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these are live images coming to us, from the outskirts of kyiv. several explosions hit the capitol, at least one person was killed. earlier, we learned that a shopping center caught fire in this particular attack, and you can see what looks like i can make out the letters spo, obviously, that would be in another alphabet, but this is where the shopping center once stood, at least that part of it. and you can see what looks like part of those-- one of those areas where you have your shopping carts, and it does say sports in english, which is what i was thinking that it said. but it gives you a sense of how much of a civilian target this is. and there are also residents there in that particular area that was destroyed. and earlier we are still seeing firefighters putting out some

flames, just about an hour ago, even though this attack took place overnight. so, again, these are on the outskirts of kyiv, these scenes of destruction, a shopping mall, some sort of retail space, where it looks like, some sort of gym around some residential buildings. we are going to keep an eye on this particular strike on the suburbs of kyiv. meantime, officials here in ukraine are flatly denying russia's demands to seize the city of mariupol. russian forces have been unleashing brutal attacks on mariupol, with no concern for civilians. recent strikes hit at least two locations use those shelters. on sunday, 7200 civilians were evacuated through four humanitarian corridors, but many, many more remain trapped inside that city. and as the fighting around mariupol continues, we are learning that a senior russian

naval officer he are among those killed. the russians are losing some highly ranked military personnel. moscow's unprovoked attack on ukraine will be the focus of a nato summit this week. u.s. president, joe biden, will be there, and we learned that he will also travel to warsaw, poland, and meet with country's president. ukraine's president spoke with cnn earlier and said he is ready for talks of his own with vladimir putin. >> i am ready for negotiations with him. i was ready over the last two years. and i think that without negotiations, we cannot end this war. i think that all of the people who think that this dialogue is shallow and that it is not going to resolve anything just don't understand that this is very valuable. if there is just a 1% chance for us to start this war, we

need to take this chance, we need to do that. cnn correspondents are tracking developments around the world. this hour, we will have reports from lviv. bashir is in london, and we are live in southern ukraine. >> reporter: it is pretty clear that ukraine has seen some strategic success down here around the black seaport of nikolai. we would see some blasts from the sky line here, it has been quiet here, because ukrainian forces have pushed russians down the road to the first city of russian occupied. we saw ourselves on that road, and how some of the artillery ukraine is using appears to be having an effect, but still, the bombardment of both sides seems to continue and there has been a heavy cost imposed on

ukraine military forces here in the past three or four days. one birx hit, around 30 hit in missile strikes. we saw ourselves. they also used a hypersonic missile to the north of where i'm standing, to test the claims on whether that new technology was, in fact, used, but it marks a new phase here, frankly, in which we ceased to russia strategically lose terrain on the ground, important to rain, when it comes to kherson, but respond to distant, heavy firepower, still some evidence on the skyline, we heard it last night as well. very large blasts in the distance. that still has people deeply concerned here. despite the slight sense of a little bit more room to breathe, the city felt it might be encircled in the past weeks or so, the local regional governor sounding at times more

optimistic, in fact, in a grisly way, telling locals they might have to start thinking about having to collect the abandoned bodies of russian soldiers on the battlefield. still here though, mykolaiv resisting, and that is slowing down the third largest city. things are possibly positive here for ukrainian forces. nato allies are meeting in brussels this week and what is being called an extraordinary summit to address the russian invasion. the leaders will discuss ongoing deterrence, defense efforts in response to russia's attack on ukraine. estonia's prime minister spoke with jake about nato's priorities. >> we are trying to do everything, but we can to help and support ukraine to fight this war. putin must not win this war. let's bring in cnn's natosha

bertrand. >> reporter: yes, this is going to be a symbolic meeting of the nato leaders next week, as well as president biden and the eu leaders, as they try to assess the state of the war as it stands right now, the threat, importantly, that it poses to the nato alliance, as well as the whole of europe. this is not expected to be a summit where many deliverables are going to be announced. of course, the white house is expected to come up, we are told, with specific announcements the president made coming out of this summit to essentially tell the world that this was a meaningful meeting at that there were other ways that they will help ukraine in its fight against russia right now. but ultimately what the summit is going to be about is about defending nato and europe and while president zelinski has been calling, of course, for a no fly zone, has been calling for nato and europe to close the skies over ukraine, that just does not seem to be on the

