this is cnn breaking news. >> hello and welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states this hour. i'm hala gorani coming to you live from lviv in ukraine. now ukrainian forces aren't just defending positions, they are launching counterattacks against russia, and they are seeing some small signs of progress. we're closely following the battle lines. take a look at the map. according to a senior u.s. defense official, ukrainian troops are fighting to retake the town of izyum in the country's east. we're told russia moved military vehicles there to kauft ukra cut off ukrainian forces from the donbass and the rest of the

country. here is the military maneuvers so far. >> we have seen indications that the ukrainians are going a bit more on the offense now. >> well, meanwhile intense fighting is erupting not too far from the capital. take a look. >> what you're seeing here is a fierce gun battle by a train station in a village about 30 kilometers northeast of kyiv. a local politician who posted the video claims these are chechen immigrants who fled the wars with russia, there were two of them, and are now taking up arms to defend ukraine against russian invaders. now we can't verify that information, but in and around kyiv itself, ukrainian forces are holding the line. but several large blasts jolted the capital on tuesday while it was under curfew.

one of the explosions was so strong that it set off car alarms right in the city center. well, in another part of the country, russia is continuing to hammer ukraine by air, land, and sea. a russian missile hit and destroyed a railway station in pavlograd. it derailed 15 freight cars and decimated an entire stretch of track. and this video appears to show russian cruise missiles launched off the coast heading towards ukraine. russian ships in the sea of azov are also firing on mariupol according to a u.s. defense official. it's believed belarus could soon join russia in its war against ukraine. the kremlin spokesperson says russia hasn't achieved its main goal yet, a maximalist one, which is to get rid of ukraine's entire military potential. in an exclusive interview, cnn's

christiane amanpour asked under what circumstances russia might choose the nuclear option. >> president putin said if anybody tries to stop him, very bad things will happen. and i want to know whether you are convinced or confident that your boss will not use that option. >> well, we have a concept of domestic security. and it's public. you can read all the reasons for nuclear arms to be used. so if it is an existential threat for our country, then it can be used in accordance with our concept. >> well -- >> there are no other reasons that were mentioned in that text. >> so you're basically saying only an existential threat to your country. i still don't know that i've got a full answer from you, and i

just -- i'm just going to assume that president putin wants to scare the world and keep the world on tenterhooks. >> not exactly reassuring. now ukrainian forces have managed to halt russia's advance on most fronts. moscow's response so far has been to just bombard cities with missiles and artillery. phil black reports that this war of attrition is turning urban areas to rubble and taking an ever growing toll on human lives. >> reporter: ukrainian forces are pushing back close to the capital. they say they've regained control of this road and the surrounding area. it's makariv, a short drive west from kyiv. the head of the region's police released this video of his visit soon after. it shows him reclaiming a melted ukrainian flag from the local police station. he says makariv is still under fire, and every second civilian building is damaged or destroyed. there isn't much left. but if ukraine can now hold this

ground, it could prove crucial in stopping russian forces from encircling the capital. in ukraine's east, the city of kharkiv, another much wanted prize for the invading force has reported a noticeable increase in russian munitions fired from afar. intelligence assessments from western governments say that's happening more because fighting up close isn't going russia's way. but still no city in ukraine has been bombarded like mariupol. there is only daily torment for the hundreds of thousands still under siege there. >> each day mariupol is destroyed more and more. until now, in our estimation, about 90% of our infrastructure is damaged and destroyed. the city is under continuous bombing from 50 bombs to 100 bombs, russian aircraft drops each day. >> reporter: but vladimir putin's spokesman is still comfortable saying this. >> our military are targeting

only military goals and military objects on the territory of ukraine, not civil ones. russian military are not hitting civil aims. >> reporter: one of the still unanswered questions of this conflict, how great are russian losses on the battlefield? the russian tabloid appeared briefly to know the answer. in a report published monday, it said 9,861 deaths had been er recorded by russia's defense ministry, with more than 16,000 wounded. then much later that day the report was edited and the numbers removed. the tabloid said it was hacked and someone inserted false information. the published figure is notable because it tracks with u.s. department estimates about 10,000 russian deaths in ukraine. after four weeks, russia's invasion is stalled with little momentum and no significant wins. no problem, says president putin's spokesman. >> we're speaking about special

