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is in brussels right now, where he'll attend an extraordinary nato summit and g7 as well as european council meeting. the white house ruled out a stop in ukraine, but president biden will travel to poland friday to highlight the growing refugee crisis there. this is just west of where we are. and we'll hold a bilateral meeting with president andre duda on saturday. we'll have more on that in a moment when we go live to brussels. but first here are the latest developments on the war itself. a senior u.s. official says ukrainians have pushed back russian forces on the front lines east of kyiv up to 35 kilometers, or 21 miles in one day. northwest of the capital, cnn teams witnessed this barrage of outgoing fire on wednesday night. ukrainian forces have been fighting to take back territory from russian troops in the kyiv suburb of irpin. the mayor says ukrainian forces now control 80% of that city.

a u.s. official says russian forces are digging into defensive positions northwest of the capital and have not moved any closer. the mayor of kyiv says at least 264 civilians, including 4 children, have died since the start of the invasion. and as russia's attacks increasingly strike civilian targets, the u.s. has taken a major step and formally declared that russian forces have committed war crimes in ukraine. now, one month since russia launched this unprovoked assault, ukraine's president is urging people around the world to demonstrate in support of his country and is asking for more help to fight russian forces. listen. >> translator: the ukrainian sky has not been safe from russian missiles and bombs. we have not received aircraft and modern anti-missile weapons. we have not received tanks and anti-ship equipment. russian forces can keep killing

thousands of our citizens and destroying our cities just because there are so many of them, just because russia has been preparing for this war for decades. >> well, i want to show you some new images from ukraine that show the absolute carnage that is taking place in some parts of the country. the first video is from izyum in eastern ukraine. that is not far from kharkiv. i have to warn you parts of the video are quite graphic as the man shooting the footage walks, he shows us bombed-out and charred buildings, splintered trees. there's also a dead body lying in the street. then you see a few other bodies in this footage. there we've obscured the faces of the people who lost their lives. this next video from the city of mariupol also shows graphic scenes. it was recorded by someone driving through streets as the sound of sporadic gunfire rings out. and there's a body as well, in

this case near a burned-out car. then you see debris littering the streets as the driver speeds away. earlier i spoke with retired u.s. army general and cnn military analyst dana pittard. i asked him about congress made -- progress made by ukrainian forces. >> they have been effective to the extent with the weapon they have, their courage, and their t ten tenacity. but to be able to really stop the russian offensive, which has temporarily culminated around kyiv, they're going to need more. right now the russian forces are still moving in the south and reaching many of their objectives. obviously mariupol is one that has not been reached. but temporarily the russian forces around kyiv have been halted. so in order for ukrainians to continue on with a counter-offensive, they're going

to need more assistance. >> what kind of assistance? >> well, there's a number of things that can be done. the equivalent of the berlin airlift as far as supplies, weaponry, and ammunition is something that ideally president biden can help do and help orchestrate in his meetings with nato leaders. that can certainly be helpful. another thing that can be done that is different than what's been done so far, i think it is time for nato, maybe under the auspices of the united nations, but to declare western ukraine as a humanitarian assistance zone. and what does that mean? that means west of kyiv all the way down probably as south as odesa would be designated as a humanitarian assistance zone with nato troops led by the united states enforcing that, and also a no-fly zone over western ukraine. now, there would be minimal

contact with russian forces because russian forces really are not in western ukraine. but that would send a signal, first of all, to help refugees and the civilians and the corridors going into the humanitarian assistance zone, and also letting them know that nato at some point is going to insist on stopping the fighting in the future. >> that would be kind of like dipping your toe in a no-fly zone. it would still require nato forces to shoot down any russian aircraft, drone, whatever, in the skies above that part of the country. >> yes, it would, in western ukraine. nato would have to, of course, send warnings to russia to stay out of that area. that's where potentially there could be tension and conflict. but russia has its hands full right now in eastern ukraine with ukrainian forces.

