>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm lynda kinkade. i want to get you straight to our breaking news. as russia's war in ukraine enters its fifth week moskow's advance on the ukrainian capital has apparently ground to a halt. ukrainian forces say they've pushed russian forces out of a suburb east of kyiv and video shows streets littered with damaged and destroyed russian sanctions. ukraine's president says moskow would be better off negotiating and end to the war. >> translator: by restraining's russia's action our defenders

are leading the russian leadership to a simple and logical idea. talk is necessary. ukrainian sovereignty must be guaranteed. ukraine's territorial integrity must be insured. that is the conditions must be fair and the ukrainian people will not accept others. >> ukraine now says it has killed more than 16,000 russian troops over the past month. russia's military claims it's only a fraction of that. some 1,300 dead, 3,800 wounded. new video shows the aftermath of a russian air strike on a theater ten days ago. about 1,000 were estimated to be sheltering inside. local officials estimate 600 people survived the attack and 300 were killed. for more on these developments we have a phil black in ukraine

and kevin is in poland. i'll start with you, kevin -- oh, phil, actually who's in lviv. good to have you with us, phil. so we're seeing a major shift in the way russia is reporting the war in ukraine. a top russian general now saying that the first stage of this so-called operation is complete and that the focus is going to turn to the east. what should we make about this changing narrative we're hearing from russia? >> it's really hard to say, linda. these comments from the top russian general suggests everything we've seen in the war so far from russia has been a deliberate diversion, an attempt to distract, divide and weaken ukraine's forces. he says russia has been encircling ukrainian cities not because it wants to take them although he says they may still do but the purpose to tie-down

ukraine forces so that russia can focus on what it really wants which is establishing greater control in the eastern donbas region where russia has recognized the independence of two break aways, so-called peoples republics. now, this is very different to what governments and experts around the world think russia has been trying to do here. the common analysis is that russia thought it could invade this country, conquer this country very quickly, invading across a number of fronts, quickly overwhelming ukraine's defense and then very swiftly also taking the key cities. of course the reality has been very different for much of this war so far. russia's advance has been described as stalled. they're still yet to achieve any obvious key military goal. so what could all this be about? it could just be domestic messaging to a russian audience. it could yet in itself be an deliberate action or distraction

to ukraine and its allies or a signal, a recalibration of its own military goals because if russia did hope to very quickly invade and control the bulk if not all of ukraine, things clearly haven't gone that way. >> yeah, they certainly haven't, phil. and i want to ask you about that attack on the theater in mariupol. 11 days after that attack we have now this video emerging showing people making their escape. and we're learning more details about the number of survivors. >> yeah, it's taken a long time to get a real sense what happened in that theater on march 16th, when it was hit by some form of russian weapon because things in mariupol are simply so broken down, there are no police or rescue services but officials in the city say they have investigated and what they now believe is there were 900 people sheltering in that

theater when it was hit. remember this is a theater where people had written very clearly in large russian letters the words children on two sides of the theater in the hope that would protect them on some sort of attack. we know that didn't happen and now officials believe some 300 people were killed when the theater or part of that theater was destroyed. 600 survived. the video shows people covered in dust and debris very calmly it would seem very quilat emaking their way out of the building still standing but we also see in the video part of the building hit, and that has simply been blown apart. it would seem that that particularly event is perhaps one of the deadliest single moments of the war so far. and it's worth remembering why those people were in that theater in first place and that's because mariupol is under siege. the people there are in desperate, desperate scissions.