military operation that is going on, and it is going on strictly in accordance with the plans and with purposes. they were established beforehand. >> reporter: phil black, cnn, lviv, ukraine. ukraine's president has been asking numerous countries for more support as his country battles russia. on tuesday, volodymyr zelenskyy urged italian lawmakers to strengthen sanctions against the country. he also warned them of the danger posed by moscow, that it is not ultimately confined to his country alone. >> translator: now is the time to do everything possible to secure peace so that the war that had been prepared for a long time by russia by one person, by one person for tens of years, they earned enormous money by exporting oil and gas and used that money to prepare a war, not only against ukraine, their goal is europe.

they want to have an enormous influence on your lives, control over your politics, and ruin your values, not only ours. >> reporter: well, italy's prime minister praised ukraine's resistance and voiced his support for its bid to join the european union. listen to that. >> translator: i want to say to president zelenskyy that italy is at ukraine's side in this process. italy wants ukraine in the european union. >> reporter: well, italy, one of the many nations throwing its support behind ukraine there, and we saw it during that special session of the national assembly in italy, this week the u.s. president joe biden will unveil new sanctions targeting hundreds of russians serving in the country's lower house of parliament. a source tells cnn mr. biden will make the announcement while he is in europe future a series of meetings with u.s. allies,

setting off what is police departmented to be a slew of new steps to punish russia for its assault of ukraine. for more, let's bring in the head of the european council on foreign relations berlin office and also a senior policy fellow with the organization. thanks for being with us. when you look at the effect in just four weeks that this russian invasion has had, on how much more unified eu countries are, eu countries that had disagreements internally within the union are now very much banded together. it seems as though it's given this western alliance of nations a new impetus. >> yeah, absolutely. especially on the european union. i think what we've seen especially with the decision to now give up to one billion euros to ukraine for military aid, this is unprecedented. and i'm actually quite pleased to see the eu stepping up for once.

>> yeah. so will it be enough, though? there is still hesitation on a couple of fronts. the first one is how far should sanctions go. companies like germany are opposed to sector wide sanctions on oil and gas. they obviously rely a lot on russian energy. and then there is disagreement on whether or not militarily to impose a no-fly zone because of the risk it carries of a direct confrontation with russia. as this war progresses, are we likely to see those positions come closer together? >> i'm more confident on the sanctions front, on sanctions or embargo on oil and gas, because here i think the more we see this war targeting civilians, vladimir putin bombing hospital, killing many innocent ukrainians, the pressure will mount also in the european union. citizens in europe are very

concerned. we have a lot of refugees from ukraine, and i think the pressure will mount. when it comes to no-fly zone, i'm less confident because i think that the opposition also within nato is pretty strong. the fear is that nato as a party in this conflict should not intervene directly in order not to further escalate. and i think this position is pretty firm. >> now those who say impose a no-fly zone now, sanction the oil and gas industry now say their argument is inevitably, there will be a misstep, there will be a mistake, there will be some sort of escalation and it will force a nato response, and they could have prevented something sooner. i wonder if that idea is making any headway among allies. >> yes. that is actually pretty much discussed and there are many different opinions. some people argue that now is

the time that putin is after europe next as president zelenskyy always emphasizes. but i think the majority of countries that putin so far draws the line between nato and non-nato state, and that he respects the red line, and that it's not on us to escalate, but if escalation will happen, it needs to be russia that provokes it. >> i'm sure you heard dmitry peskov not taking the nuclear option off the table. in a way, you wouldn't expect him to because this is one of their main points of leverage on western countries which is if you provoke us too much, we might use the nuclear option, which is the most terrifying option of all. but is there -- what potential diplomatic exit is there to this tragedy, this invasion, this assault on a sovereign nation? can we foresee anything at this stage?