>> retired major general dana pittard speaking to us. nato is expected to approve the deployment of four battle groups to protect the alliance's eastern flank. they'll go to bulgaria, romania, hungary, and slovakia. nato will also agree to send kyiv equipment to defend itself against a potential biological or nuclear, or chemical weapon. president biden was asked about the possibility of such devastating attacks before he left the white house. >> mr. president, how concerned are you about the threat of chemical warfare right now, that russia would use chemical weapons? how high is that threat? >> i think it's a real threat. >> for more, let's turn to kevin liptak in brussels. how does that change the calculus, the fact that this war has lasted a month now, that the ukrainians are defending themselves much better than expected, which is pushing russia to use much more blunt force in cities like mariupol and in the east and also raising

the possibility that a weapon of mass destruction could be used in this conflict? >> right, and that's certainly the growing fear among u.s. officials and european officials is that president vladimir putin might use one of these extreme steps to kind of unblock this stalemate that his military is experiencing in ukraine. that will certainly be one question that is looming over these extraordinary sessions that are due to get under way in a matter of hours here in brussels. and you heard the nato secretary-general, jens stoltenberg. he said yesterday that a chemical or biological attack in ukraine would have dire consequences, and it will be up to the leaders who are gathering here to determine what exactly those consequences would be. would the calculus change about whether nato would get directly involved in ukraine if one of these types of weapons is used on the battlefield there? up until now, president biden has been extraordinarily

reluctant to commit any u.s. troops on the ground there. that is a line he has said he would not cross. in the conversations that will be taking place today, they will be discussing a number of contingencies should vladimir putin take that next step, including what should happen if some of these radiological or chemical clouds drift over into neighboring countries that are a part of nato, if vladimir putin takes that step. those are questions that these leaders will have to decide upon and discuss when they meet behind closed doors later today. now, stoltenberg also said that nato would announce new protective equipment in the event of this kind of attack. that will be deployed to ukraine. that is one of the big announcements that's expected to come out of the meeting today. also expected to be discussed is bolstering nato's force posture along the eastern edge of nato, deploying those new battle groups to the countries on the southern part of the eastern edge, and discussing a more

longer-term force posture, more permanent ramping up of the force posture on nato's eastern flank. so these are extraordinary meetings. they were put together just in the last couple of weeks. president biden certainly recognizes the very high stakes. he's come all the way here to brussels to meet with these leaders face to face, hala. >> all right. kevin liptak live in brussels, thanks so much. the first parts of the new $800 million military aid package from the u.s. have now arrived in ukraine, including weapons aimed at securing ukraine's airspace, liked armed drones and anti-aircraft systems. that is also the mission of one ukrainian fighter pilot, who spoke exclusively to our fred pleitgen. >> reporter: counted out early in the war but still going strong. against all the odds, russia has not managed to ground ukraine's air force.

we spoke to a fighter pilot who was in an undisclosed location and hiding his identity for safety reasons. >> translator: at first russian pilots dominated in quantity of fighters and newer equipment. now they're starting to refuse to fly because we're shooting them down. we try to work with tactics. >> reporter: he says he flies an su-27 air superiority fighter. this is video provided by the ukrainian military of the same model, an older plane but one that's still effective. >> translator: i shot down russian planes. unfortunately i cannot say which and how many and how exactly i shot them down. air to air missiles, ground to air missiles were repeatedly fired at me. there was a flight when we flew 3 against 24. it means our three fighters repelled the attack of their 24 aircraft. >> reporter: it's impossible for us to verify those claims but during our interview, we heard

what seemed to be a ukrainian jet taking off. andre says the u.s. helped teach him and his fellow airmen how to beat the russians. >> translator: we have our tactics. we conducted the clear sky exercise with our american friends. we now are using some of the tactics we learned from the americans. >> reporter: the u.s. and its allies initially believed russia would own the skies over ukraine just days after their invasion. but the spokesman for ukraine's air force says they were ready. >> translator: we've been preparing for this scenario for eight years. it cannot be said that our military did not think this would not happen. we've destroyed 100 aircraft and 123 helicopters already. >> reporter: a lot of russian aircraft have been taken down by shoulder-launched missiles supplied by western allies. but the ukrainians also still operate longer-range systems like the s-300. the air force spokesman says

ukraine wants western missiles and u.s. jets. >> translator: i'm talking about nato-integrated air defense systems, an f-15 eagle. >> reporter: for andre, the battle for the skies over ukraine is personal. both his mother and his wife are helping in the effort to fend off the russians, he says, and that he too is willing to sacrifice. >> translator: everyone's afraid of being killed. it's one thing to die with honor, another thing is to die without honor. >> reporter: the u.s. has said ukraine's air force remains largely intact and combat-ready. the battle for the skies another area where this outgunned nation is persevering against all odds. f fred pleitgen, cnn, kyiv, ukraine. well, still to come, amid reports of low morale among

