. from the point of a military strategy here, why the

ultimatum? why now? >> i mean honestly from what we can gather there's two separate issues. it makes sense from a humanitarian perspective and from a military sper spective, if you can take the city with less combat power being expended then from the russian perspective that's good, but they also don't want to just kill a bunch of civilians if they don't need to. i think they're careless a lot with that, but i think they have normal humanity and they don't want to if they don't have to. but i honestly think going back to the military perspective the best thing the ukrainian people can do at this point is the city is going to fall. the russians have more power than ukraine have to defend it, that this city is going to fall. better to limit i think to limit any civilian destruction, and they need to reposition their military into any other place, which the russians said they will allow the military to go out, they don't have to surrender. but to keep fighting more

civilians are going to die, and i think they should probably reconsider that. >> these have been tough calls to president zelenskyy, and he's not reacted well to these, although he does say he wants to keep talking and wants peace talks to work. he told our fareed zakaria if those peace talks fail that could mean a third world war. is that right? >> that's not right. and west leaders need to be very firm on this. president biden and all the leaders of the west countries need to make certain this does not escalate beyond the borders of ukraine. as bad as this is, as much of that segment you just had, as gut wrenching to listen to or hear would be catastrophic if it expands beyond there so say to a polish countryside or slovakia or god forbid if it escalates into a tuckler exchange and you have whole cities being torched. nobody wins in that, and we must

keep this contained within ukraine no matter what. >> containment seems a bit callus, though, at this point. given what we just saw, what we have been seeing, are nato and its allies just going to sit back really and watch this siege warfare? it's essentially a terror campaign and could engulf as you know more of ukraine. and this is not -- i want to make clear this is not collateral damage. those of us who cover chechnya know what it is. this is the whole ball game. they are the direct targets of civilians. >> it's un -- it's complete warfare. it's absolutely full-scale warfare. you're dead right. there's no question about that. but what we have to be strong on is as bad as these things are, if we escalate this, it's not likely if we choose to use military power we can prevent that or we can stop it, almost certainly it would expand it, and now you'll have more communities, more countries suffering the same drukz, and it's only going to escalate beyond that. so we have to keep it here so it

doesn't go more. these countries are not at war. if they simply go to war because we try to do something militarily. the fact is the harsh proof is this is a full war, and we have to keep it from going more or more people are going to suffer. >> and lot of what you're saying may make sense in terms of strategy. it's harsh to hear. >> it's harsh to say, i know. >> i believe you. but so many of us are thinking of it as we see those civilians. we're wondering how much further can this go. in our cnn interview president zelenskyy directly was asked had you agreed to neutrality sooner maybe there would not have been a war. he responded saying, no, there's no way. at this point do you think that if he reviews kind of what led up to this war that there are lessons there that can be taken so that more civilian lives are

saved? >> yeah, i watched that whole interview, and of course my heart goes out to zelenskyy. he's got the most difficult job of anybody on the planet right now, but unfortunately i don't agree with him on that because russiana had been emphatic about saying neutrality and no nato and ukraine for more than a decade and a half. and even in the last few months again they said the same thing. on february 13th just less than ten days before the war, the u.k. -- i'm sorry the ukrainian ambassador to the you can, floated the idea saying maybe we would just say there's no nato. immediately lavrov jumped on that and said, yes, that could probably prevent war. and zelenskyy came back 24 hours later and said that's not what he's going to do and that is nearly the same deal they're being offered now. i think there's good reason to say they could have stopped the war at that point from

happening. what we need to do now is put so much effort as global community on negotiations to get fighting stopped, then we can negotiate the details. but first we have to get the killing stopped. >> even at this hour a cease-fire seems so far away for the entire country. we really appreciate your insights. >> thank you. in one positive dwmt about half of the staff that's been working at the chernobyl nuclear plant basically since the war has been able to rotate out and return home. now the international atomic agency says those employees have been working nonstop at the radioactive waste facilities for more than three weeks when russian forces seized the site. those workers have now been relieved by ukrainian staffers. the iaea is hopeful that the rest of the staff can rotate out soon. still to come for us, meet some of the youngest victims of russia's war in ukraine.

