hello and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world, i'm paula newton in atlanta. we are following breaking news on the war in ukraine just ahead. >> the world continued to focus on what a brute this guy is. >> ukraine asked for planes so we don't lose so many people and you have thousands of war planes. >> this pretty much reminds me like a fairy tale, the fight between good and evil. >> translator: the operation was a complete success. we decisively repelled the enemy. >> it's our homeland. it's where we've grown up. it's our country.

>> this is cnn breaking news. there is no break in the fighting across ukraine or in its capitol. authorities report heavy rocket attacks from russian forces. ukrainian troops claim they've recaptured ground east of kyiv previously occupied by russians. battles raging in the eastern city of kharkiv. the contested town of irpin to the northwest of kyiv. the mayor says russian forces are using rocket systems but ukraine's army still controls 80% of the city. satellite images from the eastern city show the damage and days of fighting. you can see it there. a massive crater with a burnt out school on one side. also, a damaged apartment complex and a church. now the regional governor reports six people cuing for aid

were killed when a russian missile hit a shopping mall parking lot. the mayor of kherson posted video of a huge ukrainian flag draped down the wall of city hall. continuing to show their defiance. a local wants those occupiers out. ukraine's president remains positive in his latest online post. >> translator: we are bringing victory closer because of this war, it is simply impossible for us not to win and it will be so. we can't stop, not even for a minute, because every minute it is about our destiny, about our future, about whether we live or die. >> now u.s. president joe biden will meet with european president ursula vandelayen in

before he travels to poland. not everyone agrees russia should be expelled from the g20. western leaders were keen to show a united front in the war against ukraine. >> putin was banking on nato being split. nate tee has never, never been more united than it is today. putin is getting exactly the opposite what he intended to have as a consequence of going into ukraine. the single most important thing is for us to stay unified and the world continue to focus on what a brute this guy is. >> it's a full-fledged war and we have been so fair -- clear

about what happens if they attack. more troops at the borders. >> for more on the developments we have phil black live for us in lviv, ukraine. kevin liptak is traveling with the president to warsaw, poland. natasha bertrand is at nato headquarters. natasha, good to see you this morning. as biden continues his trip, many people have commented it's impressive what biden is achieving keeping the european allies united. there is still a long game ahead. what does the united states expect will be the toughest part here in terms of trying to keep them united in the coming weeks and months? >> reporter: without a doubt, it's going to be refusing the european dependence on oil an gas. they are very exposed to russia

economically. it's been difficult to get on the same page about the kind of sanctions they want to impose on russia. remaining on the same page about the kind of sanctions they want to impose is going to depend an lot on what the european union wants to do about their oil imports. we're hearing how the united states is going to work with countries and companies to divert liquefied natural gas to europe so they can actually reduce their dependency on russian energy. this was a main topic of discussion yesterday we are told during the meetings with the g7, with eu leaders and nato allies. they cannot continue to depend, they believe, on russian energy if they actually want to isolate russia from the international financial system and punish them towards their aggression in

ukraine. we do expect to hear from the national security adviser a significant announcement on how the united states is going to help them kick that habit. the other major way the u.s. is trying to help the european union and european allies stay united is by taking on some of that burden when it comes to refugees. the president did say they are willing to accept 100,000 refugees fleeing the war. very significant move. 100,000 is a small but significant debt and they are hoping they can use this sooner rather than later basically

trying to lessen the burden so they can be on the same page about punishing russia. >> we will wait for the announcements, natasha. we expect to hear more at the bottom of the hour. we want to go to where the president will be next, that's poland. we find kevin liptak at warsaw. president biden will be a few hundred miles away from the conflict. what's his mission? >> reporter: the president wants to see much closer range what the effects of this war are. some of the issues that were discussed at nato yesterday, he will be able to see in a more fuller view when he comes to poland, when he flies onto the eastern flank of nato and sort of experiences the unease that is being felt here as this war rages in ukraine and sort of the