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international community with sanctions to try and thereby put pressure on the russian president to change his course of action in ukraine. chubais is among one of a number of technocrats and former members of the russian government who started to speak out against the war in ukraine. the latest before him was a former russian first deputy prime minister, who stands at the helm of the international chess federation. he recently gave an interview last week to mother jones in the united states, saying that war would not help anyone and also would dash people's dreams. nina dos santos, cnn, in london. well, cnn was given an exclusive inside look at a russian military leader getting unusually emotional while meeting with american military officials last week. according to a readout of that encounter obtained by cnn. in the document, u.s. officials describe what they viewed as a revealing moment from a russian general. as cnn's barbara starr reports,

officials hit this could hint at growing morale problems inside vladimir putin's armed forces. >> reporter: with russia's war in ukraine stalled and the u.s. saying morale is a problem for russian forces, cnn has learned of a rare meeting in moscow between u.s. and russian military officials, which according to a u.s. readout of the meeting, contained a, quote, revealing moment from a russian major general, a general with extensive experience dealing with americans. as the meeting ended, the readout says an attache on the u.s. side casually asked about ilyin's family roots in ukraine. according to the readout, the u.s. official said the general's stoic demeanor suddenly became flushed and agitated. ilyin replied he was born in ukraine and went to school in donetsk, and then said according to the readout, the situation in ukraine is tragic, and i am very

depressed over it, before walking out without shaking hands. the attache wrote in the readout, the fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor left a chill down the spine. meetings with russian officials are typically scripted, but the two attaches said they had never witnessed such an outburst by russian counterparts at an official meeting. the readout by the officials concludes, at the very least, it is clear that morale problems among russian forces are not limited to frontline troops. the readout describes only the impressions of the u.s. officials and does not definitively explain ilyin's behavior. such readouts are typically too sensitive to be made public. >> readouts of this type are important because they give us an insight, a potential insight into what the russians are really thinking. but it also shows that there is some kind of a morale problem within the russian hierarchy,

and it extends possibly all the way up to the top. >> reporter: the russian ministry of defense did not respond to a cnn request for comment on the meeting or the readout. but the kremlin has denied reports of low morale among its forces in ukraine. >> you would probably have to doubt this information. you have to doubt it and you have to think twice, whether it is true or not. >> reporter: as russia faces stiff resistance from ukrainian forces, if the americans are correct and morale is an issue, it's a challenge the russians can ill afford. >> we've seen increasing indications that morale and unit cohesion is a problem. and, yes, that absolutely translates into potential military effectiveness issues. >> reporter: a russian general flushed and agitated according to the americans. just one more mystery about what really may be going on behind kremlin walls. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. well, the war in ukraine is

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well, it was one month ago that the russian president, vladimir putin, launched the invasion of this country. take a look at some of the video. [ siren ] well, soon after that happened, air raid sirens began sounding in the capital, kyiv. but russian forces failed to take the city and resorted to indiscriminate shelling across the country as we've been reporting. the u.n. says nearly 1,000

ukrainian civilians have been killed, but the actual death toll is likely much higher. more than 3.5 million ukrainians have fled their country. millions more are displaced within it. the u.n. refugee agency calls it the fastest-moving refugee crisis since world war ii. but many civilians have chosen to stay and fight with whatever materials they can gather. here a group forms an assembly line to make molotov cocktails. other citizens are taking up arms to defend their country. ursula von der leyen says ukraine's determination to defend itself deserves western support. >> in kherson, inmelitopol, they are waving their blue and yellow flags in the faces of the occupying soldiers, and they haven't stopped even after russian soldiers have beaten them and shot some of them down.

honorable members, if freedom has a name, its name is ukraine, and the ukrainian flag is the flag of freedom today. >> reporter:. >> an independent journalist joins us live from kyiv. last time i spoke to you was about ten days ago. you were in kharkiv. you were showing us what the high street there was like, the shops that had been bombed and gutted. you're now in kyiv. tell us in the last week what you've been able to observe. >> so it's my hometown. kyiv is not lucky, but it's in better shape thanks to the better defense and the means to defend it. there are still more than a million people, 2 million people living in kyiv. of course we do experience the curfew at night. sometimes it's lasting very long. but the shelling is taking place

mainly on the outskirts. however, a day before, that was yesterday, the journalist, russian journalist has been killed during the attack, and one of the parking lots in the shopping mall, in one of the residential area closer to the outskirts. overall, two people died and two people were wounded. he was covering the story. and still in early this week on monday, one of the kind of big and modern shopping malls has been destroyed. eight people have passed away. so the shelling takes place largely on the outskirts. but there is the death toll to it. allegedly according to the ukrainian military during the fighting which taken place also this week, the russian troops were moved around 50 kilometers away from kyiv on the north. so it's not really this direct