>> phil black, some great reporting. our thanks to you. i want to bring in kevin who's traveling with president biden in poland. the u.s. president is due to give what the white house is describing as a major address in the coming hours. what can we expect? >> reporter: i really think this is a chance for the president to recap and lay out where he sees this going next, the next phase of the war in ukraine. officials say the war is at a stalemate and of course they want to maintain this western pressure on vladimir putin, and also reiterate this reassurance and deterrence effort the west is trying to put forth, and you've seen that in evidence here in poland yesterday when the president visited a town in the south eastern part of the country about 60 miles from the ukraepian bord. as air force one was taxing you can see the trucks.

as the president was meeting with members of the 82nd airborne as well. that was evidence the president has deployed troops along the eastern flank of nato. now, today the president will also meet with refugees here in warsaw. he's really trying to put a human dimension to this crisis that is ensuing. poland has taken in 2.2 million refugees fleeing the violence in ukraine. the president announced in brussels the united states would accept up to 100,000 ukrainian refugees. but the polish president has said that the united states needs to do more. it was only about a week and a half ago that he met here in warsaw with vice president kamala harris. he told her that the united states needed to do more to expedite refugees who are trying to come to the united states who have family there, and so we expect that to be a point of discussion between the two men later today.

but the president's speech is really sort of the cap stone moment of this entire last minute trip to europe, a chance for the president to lay down the stakes and what you can expect is for him to lay down that overarching frame autocracies versus democracies and something he's talked about and never felt more relevant than right now. >> we will check in with you a little later in warsaw. thanks very much. >> sure. so much-of a difference could mr. biden's trip and his upcoming speech make for ukraine? for that we're joined by a professor. he teaches international relations at a university in odesa. good to have you with us, professor. >> good morning. >> sir, you specialize in

international policy. what do you expect today? >> i think the main purpose for this visit to europe now by mr. biden is to enforce unity within the coalition of countries, the west so to speak, the collective west visa vi the collective pressure on ukraine. this needs to be sustained because some people expected a quick war. the message from mr. biden is this is going to be a long war and we have to stick together and continue what we're doing, sanctioning russia even more so maybe, but also for the number of internal displaced persons here. so there are many fronts for the

u.s. and other countries around the world for the international community for that matter where they can still continue helping ukraine, and that is very much appreciated. >> and, professor, we saw the u.s. president visit troops in a city in the southeast of poland close to ukraine's border highlighting the importance of protecting nato countries. what else do you hope to hear from the president in terms of military support for ukraine? >> well, yes, the visit to poland was extremely important. that's where the weapons supply is flown into ukraine, and as we know russians actually some days ago they have threatened to target those convoys with weapons coming into ukraine. of course i don't think they're there to protect those convoys

and territories. for mr. biden i want to hear support for ukraine will go on, and that's exactly what we'll hear, i suppose. in terms of what particular weapons will be provided, the blur over the episode with jet fighters, mig fighters in slovakia and poland that was a problem. it better be for those weapons to appear in ukraine without anyone knowing. >> yeah, that is a fair point. i want to ask you about the refugee situation. poland obviously has -- already has 2 million -- over 2 million refugees. more than 3.7 million ukrainians have fled the country. no doubt many more trying to get out. we know the u.s. intends to take about 100,000 refugees which

obviously pales in comparison to what we're seeing in europe, and the president has announced already $1 billion in humanitarian aid. what's going to be needed in the coming months for people fleeing ukraine? >> well, that's the right direction, obviously. maybe a bit delayed i would say because people were already piling up and criticizing mr. beaden for not doing those steps earlier. >> all right, we're having some issues now with the connection. professor, we'll leave it there

but we really appreciate your time today. stay safe. the ukrainian refugees arriving in poland with what they can carry and with stories of horror from home. >> translator: even if a woman walks out with a white flag and a child they don't look, they just shoot, kill. they spare no one. coming up, how europe is helping the millions of people escaping the bloodshed. new video shows the confusion after the russian bombs slammed into a building holding hundreds of ukrainians. that video coming up. so anyone who says lactaid isn't real milk isis also sayig mabel here isn't a real cow. and she really hates that. i don't just play someone brainy on tv - i'm an a actual neuroscientist. and i love the science behind neuriva plus. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus fuels six key indicato of brain performance. more brain performance?