unsettled nature of things here. refugees will be the main topic of discussion when the president goes to a town in southeastern poland about 60 miles from the ukrainian border. there he'll meet the president andre duta. they've been facilitating this massive refugee influx, 2.2 million. it was only about a week and a half ago that vice president kamala harris was also in warsaw. she met with president duta as well and he was very explicit in saying that he needed more support from the united states in dealing with this crisis and he needed the united states to expedite refugees to come to the u.s. who had family there. yesterday's announcement about 100,000 refugees who would be admitted to the united states is a step in that direction, but certainly there will be more to discuss with assistance to

poland. the other issue the president is certainly focused on is security assistance and reassuring poland that nato and the united states have its back as this war continues, and you heard some of those anxieties yesterday. the polish prime minister decided that he mused potentially vladimir putin in one or two years could have his sights on warsaw. when the president speaks with the 82nd airborne that will be him reinforcing this notion that the united states is here to support poland going forward, paula. >> kevin, we'll wait for all of that to unfold in the coming hours. appreciate it. now we want to go live to the ukraine and our phil black standing by for us. phil, good to see you. zelenskyy's pleas have been more urgent and blunt. when you listened to him on thursday, he was quite impatient. what is he asking for now in terms of military aid? is there more of a realistic time line for when ukrainian officials may get some of those

reinforce snmts. >> president zelenskyy wants to, paula, needs to even the fight. as we've seen on the battlefield repeatedly really, ukraine's disadvantage is not in its commitment, its will to fight, it was in the hardware. when zelenskyy was speaking with nato leaders, we want some big ticket offensive items like tanks and planes, but these allies don't want to give him those. they feel that could be escalatory from the russian point of view. these are also items and systems that need a lot of support. they can't be deployed easily. they're not going to make a quick impact on the battlefield. he is likely to get more of what else is on his wish list, and in particular he will get more of those sophisticated lethal defensive weapons that are being used on the battlefield to such an effect by the ukrainians. easy to train, easy to use

missiles and antitank systems. ukraine has told the u.s., paula, that it needs about 500 of those every day. >> all right. our thanks there to phil black who's live for us from ukraine. natasha bertrand in busless and kevin liptak in poland. steven erlinger is with us now from budweiser lynn. good to see you as we continue to follow now going into the second month of this conflict. we were just talking about the unity among the allies. obviously it's impressive and yet we're just a month in here. what could challenge that united front, especially as we expect this to go on at least for months, if not years? >> well, i think that's right. this is grinding. this is the way russians do war. i think the whole point of biden's visit was to say, yes, we're a month in and we have a long way to go so don't get frantic now because, you know,

we have 30 allies in nato. there are 27 countries in the eu. they all have different vulnerabilities. some suffer more from our sanctions on russia than perhaps even russians do. some are much more dependent on russian energy. there's a lot of pressure, even on germany, to block oil imports let alone gas imports. there's a recession coming. there's money to be spent on refugees. so i think, you know, part of really what biden was doing was saying, look, let's hold our patience. let's keep going. we know the pain in russia is real. as he said in his press conference, these sanctions will cause pain. they could make him stop but it will take quite a long time. >> yeah. and i know that that is the

realistic view and yet, as you said, the sanctions are the long game so what happens in the meantime? you know, you wrote last week negotiations only work when a conflict reaches a stalemate or one side wins, right? i know people are throwing around the word stalemate. this is not a stalemate. >> it is not a stalemate. it is not a stalemate. >> so what brings us the diplomatic breakthrough here? >> well, i'm sorry to say, i think it will take time. i mean, already the russians and ukrainians are talking. zelenskyy wants to talk directly to putin. putin recognizes zelenskyy now is not going away, but putin is not ready to talk. he wants more gains on the ground. he has time. it's not going well for russia, don't misunderstand me, but, i mean, without the stuff nato countries, including the united states are pouring into ukraine, i suspect the war would have