threat of siege, but of course it is still a city of war, and some areas and road up north in the town aren't really still accessible. >> yeah. and what we're seeing on the map here is that the russian effort to encircle the capital has suffered a setback, right, because these forces on the ground are not just defending their positions, they're pushing some of the russian troops back, right? >> exactly, and they do claim the ukrainian military claim they've partially encircled the russian troops in the places where they are, so they might be cut out from the logistical support. of course it's quite impossible to identify and verify that independently. we're speaking about exactly that areas where the american journalists were killed. exactly these are the places where journalists aren't really

allowed to say, but we do understand there is this movement and there is some humanitarian effort to help the people in those villages. but to add something on the other side of the story of just like looking at the statistics, we heard that -- we understood that half of the ukrainians lost their jobs within this month of war. just a quarter of them managed to stay. a quarter of them remain to do what they used to do. and a quarter find some new distant job. it's mainly because also there is no proper transportation. so in kharkiv, the public transport doesn't work properly. there is still the supermarket and everybody -- and i can verify the claims that there is enough of supply in the town. but the life is disturbed, and again quoting the government sources, just overnight, there were 250 air strikes around the country. some of them were prevented. some of them not.

but what is important for me to stress, that is possible to defend and prevent the air strikes with capable air defense. it's not kind of an imminent and irreversible threat. it could be possible with different weaponry or defense system to -- you know, to defend people from those air strike, which is the most important and the biggest cause of damage in ukraine. >> sure. and what you mentioned about half of ukrainians having lost their jobs, i mean shops are still stocked in those cities that aren't suffering from major shelling and aerial bombardment. but at the same time, we're only a month in. i mean when wars drag on, obviously economies suffer. people just can't provide for themselves, for their family. their kids don't go to school. it's an entire social fabric that starts suffering. where is morale right now one month in? we've been reporting that it's high overall, but in your

experience, the people -- you're from kyiv. the people you speak to, your family, your friends, where are they in terms of their willingness to continue to defend their land? >> so, again, somehow ukrainian companies are able to do the poll. it's not just the feelings. so far 93% of ukrainians believe in ukrainian victory. it's not truly bravado. it's the feeling that there's no other choice. the towns occupied, where protesters are beaten or shot at, and there are some searches for -- abductions and arrests. but, yes, in kyiv, morale is high. it's not very clear, but people who are capable to stay -- of course, not everybody, of course, but they stayed and they're going to find their way. there are some reason for people staying. many people moved as you told earlier about the refugees.

but even those people who moved away, there is this feeling that they would be back. they are not moving for quite a long time. we know this is the case for a lot of refugees. but still ukrainians feel that for a long time, especially in the west media, it was said ukraine would be overtaken within a couple of days. but ukrainians really never doubted that it would take longer. and what we now experienced, even with this tragic situation, it's something which is not surprising. it's exactly as many people imagined it. >> sure. nataliya gumenyuk, thank you very much for joining us. we appreciate your reporting there from the ukrainian capital. if you'd like to help people in ukraine who may need shelter, food, and water, go to cnn.com/impact. so many people feel helpless when they're far away and they see all this misery. 70,000 people have contributed so far. and by the way, they have contributed, our viewers, in other disasters and other wars,

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taliban have reneged on their promise to allow girls to attend high school despite repeatedly making that promise since taking power last august. the u.n. secretary-general described the decision as deeply damaging for afghanistan, to say nothing of the emotional harm suffered by thousands of girls who turned up for school on tuesday, only to be told, go home. here's cnn's paula newton. >> reporter: for the first time in more than seven months, afghan schools reopened wednesday for a much anticipated return. but it was a day that ended in heartbreak, tears, and anger for many after the taliban announced girls above sixth grade must stay home. that decision came just hours after schools had reopened. many eager female students arriving back only to find they wouldn't be let inside. >> translator: why are they playing with our future? we have rights. they're humans from this country. we want to be free. we just want to continue our education. is it a sin that we are girls?

