>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome, everyone, to our viewers around the world and in the united states this hour. i'm hala gorani live in lviv, ukraine. it is just past 7:00 in the morning and we just heard an air raid siren ring out across this city. now, mariupol, ukraine, is refusing to surrender to russia, and now bombs have been raining down on the city, quote, every ten minutes according to a

ukrainian officer. president volodymyr zelenskyy said on monday that mariupol is being, quote, reduced to ashes but that it will survive. the eu foreign policy chief calls this bombardment a massive war crime. the russian defense ministry, meanwhile, claims more than 62,000 mariupol residents have evacuated to russia in, quote, complete safety. but the city council says that thousands were, in fact, taken against their will. in kyiv, authorities say a recent missile strike on a shopping mall has killed at least eight people, and they warn that number could rise. eight people. russia says it attacked the mall because ukrainian troops were using it to hide rocket launchers. now, russia's defense ministry released this drone video that appears to show some sort of weapons system and accuses ukraine of using social facilities as human shields. ukraine denies this. this is the aftermath, though, of the strike on the mall.

the capital is under a curfew until wednesday morning local time. russia's war in ukraine is now approaching the one-month mark. the fighting has left hundreds dead and caused untold damage across the country, and there's no end in sight to the suffering unfortunately. cnn's alex marquardt has our story. >> reporter: across ukraine, the sounds and scenes of war. these air raid sirens in the western sanctuary city of lviv while snow covers the debris after russian air strikes destroyed these residential buildings on the other side of the country in sumy and in the capital kyiv, an overnight attack on a shopping center which local officials say killed eight. the besieged port city of mariupol is emerging as a critical fight in this war. a ukrainian officer tells cnn that bombs are falling there every ten minutes. russian forces bombed an art school being used to shelter around 400 people according to the city council, with the

number of casualties still unknown. satellite images show the aftermath of the bombing of that theater where over 1,000 civilians were reportedly sheltering with the russian word for "children" written clearly on the ground. ukraine rejecting a russian ultimatum to surrender this crucial city, which stands in the way of connecting western russia to the crimean peninsula. the mounting death toll across ukraine, particularly among civilians, is the result of what american and nato officials see as a stalled russian military campaign. >> the ukrainians have continued to -- and they've been very effective using the equipment we provided them. >> reporter: even in the few cities that russia has taken, like kherson, citizens have been bravely protesting. this shocking video capturing the moment that peaceful protesters were interrupted by russian gunfire and explosions that left at least one civilian shot and wounded.

elsewhere, as the russian forces run into stiff ukrainian resistance, russia has escalated their weaponry. u.s. officials now confirming russian claims it used hypersonic missiles, which fly at five times the speed of sound and are difficult for missile defense systems to shoot down. >> i think, again, the reason that he's resorting to using these types of weapons is because he's trying to re-establish some momentum. >> reporter: the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, says he's ready to speak directly to president vladimir putin, warning of the disastrous consequences of failure. >> translator: i think 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. >> reporter: alex marquardt, cnn, at the state department. >> an adviser to the ukrainian military is with us from warsaw, poland. thank you for being with us.

the russians are alleging that that shopping mall was used to store and hide rocket launchers, and that's why they targeted that particular residential area. what's your reaction to that claim? >> the reaction is the same. like they keep saying that we keep weapon in maternity hospitals, we keep weapon in drama theaters. the thing is they're killing civilians, and we have a lot of interceptions of the soldiers. we have ministers have words where it means that they bomb theaters, hospitals, schools, and kindergartens, and they kill civilians. this is russia's tactics. they know what they're doing. >> mm-hmm. they know what they're doing, but at the same time, they're not taking city centers. they're not taking, occupying,

and holding the big cities. they're really having to use crude weapons in order to terrify the civilian population into leaving, like in mariupol. talk to us a little bit about -- i mean the ultimate, i imagine, target for vladimir putin would be kyiv. so far, though, the city has resisted. >> absolutely. they tried to take cities, but they cannot enter and take control over ukrainian cities. they did it in kherson, but keep protesting. people keep resisting, and they basically russians don't know what to do with them. and the same with mariupol and kharkiv and kyiv, of course. they can shell. they can kill civilians, but they cannot take control over these cities. and as you said, the ultimate goal is, of course, kyiv. but now kyiv is a fortress. it will be very, very difficult, if not impossible, to take the