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since the second world war. it is not for the neighbors to respond to this. it's for the continent to respond to this. >> as you can see from this map most of the refugees from ukraine have gone to poland. ukraine's other neighbors have welcomed less than a million people each. poland is helping more than 2 million refugees. well, germany has taken in 131 ukrainians who were in moldova. german officials call it the start of an air bridge that will take some 14,000 refugees across europe. and a great majority of those fleeing the fighting are women and children. our melissa bell brings us some of their stories from a polish border crossing. >> reporter: they've arrived day and night at crossings. mothers and their children

carrying little, burdened only by the images when they fled. traveling by day and sheltering in basements at night in fear of the sound of constant shelling, but she says worst of all the sound of planes at night dropping bombs. they drop them on the hospitals where the sick are, she says, on the bakeries where they make bread so we don't have anything to eat, on the water facilities so we don't have anything to drink. >> reporter: it was the sound that forced her and her son from hir first underground shelter. as a mom i was scared. my son handled it better. it's harder for the mother.

and for a grandmother perhaps hardest of all her daughter escaped more than a week ago a shell hit our house, she says. that's it on the fifth floor. we had a ukrainian flag hanging on the balcony so they targeted it. that was when the family decided to flee heading for irpin through other occupied towns. people can't get out says llarisa. it's two dangerous because even if a woman walks out with a white flag and a child, they don't, they just shoot, kill. they spare no one. anyway, we can't go home now, she says, because there is no home. so like millions of others they head into europe after crossing a border they never wanted to have to cross. melissa bell, cnn, poland. >> we have another example of

the brutality in this war. this video of a theater in mariupol has recently emerged the building being used as a shelter on march 16th when it was struck by a russian bomb. you can see debris on the floor and holes in the walls as people scrambling to leave. local officials estimate some 300 people were killed. without an official an official count isn't possible. mr. macron plans to demand russia pause its siege so civilians can leave the city. moskow's situation is much different. cnn's christian amanpour asked him what the strategic goal in attacking cities like mariupol. >> the goal is to clear up

mariupol from regiments for there in a heavily covered environment, and by the way they're simply not letting people out from this, from the town, and this is a problem because now we're receiving lots of refugees coming from there. and they simply tell us they're eyewitnesses. they simply tell us that they were used like a shield. they were used under heavy bombardment, and then those nations they were -- they were killing people who would want to leave the city. >> why do you think they're fleeing west, trying to get out to ukraine and other parts rather than fleeing to russia if they feel so safe with you? why do you think that's happening? >> part of them is going towards, part of them is going westwards. it's the choice of people, and no one is making any obstacles.

>> well, among those who fled mariupol is an 18-year-old university student and her parents. she says they barely escaped mariupol alive missing a rocket that slammed into the street in front of them. and contrary to what we just heard from the kremlin spokesperson, she says it was the russians who were trying to conseal the truth of what was happening in her city. well, this video shows the basement the family lived in sharing a space for a week with strangers before they finally decided to leave. the father kept his video in his phone despite demands by russian soldiers at check points to delete negative content. his daughter, maria, whose last name we're not using spoke to cnn's john berman from a location outside of mariupol. >> i don't think that nobody abroad can understand truly what just happened in my hometown. like, you can't even imagine living in the basement is not

the worst thing happening in mariupol like these town turn into a ghost. >> this town turned into a ghost. i know there were explosions all around you. in one case there was a shell that hit, what, i think you have pictures it hit 30 meters from you. >> yeah, we have lots of pictures of rockets fell down on the street on our houses and cars. the sound of bombing just makes your blood boil and stop because of fear. and the only thing that you are thinking about is how to make out alive. >> talk to me about the russians as you were leaving. they were telling you to delete the pictures on your phones. what were they saying?