>> so in my mind, vladimir putin is not really willing to negotiate. this is only a cover sheet. i think he wants to buy time to basically renew russia's military approach, to renew his troops. and i think as long as he is not making significant military gains, for example, in the south moldova and crimea and into this region, i think he will not negotiate. the task for me is to really enable ukraine to stand form and to push russia into a position that it needs to make concessions. that it realizes that it cannot win this conflict militarily or politically. >> all right. thank you so much for joining us, jana pugliera joining us this hour on cnn. exact casualty numbers are hard to pin down in russia's war in

ukraine, but one thing is clear, the death has been rising, and it's been rising on both sides. ivan watson takes us inside a graveyard where burial plots are being prepared for ukrainian troops. >> reporter: this military cemetery brings home the stark reality ukraine has been living with for years. all of these crosses, they mark the graves of ukrainian servicemen who have died fighting against russian-backed separatists in the donbass region since 2014. and on this side we have new graves. and they're devoted to casualties from russia's invasion of ukraine that was launched on february 24th of this year. one of the fallen is mikhail born in 1997, just 25 years old. and if you come over here, you see something else which is a reminder of how grim this

conflict is. the authorities have dug dozens of additional graves, anticipating the likelihood of more casualties in this terrible conflict. this refrigerator truck represents another side of this war. it's parked outside a city morgue. and city officials say that it is partially filled with the bodies of some 350 russian soldiers. there is another refrigerator truck they say parked in another part of the city with around 400 russian corpses. when you come to this side here, you can smell the stench of cadavers. ukrainian officials say they are conducting dna tests of the russian dead and that they are then going to send these bodies to the ukrainian capital to eventually be returned to russia

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welcome back. the refugee crisis from russia's war on ukraine is worsening every day. the u.n. refugee agency says more than 3.5 million people have now fled their country, and more than six million others are internally displaced. the u.n. is ramping up supplies of thermal blankets, hot meals and tents along the ukrainian border areas as temperatures continue to remain low.

and in the past 24 hours, volunteers and translators at one romanian border crossing helped nearly 3,000 refugees, many of them fleeing the russian bombardments of mariupol and the as summy region. greeted with hot food, tea, water, medical care and sweets for children. but they are traumatized. the aid group mercy corps warns that some ukrainian towns could run out of food in three or four days, saying, quote, the humanitarian system has entirely broken down. many of those trying to escape the violence are passing through lviv here in western ukraine. some of those families spoke with cnn's ben wedeman about the struggles and emotions that they're having to process. >> reporter: while the children play, parents ponder a fate uncertain as they wait outside lviv's train station. ♪

a priest tries to keep up spirits with song and dance. volunteers provide a hot meal. almost a month into this war, and the sheer scale of the movement of humanity is mind-boggling. more than ten million people, basically a quarter of the population of this country has been rendered homeless. around lviv, a multitude have found temporary refuge and the blessing of an air of the ordinary. but thoughts are still with those left behind. dasha zuban's brother stayed in kyiv to fight. >> we are praying. every day we are praying for my brother, for all my friends. they have someone to serve in military, father, cousin, husbands. >> reporter: dee anne and her 3-year-old son david are staying in a stark municipal building set aside for the displaced. >> translator: i couldn't tell him what's going on, she says. he's too small.

when he heard bombing, he hid under the bed. i told him don't be afraid. it's just thunder. natalia beds down every night in an indoor basketball court. >> translator: i'm not so well, says natalia, who led a choir back home. i'm nervous. i'm worried about my parents and my friend who has parents in mariupol whom she hasn't heard from for 20 days. she shows us video of a performance before the war shattered their lives. the choir has gone silent. the light at the end of this tunnel is receding. "at first people thought it would last a week" says her husband bogdan. they say hang on, don't lose hope. now we hope for best but prepare for the worst. and so the painful exodus west goes on. this train bound for hungary, this farewell perhaps final.