city. but of course russia wants to frighten civilians. they want to spread panic and demoralization and basically reduce the support of ukrainian army from ukrainian population. >> and you've looked a lot at disinformation efforts on the russian side. what have you been able to observe because it really does sound like at least from our reporters inside russia, that these disinformation and propaganda campaigns are effective with a pretty big portion of the population. how do you combat that? >> of course russia launches different campaigns for different audiences. there's campaign for russian audience. there's campaign for ukrainian, and there is another one for the western audience. in russia, they try to portray this as a big fight against great evil, against nazi west.

they want to mobilize the whole country, and of course there's a shortage of soldiers. there's a shortage of those who are ready to fight, so they want to mobilize basically old and young, everybody to participate in this war. and as you said, support of the war is absolutely significant. around 70% of russian citizens support this aggression unfortunately. >> yeah. i mean we're almost a month in, which is just absolutely so tragic for ukraine obviously. but where is there a potential exit here, not obviously rewarding vladimir putin for his unprovoked attack, but where can we find some sort of exit to this and a stop to the suffering? what's the best-case scenario now in your view?

>> i think that the best-case scenario is if something happens in russia. we know that there is division between russian elites, first of all security and defense elites like fsb against military. and of course many people within the government understand that this war is going to bring russia to collapse. so of course we do expect that they would do something in russia. we cannot expect that having the support of the war, people would go and protest and, you know, make basically revolution. but there are some chances that putin will be -- that his power will be limited by his own people. but, again, we don't know.

now they're killing civilians. now they're bombing our cities and hospitals and schools and kindergartens. and, again, a lot of people now are trying to narrow down this whole war to only putin's responsibility. i think it's a big mistake. we should speak more about shared responsibility because these processes within russian society are absolutely dangerous. and if they do not go through recognition of this problem, then we are going to have this problem again in a few decades -- not we, but the whole world, of course. >> yeah. liubov tsybulska, thank you very much for joining us from warsaw this morning. the united nations says russia's war on ukraine has driven nearly 3.5 million people out of the country. take a look at the map. the vast majority of these people are heading west to neighboring countries, and if you include those who are

displaced internally but still in ukraine, that number jumps to at least 10 million. to put it into perspective, that's almost a quarter of ukraine's population now forced from their homes. the u.n. says more than 90% of the people who fled ukraine are women and children. remember, men between 18 and 60 have to stay in the country to fight. and they are at a, quote -- these women and children -- heightened risk of gender-based violence and other forms of exploitation and abuse. in romania, families who have escaped the war are coming to terms with what they've lost as they try to envision a path forward. some families waiting in a bucharest shelter spoke with cnn's miguel marquez about their struggles. >> reporter: lud milla, her two teen daughters, and her father arrived last night. "our beautiful parks, our beautiful square," she says. "everything is ruined."

from kharkiv, a city punished by artillery and rocketed, a schoolteacher has some savings and not much. they're three-day journey brought them to this shelter run by the city of bucharest. "i'm shocked war is possible in 2022," she says. "everything was good. i could walk with my friends. i love my home city. it was very difficult to leave." sofia's sister says it's hard to believe their lives have been thrown into such enormous uncertainty. >> i really miss my house, my country, my city, and i hope that this war is going to finish. >> reporter: andre, a furniture maker, had his own business. he's here with his wife, kids, in all a family of eight and

their chihuahua, bruno. do you know when you will go home? >> good question. >> reporter: a friend sent video of what their home now looks like. this is your home. >> that is my home. it's my room, bedroom. >> bedroom? >> it's my bedroom. >> reporter: unlivable. the entire neighborhood destroyed by possibly a rocket or artillery fire. nothing to go back to. at 60 years old, are you starting over again? "i don't want to," he says, "but i have to." his son is in florida. the family has inquired about visas to travel to the u.s., but so far -- "we haven't tried to apply for visas," he says. his wife adds, "my son sent several messages to embassies and to people in washington, d.c." the message they got back --