been over before. so it is a very brave fight and i think in the end we'll see what vladimir putin decides is enough for victory because for him, he cannot be seen to lose. if he loses, he may lose everything. so it's a big gamble. it makes him perhaps more reckless, which is why everyone is worried about him escalating possibly to use chemical, biological, even a tactical nuclear weapon though i'm personally skeptical about that. we will see. it's just he is not going to settle for talks now, not real talks and not for a while it seems to me. >> yeah. that has dire consequences for ukrainians on the ground there. i want to lean on some of your experience there. how destabilizing do you think some of this can be for europe proper? i don't think when we say more

than 2 million refugeeness poland, okay, it's been a few weeks. it will be a few months and then a few years. i don't think people in other parts of the world appreciate what a burden that puts on a country like poland. >> paula, you're absolutely right. poland has been a friend to ukraine for a very long time. western ukraine used to be poland. there are a lot of ties, family ties, ethnic ties. the poles care about this. they're getting help from the eu. biden promised them help. these are largely women and children. the men stayed home to fight. so you don't have the same kind of sometimes racist tropes that we had with the 2015 migration when a lot of young males were coming. and so this feels different and

also there's a kind of pay the try owetism at stake here and solidarity so i think it's okay. the difficulty will come when the energy bills keep rising, when the gasoline prices keep rising. i mean, there are people, voters out there who are already very worried about their incomes and whose countries are very dependent on all of these higher energy prices and this is bound to have an effect and it could have a political effect. this is what drove the yellow vests in france, the climate induced rise in the energy crisis. now you have a climate crisis. you have a real war in europe and this is changing minds. it's a shock. people haven't absorbed it. there are a lot of people who want it just to be over so they can go back to the way things were. i don't think we are going back

to the way things were, not for a very long time. >> it will take, like you said, a little while yet for that to sink in with all of the implications. thank you very much. really appreciate it. >> thank you. the u.s. is getting ready to accept a new wave of ukrainian refugees. we will have the story on that plus a major increase in humanitarian aid. lactaid is 100% real milk, just without the lactose. so you can enjoy it even if you're sensitive to dairy. sonyone who says lactaid isn't real milk is also saying mabel here isn't a real cow. and she really hes that.

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seems like a good time to find out about both. why are you talking like that? is this an ad? are we in an ad? the u.n. now estimates nearly 3.7 million people have already fled ukraine since the start of the russian invasion. now with the exception of belarus, all of the countries neighboring ukraine have taken in hundreds of thousands of refugees, but poland has by far received the most. more than 2 million according to the polish border guard but many entering poland are of course heading to other parts of the poland. those living in limbo are describing what they left behind and what they've lost. it is a lot. take a listen.

>> translator: my daughter is crying the whole time saying, mother, i'll come. i'm the only one in the house. i have two dogs and a cat. i took the smaller dog with me. the shepherd dog and the cat stayed there. then the house on the right to ours exploded and the wave threw me around. our city is completely under siege. the more people get out, the sooner some street fighting will appear. it's because all of the neighborhoods around us have already been completely bombed out. when the power supply or water supply gets restored, that ends up getting demolished the next day. it's a complete nightmare. >> they just want to go home. the biden administration announces the u.u.u.u. will tak up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees. it also pledged more than $1 billion in aid for necessities like food, medicine and shelter. now ukraine is accusing russia, meantime, of putting the lives

of chernobyl nuclear workers at risk. the plant has been occupied we remind you for more than a month. ukraine told the atomic energy agency russia shelled a nearby village where many of the workers live. according to ukraine, that not only endangered those that will make sure the plant stays safe, it prevented their shift rotation. the attack came days after they allowed those who had been stuck there to finally go home for the first time. the u.s. issued a slew of new sanctions against russian citizens thursday. among them, 328 members of the russian duma. that's the lower house of the russian parliament, by the way. sanctions covered dozens of russian defense companies and even the ceo of russia's largest bank. the u.s. has also indicted four russian government operatives for hacking global energy facilities. the alleged hacks took place between 2012 and 2018.

