the price of verizon. new and existing customers get amazing value with our everyday pricing. switch today. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm lynda kincade. i want to get straight to our breaking news. ukraine isn't winning the war against russia but it isn't losing either. and that could be pivotal in the days and weeks ahead. in the days of fierce resistance, the u.s. said russia has stopped advantage on the capital of kyiv. videos of kyiv showed russian-damaged vehicles after

russian troops were allegedly reverted. the u.s. says russia is bringing in reinforcements from georgia which russia invaded in 2008. the top russian general claims everything is going according to moscow's battle plan. and that the military focus will now turn to eastern ukraine. the general insisted 1300 russian troops have died in the fighting, the first casualty update in weeks. the ukrainian officials believe russia's casualties are far higher than the kremlin will admit. on friday, a blunt message to pro-russian separatists fighting in eastern ukraine. >> translator: i want to warn all the traitors in ukraine who has battled with the enemy in crimea years ago. you switched sides because you thought you would live better, right? not because you want to repeat the tragic fate of your colleague who died on those ships or somewhere else on land or at the sea in ukraine.

16,000 russian servicemen have already died. for what? what did it give? and to whom? >> well, new video from mariupol shows the immediate aftermath of a russian air strike on a crowded theater ten days ago. about 1,000 people are believed to be sheltering inside. local officials now estimate that 600 people survived but 300 were killed. well, u.s. president joe biden wraps up his visit to poland later today. before he leaves, he's expected to deliver what is being billed as a major speech on the war in ukraine. earlier, during a summit with allies in brussels,' announced a new push to deny russia some of its cash flow it needs for the invasion. he said the u.s. and eu will work to wean europe from its dependence on russian oil and gas and prevent moscow from vehicling profits. >> first, we're coming together

to reduce your dependence on russian energy. putin has issued russia's energy resources to coerce and manipulate its neighbors. that's how he's using it. he's using the promise to drive his war machine. >> after the brussels summit, mr. biden flew to poland meeting u.s. troops stationed there. he said the pushback against russia is about far more than ukraine alone. >> what's at stake is not just what we're doing here in ukraine, to try to help the ukrainian people and keep the massacre from continuing. beyond that, what's at stake. what are your kids and grandkids going to look like in terms of their freedom. what you're engaging in is much more than you can alleviate the pain and suffering of people of ukraine. we're in a new phase, your generation, we're at an inflexion point. >> in addition to his speech today, mr. biden is also set to talk to the polish president

andrzej duda and meet with ukrainian refugees in poland. for more on these developments we have kevin liptak in warsaw, poland, traveling with the president. and our phil black in lviv, ukraine. i want to go with phil. phil, there's been a major shift what we're hearing from russia in talking about the so-called military operation as they call it. the general, russian general, now claiming that the first stage of this operation is complete. and now they're going to move their focus to the east. why the change in narrative? >> reporter: it's a good question, lynda. these comments from the russian general seem designed to recast the world's understanding of what's taking place on ukraine's battlefields. it seems to suggest almost everything from russia so far has been say deliberate diversion and distraction designed to divide and weaken ukraine's forces. this general says that russia is encircling ukraine cities,

entirely or at least partially, not because it necessarily wants to take them, although he says that still may happen, he said the purpose here is to tie down ukraine's forces so that russia can focus on what it really cares about, which is, he says, the even donbas region, where russia has formally recognized the independence of two so-called breakaway people, republics. now, all of this is really different from what much of the world, governments, experts have been saying and do believe russia is trying to achieve here on the battlefield. the general analysis is that russia thought it could move in very quickly. swiftly conquering ukraine. overwhelming ukraine's defense and overtaking key cities like kyiv and kharkiv. and it's been described as going

on the counterattack to begin to push back russian key forces, notably around the capital. so what do these comments mean? it is not entirely, certainly not immediately clear. it could be for messaging for domestic russian audience. they could yet be another distraction for ukraine and its allies. or it is possible, perhaps, that they do signal russia is reassessing what is possible in this country, given what can possibly be achieved, given that they are yet to clearly achieve any notable, or noticeable military goals. lynda. >> phil black, our thanks to you in lviv, ukraine, breaking that down to us. i want to go now to kevin liptak with the president in poland. the president, of course, due to give what the white house is calling a major address in the coming hours. what can we expect, kevin? >> reporter: well, i think this

will be his opportunity to recap his trip here. lynda, i do want you to know, in addition to the president's schedule, we do expect him to meet within this hour with some ukrainian officials who is going to drop by a meeting that his secretary of state and his defense secretary are holding with their ukrainian counterparts, the foreign minister and defense minister. this is significant because, of course, the president's entire trip to europe has been focused on the ukraine issue. but this will be his first opportunity to hear in person, face-to-face, with ukrainian officials about what's going on the grounds there. while the nato summit and g7 summit in brussels did hear personally from president volodymyr zelenskyy. no ukrainian officials actually attended those summits in person. so we are expecting to see that in the hour or so. and we are getting some reaction from ukraine about what occurred at nato. and this could be something that the president hears from these ukrainian officials. zelenskyy's chief of staff told

an american think tank in a live interview that they had expected more bravery from these summits, they expected more bold decisions. we heard from a member of ukrainian parliament today on cnn said she was listening to the nato summit. and her takeaway was that the west wasn't going to essentially do anything in ukraine until the potential of chemical weapons used. so there is some disappointment in ukraine about what is coming out of the summits in europe this week. it's something that the president could hear from these ukrainian officials later today. of course, after that, the president will sit down with the polish president andrzej duda. he's also expected to meet with refugees who are here in warsaw, who have fled the violence in ukraine. 2.2 million refugees have left ukraine to come here to poland, as this war rages. and then as the day ends, the president will deliver what is corner the caststone moment of this trip, it's speech for the goals of the trip to europe.