america does not accept refugees for now. the biden administration looking for ways to speed up applications. for now, world vision is helping these refugees and tens of thousands more in romania alone. their needs deepening. >> the people that are coming now, these people really, really need help, and there are a lot of people. we were at the border, and i was at the border and talked to a lot of people that didn't have any money, any plan. >> reporter: julia and her 8-year-old son david, named for david beckham, from kyiv, arrived two weeks ago. when you decided to leave, how long did you have to pack? >> well, i had around three hours. >> three hours? >> yes, yes, yes. >> reporter: a few bags, documents, and family photos. who is this? >> it's me and my husband ten years ago. >> reporter: she calls her

mother in kyiv every morning. >> it's like, hello, mom. are you okay? and we talk and talk, and she's saying, yes, it seems like it's been quiet night. and then i'm speaking to my husband and my friends. >> it's like a full-time job. >> not full-time job, but you have -- you have to be sure that everyone is okay because it's nothing for sure now. nothing. >> reporter: she wants to go home, but when? when do you think you can go home? >> oh, god knows when. nobody knows. >> reporter: miguel marquez, cnn, bucharest. still to come, oil prices are climbing as the eu considers sanctions on russian energy imports. we'll bring you that story, and we will explain the risks involved in delivering humanitarian aid to ukraine as

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. i'm hala gorani live in lviv, ukraine. the european union says it is ready to impose more penalties on russia over its actions on ukraine. this includes discussing sanctions on russia's entire energy sector, which some countries have resisted so far, and potentially joining a u.s.-led embargo of russian oil. the eu also reached an agreement on monday to provide an additional $551 million in military and other aid to ukraine. here's more from the eu foreign policy chief. >> translator: what's happening in mariupol is a massive war crime, destroying everything,

bombarding and killing everybody in an indiscriminate manner. this is something awful we have to condemn in the strongest terms. >> well, cutting off russian energy would be no easy task for the eu because some countries depend so much on it, and diplomats warn that every country has its own red lines on this particular issue. cnn's anna stewart takes a closer look. >> reporter: with no sign of the conflict in ukraine easing, oil prices started the week sharply higher. and as foreign ministers arrived in brussels, there was huge interest in whether the bloc might announce a ban on russian oil imports. speeding up its current timeline of five years to phase out russian energy and following in the footsteps of the u.s. and other western allies, whe'd already announced a ban on russian oil. no such announcement was made monday. the eu high commissioner said the eu stands ready to take

further measures against russia but it wasn't the day for such decisions. he did reference the thorny issue of energy. >> the ukrainian war has been a kind of awakening for our cons conscience. energy dependency has been something we've been increasing, and now we take full conscience of the weaponization of dependencies. dependency become a weapon. it is a weapon. it is being used as a weapon, and we have to react when someone uses something as a weapon against us. >> reporter: the bloc depends on russia for about 40% of its natural gas and over a quarter of its oil imports. european businesses and households are already struggling with record-high prices. even without an oil embargo from the eu, though, russia is feeling the pinch. last week the iea, the

international energy agency, said russia may be forced to cut oil production by 30% due to a slump in demand. russian oil is struggling to find buyers and is actually now around $30 a barrel cheaper than brent. according to russian state media outlet tass, alexander novak warned monday that if russian oil was rejected from global markets, prices could skyrocket to $300 a barrel, even $500. that is far above estimates from any analyst or expert cnn has spoken to. mr. novak also said europe does not have a substitute for russian oil. on that point, he may be right, at least for now. but the eu has made clear it wants that to change so russia can no longer wield the weapon of energy dependence. anna stewart, cnn, london. well, countries around the world are pitching in to help ukraine. but as aid pours in, delivering it throughout the country is becoming increasingly more

dangerous. cnn's melissa bell explains. >> reporter: from all over the world, boxes of donations, food, medicine, and clothing now piled high and being sorted by volunteers in a disused warehouse in a polish town not far from the border of ukraine. >> at the beginning, i was really surprised that so many people want to help. but now i think i am used to it, you know, how wonderful people are. >> reporter: donations that ukraine desperately needs loaded into vans to be taken to the border and then into the war-torn country. the land routes from europe are now ukraine's lifeline. the main roads humanitarian organizations use to bring in their much-needed supplies, and they are far from safe. one ukrainian driver who didn't want to be identified sharing some of his drive and telling us