three of the four russians are intelligence officers. now with russia coming under new sanctions and its ground campaign in ukraine largely stalled, at least forth moment, the man in charge of russia's military is conspicuously, mysteriously gone from the public eye. nina dos santos has been following this. there is russian state media weighing in trying to alleviate this. what do we know of the defense minister? >> reporter: he hasn't been seen for 12 days up until yesterday when he briefly appeared in a teleconference with vladimir putin on the far right-hand corner of the screen, only for a fleeting few seconds, to update the president on how that so-called special military operation as they describe the invasion of ukraine is going. it was only for a couple of seconds. if it weren't for his arm moving about to gesticulate, you would

have thought it was a static image on that televised conf conference. now what a lot of people have been speculating given that they're talking about how the ukraine invasion is going, you might have expected his relat relationship with sergei shoiu might have been difficult. dmitry peskov, the kremlin spokesperson said he's just busy with what is happening in ukraine. the other thing is, we haven't seen the russian chief, general staff of the armed forces present on air waves either. so it's not just shoigu.

this points to a broader question of morale and the relationship between vladimir putin and his closer military intelligence. ukraine says 15,000 russian soldiers may have lost their lives already in one month. paula? >> the plot thickens. nina will continue to follow it. appreciate it. >> china publicly claims it's not taking a side in the ukraine war. western leaders are hoping beijing is serious about staying out of this fight. we'll get the view from beijing when we return. wet dishshes? residue? spots? it's not your dishwasher's fault. simply add finish jetdry 3in1 to rinse, dry and shine your dies. solve 3 problems at once wit finish jetdry 3in1.

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we are getting horrific new images from eastern ukraine. new satellite photos show a massive crater near a burned out school now part of a hospital across the street is also destroyed. there do not appear to be any identifiable targets in the city center. he has left the town. ukrainian fighters have retaken 80%. video shows a russian warship in flames. ukraine claims they destroyed the ship and damaged two others. u.s. president joe biden is due to meet with the president of the european at this hour.

that is before he travels to poland. summits in brussels produced a stern weapon to russia against using chemical weapons against ukraine. president biden says he personally favors in fact kicking russia out of the g20. it's up to other members to decide that, one of which is china. he spoke with the chinese leader and spelled it out. >> i think that china understands its economic future is much more closely tied to the west than it is to russia and so

i'm hopeful that he does not get engaged. >> discussing this, we're going to bring in steven jiang. biden was categorical. china understands the economic consequences, right? what signals are we getting, if any, from china indicating that, look, they will firmly remain on the sidelines of this or not? >> paula, china seems to be sending different and sometimes conflicting signals depending on whom they're talking to. on the one handsome people have noticed subtle changes in their rhetoric. they're talking about ukraine's concern has to be addressed and acknowledging this growing humanitarian crisis on the ground, even sending some small scale humanitarian assistance to ukraine. on the other hand, they're still very much defending and justifying their refusal to condemn this war which they call a russian invasion.

here's what the chinese ambassador to the u.n. has just said. >> reporter: developing countries which make up a majority of the world are not parties to this conflict. they should not be drawn into this tension or of course to suffer the consequences of geopolitical conflicts and major power gains. >> so even though chinese officials like to stress the country's impartiality in public, a lot of analysts say their actions indicate there is anything. they were parenting the kremlin's talking point. they are strongly against any forms of sanctions against russia. recent reports met them with a group of chinese business leaders in moscow urging them to seize economic opportunities created by this ukraine crisis and telling them not to waste time to fill the void in the russian market even though the ambassador did not mention western sanctions specifically

but i think the implications were quite clear to a lot of people. that's exactly the type of action that would help mitigate the impact of western sanctions. that's exactly the kind of measures president biden and other u.s. officials have been warning against. china insists they will be maintaining quote, unquote, normal economic relations but they seem to be making this bet the u.s. and ally also not dare to impose sanctions on china because of their bigger and deeper trade and economic ties. paula? >> it seems china will have free rein to expand their trade. steven jiang, appreciate the update. a crew member on a yacht tied to a russian oligarch tells cnn he tried to sink the vessel. that crew member is ukrainian. the lady anastasia is opened by the chief executive of a russian