>> you know, the story were like that. we were standing in a huge line to leave the city on a russian checkpoint, and i remember a friend of my father came and he said delete everything that you can delete. delete every photo of the mariupol photos of destruction, photos of ukraine. delete as much messages and your own messages as you can so you don't provoke the soldiers when you're leaving the city. and i remember when we just came to a checkpoint, they literally took our phones and they were scrolling and scrolling to find anything that can provoke them. and luckily we deleted almost everything so we could go through a checkpoint. >> maria, thank you for being with us. please stay safe.

be well. >> thank you so much. russian president vladimir putin has signed a new law that outlaws the dissemination of false information. that's according to a state news agency. it broadens an earlier censorship law that made it a crime to spread so-called fake news. officials say it also targets the public discrediting of russian government agencies working abroad. the censorship law introduced shortly after russia invaded ukraine is part of a media crack down that has forced some news outlets to close and journalists leave the country. penalties include up to 15 years of prison and fines up to $14,000. thanks so much for joining us. i'm lynda kinkade. for our international viewers new frontiers is coming up next. for those in north america we're back with more breaking news from ukraine after a very short break. stay with us.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and canada. i'm lynda kinkade and this is "cnn newsroom." moments ago ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy made an appeal to energy producing companies to increase energy and gas output to decrease what he calls russian blackmail. president joe biden will be conclude his visit to europe with what he calls a major

address. a top russian general claims the first stage of the invasion is complete and efforts will now focus on eastern ukraine in, quote, the liberation of the donbas. ukrainian president says his country's forces have dealt powerful blows to russia this week. he says the counter attack on the southern port is more proof russian forces will be met with resistance everywhere. >> translator: i am grateful to our defenders who showed the occupiers that the sea will not be calm for them even when there is no storm because there will be fire, and on those russian ships that departed this week on the famous route from the ports. >> a senior u.s. defense official says russian forces around kyiv are in defensive positions and that all ground movements toward the capital have stopped. the ukrainians aren't letting

their ground down. our fredredric pleitgen shows us how the capital is preparing for what comes next. >> reporter: the ukrainian capital kyiv is still very much on a war footing. we're right in the city center. as you can see there's a tank bar barrier there was setup here with sandbags, obviously a defensive position. and this is something you really see throughout the entire city with a lot of check points, a lot of soldiers on the ground, defense forces as well. we are literally in the city center. over there you see the midan of course right in the middle of the ukrainian capital. at the same time, though, you do get the sense that the people here have a little more room to breathe, they feel a little more secure because of the gains ukrainian forces have been making. for instance at a checkpoint like this one you do see a lot more vehicle traffic than for instance we've been seeing in the last cup of days. there's more cars going through here. nevertheless, the situation remains very dangerous with russians saying there's a fuel

depo just south of the ukrainian capital, and in general, of course fighting still going on not very far from where we are. >> our thanks to frederick pleitgen reporting from kyiv. the u.s. st. tepping in to help europe wean itself off its dependence on russian oil and gas. u.s. president joe biden says moskow is using those exports to bankroll its invasion of ukraine. but ending the eu's alliance on russian energy is no easy task because 40% of its gas comes from russia, 27% of its oil. nic robertson looks at how washington plans to cut those numbers dramatically. >> reporter: president biden's last big announcement before leaving brussels that he will help the european union switch away from russian energy supplies. president biden came to brussels looking for unity, hoping to encourage more sanctions from european union leaders. they've been very concerned about sanctioning russian oil and gas because the prices of

energy are going up in europe, and that's inflicting pain on many of the countries here. the greek prime minister outlining what it means for him. >> we are already paying a price. i think we -- we should all need to reassess our growth forecast. we're faced with significant inflationary pressures as a result of the war, and energy costs are really hurting. and they're hurting our citizens. but at the end of the day as much as we have an allegiance to support ukraine, we also have an allegiance to our citizens to make sure they will not suffer more than they can actually bear. glr so president biden saying he will strive to ensure the united states provides a european union with 15 billion cubic meters of lng liquefied natural gas to help replace that gas they're currently getting from russia. the aim would be to replace two thirds of the gas that the eu gets from russia by the end of the year. president biden saying that

