hello, will to our viewers around the world and the united states this hour. reporting live in lviv in ukraine. we're tracking breaking developments here in ukraine. in the last few minutes before i get to the nationwide developments. we heard air raid sirens sound across lviv here in western ukraine. also among the developments we have heard ukrainian officials flatly refuse to meet russian demands to surrender the city before dawn. russian forces have been unleashing brutal attacks leaving behind this type of widespread devastation. as well as countless kocasualti. so many civilians remain trapped in the heavy bombardment.

7,200 were evacuated yesterday. on sunday. through humanitarian corridors. it leaves many more trapped nd this type of environment. as the fighting rages, we're learning a senior russian naval officer is now among those killed. in kyiv at least one person was killed after several explosions hit the capitol. one blast here. caught on tv video. we're told both residential and business areas were hit. russia unprovoked attack on ukraine will be the focus of the nato summit taking place this week. the american president will be there. in person. and we have learned he'll travel to warsaw poland and meet with the country's president. ukraine president spoke with condition earlier and said he's ready for talks of his own with vladimir putin. >> we have to use any formatt, any chance in order to have a

possibility of negotiating. possibility of talking to putin. but if the attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war. >> some of the heaviest recent fighting has been around kerr saw. a southern city occupied currently by russian forces. attacking surrounding villages in the drive to seize the port city. ukrainian forces have held the russians back. but they haven't been able to limit the destruction of russia's relentless missile strikes and shelling. warning some of the images are graphic. >> this is what the slow route of russia in southern ukraine looks like. kyiv forces are pushing closer to the first city the kremlin took. here so many people being evacuated. day by day.

and the quite in contrast to the impacts we see. all around in the fields. just constant barrage over the past days. the bus is the last way out of here. going from door to what's left of every door. 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 over look this school. its front torn off by a missile. it's hard to imagine life returning here even when the shelling stops. which just now. we run down for cover.

the marines here are mobile. pushing forwards where they can. nearby airport the prize. >> we have a little mission. to kill a --. >> he's a former lebanese soldier. working in tv. married to a ukrainian. >> two week ago this place had life. and now nothing. >> 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 death bed riddled with munition mines.

>> over days the road out of there has been fought over. marked concrete lined with the tiny peaceful worlds ripped open. this woman was in poland when russians took her hometown. where he children are. >> he can't really hear the blast at his age.

but sent his wife to live with his daughter in the city. he stayed to protect whatever they have left. shelling hits the road out again. we drive past the earth putin's shells have happily scorched. as his army slowly loses. whatever ground here it gained. ukraine guns pushing them back. but moscow 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 trama 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 found himself on the second with both legs smashed. losing koshness. consciousness . >> that night, the kremlin blunt force hits another target. moscow maybe losing ground here,

but does all it can to crush and stifle what it cannot have. cnn, nuke. >> such great on the ground reporting. we have seen the carnage unleashed by the attack. with no concern given to civilians sheltering from the violence. we're waiting to learn more about the latest strikes including one that hit an art school. and adviser to the city mayor says officials are still trying to find out exactly how many people survived that bombing. earlier we learned the building was shelter for 400 people. we still don't know how many survived the attack on a theater in the city four days ago. it was also being used as a shelter. for 1,300 people. so far, 130 are reported to have survived. and we're learning about an attack on a care home in eastern ukraine. it happened nine days ago. but we're getting more details. the head of the region says 56

elderly residents were killed. when a russian tank opened fire on them. cnn has not been able to independently verify that claim. joining me now is mick ryan. retired major general with australian army and former commander of the australian defense college. also the author of war transformed the future of 21st century great power competition and conflict. thanks for joining us. this can't be accidental. each and every time. it sound and seems on the ground as if russians are either reckless in their targeting. or deliberately targeting civilian infrastructure. and areas. what is the strategy behind this? >> i think it's probably a bit of both. as well as a lot of pressure from the top. the russian high command will be getting desperate to please

president putin and putting pressure on commanders. it results in this behavior have subordinate commanders. we should not forget urban warfare is very brutal. it brutalized participants. which makes these kinds of war crimes much more likely. >> yeah. it hasn't even become really urban combat. these are russian strikes. sometimes with long range missiles. into populated areas. do you share the analysis that some experts have brought fourth that russia is on the back foot. these types of actions are a sign of their weakness. of the fact they are not able to take city centers. >> i think that's correct. russians have used most of their precision weapons in the first week of the war.

