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up a fuel depot. president biden in poland today meeting with troops deployeded along nato's eastern edge as a clearly visible detourourde -- rent to vladimir putin. >> whether or not you can alleviate the pain and suffering of the people of ukraine. we're in a new phase. your generation, we're at an inflection point. >> we're joined live in lviv in ukraine. a top russian general is saying the first phase of this war is over but there is wide spread bombing and destruction still happening in ukraine. >> right. it's an interesting statement because i'm looking at the exact wording here. in general, the statement goes the main tasks of the first stage of the operation have been completed. the combat potential of the armed forces of ukraine is significantly reduced. that's obviously the russian

perspective that is something that they would say. allowing us to focus the main efforts on achieving the main goal, which is the liberation of donbas. that suddenly has become the main goal. it wasn't the main goal in the beginning. the main golfs to blitz into kyiv, remove zelenskyy, put their own people in place, they tried to do it very locally in some small municipalities and towns where we saw mayors getting abducted and russian puppets put in place. what does this mean is the big question? it could mean the russians are trying to as you said at the top of the hour save face by changing the initial goal of the operations and move the goalpost to make it look as though there are somehow achieving their targets, their objectives when in fact, we know and we've been reporting for a month now, the ukrainians have resisted mightily especially in big cities like kyiv where the russians entered and in some

cases repelled. it's an interesting statement to make at this stage. one month in. especially as we continue to see on lower levels though unproductive talks be e between the russian and the ukrainian sides. >> i want to play what the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy had to say about russian soldiers who have been killed in this war. watch this. >> translator: 16,000 russian military are lost. why is it so? >> so cnn cannot confirm this number but the scale of russian loss is much higher than they anticipated, much higher than anticipated. >> the russians say they're acknowledging finally losses at 1,351 military personnel killed and 4,000 wounded. that really according to all the estimates that we're hearing from the ukrainians, which we can't confirm but nato assessments is much lower. we might be looking at over 15,

16,000 russian deaths. and if the russians are saying 1351, our reporters on the ground you may remember ivan watson did a story on one scity in the center burying dead and storing russian bodies in refrire refrigerated trucks because they want to send them back. they said in this truck alone there are 300 russian bodies. but the acknowledgement itself is note worthy. >> they're down playing. they are. you'll be back at the top of the hour. you have to watch her amazing coverage. >> it's a bit cold. but we get through it. we get through it. >> when i finish, i watch you and fall asleep. thank you. thank you, appreciate it. a ukrainian official claims russia turn today a group of mercenariries believed to be linked to the kremlin to assist in the war efforts. their main goal allegedly to

assassinate the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. >> [speaking foreign language]. >> reporter: a russian mercenary takes a video in syria. it's a recruitment style pitch. allegedly for the notorious group a brutal force believed to be linked to the kremlin. in the shadows of russia's invasion of ukraine a senior ukrainian defense official tells us that contractors were in the country and had a very specific mission. what is the objective do you think in ukraine right now? >> they wanted to assassinate the leadership of ukraine. our president and prime minister. so that was the goal and the couple of groups, couple of people who were sent to ukraine without any success. >> translator: i am here. we are not putting down arms. >> reporter: the primary target he says president volodymyr zelenskyy. ukraine's military says

documentary evidence gathered by intelligence officials and special forces outlines their alleged mission. he says several operatives have been eliminated. identified by their unique dog tags. cnn couldn't independently corroborate the account. >> we need to find all these people and they need to go to the court. they absolutely illegal. >> reporter: contractors su surfaced in eastern ukraine in 2014 exposed by research groups and cnn investigations. the operations spanned the middle east and africa. u.s. officials accused vagnar of multiple human rights abuses in multiple countries. in this disturbing 2017 video, investigated by cnn, vagner mercenaries appear to be torturing and murdering a syrian man as they make jokes. the kremlin said the incident had nothing to do with the russian military operations in syria and they've repeatedly