money that goes from the eu to buy that russian gas is fueling president putin's war in ukraine. >> we're coming together to reduce europe's dependence on russian energy. putin has issued russian energy resources to coerce and manipulate its neighbors. that's how he's used it. he's used his profits to drive his war machine. >> reporter: even after president biden left brussels european union leaders still in hot debate about the energy issue here. nations like greece looking for a price cap on the cost of energy. big concerns here. their outflow war in ukraine impacting the european union not just energy costs bought all the refugees as well. big debates here still going on in the eu. nic robertson, cnn, brussels. >> let's talk more about u.s. president joe biden's upcoming speech. joining me now is the chief

brussels correspondent for politico. good to have you with us, david. >> great to be with you. >> so we saw the u.s. president in poland near the border addressing u.s. troops saying democracy is at stake when it comes to russia's war in ukraine. he's due to give this speech later today. the white house says it's going to be a significant speech highlighting why the west needs to stick together. what can we expect, do you think? >> well, this is really an extraordinary moment, lynda. we went through an extraordinary week in brussels. we've never had a day like thursday where nato leaders, the g7 leaders and european council leaders, 27 heads of state and government were all holding summit on the same day. when you cover these leaders as i do every day you see how exhausted they are, how bleary-eyed they are. war has returned to the continent in europe, and they're confronting as i wrote about in

politico on wednesday the failure of the post-world war on security systems. the u.n. promised to save people from the scourge of war. so biden has this moment where he's really confronted with the weight of history on his shoulders, war in europe in the 21st century and how america and its allies respond. >> i mean, it's so hard to believe that we're over a month into this war in ukraine when months ago so many thought it wouldn't happen, certainly not to this extent. looking at that flurry of diplomatic talks there we've seen over the last few days, as you mentioned nato, g7, european council, where are these leaders failing when it comes to diplomacy and deterrence? >> of course they've been telling us to stop vladimir putin, and war is a moment that requires bravery. we've seen volodymyr zelenskyy, the president of ukraine a median and actor by profession

rise to occasion becoming a master wartime communicator. at president biden's press conference at nato headquarters where i was on thursday he talked about how he is and still believes himself to be the leader of the free world. but after afghanistan, after iraq, after the tumultuous years of donald trump there's a real question ability whether that job even exists anymore, and if it does, does it still sit in washington? that's the burden he faces today of proving america is still leading at a time when, of course, u.s. officials have wanted to stay out of direct conflict with russia. they believe that would only make things worse, so rejecting calls for a no-fly zone. some of the responses are perceived differently in europe and especially ukraine than they might seem back home. millions, more than 3 million have already crossed out of the country, 7 million more displaced. that seems pretty paltry to the ukrainians who say, look, we don't need oo ride, they need

weapons, need money, like the u.s. to close the skies. really historic tension here over what america feels it can do as the leader of the western aliebs and what it's actually been able to do on the ground because as you just saw in mariupol the destruction is just devastating. >> yeah, it really is. david, i would love to have more time with you but i've got to leave it there for now. good to have row with us from politico. thanks so much. ukraine accuses russia of deploying an infamous mercenary group as part of its insulation. independent researchers say wagoner mercenaries are guns for hire who do the kremlin's dirty work but provide plausible deniability. as david mackenzie reports ukraine says the mercenaries have been sent there on a specific mission. i have to warn you some of the images in this report are graphic. >> reporter: a russian mercenary

takes a video in syria. it's a recruitment-style peach allegedly for the notorious wagoner group, a brutal force believed to be linked to the kremlin. a senior ukrainian defense official tells us that wagoner contractors were in the country and had a very specific mission. what is their 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 a 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 wagner operatives have been eliminated,

identified by those 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 are absolutely illegal. >> reporter: wagner contractors surfaced in eastern ukraine in 2014 exposed by research groups and cnn investigations. their operations span the middle east and africa. u.s. officials accuse wagner of multiple human rights abuses in multiple countries. in this disturbing 2017 video investigated by cnn wagner 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 wagner. u.s. officials say that wagner was started by this man, a veteran of the czechen conflict

and allegedly bankrolled by a businessman, an oligarch so close to russia's leader he's nicknamed putin's chef and under multiple u.s. sanctions he denies any involvement in wagner. but this senior researcher at the dossier center says wagner is putin's private army. we agreed to hide their identity for their safety. they've spent years investigating wagner's links to the kremlin. >> they operate without any law, without any rules. they can do in a way whatever they want. then when there is a call to mr. putin what the guys will do in this particular country the response will be these are individuals. they have no link to the kremlin. >> reporter: despite the invasion and new allegations of an assassination plot, ukraine's