and really are now using their large stocks of dumb bombs and more indiscriminate artillery in the strikes. more death and destruction from civilians. which could lead us in professional military. >> all right. unfortunately we lost the connection. we'll try to reconnect later. thanks to him for joining us. now in one quote on quote positive development about half of the staff that's been working at the chernobyl nuclear plant basically since the war began has been able to rotate out and return home. the international atomic energy agency says the employees had been working non-stop at the radio active waste facility for three weeks. when russian forces seized the site. occupied by russian forces. those workers have been relieved

by other ukrainian staffers. and the is hopeful the rest of the staff can rotate out soon as well. now, ukraine president spoke to israel legislators sunday. he's been doing the rounds and speaking to congress and the u.s. germany. this time it's the after the break we'll tell you about zelenskyy's impassioned plea. and israel's unique relationship with russia. stay with us.

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ukrainian president zelenskyy addressed the israel sunday by video link. he said the people of israel and ukraine shared an intertwined history. and said it was time for israel to make its choice. journalist has that story from tel aviv. >> ten minute speech with gratitude and criticism of israel. president zelenskyy addressed the country's lawmakers on zoom. they tuned in by the video conferencing app. it's in the middle of pass over recess. he began by quoting the most famous ukrainian born child. former prime minister. she said we intend to remain. our neighbors want to see us dead. this is not a question. that leaves much room for

compromise. he repeatedly likened russia's invasion and language that the russian government is now using to justify the invasion of ukraine. to the nazis and noted that in 1920 on february 24, this this was the day that the national socialist party was formed and 102 years later, on the exact same day, february 24, 2022, russia ordered the invasion of ukraine. now he criticized israel for not offering more visas. for ukrainian refugees. and not sending military aid. israel defend itselves with the iron dome missile defense system. they think israel will go down that route. the one of the few countries that has good relations both with ukraine and russia. with prime minister's visit to president putin in moscow last saturday. since when he spoken to zelenskyy six times. and putin three times.

israel wants to maintain the mediator role or potential to be an mediator. at the same time it doesn't want to put russian out of joint. it has to carry out raids on hezbollah. and air space is controlled by russia and wants to maintain that ability. when it feels there are assets brought into syria. when threaten it. at the same time israel is mindful there's a large jewish population in russia. and doesn't want to do anything that could cause them problems. that said, israel has been sending humanitarian aid. it's the only country it believes to have sent a field hospital to ukraine. monday a team is due to fly out to operate that hospital in western ukraine. near the polish border. perhaps the quote from zelenskyy was this. when he was addressing israel. you can mediate between two countries, but not between good

and evil. china ambassador to the u.s. is rejecting rumors that beijing maybe providing military assistance to russia. saying beijing is conducting business as usual with moscow. and told face the nation that the countries are cooperating on economic trid trade and financial and energy matters. despite the invasion. and claims china is selling humanitarian aid to the region. >> there's a disinformation. about china providing military assistance to russia. we reject that. >> you will not? >> what china is doing is sent food, medicine, sleeping bags. and baby formula. not weapons. and ammunition to any part.

and we against the war. as i said. >> well live from beijing with more. what's the objective of china here? putting forth its ambassador to washington on american tv. saying we promise you we're not sending weapons. just baby formula and stuff like that. what are they trying to achieve? >> it is interesting because in the past few days we have started noticing the slight or subtle changes in the officials rhetoric about this war. efb though they refuse to call it a russia invasion chls they have started mentioning ukraine security concern. as part of the consideration in the position and policy. and as you have heard in the chinese ambassador. they have been highlighting china humanitarian assistance to ukraine. even though it's still very small in scale. and state media, their coverage ot war still very much pro-russia has started including some information from the

ukrainian side and sensors are starting to allow more neutral voices to emerge on social media. all this can be a sign of the beijing leadership being pragmatic. also it's a reflection of still trying to maintain moral high ground. with their foreign minister for example insisting over the weekend that time will eventually prove china's position to be on the right side of history. senior officials including president xi jinping pointing to nato east ward expansion as the root cause of the conflict. that is parroting a kremlin talking point but a reflection of beijing concern about u.s. building alliances around china. and with officials here increasingly us using the term indo pacific version of nato. that has been bothering putin and xi jinping. what china really wants to see out of the war is a weakened u.s. and alliances as well as a