table at this point. the european and u.s. officials we speak to, of course, say that that would result in a direct confrontation, between nato and russian forces and that is not something they are prepared to do at this point. but, you know, president, volodymyr zelenskyy's message to the world is that they are on the front lines of this war that brush is waging to us, that could very well leak into the rest of europe and into the west. and he said that, because of the fact that they are essentially protecting european security, by serving as this buffer, he believes, between russia and the rest of the west, that nato should do more to help him and his people defend against this russian onslaught. >> all right, natosha bertrand, in brussels, you very much. brush is not just intensifying its battlefield attacks, the kremlin is also ramping up a propaganda

offensive at home to cover up the brutality of the situation in this country. but not everyone is buying their version of events. cnn diplomatic international editor nick robinson has that story. >> reporter: as president putin is slaughtering stalls, it his offense at home to hide his brutality is ramping up, marking as enemies, russians who don't buy the kremlin's propaganda. >> the russian people, especially, are able to distinguish true patriots from investors and traders and will spit them out like a net that accidentally flew them into their mouth. >> reporter: what is coming out of the mouth's of putin's state media propagandists is a full throated defense of russia's killing of ukrainians civilians, falsely claiming ukraine started the war, that civilians are being used as human shields. putin's kremlin cronies double

down on the light, blames u.s. and europe for the civilian deaths. >> 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 are thrown in. >> reporter: yeah, how flimsy the kremlin may fear the propaganda is, they held a rally, seemingly to scotch concerns of mounting casualties and low morale 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. >> reporter: for many russians, knowing fact from kremlin fiction is getting impossible.'s heavy-handed riot police routinely dragged antiwar protesters off the streets. draconian new laws been criticism of the war and the

max penalty, 15 years in jail. access to facebook and twitter, restricted. and since the war began, rush's few remaining independent media outlets have been shut down, including tv raid, whose viewership rocketed. the news director and anchor 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 these alternatives are sources of information. >> reporter: not all dissenters stifled. a news editor took her antiwar protests prime time on the kremlin's most popular propaganda machine, channel 1, and was quickly convicted of organizing a public event. >> i have been working on channel 1, and doing prep kremlin propaganda, and now i am very ashamed of it. it is a shame that i allowed lies to come from the tv screens, a shame that i helped

zombie russian people. >> reporter: the real news, the news we all see, of the lost and 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 will try to shut them off completely. nic robertson, cnn, london. despite the war raging around them, and in their own country, many ukrainian journalists continue to do their work. katerina works for the news channel, ukraine 24, which has remained on air throughout the invasion. she joins me live, we are not disclosing her location. katerina, thank you for joining us, what has it been like reporting on a war in your own country? >> hi, thanks for having me. and i would like to start with traditional words, here in ukraine, glory to ukraine,

glory to armed forces of ukraine, and glory to all of the people who support us. i have seen the material your journalists have made about russian propaganda. and that is why we are still working, and that is why there were no questions if we should continue going on air, during the war. no matter how hard it is. i was on air, on the first day of work, and we couldn't even finish our normally, because of the shelling by our office. so, we feel, and we understand that people need us. they need to know the truth about what is really happening in ukraine, and we feel our responsibility of that. and we feel our responsibility of fighting against russian propaganda. you know? i just want to share one fact, that they are using dirty lie,

for example, they tried to hack our website, they already did it. our news website. they already hacked our run in- line below on the screen, you know? and they are trying to make our people were scared. they wrote a speech from the president that he is tired, he leaves us, he doesn't want to fight, and he wants our people to give up, and that is such a dirty lie, and we ukrainians, we are now so united, altogether, our army, our politicians, our journalists, and we don't believe those propaganda, and we are trying to fight against it, and that is why we have created the new marathon, and we are also creating the product, and speaking russian language to