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about 30 kilometers northeast of kyiv. the ukrainian politician who posted it claims that the fighters are chechen immigrants who are now defending ukraine. we have not at cnn been able to independently verify that claim. and meantime, a ukrainian official says food and medical supplies have nearly run out in kherson. russian forces have occupied the city now for about two weeks. also among other developments, the port city of mariupol is still the target of relentless bombardment. look at these satellite images. they are offering us the most recent view of the widespread destruction. here is what ukraine's prosecutor general had to say. >> it's not about war. genocide. because war, war, theater of war has some rules, some principles. what we're seeing no rules at all. >> well, the russians are now

attacking ukraine from the air as well. they have been doing so for a while now. shown here is the aftermath of a missile strike on a railway station in pavlohrad. and from the sea as well they're attacking. new video showing cruise missiles being launched from a vessel located off the coast of crimea, just west of the city of sebastopol. in an exclusive interview with cnn, kremlin spokesperson dmitry peskov said russian president putin had not achieved his goal to demilitarize ukraine yet and refused to deny that moscow could resort to the use of nuclear weapons. japan is among the countries sanctioning russia for its war in ukraine. also, talks between russia and japan have broken down over formally ending world war ii hostilities. this comes as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy will soon address the japanese parliament in an effort to rally more international support. let's get the latest from cnn

from blake essig outside parliament in tokyo. blake? >> reporter: hala, in about three hours president volodymyr zelenskyy will address members of japan's parliament. the goal of course to continue rallying global support against russia's invasion of ukrainian. zelenskyy's virtual address is only scheduled to last about ten minutes and will be live as long as the situation in ukraine allows for it. since the invasion started just a few weeks ago, president zelenskyy has taken time to speak directly to national legislators in europe, the middle east and north america, thanking them for their support, but at the same time asking them to do more. and of course we expect more of that tonight during his first address to a country in asia. now in line with other u.s. and g7 nation, japan has imposed significant sanctions against russia and belarus and joined the call to cut russia from the s.w.i.f.t. banking system. japan has also provided about $100 million worth of humanitarian aid. they've amended rules to be able

to deliver defense equipment to the ukrainian people, and even started allowing ukrainian evacuees to enter the country, which is extremely unusual for a country known to be closed off to refugees. now in response to japan's support of ukraine earlier this week, russia suspended peace treaty talks to end world war ii hostilities and potentially resolve a territorial dispute between the two countries involving a set of islands north of hokkaido. it seems russia's invasion of ukraine has further triggered a more assertive foreign policy response from japan. as the country steps up its international role and becomes more outspoken when it comes to taiwan and ukraine. just in the last few years, japan has already been increasing its defense spending and defense capabilities as peace and stability many this region become more uncertain, surrounded by china, north korea, and russia. but it's important to recognize that while it's clear tokyo, like most of the world, has been

absolutely horrified by what we've seen play out in ukraine, japan definitely sees the ukraine crisis as a global issue. and its tough response is meant to send a message to china in the hopes that beijing will think twice about its goal of reunifying taiwan with the mainland. it's a what if scenario, hala, what hasn't been lost on japan's leaders. >> all right, blake essick, thanks very much. i'll have more on ukraine at the top of the hour. first let's bring in john vause in atlanta. >> hala, thank you for that. we'll take a short break. when we come back, a russian court sentencing alexey navalny to an extra nine years in jail, allegedly for fraud. when we come back, why that sentence says a lot about the threat navalny may pose to vladimir putin's hold on power.

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the one person who could mount an unlikely but still credible challenge to vladimir putin's leadership will be spending another nine years behind bars. to the surprise of absolutely no one, alexey navalny was found guilty of fraud tuesday. prosecutors alleging he embezzled from his own anti-corruption foundation. navalny was already serving 2 1/2 years for violating terms of his parole. this new sentence clears the way for his relocation to an even more remote, more secure facility, possibly sending him further into political exile. cnn's international diplomatic editor nic robertson has details. >> reporter: tender moments as alexey navalny is sentenced to nine years for fraud in a maximum security penal colony. the emaciated kremlin critic comforted by his wife yulia. this trial, like so many he has faced already on charges human rights organizations say are trumped up to silence him. but despite the obvious toll on