of several close shaves. >> i think we've kind of seen that civilian targets are not off limits in this crisis, and so that's a constant issue in the back of most humanitarians' minds is how do we deal with the potential risk of directed attack? how do we ensure that our aid is seen as separate from, as we know, all of the military aid that's going into ukraine? >> reporter: last week russia delivered a chilling warning. >> well, we clearly said that any -- any cargo moving into ukrainian territory, which we would believe is carrying weapons, would be a fair game. >> reporter: on thursday, the united nations got its first convoy of aid into the heavily damaged town of sumy, calling it a breakthrough for cities facing, quote, fatal shortages of food, water, and medicine.

and as the violence worsens, the need for medical supplies to help the wounded continues to grow as does the west's determination to help. president joe biden signing $13.6 billion worth of aid only last week. >> the bottleneck is not funds because there has been a great deal of solidarity and generosity. so we now really need to step up the operation and response inside the country. >> reporter: in the knowledge that the longer the conflict lasts and the more the aid is needed, the more dangerous it will become to deliver. melissa bell, cnn, poland. still to come, seeking safety in western ukraine. thousands displaced by the war are now here in lviv. we'll hear the heartbreaking story of one family next.

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welcome back. i'm hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. we've now learned that ukrainian forces have just regained control of mac areeve, a city west of the capital, kyiv. and to the south, a ukrainian officer says bombs are now falling every ten minutes in the besieged city of mariupol. the city has spent weeks under almost constant attack by russian forces. this video shows the moment a russian strike hit some factory buildings there. local officials say at least one major steel plant has been destroyed. ukrainian officials also believe tens of thousands of residents are still trapped inside mariupol without water, heat, or power. they're having to melt snow for drinking water. on monday, the european union foreign policy chief called the situation in mariupol a war

crime. ukraine's president has echoed that sentiment but insists that the city will survive. >> translator: hardworking, honest city of mariupol, which is being destroyed by the occupiers and being reduced to ashes, but it will survive. >> meanwhile, russia's defense ministry released this video showing monday's attack on a shopping center in ukraine's capital. you'll remember we showed you yesterday the first images of the aftermath of that attack. russia claims that the mall was being used to hide rocket launchers. ukraine is dismissing that claim, saying russia is targeting civilian areas deliberately. and this is what the scene looks like now, today. officials in kyiv say at least eight people were killed but warned that the number could very well rise. the city is now under a strict curfew until wednesday morning. well, this is all causing so much grief for so many million

people. more than 10 million people, in fact, nearly a quarter of ukraine's population have been forced from their homes as the war rages on. and many evacuees from the earn p -- eastern part of the country have traveled west seeking relative safety right here in lviv. cnn's don lemon spoke with one family who escaped russia's assault. >> she was at her mother's house outside of kharkiv when russian bombardment moved closer. >> everything was doing this. >> shaking? >> yeah, it was shaking. we were laying on the ground and like praying we would be safe and alive. >> after taking cover with her mother and neighbors, they emerged to destruction. >> everything is bombed. a lot of glasses were broken. garage was entirely blown off. >> this is your house? >> yes, mine. >> oh, my goodness. her mother, tatiana, had lived

there for 50 years. now an evacuee with her daughter. why did you come to lviv? >> translator: because her home was destroyed. >> your home was destroyed? >> her dog martin, two cats and a backpack of documents and family photographs were all she was able to bring. >> i think i was shocked. i couldn't even cry. i didn't feel anything. i was like i'm happy i'm alive. i didn't need the house. i don't need anything. i just want to be alive and safe and each day i was praying my mom, i, our dog are safe, and that's actually all i need. >> are there lots of people like you? >> translator: many. >> the war weary now a common sight in lviv as many ukrainians came to escape russian strikes in the east.

lviv is a relatively safe city, as safe as you can be in war. usually more than 700,000 people live here. now there are more than 200,000 new refugees, and you don't have to go far to find a family or someone who has been displaced. even in lviv, the fighting is never far away. >> here we feel much more safely although here are also some air signals, and we need to go to shelters anyway, and we cannot relax here fully. >> the war hasn't just changed their external circumstances. it's changed something deep inside. >> i didn't know i could hate people so much, but i really hate people who came to our country and did all that with my beloved city, with my neighbors, with my friends. a lot of people lost their homes, their families, their pets. they had to flee somewhere, not knowing if they find shelter or not. that's so awful, i really hate all that.