denied any links to vagnar. they say it was started by this man, a veteran of the chechen conflict and allegedly bankrolled by businessman, an ol' oligarch so close to the leader, multiple u.s. sanctions, h e denies any involvement. >> they want to fight. >> reporter: but this senior researcher at the dossier center says he is putin's private army. we agreed to hide their identity with the safety. they spent years identifying vogner's links to the kremlin. >> they operate without any rule. they can do whatever they want. then when there is a call to mod or there is a call to mr. putin, what your guards are doing in this particular country, the response will be these are individuals. they have no link to the

kre kremlin. >> reporter: despite the invasion and new allegations of an assassination plot, ukraine's president says he isn't going anywhere. david mckenzie, cnn, london. >> all right. i want to bring in retired general military analyst general spider marks. spider, thank you. general, appreciate you joining us. fascinating story by david mckenzie. what does it mean russia is using this group in their war on ukraine especially considering their main target president zelenskyy? >> well, if they think they want to try to kill zelenskyy, they obviously don't have the capability, right? they have to go to some third party to try to get this done. it's a level of desperation in my mind and again, an illegal act done by a war criminal as we've been discussing over the course of the last month.

>> we have heard of major march r -- moral issues up to the highest ranks and today we're hearing another russian general has been killed. the sixth general killed on the front lines. what does this say about russia's strategy and how they're fighting here? >> what this really talks to is what the ukrainians are having incredible success with. what they're doing is ukrainians are taking the russians off their nets, the communication nets and control capabilities and jamming tactical coms completely in the clear intercepting those so getting ahead of what the russians are trying to do and forces the russians to go to cell phones, which they can break into or they're requiring the leaders, these journal officers who are in information blackout, don, they have no situational

awareness. their units aren't doing well so what do leaders try to do? go to the front and find out what is going on and get out of their vehicles and now exposed. they can get hit by snipers. they can get hit by artillery. they don't have sufficient protection moving as close and close as close as they can get to the front and put themselves at great risk and the ukrainians are achieving this because that's the intent of trying to take someone off communications is to get leaders completely confused and put them in exposed positions. >> yeah. russian forces are now in defensive positions around kyiv. i mean, their ground trooped stalled after this intense back and forth resulting in ukraine taking back, retaking some territory. is it possible that the russians are changing their strategy because, you know, we also learned today the kremlin generals say the first stage of the war is over. is that a strange in strategy or just moving the goalpost? >> well, as you said, moving the

goalpost. these are tactical adjustments they're making and it's all about the narrative, right? all putin cares about is what he can tell people back home and what he can publish to the world, which is our first phase is over. we're now going to concentrate on eastern ukraine and the donbas specifically. look, i can tell you that putin is not consciously opening the door toward a negotiated settlement but i bet you he's going to be a bit more willing because what he's saying is i can't get it done where i thought i could get it done in these multiple locations. he over stretched in term it is of what his objective is and now he may be available to have a negotiated settlement, which i would guarantee is a nato partner and zelenskyy wouldn't sign up for, everything east of the river now putin might say i'll call it quits. give me that stuff. i guarantee zelenskyy would say no, no, no, he's having too much tactical success to take that

from the russians. >> you said it what he can sell to the world but doesn't the world know what is actually up in that? putin is -- he's losing and on many different levels. i think for every single goal that he has had to divide nato allies, to divide america, to take ukraine. he's really lost it. the world knows what's up. is this what he's doing for himself to make himself feel good? >> yeah, he's drinking his own bath water. what he wants to do is to say to his own people and his own cabinet, hey, this is what we're trying to do, right, guys? we're just trying to get to donbas, right? we were going to be to the eastern part of ukraine, right? that was our objective. no, no, of course not. he was trying to take kharkiv, odesa, the donbas. he over stretched. his strategic objectives were

failed from the outset because he was trying to win everywhere and you can't do that. he didn't establish a center of gravity so now, based on this incredible failure, he's rewriting his narrative. >> general marks, thank you, sir. appreciate it. see you soon. >> thank you, don, for having me. mariupol is a city under siege suffering the worst attacks of vladimir putin's war. next, a man that tells the story of why he went out and went back. >> people have a lot of backbone and guts in ukraine and i'm sure you're observing it and i don't just mean the military.