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cnn's sal muma abdel aziz has o report. >> reporter: they are two tiny to understand the meaning of war, but these orphans are already victim to its cruelty. they're among the 71 children that were rescued from the hard hit northern city of sumy. many are disabled. all under the age of 4, some requiring constant medical attention. these are the kids from a sumy orfj, the doctor in the video says. they were evacuated yesterday and miraculously they brought them here to kyiv. their journey was very difficult, he says. for two weeks care takers sheltered the babies and toddlers from russian bombardment in a basement. and when a humanitarian corridor finally opened they made the dangerous journey here to the capital. each little one arrived with an

orange tag with minimal details -- name, birth date and their most urgent medical need. we were able to track down four of the children now a kyiv city heart center. over shaky video connection his staff told us of their harrowing journey. all the children were packed across just four ambulances with only two doctors among them. >> in the car to and from sumy to kyiv during the six hours with our doctor, just the driver. >> reporter: now the babies are receiving the medical attention they require, but with russian forces shelling kyiv, they're still not safe. nurse oxana has a simple plea. >> children, don't die. >> reporter: you don't want children to die. >> yes, yes.

>> reporter: but in an unprovoked war where the most innocent were targeted there are few guarantees. salma abdelaziz, cnn, lviv. ukraine's neighbors, too, are doing their best to help the flood of refugees crossing their borders merchandise in romania emergency workers are welcoming them with hot meals and toys for kids. most ukrainerenes are fleeing to poland, romania, moldova, hungary and slovakia. the u.n. says about 10 million ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes, and of course that includes more than 3.3 million who have had to flee ukraine all together. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy addressed by video link. he mentioned the protection provided by the country's fire defense system, iron dome, while pleading for help. >> translator: israel knows well your iron dome, your missile

defense system is the best. we know you know how to protect your interests. save the lives of ukrainians and ukrainian jews. >> and he said they sar r share an intertwined history in his words but added it is time for israel to make its choice. china's ambassador to the u.s. meantime is rejecting rumors beijing may be providing military assistance to russia but says beijing is conducting business as usual with moskow. he told cbs 'face the nation the country is still cooperating on trade and energy matters despite russia's invasion of ukraine and claims china is only sending humanitarian aid. >> there's a disinformation about china providing military assistance to russia. we reject that, and what china is doing is send food, medicine,

sleeping bags and baby formula not weapons and ammunitions to any party. and we are against the war, as i said. >> okay, for more now we want to bring in cnn's beijing bureau chief, steven jang. it's good to have you weigh in on this right now. we've heard the ambassador's remarks. he's been quite active actually speaking all week. does it really signal any kind of change in china's policy towards this war? and i will also say thee went onto make the point, look, our neutrality is of benefit to the world because it means we could perhaps help a brokered cease-fire or peace agreement. >> paula, that's a very interesting question because in the past few days we have started noticing some subtle changes in official's rhetoric about this war even though they still refuse to call this a russian invasion. but they have started mentioning

ukraine's security concern as part of their consideration and their position and stance. and as you have just heard the ambassador they have also started highlighting china's humanitarian assistance to ukraine even though it's still very small in scale, and state media's coverage of this war has started to include information from the ukrainian side and even senserss have been allowing information. part of it being they're still trying to maintain some sort of formal high ground with the minister saying how time will prove china to be orn the right side of history. however, their officials still pointing to nato's expansion as the root cause of this conflict. that is a crumbling talking point utbut also a major concern of china. that's really what's been

bombing putin and xi jinping in the past few years, that is the u.s. led alliance encircling their respective countries. that's why a lot of analysts want to say what china wants to see out of this war is weakened u.s. alliance and order more favorable to its authoritarian government. at this stage very few people to see china really pull back from its close ties with russia despite repeat warnings from the u.s. >> and as we wait for more definitive signs if china is serious about trying to help at least get a cease-fire here. appreciate it. coming up, one of the reasons ukrainians are still in this fight is their ability to capture and repurpose russian military equipment. we go behind the scenes. you'll want to see this. r bodies that same love? new dove body love shower collection is infused with face care ingredients like hyaluronic and peptide serums, plus 10 times moisture boost complex.