>> and without an end to the fighting in sight, durina, her mother, and so many ukrainians had no idea what to expect next. what else could change? >> i'm just here with one bag and with my cats and mom too with a bag and with a dog, and that's all our life now. we cannot really plan something. we just plan our next step for the next day. >> day to day? >> yeah, day to day. >> that was don lemon speaking to one family. if you would like to assist people in ukraine, we have compiled a list of organizations that have been assisting people in need of basics like food and shelter at cnn.com/impact. we'll have more from lviv, ukraine, at the top of the hour. first, though, let's bring in john vause in atlanta. >> hala, thank you for that. so far, no survivors have been found after a china eastern airlines flight crashed on

monday. search and rescue crews are likely to be hampered by bad weather. after losing airborne contact, the boeing 737-800 with 132 onboard plummeted from around 30,000 feet, nosediving into a mountainous region. the latest from cnn's will ripley. >> reporter: these could be the final seconds of a doomed chinese airliner. surveillance video from a mining company in china shows a plane hurtling head-first into the ground. cnn cannot verify if this video is authentic or if that plane is china eastern flight 5735, a flight that met its fiery end monday. 132 people onboard. an airline statement expresses sorrowful condolences to the passengers and crew members who died. >> it can only be horrific for the passengers. just a terrible thing to endure, but it didn't last long. they were going 400 miles an hour and dropping very, very

fast. >> reporter: chinese investigators and state media say the plane lost contact with emergency services, suddenly descending 25,000 feet, more than four miles in less than three minutes. a nosedive witnesses say ended with a fiery explosion, a huge smoke plume, and wreckage scattered in the woods. bad weather making it even harder to reach the remote crash site. mountains on three sides. only one narrow path in. no electricity. chinese president xi jinping issuing a rare statement within hours, saying he was shocked, sending a small army of investigators to the crash site in southern china's guangxi region. >> the fact that the president made such a pronounced and quick response to this tells me they're taking it very, very seriously. >> reporter: this is china's first deadly commercial air crash in more than a decade, since 2010. china made sweeping safety improvements after a series of crashes in the 1990s and 2000s.

monday's crash involving a boeing 737-800 now grounded by china eastern airlines. the dual engine jet a workhorse, thousands flying around the world, not the embattled 737 max that shook boeing to its core. >> any accident hurts the entire industry, but a boeing accident particularly at this time. >> reporter: boeing is in contact with the u.s. national transportation safety board, and our technical experts are prepared to assist with the investigation led by china's civil aviation administration. experts say information sharing could be extremely difficult. for the already troubled u.s./china relationship, this crash could not come at a worse time. for the families of 123 passenger and 9 crew members, closure may never come. the impact so violent investigators say even identifying remains could be nearly impossible. will ripley, cnn, taipei.

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the u.s. senate is making history, meeting with the first black woman ever nominated to the u.s. supreme court. with monday's introductions now complete, it's time for questions, and some republicans are already drawing their battle lines. cnn's jessica schneider has our report. >> please raise your right hand. >> reporter: an historic first for america's highest court as confirmation hearings begin for judge ketanji brown jackson, the first black woman ever nominated to the supreme court. >> i hope that you will see how much i love our country and the

constitution and the rights that make us free. >> reporter: senators of both parties made note of how monumental this moment is. >> you're showing so many little girls and little boys across the country that anything and everything is possible. >> i have said in the past, and i think it's good for the court to look like america. so count me in on the idea of making the court more diverse. >> reporter: but republicans previewed lines of attack during the question and answer sessions that begin tomorrow. senator josh hawley leading the charge, laying out several cases where jackson, while a federal trial court judge in d.c., used her discretion to hand down lighter sentences for child pornography offenders than prosecutors had requested. >> prosecutors recommended 24 months in prison. judge jackson gave the defendant 3 months in prison. >> reporter: judge jackson will likely explain her reasoning for the lower sentences when she answers questions.