weapons company can. in a cnn exclusive the ship's engineer reveals how he took matters into his own hands when russia invaded ukraine. drew griffin has the report. >> a statue of a 55-year-old nautical engineer. he spent the last 15 years on lady anastasia. >> translator: we had a crew of 50 people, including a chef and waiter. >> the only user is a sanctioned putin connected oligarch and the ceo of a major russian state-run company that rakes in tens of billions of dollars selling munitions, everything from weapons to ammo to aircraft. yacht engineer went from cruising in oligarch luxury to a bunker in ukraine. our interview just began,

stopped by an alert of an incoming russian attack. >> okay. sorry. bye-bye. >> reporter: his life changed in late february when the yacht was docked in ukraine. >> reporter: welcome back. thank you. >> nice to meet you again. >> reporter: so good to see you again. >> i am safe. >> reporter: safe once again. he was spurred to action when he saw this image in his hometown in kharkiv. >> my war is started. >> reporter: at that moment he knew he had to do something to retaliate. sink the lady anastasia. >> translator: water began to fill up the engine room and crew space. after that there were three crew members on board. i announced the boat was sinking, and they should leave the ship. i did this on my own. >> reporter: they didn't want to risk their own jobs.

they sounded the alarm, called authorities. he was arrested and the anna stash yeah saved although damaged. in court he denied nothing instead declaring he would return to ukraine where he picked up arms and joined the military. >> translator: now a war has begun, a total war between russia and ukraine and you have to choose, either you are with ukraine or not. you have to choose. will there be ukraine or will you have a job? i made a choice, i don't need a job if i don't have ukraine. >> reporter: back in spain they have agreed to the provisional docking of the yacht it's one of a long list of suspected russian oligarch yachts frozen in an effort to apply pressure on putin to stop this war. he says others working for oligarchs around the world should expose them and their

assets. his effort to make the profit tears of vladimir putin's regime pay for what they are doing. >> translator: i think what i did is absolutely 100% correct. i tried to sink the boat as a political protest of russian aggression. they should be held responsible because it is they who with their lifestyle, with their unquenchable greed, they precisely led to this. in order to distract the people from the real plunder of russia by these rules, they arrange diversionary wars with other countries that are innocent. >> reporter: is there any message that you would like the people of the united states to know right now? >> send guns to ukraine please. we must stop it, this war. we must win. >> reporter: he says he has no

doubt that the military equipment made by the russian defense firm linked to his boss is being used right now to kill ukrainians. we received a response saying it does not comment on the personal lives of the employees nor their property. what a story. our breaking news s coverage rit here on cnn will continue right after our breaeak. - [narrator] as you get ready for what's next, custom gear from custom ink can help make the most of these moments.

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>> reporter: north korea's 38-year-old supreme commander ramps up his aggression to the west. kim jong-un has tested the first intercontinental ballistic missile. it flew for 71 minutes. this could be the longest range missile. >> it traveled more than 6,000 miles and it could go 12,000 kill almost meters. far enough to hit the united states. >> this was first unveiled in the fall of 2020 at this military parade. displayed again last fall next to kim on a red carpet, a larger, more ominous missile than anything he's tested before. it came after an extended period when kim had retrained from

those launches. they have to recapture the war, you should probably refer to me. >> while the u.s. and south koreans are responding to the north korean test, they are making a point to say publicly what their missiles are designed to do. >> translator: we have the ability and readiness to accurately strike the origin of the missile launch as well as command and support facilities at any time when the north launches a missile. >> reporter: one analyst are

signaling kim jong-un and that they can kill him before he retaliates. that will push him to think about using the weapons earlier. >> reporter: another reason analysts say tensions could ramp up, this comes a couple of weeks after a new south korean president. he is expected to take a harder role than moon jae-in. u.s. house committee investigating the january 6th riot has explosive text messages they're revealing. they show the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas, his wife jeannie, pleading with then white house chief of staff mark meadows to keep fighting to overturn the 2020 election. in one exchange from november 2020homas knows the majority knows biden and the left are attempting the greatest heist.