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ukrainian officials say their forces are quote going on the counter attack around the capital region today. my next guest joins us from kyiv. he is an advertising executive from new york. so why is he in ukraine? he traveled all the way there to document the war on the ground and help in any way that he could. kevin richards is his name and joins me now. thank you so much. appreciate you joining us. first, can you tell us why you're in ukraine on the front lines of this war? >> a lot of people asked that question. i -- it was fairly spontaneous decision. i -- was watching what was going on. i was feeling very far removed from it and felt like somebody should be there that is relatable and could deliver information and really bear witness on the ground and make it more real for the people back

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destruction here in the city. first day i got here it was the day after or the morning after the mall was bombed and the people that i'm with led by a wonderful organization called ukraine resistance, alexis and his wife and friends, brought me there and met with a guy named a professional tennis player surgi that beat federer, believe it or not. the destruction was unbelievable. i was in new york when the twin towers came down. i witnessed it and watched it from the roof in soho and that was life changing. being here and seeing the destruction on a daily basis puts that into perspective in terms of these people dealing with things like 9/11 every day.

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officials say 300 people were killed in the attack on that theater in mariupol where hundreds of people were taking shelter. this new video is from just moments after that strike. >> [speaking foreign language]

. >> the situation in mariupol is incredibly dire, the u.n. believes there are mass graves in the city. i want to talk to olexander now. he's escaped from mariupol. he asked us only to use his first name. appreciate you joining us. can you describe what it was like in mariupol? >> yeah, in mariupol it was a terrible situation and i used to say that it was a hell but for today, even that word is not enough to describe what is going on there. people survived, they faced a lot of different challenges every day. they had to fight for their lives and situation getting worse and worse every day. i saw people who were melting snow and collecting water from puddles to have at least some water. people did not have and still don't have medication. since a long time ago because

when the city was surrounded, they disappeared almost immediately and i know that there are a lot of people that need a constant treatment and people don't have places where they can take food. they don't have electricity, they have to collect wood to warm their food and besides that humanitarian huge problems every day they're living under the constant shelling, shelling, bombing nonstop 24/7 and the big problem is that all this shelling they happened on residential houses. they happen. they destroyed schools. they destroyed kindergartens, hospitals and as you mentioned before, they destroyed even shelters where people hid and now i show the pictures of

mariupol and they're really terrible. i saw buildings destroyed and i understand that there were people who just died under this bombing and those not killed but injured probably died right after several days because there are not any medical supply in the city and even if there would be a doctor, he will not have any means to rescue those people and i don't even -- >> i understand that you said -- olexander, you said the elderly and children are suffering the most. can you talk to us about that? how so? >> yes, it's unfortunately, it's really true because people with children, they have to find the more food. they have to cook food for them. they have sometimes to feed the children with special food, which is not available at all. i'm not speaking even about

hygiene knneeds for the childre and older people are weak. you need is to be strong to travel to find a source of water, to find food but if you're weak like an elderly, you cannot do this. you can't go out for 100 meters but you will not find anything in such short distance and you have to take medication because majority of elderly in our country, they have chronic diseases, which have to be treated and for example, my grandmother, she's now in mariupol and she now has a problem with her health because she have no pills now, she has to take every day. >> how were you able to escape? >> i think i was lucky because i found a car. i found fuel. my friends helped me because they shared with me the extra

car and me and my sister, we managed to escape and just accidently we heard about this location. people, they don't have any means of communication. a lot of people didn't know today there are a column of cars, private cars who will drive to escape. there was no buses. buses were not allowed to come to mariupol to pick up people without cars. so it's almost not possible to locate if you don't have a car. i heard stories about my friends told me that they had to walk about 50 kilometers in order to go out from mariupol to the nearest safe city. they stayed for a night in the villages in order to just escape from this hell because it's a terrible, terrible situation that's getting worse and worse and worse. >> now, i understand that once you got out, i think you mentioned this just a moment