new international order. more favorable to authoritarian governments. putin losing power in russia would be a nightmare. very few people see china pulling back from russia. despite the u.s. warnings. >> well, all that being said the u.s. president and xi jinping had an almost two hour phone call the u.s. and western countries are china's biggest customer for products. and how much influence does the u.s. does biden really have an xi jinping to try to have to put encourage china to put pressure on putin to stop this assault? >> that's a very good point. because since the war began, they really the beijing leadership really has been trying to balance this almost impossible strike. strike impossible balance. one aspect is trying to minimize their own companies and entities

exposure to increasingly severe western sanctions and we have seen some signs of that on this front. including chinese authorities. letting the ruble drop freely in its exchange rate against the chinese yen. and also the chinese central bank for example not saying anything about russia's potential attempt to convert its yen foreign reserves into u.s. dollars. and euros. there's even russian stay state media reporting about china declining to provide russia with spare aircraft parts. despite a request from moscow. all of this can be seen as a sign that the chinese realization despite the importance of the trading relations with russia, that is still very much dwarfed by economic and trade ties with the west. in prints approximately they want to see the war end sooner than later. because of the economic environment. but strategically they're not in

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welcome back. reporting live from lviv, ukraine. ukrainian leaders have refused russia's demands to surrender the besieged city. moscow deadline passed. a few hours ago. bombardment on the city have made it hard to get civilians out or get aid in. ukraine says more than 7,000 people were able to escape on sunday. but it's important to note many more remain trapped and civilian shelters are coming under attack including an art school and a theater. meanwhile fierce fighting is also raging around ukraine capitol of kyiv. on sunday several explosions were reported near the city center. you see one of them there on the screen. kyiv mayor says at least one person was killed. officials say a shopping center caught fire with flames reaching as high as the third and fourth

floors. western leaders continue to coordinate on sanctions aimed at punishing russia for the unprovoked aggression. in the coming hours the american president will hold a call with several european leaders to discuss their response. it comes ahead of his trip to europe to meet with nato allies later this week. meanwhile ukraine president says he's ready to negotiate with the russian president vladimir putin. zelenskyy spoke to cnn sunday. >> president biden called vladimir putin a war criminal. and yet, you have called for negotiations with him. will it be hard, will it be a painful for you to have to sit down with putin for you to agree and negotiate with him? >> i'm ready for negotiation. i was ready for the last two years.

and i think that without negotiations we cannot end this war. i think that all of the people who are think this dialogue is shallow and not going resolve anything, they just don't understand this is very valuable. there is just one percent chance for us to stop the war, i think that we need to take this chance. we need to do that. i can tell you about the reresult of this negotiation. in any case, we're losing people on daily basis. innocent people. on the ground. russian forces have come to exterminate us and kill us. and we give dignity of our people and army. we are able to deal a powerful

blow. able to strike back. but unfortunately our dignity is not going to preserve the lives. so i think that we have to use any formatt and any chance in order to have an possibility of negotiations. possibility of talking to putin. but if these attempts fail, that would mean that this is a third world war. but if we were a nato member, a war wouldn't have started. now i'd like to receive security guarantees for my country and my people. if they members are ready to see us in the alliance. then do it immediately. people are dying daily. if you are not ready to reserve the lives of our people, if you just want to see us straddle to

worlds. and in this dubious position chls you cannot place us in this situation. you cannot force us to be in limbo. >> you have a young family. i keep wondering how do you explain to your children what is going on? >> my children know for sure what is happening. and i not know whether it's good or bad. i have not explained anything to my children. they have said to me that war is raging in ukraine. and our home we have to same freedom of speech. in our country. they know what we're fighting for. >> that was president zelenskyy. ukraine's neighbors are doing their best to help the flood of refugees crossing their borders. settle in romania emergency

workers are welcoming them with hot meals and toys for the kids. most ukrainians are fleeing to poland, romania, moldova and hung hungary. ten million ukrainians have been forced to leave their homes. 3 million who fled ukraine altogether. now with russia bombing campaign only growing, more and more innocent children are suffering the consequences. and among the most vulnerable dozens of orphaned babies and toddlers who already survived russian bombardment. but remain in extreme danger. we have the story. >> reporter: they are too tiny to understand the meaning of war. these o fans are already victims to its cruelty. among the 71 children rescued from the hard hit northern city of sumy.