>> reporter: a taliban news agency said the delay is so uniforms can be designed according to sharia and afghan customs, but the decision is viewed by many as an excuse as condemnation rings out across the globe. >> this is a betrayal of public commitments that the taliban leadership made to the afghan people and to the international community. >> reporter: in a tweet, nobel laureate says, i had one hope for today. that afghan girls walking to school would not be sent back home. but the taliban did not keep their promise. they will keep finding excuses to stop girls from learning because they are afraid of educated girls and empowered women. others also expressing dismay. >> this is of grave concern at a time when the country desperately needs to overcome multiple intersecting crises. >> no country can grow by excluding women and girls from

education. i mean the fact that we still have to say this in the 21st century. >> reporter: in recent months, the taliban have repeatedly insisted they would not go back to how things were in the late nooint and early 2000s, when women and girls were banned from working or going to school. it has been seven months since this now iconic scene of thousands stranded at the airport in kabul desperately trying to leave after the taliban's takeover. now those left behind seeing human rights withering away. among them, the tearful schoolgirls whose hopes of an education are now shattered. paula newton, cnn. the tough questions are now over for judge ketanji brown jackson. next comes the vote for the first black woman ever nominated to the u.s. supreme court. details in a moment. also remembering madeleine albright.

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nominated to the u.s. supreme court. the u.s. president has ordered flags to be flown at half-staff at the white house to honor the late madeleine albright, the first woman to serve as secretary of state died wednesday after battling cancer. albright was nominated and appointed by president bill clinton in 1997 after serving as the u.s. ambassador to the united nations. as secretary of state, she championed the expansion of nato. shortly before her death, she shared some of her strong views about the war in ukraine with her former boss, bill clinton says she spent much of that conversation talking about, quote, how ukraine had to be defended. >> the idea that putin was trying to sell the argument that a country with a jewish president was actually a nazi country was patently absurd, and she just wanted to support whatever we could do to back ukraine and -- and that's all she wanted to talk about. >> after her death, clinton said few leaders have been so perfectly suited for the times in which they served. cnn's richard roth looks back at

her trailblazing accomplishments, her quips, and her controversies. >> reporter: as a diplomat, where tact and treading gingerly on contentious issues are the norm, madeleine albright was never one to mince words. >> this is not koe low nays, this is cowardice. >> reporter: whether it was her colorful use of language condemning cuba for shooting down u.s. pilots or her strident assessment of the leader of iraq. >> i don't think the world has seen, except maybe since hitler, somebody who is quite as evil as saddam hussein. >> the iraqi dictator was said to be so incensed by albright's verbal attacks, he published a poem in iraqi newspapers calling her an unrelenting serpent. albright's response was one of quiet defiance. from that moment forward, she wore a broach in the shape of a serpent at every meeting with the iraqi leadership, and she began using her pins as she called them as a way of sending subtle messages, without uttering a single word.

born marie jana corboleva to a check slovakian diplomat, they fled the former czechoslovakia after the nazi invasion in 1939 and later found safe haven in the united states in 1948. she became a u.s. citizen, married media tycoon joseph patterson albright, and had three children, all while working on her ph.d. and learning multiple languages. in 1982, albright took a prestigious position as professor of international affairs at georgetown university. but it was the shock of her husband asking for a divorce around that same time that changed the course of her life. >> there was an identity crisis. as it turns out, i think those next ten years were the ones that were the most influential. >> reporter: she poured herself into her work, becoming foreign policy adviser to then-presidential candidate bill clinton in 1992. clinton, in turn, tapped her for the post of u.s. ambassador to the united nations after he won

the white house. as u.n. ambassador, albright became known for her tenacity and determination to elevate u.s. interests at the u.n. through what she called aggressive multilateralism. >> we must summon the spine to deter the support to isolate, and the strength to defeat those who run rough shot over the rights of others. >> reporter: she pushed hard for u.s. boots on the ground in the balkans. the u.s. administration chose diplomacy, instead. a decision that came at a costly human price. an even bigger regret, the failure of the u.s. to intervene to stop the rwandan genocide in 1994. >> i, madeleine albright -- >> lessons learned from her past and the present as albright cemented her place in history, becoming the first ever female u.s. secretary of state on january 23rd, 1997. in the kosovo conflict erupted in 1998, albright lobbied forcefully for nato intervention. nato-led effort helped kosovo gain independence from serbian control and the icc indicted

serbian president for war crimes. >> never again will there be massacres and mass graves. >> reporter: through it all, albright's experience as a refugee who found the american dream was omnipresent in her life. >> my life reflects both the turbulence of europe in the middle of the century, and the tolerance and generosity of america throughout its existence. >> reporter: in her later years, albright's comments in support of democratic presidential candidate hillary clinton backfired. >> there is a special place in hell for women who don't help each other. >> she apologized for the timing of her so-called undiplomatic moment in a "new york times" op-ed and seized the opportunity to make a passionate case for gender equality by saying, my hope is that young women will build on the progress we have made, but that will happen only if women help one another. and for those who do that, there will always be a special place of honor.

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