talk to those people who might be in russia, who can hear us, and who want to get the alternative sources of information. >> and katerina, obviously, so many of the journalists who work for ukraine 24, other hosts are not war correspondents. this is not something you are used to dealing with on a daily basis. i wonder, what is that like, suddenly, overnight, becoming a conflict journalist, having to deal with broadcasting, when shelling is going on all around you. >> well, that is hard, because, you know, they are still working in the cities where they have been working all over the ukrainian region to tell what is really happening in each city of ukraine, and that is

hard, because we are people, and we are also scared, you know? but we understand that we have to work, we have to make all of those videos, to have an opportunity to, maybe in the future, to go to the court, and to tell the world that putin is a really crazy murderer, and he is killing our people. people all over the world, they can't even imagine what russians, what putin does to our city, to our people. you can see 100 pictures, you can see thousands of video, but you will never feel what is really happening here, when people have to give birth to children in the bomb shelters, and when you see how your relatives are dying, and when you have to pack altogether and in one little pack and move to

another city, or to another house, because your house has been damaged. and that is why we do it. >> and i am just curious, are you-- we are not telling our viewers or anyone where you are, but are you still able to do your job? i mean, do you feel like you are able to bring information out? and also, are you getting feedback or viewer responses from people inside russia? because he said one of the ways that you are trying to make a difference is combat propaganda, by bringing the news, and the fact two people, who may not have access to it. >> we have no-- we have no another chances, that is our job, our information. we fight on the land, we fight on the medical front, and as well, we have to fight on the information front.

we do get a lot of messages from our viewers, and a lot of messages on the first days of war, because everybody was scared, and they need to see us on the tv, and they need to-- they needed to understand that everything is going to be okay. and there are people who are still on tv. they are talking, they are communicating with people, and we had so many messages from people, and they say thank you for our job, and also we feel support from all over the world, people from united states of america, they have texted me as well, from great britain, from all of the countries, you know? and, we also want to say thank you to american government, and american people. we can feel your support, we can see all of those protests you are making, and you know,

we feel that, and that is a really huge support, but all we need, and you have been talking about the nato summit, right? and all we need is to help us, to be more safe from this sky, and i am sure you know what i am talking about, that is is about the sky. >> absolute the, yeah, we have been hearing a lot since this invasion began. katerina, thank you so much, good luck to you and your colleagues as you continue your work, and very difficult circumstances. still to come, some of the youngest victims of russia's war on ukraine, or find babies and toddlers, who have already survived bombardment, but are still in danger. we will be right back.

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to leave, because he asked her to fight and defend the country, so the most important thing for us is to rescue our children, take them to a safer place, and we will defend our country. >> well, the tide of refugees fleeing ukraine is starting to worry. central european countries, officials are being concerned, as more than 3.3 million displaced ukrainians flee the violence in their country. poland has taken in the bulk of the refugees, with more than 2 million crossing to safety, since the war began. and in the meantime, some 800 evacuees arrived in this city in the ukrainian capitol on sunday, escaping the fighting in their home towns, but many have just been scarred by the things they have just witnessed. >> they are shooting with everything they can, they just took children and drove away, where do we go? we don't know. just away from that. my name is ludmila, and this is on a, and those are my two sons.

a ukrainian woman who was injured while protecting her one month old baby during a russian attack is speaking out about the horrifying experience. older used her own body as a shield to protect her newborn daughter from flying debris, as their home came under fire in kyiv. thankfully her child was unharmed, thanks to her mother. her husband, who is seen in this photo, was also injured during the attack. and listen, as olga describes those terrifying moments. >> i was wounded in the head, and blood started flowing, and it all flowed on the baby and i couldn't understand. i thought it was her blood. dimitri was taking the baby away, i am screaming that she is discovered covered all in glass and blood, and he tells me olga, it is not her blood, it is yours. 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 is what kept the baby alive, i just got her covered in time, and then dmytro jumped up and covered us too. >> well, olga and her husband are now recovering from their injuries. the whole family is life, thankfully. with russia's indiscriminate bombing campaign, only growing more innocent children are suffering the consequences, and among the most vulnerable, dozens of orphaned babies and toddlers who survived russian bombardment remain in extreme danger, because they are very vulnerable, for the reasons you will hear no. >> reporter: they are too tiny to understand the meaning of war.