ago. you decided to go back into mariupol to get friends and family with children? >> yes, because i still have relatives there and it's not only me. a lot of people trying to get back to mariupol to escape with their eloquentrelatives or frie because we don't know what is going on with our relatives. we know the situation is a terrible and we want to help as many people as we could, as we can and i also even heard about people that go there to rescue any woman and any children who they will find on the streets because it's nobody would like their relatives to go all through this -- through all of this problems. i try to go there as well but i failed because on the entrance to city, they took my car and i could not walk up to the city. i walked on the back direction and people helped me to escape

again. >> so the infrastructure is down. how are people getting information? are they able to get any information in mariupol? is it hard? >> it's very hard. the only source of information at the period i was there was radio that we nected to the battery to the car. it rare to have electricity. the biggest source of information was just rumors, people just shared information and some information was true, some false. for now, i know some people found a very small places in mariupol where the connection still exists like building people go upstairs to the highest floor in order to find the perception of the network. my relative, he went to a

distant park and found connections there. so sometimes we can find connection with our relatives in mariupol but in majority cases, it's not possible. >> well, man, please stay safe and we hope your grandmother gets out and everyone gets out safe but come back and update us, okay? be safe. thank you. >> thank you. yeah, yeah, i will try, thanks. >> thank you very much. so it seems like just about everyone in ukraine is doing their part to fight back against the russian invaders and to support their fellow ukrainians. this is one of the biggest rock stor stars in ukraine and he tells "rolling stone" as soon as he heard russian bombs coming, he sprang into action becoming a lieutenant in the army and going around ukraine performing for

his people like in this open air convert in lviv and traveling to kharkiv in giving concerts for cadets and military personnel. he goes by the name of slava and joins me now. thank you. appreciate what you're doing. very brave of you. i know you had a big tour planned and stopped everything when russia invaded. can you tell me about the day you first woke up to explosions? >> hello, everybody. yeah, it was a very strange day. i woke up at 3:00 in the morning from anxiety and turn on the tv and watching the security counsel by the way and the russians were speaking and suddenly, the news broke out that putin is going to address the nation and i immediately understand that he's going to declare war against ukraine and ten minutes after he actually did it, i heard explosion on my right and it was like probably ten kilometers from where i live

out skirts of kyiv and the bomb exploded in one of the airports, military airports. it was my first time when i heard in my life the bomb explosion, first time in 46 years. so that's how the war started for me personally. >> within days i understand that you had officially enlisted in the army and were designated as a lieutenant. >> that's correct. >> many of your friends did the same thing including your brother. what are your days like now? tell me what you're seeing. >> actually, i enlisted to the army because that was the best legitimate way to travel officially around and to support the moral or our troops and people in hospitals and go gingo let's say not very safe places and kharkiv is a new york city compared to spots i've been to

but generally, we see a lot of people. we go, we bring them some humanitarian and some military as and equipment and meet troops and hospitals and wounded soldiers and need volunteers to return the defense. we speak to the guys like you by the way and i'm a big fan of you, don and we doing whatever we can, everybody in ukraine is resisting and trying to make the victory as quick as possible. we all focused and determined for that. >> you know, you have played for ro refugees and police instead of the stadiums you had planned for tour. tell us the message you're sending to your fellow ukrainians when you play for them. >> the message is very simple and important. this is our land.