many are disabled. all under age four. some requiring constant medical attention. >> these are the kids from a orphanage. the doctor says. they were evacuated yesterday. and miraclously they brought them here to keyiv. for two weeks caretakers sheltered them from russian bombardment in a basement. and when a humanitarian corridor finally opened, they made the dangerous journey here. to the capitol. each little one arrived with an orange tag. with minimal details. name, birth date, and most urgent medical needs. we were able to track down four of the children. now kyiv city heart center. over a shaky video connection. staff told us of the journey. all the children were packed

across four ambulances. with only two doctors among them. >> just the baby in the car. to kyiv. during six hours. just to drive. >> now the babies are receiving the medical attention they require. with russian forces shelling kyiv, they're still not safe. nurse has a simple plea. >> children don't die. >> you don't want children to die. >> yes. yes. >> in an unprovoked war where the most innocent are targeted there are few guarantees. just heartbreaking. my colleague picks up our coverage of the war in ukraine when we return from this short break. we'll tell you about moscow's propaganda campaign at home. designed to obscure brutality

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russian intensifies attacks in ukraine. it's opening a new front at home. by ramping up the propaganda fight. the kremlin is working to cover up russia's brutality. but not everyone is buying in. cnn international diplomatic

editor has that. >> reporter: as president putin slaughtering ukraine stalls, his offensive at home to hide its brutality is ramping up. mark marking enemies russians who don't buy the propaganda. >> russian people especially are able to distinguish true patriots from ta raitors and wi spit them out like a gnat that accidently flew into their mouths. >> what is coming out of the mouths of putin's state media propaganda, is a full throated defense of russia's killing of ukrainian civilians. falsely claiming ukraine started the war. civilians are being used as human shields. putin's kremlin double down on the lie. blaming the u.s. and europe for the civilian death. >> the russian armed forces do

not bomb cities. this is well known to everyone. no matter how many videos are edited in nato. no matter how many clips and fake photos thrown in. >> yet, an indication how flimsy the kremlin may fear its fabrications are, putin held a rare rally. seemingly seating to scotch concerns over mounting casualties and low moral among soldiers. >> our boys are fighting in this operation. shoulder to shoulder. shielding one another with their bodies on the battlefield. we haven't had this unity for a long time. >> for many russians knowing fact from kremlin fiction. is getting impossible. heavy handed riot police drag airnt war protesters off the streets. new laws ban criticism of the war. max penalty, 15 years in jail. access to facebook and twitter.

restricted. and since the war began, russia's few remaining independent media out lets have been shut down. including tv rain. viewer ship rocketed. news director and anchor -- fled for safety. >> there are many people a lot of people. millions of russians who understand that something terrible is going on. and understand that they need this alternative sources. of information. >> not all dissenters stifled. news editor took her antiwar protest prime time. on the kremlin's most popular propaganda machine. channel one. and quickly convicted of organizing a public event. >> i have been working on channel one and doing kremlin propaganda. now i'm very ashamed of it. the a shame i allowed lies to come from the tv screen. and helped -- >> the real news. the news we see.

the loss shattered lives of terrified civilians. of millions forced to flee bombed out homes. is barely getting through to russians. give putin more time. and he'll try to shut them off completely. ukraine says another russian general was killed tuesday. during fighting in southern ukraine. near mariupol. cnn cannot verify the claim. ukraine says several senior russian officers have been killed so far. earlier cnn jake tapper asked retired u.s. army general and former cia director about what the situation was like on the ground now. >> it's not common. to kill a general. >> very uncommon. these are quite senior generals. the communications have been jammed. secure didn't work. they had to go to single

channel. that's jammable. that's what the ukrainians have been doing. they use cell phones. ukrainians block the prefix for russia. that didn't work. and took down 3 g. literally they're stealing cell phones from ukrainian civilians to communicate among each other. the calling gets stopped. a general is sitting back there and armored vehicle. he goes forward to find out what's goeng on. there's no commission. there's no sense of initiative at gene yor levels. they wait to be told what to do. get up there and the ukrainians have good snipers and picking them off left and right. >> on sunday we also learned a senior russian naval officer was killed in mariupol. according to to at least russian officials. before russia's invasion a series of cyber attacks hit the country. big banks went offline. and officials said was the largest cyber attack in ukraine history.