but these orphans are already victim to its cruelty, they are among the 71 children rescued from the hard-hit northern city. many are disabled, all, under the age of four, some, requiring constant medical attention. these are the kids from the orphanage, they were evacuated yesterday, and miraculously, they brought them here to kyiv, their journey was very difficult, he says. for 2 weeks, caretakers sheltered the babies and toddlers from russian bombardment in a basement, and when a humanitarian corridor door finally opened, they made the dangerous journey here to the capitol. each little one arrived within orange tag with minimal details, name, birthday and their most urgent medical needs. we were able to track down four of the children, now at kyiv city heart center.

over a shaky video connection, the staff told us that their harrowing journey. all children were packed across just four ambulances, with only two doctors among them. >> just four baby in the car, two kyiv, during six hours. just to drive. >> reporter: now, the babies are receiving the medical attention they require, but with russian shelling of kiev, they are still not safe. nurse, oksana, has a simple plea. >> don't die. >> you don't want children to die? >> yes. yes. >> reporter: but in an unprovoked war, were the most innocent are targeted, there are few guarantees. cnn, lviv. >> wow, these nurses are just absolute heroes. still to come, despite the

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i am ivan watson at the moldova/ukraine border. this is cnn. welcome back. i am in lviv, ukraine. breaking news this hour, russian attacks have got to the ukrainian shopping center in kyiv. we are seeing images of emergency crews there responding to that attack. this is the aftermath of that attack. just a few minutes ago, we received these averages. we understand that this area contained shops, as well as this high rise residential units.

there is a home improvement store, a gym, a supermarket as well, and you can see that there were cars there, parked in, what would have been, i imagine, the parking lot there. in some of those shots, you can make out the letters sport, this is a gym, a very tall, residential unit, this is several miles from the city center, but much closer than i imagined the people in the center of kiev would be comfortable with. completely unrecognizable seen for anyone who knows what this shopping area and residential area looked like before this russian attack. so, officials say at least one person was killed by multiple explosions in kyiv, on sunday, and we are working on the aftermath of this particular attack, and we will tell you what the casualty numbers are there. to the south, the city of trans mariupol has come under bombardment, this, as ukraine

says more than 7000 people were able to escape on sunday, but more, so many more remain trapped. civilian shelters are coming under attack, including an art school, and a theater. we have also learned that a senior russian naval officer was killed during fighting in mariupol, on social media posts by two senior officials. ukraine's president is calling for direct talks with vladimir putin, telling cnn that the consequences of not negotiating could be dire. >> 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.

china's ambassador to the u.s. is rejecting claims that beijing may be providing military assistance to russia, but at the same time, china continues to conduct business as usual with moscow. the chinese ambassador told cbs's face the nation that the countries are still cooperating on multiple fronts, despite brescia's invasion of ukraine. cnn's stephen joins me now, with more. so, we have discussed in the past several hours, stephen, that there is no appetite, on the part of china, right now, to pressure russia to end its invasion, and its assault on ukraine. will there be a moment though, a point, the aunt which china will not be able to remain silent anymore? and that it will become in beijing's best interest to put a bit of pressure on putin to back off? >> that is a turning point, if you will.

a lot of people have been looking forward to, or eagerly awaiting, but at this stage, we are only seeing some subtle signs in official rhetoric in the past few days, because now, least they are starting to mention ukraine's security concern, as part of their consideration in formulating china's position and policy. as you mentioned, the chinese ambassador to the u.s., for example, highlighting china's humanitarian assistance to ukraine. it is still very small in scale, but the chinese foreign ministry announcing a few moments ago, they are providing ukraine with another batch of humanitarian aid. but, of course, you see the state media here also starting to cite some information from the ukrainian side, even though they are still largely providing a one-sided, pro- russian coverage about this war. and even sensors allowing some more neutral voices to emerge on china's heavily censored chinese social media. all of this, of course, could be the beijing media being