his well-being, navalny refusing to be silenced, vowing to appeal and defiantly tweeting "you only do two days in jail, the day you go in and the day you come out." a quote from his favorite tv series "the wire." navalny's reality, however, is far harsher. poisoned and almost killed with a deadly kremlin nerve agent novichok while on a political campaign in august 2020. he survived by being flown unconscious to germany for treatment. months later, preparing to return to russia, under no illusion about the danger he faced. >> i understand how system work in russia. i understand that putin hates me, and i understand that these people who are sitting in the kremlin, they are ready to kill. >> reporter: in january last year, his last moments of freedom recorded as he and his

wife rode the moscow airport shuttle bus to the terminal and arrest. by now, navalny not just president putin's most popular living critic, but an icon of international hopes putin may yet be challenged. navalny's political party, the anti-corruption foundation fbk, gained him even more notoriety, publicizing what he said was putin's massive black sea mansion. cnn could not independently verify navalny's claim, but the video further raised his profile and kremlin anger. in february, he was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in jail, sent to a penal colony outside moscow where he claims guards kept him awake at night. he went on hunger strike. the kremlin designated him as a terrorist. his health deteriorated, but his criticism of putin remained as

fiery as ever. on the eve of russia's invasion, tweeting this criticism of putin's combative national security council meeting. "putin demanding loyalty from his security chiefs." navalny likens it to the soviet leadership, ordering the invasion of afghanistan in 1979. navalny's skill is knowing and exploiting putin's political vulnerabilities. and today the price for his success just went up. nic robertson, cnn, brussels. two years ago, canadian filmmaker daniel roy spent months with navalny making a documentary titled "navalny." an intense, personal upclose look at a man a threat to putin's hold on power. here is a clip from the documentary. navalny is talking after discovering details about the

kremlin plans to kill him. >> the whole idea of poisoning with a chemical weapon, what the [ bleep ]. this is why -- this is so smart because even reasonable people, they refuse to believe like what? come on. poisoned? seriously. >> joining us now is filmmaker daniel roy. daniel, thank you for taking the time to be with us. >> thank you so much. it's good to be here with you. >> there are a couple of threats here when it comes to this extra prison time which navalny is now serving. i want you to listen to the state department spokesperson ned price. he has one aspect of that period. >> the court's sham ruling is the latest in a series of attempts to silence navalny and other opposition figures and independent voices who have been critical of russian authorities. this disturbing decision, the one announced today is another example of the russian government's widening crackdown on dissent and freedom of

expression, which is intended to hide the kremlin's brutal war, an unprovoked war against ukraine. >> so there is the aspect of actually keeping him in jail. but then there is this likelihood that navalny would be far away from moscow to a remote prison, harder to reach, more secure, making access to navalny even more restricted than it is right now. is that essentially the reason for this trial? the extra prison time will make life miserable, unable to communicate with his supporters will make him go away. >> well, the reason for this trial is plain and simple. alexey navalny has been outspoken for the last ten years or so about the regime that the world is seeing in full force about putin's evil corruption, and the regime wants him to go away and wants him to be quiet. tried to murder him, he survived. and they essentially put him in jail and put him in prison for surviving an assassination attempt. this is the backwards orwellian world that is putin's russia in 2022. >> for now we have navalny, he

is actually tweeting up a bit of a storm. one of them read we're not just continuing the operations of the anti-corruption foundation -- the organization which he is accused of stealing from -- we're going to take them to a new level. the acf will become a global international organization. that seems hard to see at this point in time, because it gets to the question of how much influence will he have once he is moved not just into prison, but this remote prison, cut off from his supporters. >> well, i think one thing we have to be mindful of is navalny's great genius is his mastery of the media and his mastery of social media and understanding how to run this organization, this anti-corruption fund. what alexey navalny has established and set up is an organization that can run independent of him. if he is in a gulag somewhere far off in siberia, the organization, its staff, his colleagues have the abilities and the know-how to facilitate themselves and to continue on without him. this is what he made sure he had