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well, democratic senator joe manchin says he will vote for supreme court nominee ketanji brown jackson. manchin is a key swing vote in the u.s. senate, and his decision all but ensures jackson will become the first black female supreme court justice. democratic senator and chair of the judiciary committee dick durbin says he's hopeful jackson will receive bipartisan support. in other news from the capitol, members of the january 6th committee are debating bringing genie thomas, the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas before the panel for questions.

the panel now has access to text messages. >> the january 6th select committee now figuring what to do with this trove of e-mails they have between the wife of supreme court justice clarence thomas and a former white house chief of staff mark meadows. as we reported this week the committee has 29 text messages between the pair where ginni thomas implores upon meadows to do everything he can to try to prevent the certification of the election results and allow joe biden to become the next president of the united states. it's unclear what this has to do into their investigation of what led to the events of january 6th, whether or not thomas played any direct role in the planning of events leading up to that day. so the committee is trying to decide whether or not it's even worth it to bring her in front of the panel to answer questions especially if they do it would create somewhat of a sideshow because she's such a prominent

conservative activist and of course her direct relationship with a sitting supreme court member. now, there has been fallout as it relates to clarence thomas. oregon senator ron widen suggesting going forward thomas should recuse himself for anything related to january 6th that could come before supreme court, but thomas is getting some support from republican members. the house minority leader kevin mccarthy saying he doesn't believe thomas has done anything wrong and he has no reason to recuse himself unless he believes it would be appropriate. ryan nobles, cnn on capitol hill. some sad moves for music fans. taylor hawkins, the drummer for the rock band foofighters have died at the age of 50. joining in 1997 after the band released their album "the color and the shape." its unclear how hawkins died.

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♪ how beautiful. the lviv philharmonic orchestra performing for the first time friday since russian forces invaded ukraine. in the foreground you can see boxes of medical supplies to ukrainians in need. the orchestra invited musicians who had fled from other parts of ukraine to join the performance. but at one point an air-raid siren forced the musicians to leave the stage for a shelter, but they eventually returned. well, a sank ware in lviv is taking in some special refugees, beloved pets left in the war. >> reporter: these animals were never supposed to be here.

dogs of all sizes, cats, some calm, others a bit mouthier. in what used to be a playroom for a few resident cats, these domestic animals are all here because of russia's war on ukraine. this place was almost exclusively an exotic animal sanctuary but is now pitching in to help welcome pets abandoned in conflict zones. on a sunny sunday afternoon in the western city of lviv, there are still a few parents bringing their kids to see foxes, a few exotic birds, a couple of rabbits and a monkey. among them are new arrivals like this eagle once used as a tourist attraction in the eastern city of kharkiv, a

couple of wolves brought in from a private zoo near the front lines. in the middle a literal mountain of donated pet food, some sent from as far away as sweden and spain. locals like this lviv resident sometimes drop off a single bag to help any way they can. the workers here are mostly volunteers. occasionally they look after the pets of families forced to flee like these two beagles, kiki and riki. in the last few months one thing has been clear, ukrainians love their pets. images of the displaced carrying their cats and dogs to safety have made the news around the world. here at the home of rescued

animal sanctuary, i bond with one particular quiet female dog still apparently willing to trust a human's touch. shortly afterward a charity picks up the newly arrived pets, loads them onto vans and drives them west to poland, to a new life and hopefully to new caring owners. in the chaos it's the best anyone can hope for. >> well, that was our hala gorani reporting, and that wraps up this hour of "cnn newsroom." i'm lynda kinkade. i'll be back in just a moment with more news. you're watching cnn.

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