today jackson defended her record. >> i decide cases from a neutral posture. i evaluate the facts, and i interpret and apply the law to the facts of the case before me without fear or favor, consistent with my judicial oath. >> reporter: the white house has already said her sentences were in line with what the u.s. probation office recommends. but senator hawley preemptively rebutted her response monday. >> some have said the federal sentencing guidelines are too harsh on child sex crimes, especially child pornography. i can't say i agree with that. >> reporter: republicans will also likely target judge jackson for being, quote, soft on crime, pointing to her defense of detainees at guantanamo bay. >> i understand the importance of zealous advocacy, but it appears sometimes this zealous advocacy has gone beyond the pale. >> reporter: if jackson is confirmed, the ideological split on the 6-3 court will remain the

same because she's replacing liberal justice stephen breyer, for whom she served as a law clerk more than 20 years ago. >> i know that i could never fill his shoes. but if confirmed, i would hope to carry on his spirit. >> reporter: republicans are promising now personal attacks, but things are likely to get a lot more heated tuesday and wednesday when the questioning begins of ketanji brown jackson. she'll likely have to explain her record as a federal public defender, as a member of the u.s. sentencing commission, and her near decade as a federal judge. jessica schneider, cnn, washington. now, he's putting away his car and fighting to defend that independence. ♪

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well, eight years ago, he was leading protestors in song during ukraine's revolution, and now, he's put down his guitar and he is fighting on the front lines to save that independence from a russian invasion. here's cnn's sam kiley. >> reporter: singing to protestors in kyiv's independent square eight years ago as a rock star, he helped drive a pro-russian president from power. now, the lead singer is in uniform fighting vladimir putin's invasion the old-fashioned way.

>> translator: frankly speaking, these days have been very hard. i have a guitar but i haven't been playing. also, the last two weeks have been really difficult because the enemy was trying to surround kyiv, so there was no music. we evacuated people from irpin and it was a very difficult mission. we also had tasks in and around the city to accomplish, but i can't tell you everything. >> reporter: civilian homes ripped open. 3 million ukrainians now refugees. putin says he sent troops to save ukraine from fascism. this is the real result. >> translator: hate. hate. i am a person who grew up in the soviet union. i grew up with the idea that we were brothers and sisters. and now, there's nothing but

hatred for them. >> our volunteers is working extremely efficient. >> the singer joined a reserve battalion funded by former-president poroshenko. the billionaire first president after ukraine shook off russian influence eight years ago. it's not just putin he blames for the war. >> i cannot wait until russian people under the sanction pressure will not be happy with the putin because russia have a more than 50% of the support of the putin aggression in ukraine. that should be a sanction against these russian people. >> reporter: the location for the billionaire's 206th battalion is a military secret but the militancy of his volunteers is not. >> democracies will always win. maybe it will take longer than everybody expected. but putin has chosen path of hitler and we already know how hitler ends. >> reporter: for now, though,

ukraine is preparing to defend the birthplace of its democracy to the bitter end. sam kiley, cnn, kyiv. >> thank you for being with us this hour. i'm john vause. we will be back live in lviv, ukraine, with hala gorani in a moment. but we leave you this hour with 7-year-old amelia. you may remember her performance earlier this month "let it go" from inside a kyiv bomb shelter. it was heard around the world. well, amelia has now since made it safely to poland. she performed the ukrainian national anthem at a charity concert over the weekend. here's some of it. [ singing in foreign language ]

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this is cnn breaking news. hello and well com to our viewers all around the world and also if you are joining us from the united states this hour, i'm hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. we begin with breaking news. after days of fighting, the ukrainian army forces say they have regained control of the key town near the capital. take a look at the map. makariv had sustained major damage from russian air strikes but ukraine's military says the country's flag has once again been raised ov