in place before he went back to moscow in january of 2021. >> so the kremlin spokesperson, dmitry peskov was asked a fairly straight forward person by cnn's international anchor christiane amanpour. i want you to listen to the question and the answer. here it is. >> my question is what are you so afraid of? of navalny? of journalists? of the truth? what is there to fear? >> well, navalny is a prisoner. he is a prisoner. he had his first sentence. now he's got his second one. and he's blamed and is proven by the prosecutors office that he is blamed for fraud. so it's purely economical crime. >> it's purely an attempt to dodge the question, he didn't. can you answer it? what is the great fear that navalny poses to putin and why?

>> well, it's plain and simple. alexey navalny is the only opposition figure in russia that has a national movement, that has a political organization that stretches from the furthest reaches of each of russia's time zones, that is able to galvanize and motive and get people out on to the streets to get people interested, and to make people care. and that is incredibly frightening if you're vladimir putin sitting in your little bunker in moscow, terribly frightened of anyone who is speaking truth to power and calling out him and his inner circle for their absurd corruption. and i think that's primarily why the kremlin is so keen to eliminate alexey, whether that's literally murdering him or casting him away in soviet style to some gulag in the outer reaches. >> just put this in the context of what's happening right now. we have vladimir putin, who is pretty much under siege because

of this military offensive in ukraine has not gone to plans. not met the initial military objectives set out. there is clearly pressure on putin. i guess the question of whether or not he'll be forced out of power, that's obviously too early. the fact that at this point in time, navalny received such a harsh prison sentence and prosecutors are likely to appeal it, because they wanted 13 years, do you think this was a deliberate attempt by putin to get the only man who could possibly challenge him out of the way for good? >> it goes without saying that this is a deliberate attempt to get the only tangible opposition figure in the country out of the way. vladimir putin has taken off his any semblance of trying to be concerned for his reputation and that of his nation. there is no reputational costs for russia any more. it hasn't -- there hasn't really been a republicsal cost for almost ten years. and now what we're seeing in ukraine, this egregious and

horrible war where he is wreaking havoc on civilians. the russian people are not being exposed to the information, to the reality of what's going on. russia has descended into this dystopian orwellian state where people, generally believe what's happening in ukraine is a special military operation. it's far worse than that. this is an egregious war, as we know. and putin will do everything we can to silence the people who are trying to speak truth to power and shed light. >> daniel, thank you for being with us. your documentary is incredible to watch. it's very revealing. thank you for doing it. and thank you for being with us. we very much appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we'll take a short break. still ahead, deadly tornadoes ripping through parts of louisiana. powerful storms sweeping across the american south. we'll have your forecast after the break.

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path of destruction tuesday night near new orleans in louisiana. officials say at least one person died. widespread damage reported in areas east of the city. let's go to meteorologist with the latest on the forecast and what we can expect. >> the tornado threat fortunately winding down. there's a risk over the next couple hours. 200 severe weather reports in the past two days. one in four related to tornados. some of course significant. eastern new orleans. and here's the line of active weather. shifting to the east. areas of florida panhandle. central and southern alabama. the high risk is here until 6:00 a.m. for additional storms

to have rotation. certainly spawn a few tornados across the region. notice flood watches become the most widespread threat across the landscape. because as much as four to six inches of rain has come down in the last couple days. what's important to note the state of louisiana 100% of the state underneath some sort of drought. some of the rainfall is beneficial. but too much in a short time leads to flooding. the storm will shift to the east impacting portions of the southeast coastline. as far as north the ohio valley. with a chance for isolated tor tornados, large hail. the threat level it a two on scale of one to five. vs. four. taliban postponed the reopening of schools afghan schools above sixth grade. taliban promised schools for all students would open this week. as long as boys and girls were

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welcome to our continuing coverage of the war on ukraine. and welcome to our viewers around the world and u.s. reporting live from lviv. our breaking news this hour in ukraine explosions and gun battles are ringing out across the country. fierce fighting erupts on the out skirts of kyiv