we didn't come to any other country to fight. we're defending our country. we're on the bright side of life and on the side of good. that's why we'll win. the only thing everybody needs to know that is going to take awhile and we need to be focused and we need to stay strong and support each other and actually, that's happening. the whole country from the east to the west, from the north to the south is one battalion. everybody is fighting from the guys staying on the front line to the old ladies who helped make molotov cocktails or sending food to journalists that work 24/7 you name it. it's a great time for country if you're not taking into consideration that people are being killed, which is probably

the worst and the biggest nightmare we witnessed. part of the country is very focused and the moral is very high. we're ready to fight and we will win this war, believe me. >> i just want to read part of a poem that you wrote here and it says where did you come from? hatred, i didn't wake you up at night. i didn't offer you meals. i didn't give you my keys. can you speak to me about how this war has changed you from an artist to a warrior? >> i think i'm not a conventional warrior, neither are other most fellow ukrainians but we became warriors because that's what we need to do now. in the case of this danger, everybody goes and fights. you did it and other countries did it during their wars and

actually for us this is an independence war in 1991 we just had it because of collapse of soviet union but we really fight for it and it changes and gives you there is one feeling you have to explain but the hatred i described in this poem is a very new feeling for me. i'm an artistic person. i'm singing for love and about love and that's how i'm known through eastern europe and other countries. one day you wake up with it. this hatred to those who impose this war, to putin, to his generals, to those soldiers who just come to kill our children and women and innocent people and you just -- it very toxic and you understand that the only way to get rid of this hatred is to win and just to make your

house and your land free from soldiers boots and that's what we're doing and i hope when we win i'll sing once again about love and will be who i am who wants to be musician. >> it's interesting. i thank you. we've heard the similar sentiments from just about everyone we have spoken to that say they've never hated before but certainly hate the russian soldiers and quite frankly vladimir putin for doing what they're doing to the ukrainian people. thank you. be safe. be well. appreciate you joining us. >> thank you very much but may i have -- if i have an opportunity to speak just one message for americans and other people watching us, it's very important. first overall, we are very grateful for all support you're giving to us and we know america stands by and for ukraine. the only message we have now, just please double efforts because we need your military

equipment, we need your anti missile defense planes, we also need the sanctions to be even harder. please tell your big corporations like citi groups and others to go out of russia because they pay taxes there and these taxes are being used for buying tanks and other equipment that kills our children. just please do it and we thank you for everything they're doing for us. thank you. >> slava, thank you so much. appreciate you joining us. we'll be right back. >> thank you. blatche

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here in lviv, ukraine, the city has changed drastically in the month since the start of putin's invasion. in the week that i have been here, i can see that the impact of the war on all ukrainians has been overwhelming, and the citizens here are resolved to help their neighbors and their country in any way that they can. i met tatiana on my first morning here. this is your house? >> yes, mine. >> oh, my goodness. she was living in a hostile in lviv, after shelling damaged her home of 50 years outside kharkiv. she and her daughter were forced to take shelter in a nearby cellar with their dog, two cats, and a backpack of family photographs and documents. when the russian bombardment stopped, they emerge to a home in ruins.

>> i think i was shocked. i couldn't even cry. i didn't feel anything. i hope there is some peaceful way to resolve this. i just want my ukrainian people to be safe. >> tatiana fled to the relative safety of lviv, as well. with her son nikita, but not his father, who is fighting on the front lines. >> translator: his father is in kyiv now, and fighting for kyiv. i don't always have a possibility of calling, of knowing he's still alive. >> reporter: the war has made oxana a single mother, too. her reservist husband called up to fight. how much longer do you think you can deal with this? >> translator: it's hard to say. as long as needed because i have no options. >> reporter: one man feels responsible for everyone in this city, residents and the displaced alike. m the mayor. >> responsibility.

it's my duty to citizens, my duty refugees, my duty maximum support ukrainian army. my duty, management defense and my duty help ukrainian cities. >> reporter: but amid the tragedy of war, i've heard stories of resilience and hope, like olga and niko, two complete strangers who connected on instagram two days after the fighting began. both called to help, to do something -- anything. so they teamed up and opened up a shelter in lviv that now houses about 200 displaced people. what do you want people to know about what is happening here? how now this school has become like a safe haven for people. >> we really want to show everyone how we show compassion and how you unite, and how you help each other in a crisis like this. >> and we will continue to tell those stories.

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