promoted pragmatic, and could be a reflection of them trying to maintain some sort of moral high ground. but at the same time, officials, such as the president, very much pointing to nato's eastward expansion of the root cause of this conflict. that is not just parroting a crumbling talking point, but a reflection of beijing's own concern about the u.s. building alliances to encircle china. that is why, at the end of the day, putin losing power would be their ultimate might bear. that is why, at this point, they simply don't see china pulling back from their very close relationship with russia. >> stephen, thank you very much, in beijing. ukraine' as president of the last week, he has addressed congress, the european parliament, and the bundestag in germany, yesterday was the israeli's turn. he addressed them by video, during an impassioned plea. he said the people of israel and ukraine share an

intertwined history. our journalist, elliott, has those videos, from lviv. >> reporter: in a 10 minute speech, peppered with gratitude and criticism, president, volodymyr zelenskyy addressed the lawmakers, via zuma. they also turned in by of the videoconferencing app, president, volodymyr zelenskyy announced, by quoting israel's most famous fallen ukrainian child, the former minister, she said we intend to remain alive, 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 the language that the russian government is now using to justify its invasion of ukraine to that of the , and noted that in 1920, on february the 24th, 1920, this was the day that the national socialist party was formed,

that two years later, on the same date, february 24th, 2022, russ ordered the invasion of ukraine, and he criticized israel for not offering more, not only issuing more visas for ukrainian refugees, and not sending military aid. now come i don't think israel is going to go down that route. it is one of the few countries that has good relations, both with ukraine, and with russia, as we saw with the prime minister's visit to president putin, in moscow, last saturday. since when he has spoken to president, volodymyr zelenskyy six times and putin, three times. so, they want to maintain its mediator role or potential mediator role, but it doesn't want to put any russian noses out of joint. it has pretty much carte blanche to carry out raids and

assets in southern syria, where the airspace is controlled by russia, and it wants to maintain that ability, when it feels there were assets important to syria, which threaten it. at the same time, they are mindful that there is a very large population in russia and doesn't want to do anything that could cause them problems. that said, israel has been sending humanitarian aid, it is the only country, it believes, to have sent a field hospital to ukraine, and on monday, the team was sent to fly out and operate that hospital in western ukraine at the polish border. but perhaps the most poignant quote, per from president, volodymyr zelenskyy was when he was addressing lawmakers, he said you can mediate between two countries, but not between good and evil. cnn, tel aviv. that is going to do it for me, in lviv, for more, i'm sending it over to rosemary church.

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i am will ripley in taipei, taiwan. this is cnn. you are looking at video of hundreds of people in the ukrainian town, they are protesting the detention of the town's deputy mayor at the end of the russian military. the deputy mayor's son tells cnn russian soldiers arrived 30 minutes later to shut down the rally. just before russian's invasion of ukraine, a series of cyber attacks at the country. the websites of ukrainian agencies and big banks went off- line, in what officials say with the largest cyber attack and ukraine's history. the u.s. blamed russia, but the

kremlin tonight involvement. a wave of debilitating cyber attacks could accompany russia's war, but so far they haven't materialized. in the meantime, last week, russia's military warned it is facing an unprecedented volume of attacks from foreign hackers. cnn spoke earlier with cyber security expert, eric noonan, he talked about the international community's efforts to control the digital battlefield. >> the international effort to defend against these cyber attacks has been very well coordinated in advance. there has been a tremendous amount of intelligence sharing for every country, potentially involved, and it goes beyond ukraine, here in the united states, certainly, we are susceptible, given the sanctions that we have taken against the russian government, so it has really been a global effort, they global, in many ways, public, private partnership between private industry and governments across the world,

sharing intelligence, and improving defenses. so that is certainly one reason, the possibility that we have been better, globally, at defense. u.s. confirms russia has used a new kind of weapon against ukraine, the hypersonic missile. now, they provide very high speeds, and are difficult for air defense systems to detect. u.s. officials say it is the first known use of this kind of weapon in combat. cnn reporter, nadia, bashir joins us now, from london, with more on that. so, nadia, what more are you learning about the capability of these hypersonic missiles, and how russia is actually using them in ukraine right now? >> reporter: well, putin has repeatedly highlighted investment in these missiles, and now, we are hearing they are being used for the first time in combat, against ukraine, according to the russian defense ministry, these missiles were used over the last several days to target

what they claim to have been a military depot in western ukraine, and a fuel depot used by the armed forces in the southern nikolai our region, and this is significant, of course. these missiles can travel five times faster than the speed of sound, traveling at a low trajectory, which makes it more difficult to detect, and they can maneuver to evade missile defense systems, that is of course a concern. we have heard from multiple sources from the u.s., telling us that actually these missiles may have been used by putin, perhaps as a way to send a message to the west about russian military capability and actually, we have heard from the u.s. defense secretary, lloyd austin, who says that the use of such missiles isn't necessarily a game changer. take a listen. >> they sort of question why he is doing this, is he running low on guided positions? does he have lack of complete confidence in his ability for the troops to establish momentum?