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trapped, and civilian shellers are still coming under attack, and that is including an art school and a theater where people were sheltering. in the meantime fierce fighting is also raging. on sunday several explosions were reported near the city center. kyiv's mayor says at least one person was killed. a shopping center also caught fire with flames reaching as high as the third and fourth floors. amid the devastation and violence ukraine's president remains steadfast saying his country will keep fighting. he tells cnn's fareed zakaria the support ukraine has received from around the world gives him hope for the future. >> translator: the people throughout the planet have shared values. it's not simply about give us help or save ourselves or about the fact we have to be united. we are fighting for our freedom, for our lives.

unfortunately, we have to fight for our lives at the expense of other lives. we have to earn the life for the entire civilization, and in order to make this happen we are giving up our own lives. this is not right so we have to unite. >> now, over the last few weeks we've shown you, of course, all those abandoned russian vehicles in ukraine, and some of them, in fact, get repaired and repurposed to fight the invaders. ukrainian forces have been able to use captured russian equipment against their former owners. here's fred pleitgen with that story. >> reporter: another setback for vladimir putin's army. ukrainian forces say they destroyed this column of russian vehicles, but believe it or not some might be used by the ukrainian army soon. this unit of ukraine's territorial defense fixes up captured russian military

hardware. mechanics working day in and day out often using scrap parts to get armored vehicles back on the battlefield. look at all the stuff they have here. they have old metal, cable. the guys here tell us they use everything that they can to make these vehicles fit again and beat vladimir putin with his own weapons. when we vizzed the group was fixing up several armored personnel carriers and a fuel truck. they also showed us this video of rockets they claim they captured and which they also said even fired back at the russians. while some of the vehicles are captured during battle and the russian crews killed or captured, often russian soldiers simply abandon their gear and run away. a deputy commander of this unit tells me. the russian soldiers are frightened and demuralized, he says. they are afraid to be separated from each other because they're being shot at from every bush. we call it safari.

civilian hunters are now hunting for those russians who fled through the forests. the territorial defense unit also trains new fighters to help defend ukraine's capital. and they show us some of the arms they receive from the u.s. and allied nations like this german made anti-tank weapon. is it effective, i ask the deputy commander. very effective to shoot tanks, he says. ukraine's forces continue to hold off russian advances in kyiv and elsewhere. but their own losses are significant as well. both military personnel and civilians getting killed by russian fire. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy told cnn's fareed zakaria in an exclusive interview. >> we're losing people on daily basis, innocent people on the ground. russian forces have come to

exterminate us, kill us. and if we demonstrate the dignity of our people, our army, that we are able to deal a powerful blow, we are able to strike back. >> they strike back with any weapons they can get their hands, whether those come from allies abroad or their enemy. these fighters say anything that drives or shoots will be put to use against vladimir putin's invading force. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. to another dimension of this war now. just before russia's invasion of ukraine you might remember a series of cyber attacks hit the country. websites of ukrainian agencies and big banks went off-line in what poilgss said was the largest cyber attack in the country's history. the white house blamed russia, the kremlin denied involvement. but u.s. officials warned that a wave of debilitating cyber attacks could accompany russia's war. so far it just hasn't happened.