most of us are disgusted with the vp and are in a listening mode to see where to fight with our teams. when she says vp she means vice president pence who refused to do nirg that the insurrection. she attended the ral any. they raise questions and koerns. they have already aerd and will hear more. the prospect between trump and biden in 2024 makes many americans. it actually came up during a q&a at the nato summit.

>> i don't blame. i don't criticize anybody for asking that question but the next election i'd be very fortunate if i had that same man running against me. >> the president was asked if he would be concerned about foreign policy. president trump threatened to pull the united states from nato. he has openly hinted that he will write on it. australia's great barrier rev is suffering its sixth mass bleaching due to heat stress. stressful just to look at these pictures. the believing occurs when stressed coral ejects al guy from its tissue depriving it of a vital food source.

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and this just in to cnn. the russian defense ministry says it's taken out the largest fuel depot used by the ukrainian military. it was hit with a sea launched cruise missile. cnn has not been able to independently confirm that report. in romania some refugees are using dance as a distraction and a way to try and deal with the trauma of the war. cnn's miguel marquez talks to some of the parents and the children taking part in the comfort classes. >> reporter: dance therapy for ukrainian moms and their children fleeing war. how was the dancing?

>> awesome. >> reporter: you're a very good dancer. >> yeah. >> reporter: the not exactly shy yeagor, 5 1/2 years old, he and his mom are from kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city. suffering indiscriminate russian rocket and artillery attacks. how are you doing? how is he doing? i'm playing soldiers, he says. his mom adds, yes, soldiers. he's always saying, air raid. >> reporter: if me and you were playing aerate, how would you play? show them how you play, she says. i'm shooting at a tank, he says, any tank i can hit. >> reporter: how do you explain what is happening in ukraine? he saw everything, she says, and now he's repeating it.

i think he'll play regular games when this is over and he calms down, games like cars and trains. no, no, says yeagor. it will be the same. i like it. he and his mom and god mother are one of dozens of families being housed by jesuit refugee service and the local children's cancer authority the magic association. >> mothers can be tough when they're with their children but when they come speak to us privately, they break down. >> reporter: you are a very good dancer. >> thank you. >> reporter: 7 years old arrived days ago from dnipro. they are hitting the strategic dnipro location. they and several relatives are

refugees. my son is 18 years old, she says. he has an injured leg. wasn't allowed to cross the border. my son is in ukraine. she can barely speak the words. today's dance class a welcome distraction. today this was a stress relief, she says. for two days we didn't eat or sleep and we're grateful to relax. the dance instructor, a refugee, too. he fled war in cameroon. i want them to feel joy, he says, because i know how it is to be in their places. it's very hard. it was very hard for me, too. sophia wanted to dance in ukraine but was too young. today a bit of hope. my dream, she says, came true. a simple activity bringing comfort to moms and kids, refugees far from home.

miguel marquez, cnn, bucharest. if you would like to help people in ukraine who need shelter, food, water please go to cnn.com/impact. you will find several ways to help and so many have been so generous already. i want to thank you for keeping me company here. i'm paula eaton. "early start" is up after a quick break. we want to leave you though with another lovely edition. this musical composition from a 9-year-old piano prodigy. he wrote this in hopes to send peace to ukraine. ♪ ♪ ♪

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to build a future of unlimited possibilities. this is cnn breaking news. good morning. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett. john berman is live in lviv, ukraine. good morning. >> good morning to both of you. it is now one month after russian troops invaded this country, and as of this morning they are being pushed back some around kyiv. intense combat reported all around the capitol. now it is hard to get a definite read on this, but ukraine's forces appear to have retaken territory east of kyiv.