>> reporter: beginning that momentum, we have heard that russian troops are winning, in terms of morale. in fact, we heard from president, volodymyr zelenskyy saying that russia had suffered unprecedented losses in terms of troop deaths. now, we have heard from both nato and western officials that those deaths stand in the thousands, that figure estimated to be between 2000- 10,000, and now we are hearing from ukraine that these five senior military generals have been killed by ukrainian forces, though cnn hasn't been able to independently verify those claims. >> all right, nadia bashir joining us live, from london. appreciate it. hong kong will ease covered restrictions amid its most deadly outbreak of the coronavirus yet, but is it the right move, as thousands of new cases get reported every day. we are live, in hong kong, with more after the short break. including the covid-19 virus, on more surfaces thahan lysol disinfectant spray.

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sunday it is the first time, since august of last year that numbers were this low. vaccinations have helped, with more than 83% of all adults in the state fully vaccinated. but despite the trend, here is what top infectious disease expert, dr. anthony fauci, essays. >> the bottom line is we will likely see an uptick in cases, as we have seen in the european countries, particularly the uk, where they have had the same situation as we have had now. they have had the ba to, they have had a relaxation of restrictions, such as indoor masking, and there is a winning of immunity. hopefully we won't see a surge. i don't think we will. in the meantime, the former u.s. fda chief, and pfizer board member, dr. scott gottlieb says covid vaccinations could become an annual shot. in east asia, hong kong' leadership plans to lift some

of the most rigorous covered restrictions, after a zero policy for months. christina joins me now, from hong kong, with more on this. so, this lifting of covid restrictions coming in the midst of thousands of new cases being reported, and a high level of deaths. does this indicate, perhaps, a change in policy? or something else? >> reporter: absolutely, it is a significant change in policy. earlier today's top hong kong later changed the city to a zero policy, which isolated this once thriving financial business center, today, they announced that flight bans will be lifted, starting april the first. she also announced that two week quarantine for incoming travelers would be reduced to just one week, but dependent on the country of origin of the vaccination status of the incoming traveler. she also announced that additional strict social distancing measures will remain in place, until april the 21st, including a ban on social

gatherings of more than two people, a number of businesses will remain closed until the 21st, and schools will reopen april 17th, and that plan for a mandatory compulsory citywide testing scheme? that is is suspended, that and the threat of family separations were two fact there's that forced a number of people to make that hard decision to flee, the mass exodus we have been seeing here in the city in the last couple of weeks. it was last week when carrie lam conceded that public tolerance for these measures had reached a high point. people just had enough. we will bring up the statement for you, this is what she said. it was basically the financial sector that was a catalyst, saying i have a very strong feeling people's interest is fading, financial institutions, hong kong is a financial international center, but it continues to climb, hospitals are wanting more. i want to share with you these

very disturbing photos that have been circulating online. as you can see there, in hospitals, in the covid ward, you see dead bodies piled up next to elderly patients. these are the scenes that have traumatized the people of hong kong. yes, the changes to the zero covid policy is welcome news, but the city remains saddened by scenes like this. rosemary? >> horrifying images there. christie joining us live, from hong kong, many thanks. i am rosemary church, i will be back with another hour of cnn newsroom, in just a moment. to stay with us. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements,

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hello, everyone, and a very warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. i'm rosemary church at cnn headquarters in atlanta. we are follow the breaking news on the war in ukraine just ahead. >> translator: we have to use any format, any chance in order to have a possibility of negotiating. >> we have paid the price already. we are going to give the sovereignty and independence. >> the campaign has stalled. he has not been able to achieve the goals he wants t