we're going to take another look here. last week russia's military warned it is facing in fact an unprecedented number of attacks from foreign hackers. intelligence officials are contemplating this as we all wait for that next phase of war. if it happens. eric nunes is a former marine and cia agent. he's now a cyber security expert and ceo of cyber chief and joins us now from virginia. and really important to get you to weigh in on what's happening now or not happening. we all know that a cyber escalation could definitely materialize at any moment. look, it is heartening to see that hasn't happened yet, because i think some people don't realize how dangerous that could also be. could you give us a state of play right now in terms of that cyber effort and why you believe it hasn't escalated thus far sph. >> well, paula, you know the international effort to defend against these cyber attacks has been very well coordinated in

advances. there's been a tremendous amount of intelligence sharing for every country potentially involved and goes beyond ukraine here in the united states. certainly we're susceptible given the sanctions we've taken against the russian government. so it's really been a global effort. and a global in many ways public-private partnership between private industry and governments across the world sharing intelligence and then improving defenses. so that's certainly one reason is there's the possibility that we've actually just been better globally at defense. and then the other potential reason that we haven't seen the impacts that we expected is that russia just hasn't deployed those attacks yet. we don't know if that's the case. we can't be certain of that yet. there's theories that potentially they didn't want to damage an infrastructure that they thought they could quickly take over and leverage. so there's many reasons potentially, but i think one of the ones that we can maybe take a little bit of a silver lining

in this conflict is the fact our defenses are well coordinated and there's a tremendous amount of intelligence sharing going on. >> and so we've also been hearing reports that, in fact, ukraine that had been on the defensive with these kind of cyber warfare tactics has now actually been using some of those tactics themselves. is russia now defensive here in terms of what ukraine's been able to do? >> well, there's been a lot of reports now. it's tough to verify those reports as some of them come from the russian government. so it's very difficult to know whether they're accurate or not, but there's certainly many, many aspects of volunteerism that we've never seen before. so this new dimension, pallia, as you mentioned of cyber being an active part of warfare, one of the things we're seeing is the volunteerism of not just nation states and countries like ukraine being involved and affectively potentially

attacking their adversaries but volunteers across the globe potentially attacking countries like russia. now, in parallel to that we've seen the two major isps, internet service providers in russia effectively make the decision to isolate much of the country. so we can't be sure whether or not these attacks are actually happening because a lot of that infrastructure that we can use to leverage the attacks has actually gone dark. >> interesting. you get to these volunteers, i'll call it freelancing. there has been some of that out there. can it make any kind of decisive difference in this conflict? >> i think it can make a tremendous difference, and i think there will be many lessons learned for many years as we move away from this conflict eventually. and one of them will be the impact of these volunteers. so it's one thing to defend against a nation state who whether or not has spoken, you know, publicly, each knows the boundaries and how far they may push the limit before they do

something that is an escalation. when it comes to volunteers, they may not know those boundaries. they certainly may not respect those boundary until one of the great risks of this kind of volunteerism is the risk for an escalatory action that is perceived to be from an adversary, which is actually the action of volunteer. so it's a big risk, actually, some of the benefits kind of being able to martial this great force, the there's a lot of benefits. but there's a lot of risk as well. >> i do want to ask you i know president biden actually had the heads of major banks before this invasion -- this war started to make sure that other -- that they were protected. that's just one example. quickly, eric, do you think this is in hand, or do you think we should all be prepared for this to escalate and escalate yound the borders of russia and ukraine? >> i think it could escalate at

any given time. but i think inunited states and partners around the world have done a great job of sharing information and trying to improve defenses globally so that if it does escalate we will be prepared to defend ourselves appropriately. >> i'll have to leave it there. always fascinating to get to this aspect of modern warfare. i want to thank you for your insights. appreciate it. still to come for us, could hong kong ease its covid restrictions amid an outbreak of thousands of new cases each and every day? we are live in the city with the latest on that zero covid policy and what leaders may be thinking. ♪ come on. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪

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so just into cnn, hong kong's leadership is announcing the lifting of some covid-19 measures, and significantly it includes ending flight bans for the u.s., u.k. and several other countries. now, hong kong has seen nearly 6,000 covid related deaths. most of those in the past few weeks. that's according to john hopkins university data. now, hong kong enacted a zero covid policy similar to mainland china in an effort to try to slow the spread, and that's resulted in business closures and restrictions on movement. cnn's kristi lustout joins us now from hong kong with the latest. and this is significant news, right. >> reporter: very significant. we've been monitoring the press conference. in the last half hour or so

carrie lamb has announced new changes to the zero covid policy, a policy that's once isolated this international business logistics and aviation hub. in the last half hour she announced a number of changescluding this, the flight bans on nine countries including the u.s. and u.k. will be lifted starting april 1st. and also announced a mandatory 14-day quarantine for most incoming travelers could be lessened at least seven days of the traveller that should kick in starting next month. but a host of tough social distancing covid measures may remain in place and won't be revisited or relaxed until after april 21st. schools remain closed, a number of businesses like gyms, cinemas, bars remain closed. there's an estimate that 50,000 small businesses in hong kong will be shuttered because of the fifth wave of infection because

of the zero covid policy that's in place here. that is the reason why we've seen this max exodus of tens of thousands of people leaving the city in recent weeks. it prompted carrie lamb last week to concede there was an issue, public tolerance had reached a limit and we have a public statement for you. she main checked the public sector as being the catalyst for this change. she said this last week, i have a very strong feeling people's tolerance is fading, a strong feel our financial institutions are losing its patient. this isolated status of hong kong, hong kong is a international financial center. the number of deaths caused by the virus continues to rise. recently hong kong has set a world record in terms of the rate of covid-19 deaths. hospitals remain overwhelmed. morgues have reached capacity. there's a shortage of coffins here in hong kong, and i want to

show you this image. a series of very disturbing images that had been circulating across hong kong and causing much distress to residents here. people are horrified by what they're seeing on your screen right now, showing body bags piling up in covid-19 wards next to elderly patients. the hong kong hospital authority was forced to address the situation, said the situation, quote, has been rectified. many of the covid deaths in hong kong are due to the elderly not getting vaccinated before omicron hit. and even though we do get this welcome news of these new measures being relaxed, the damage has been done. images that you've seen here, the high death rate has caused trauma and sadness to this once great city. back to you. >> so chilling. i know people have been afraid to go to hospital because of those images you just brought to us. really appreciate the update. ahead for us, top dancers from around the world unite for

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about the horrifying experience. olga used her body as a shield to protect her daughter from flying debris as their home came under fire in kyiv. thankfully, her child was unharmed. her husband, who you see there in the photo as well was injured during the attack. i want you to listen now as olga describes those terrifying moments. >> translator: i was wounded in the head and blood started flowing. it all flowed on the baby, and i country understand. i thought it was her blood. dmytro was taking the baby away. i am screaming that she is covered all in glass, all in blood. he tells me, olga, it's your blood. it's not her's. and in the morning, i woke up to feed the baby again. i gave her a bath. and i just sat down to feed her. and i like to sit down with knees up, like this. and i cover her with a blanket so she is warm too. and that's what kept the baby alive. i just got her covered in time.

and then dmytro jumped up and covered us too. >> what a terrifying experience. olga and her husband are thankfully now recovering from their injuries. and if you would like to help the people of ukraine, please go to cnn.com/impact. there you'll find several ways that you can help and so many of you have already helped going to that web page. i'm paula newton. stay with us. our breaking news coverage continues live from lviv, ukraine with hala gorani that will be right after the break.

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states this hour as well. i'm hala gorani. reporting live from lviv in ukraine, where it is just past 6:00 in the morning. officials here in ukraine are flatly rejecting russia's demands to surrender the besieged city of mariupol. the deadline from moscow by the way passed a couple of hours ago. mariupol has been the scene of some of the worst attacks and devastation by russian forces, leaving behind widespread destruction.