the white house blamed russia. kremlin denied involvement. warning a wave of debilitating cyber attacks could accompany the war. so far, that hasn't materialized. meantime, last weeks russia's military warn that it is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks from foreign hackers. intelligence officials are contemplating this as they prepare for the next phase of war. short time ago i spoke with eric a former u.s. marine and agent. and i asked -- he's the ceo of cyber sheathe. i asked him about the state of digital battlefield and the international community effort to prevent russian cyber attacks. take a listen. >> the international effort to defend against the cyber attacks has been very well coordinated. and 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 that we have taken against the russian government. it's really been a global effort in a global in many ways public private partnership. between private industry and governments across the world. sharing intelligence and improving defenses. that certainly one reason is there's a possibility that we have been better globally at defense. and the other potential reason that we haven't seen the impact ts 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 infrastructure that they thought they could quickly take over and leverage. so there's many reasons potentially. i think one of the ones that we can maybe take a little bit of a silver lining in this conflict is the fact that our defenses are well coordinated and there's a tremendous amount of intelligence sharing going on.

>> our thanks there to eric. hong kong will ease covid restrictions amid-the most deadly out break of the coronavirus yet. is the right move? thousands of new cases get reported every day. we are live in hong kong with more. right after the break.

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stomach the covid 19 vaccine could someday become an annual shop pick that is according to the former head of the u.s. food and drug administration pick he compares it with the flu vaccine which, of course, is typically given once a year usually in the fall or winter in the united states peak that is when the flu risk is at its highest. >> i think this is a six-month vaccine in terms of providing really meaningful detection against symptomatic disease and infection pick it is likely to become an annualized vaccine pick for those who are vulnerable you should think about getting a shot every six months while we are in a high prevalent environment pic the shots are authorized for that use pick for people who are

immuno compromise there is authorization right now for a fourth booster pick >> hong kong's leadership announce the lifting of some covid 19 measures pick that includes ending flight bands from the u.s., uk and several other countries pic hong kong has seen 6000 covid related deaths and most of those are in the past few weeks. hong kong enacted a zero covid policy similar to mainland china pick that was an effort to slow the spread pick that has resulted in closures and restrictions on movement. joins me now in hong kong with the latest pick christie, how significant is the in terms of what is being done and what is the situation on the ground still with covid? >> reporter: it is a very significant development make these changes that were announced, policy that isolated this once thriving hub pick we heard from carry them earlier today pick she announced though

flight blaine from nine different countries will be lifted starting april that 1st pick she also announced the 14 day quarantine will be reduced to seven days pick depending on the vaccination status of the traveler and the country of origin pick that measure will kick in on april 1st hong kong is still clinging to a number of strict social distancing measures that will not be eased until after april the 21st including a ban of social gatherings of more than two people pick a number of businesses will remain closed including gems, bars, cinemas pickett is been estimated that some 15,000 small businesses will be shuttered as a result of this 5th wave of infection pick we also learned that schools will start to reopen from next month, april 17th pick the plan for that mandatory citywide testing scheme that caused a lot of alarm and fears of family separation in hong kong, that

has been suspended pick that was many of the factors that contributed to the mass exodus we witnessed here from hong kong where tens of thousands of people leaving the city pickett was last week when carrie lamb finally conceded that public tolerance had reached limit it seems that it was pushback from the financial sector that was the catalyst for these changes pick she said this, "i have a very strong feeling that people's tolerance is fading pick i feel some of our financial institutions are losing patience with the isolated" pic hong kong is been registering records, the world's highest death rate in regards to covid 19 about ongoing infection here pick we have been reporting these horrible scenes of hospitals being overwhelmed, mortuaries and morgues being at capacity pick i'm going to share a very disturbing photo pick let's show the photo of something

that has been circulating here in hong kong that is been causing much alarm to residents pick you are looking at body bags piling up in covid 19 hospital wards next to elderly patients pick they issued a statement pick they said the situation you witnessed here has been corrected pic many of these deaths are due to elderly people who are not vaccinated in time pick the changes that were announced today, welcome news but the damage to lives and livelihoods has been done pick >> absolutely a tragic to think of those elderly people dying, decimated alone peak we certainly hope the situation in place pick i want to thank you for joining us this our pick our breaking news coverage continues live from ukraine right after a break.

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this is cnn breaking news . >> hello and welcome to all around the world and also in the united states . reporting live from v been ukraine . we are tracking breaking developments where the mayor of kyiv says new explosions have rocked the capital . one of those blast captured on video . the mayor said at least one person was killed . some homes were hit and a shopping center and cars caught fire following russian shelling