and also, talk about what is ahead, the next phase of the war for ukraine. one thing that you'll expect to hear from the president is the screen that he's used for his foreign policy for months and months, the question hypocrisy versus autocracy. >> thank you, we'll be hearing from the president in warsaw. and our thanks to kevin liptak and phil black in ukraine. a member of the ukrainian parliament joins us from kyiv. good to have you with us. so, one month -- over one month, into this brutal russian war on ukraine. how are you doing?

i think we're going to try and connect with you in a moment. we're obviously having some difficulty with our connection there. but we will try and get back with her shortly. well, many nations have opened their arms to the millions of people that have fled the war. but some refugees are running into a bureaucratic nightmare as they try to make their way to the uk. we'll have that story, and more, when we come back. your goals, how you're feeling and what you love to eat and we create a science backed plan that's designed just for you. at ww, we help you build healalthy habits, so you can eat better, think better and feel better. getting started has never been easier. get started for just $5 a month at ww.com. hurry! offer ends today. this is vuity™, the first and only fda approved eye-drop that improves age-related blurry near vision. wait, what? it sounded like you just said an eye drop

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i'm lynda kincade. good to have you with us. we are, obviously, following this story closely, the war in ukraine. i want to welcome in a member of the ukrainian parliament and joins us from kyiv. good to have you with us, ena. this is a month since the brutal russian war in ukraine. how are you doing? how is your family? >> well, right now, as i speak, i actually can hear the explosions from the distance. and we got the air raid alerts just seven minutes ago. and this is happening on a daily basis. we're going through the day with five to six aerial alerts. and the air defense system seems

to be working. you never know if it will work the next time. and next to hit any building here in kyiv. we are getting more calm in reaction to those. of course, that is extremely unpleasant. but to be honest, it's just scary and even under those constant explosions. but that is part of our life right now. >> yeah. unbelievably scary, no doubt. we heard from a russian official, ilya today, saying that the first phase of the war is over. that advances in and around the capital seem to be stalling. what are you hearing about russians on the outskirts of the capital and any sort of movement? >> so, apparently, the ukrainian army is pushing them further from the city. they have pushed them rather far from the northeast side.

they're about 60 to 70 kilometers away from the center. if the northwest, it's different because they can close them initially. the ukrainian army gains control over the city but there are major battles and that is what we're hearing here. that is relatively close, 20 to 25 kilometers from here. we can hear the sounds of the battle taking place there. and attempts that the ukrainian army is managing to push them further. but that takes time and that takes lots of effort. >> yeah, it certainly does. i want to ask you about whether you've followed the diplomatic talks over the last few days na nato, g7, the european summit. we heard from the u.s. they're going to commit $1.7 million in humanitarian aid. and we from the zelenskyy, the

president of ukraine saying that the world should be blackmailed by russia when it comes to energy supplies. what did you think came out of the summit that was positive? where else do you think the west could help? >> well, first of all, we are grateful for the support we are getting from the west. it is does help us to fight back. but it is not enough. humanitarian aid is great, but it does not get delivered to the people who most need it. we do not have the means to get the humanitarian aid to mariupol right now. we had continued to deliver to kharkiv. and russia actually -- in the place where they were getting the aid, several people killed in that strike. people have to understand that the humanitarian aid is not a solution to the problem we have here. in order to fight back, we need heavy weaponry.

and we have been getting many weapons from the west, grenade launchers, what we need are fighter jets, artillery, armored vehicles, equipment for re reconnaissance and targeting. and to ease the pain of those who are killed. we want the let the west know this is what it takes to win the war and defeat putin and to make sure he doesn't advance any further in eastern europe. so, we are, again, grateful for what we hear. we are slightly disappointed when we hear that the west will only step up in case putin is using chemical weapons. look, it doesn't really matter in what way he kills hundreds of people. he did kill 300 people in a theater in mariupol as we now know. there was no chemical weapons. but still, 300 people killed in one single strike.

we want the world to understand it doesn't matter the means which he's killing now our children, we truly need help. and i'm sorry to say that, but humanitarian aid does not save lives. but the weapons does. we're asking for more weapons to be able to save ourselves and the word. >> some of the pushback from the west about providing those sort of weapons, the fighter jets and the tanks has been the concern of escalating the war. do you think that that is a valid feel? >> i would say that was the feeling, that was also there in the beginning of the world war ii. by some western powers who say they don't want to escalate. so they were trying to appease the west and see what came out of this. there is no way to appease a dictator like putin who is the

hitler of our times. i'm absolutely sure if the west reactions with the sanctions we have now in 2014, when putin annexed crimea and started the war in donbas by 2022 killed 14,000 ukrainians, if we had the sanctions that we have now back in 2014, we wouldn't have had the war that we're having here today. so, unfortunately, putin, when he hears we don't want to escalate, for him, that is the green light that he can go farther and he won't stop. >> you mentioned earlier, the possibility that russia could use chemical or biological weapons. obviously, we've heard it's a possibility given what sort of reading they're getting. what is being done to prepare for that threat, how real is that a possibility from where you sit? >> well, we do consider that to be a real possibility. we are trying to prepare to an

extent possible and starting to send people in the military in the health department about that. we, as of now, in case putin hits with a chemical weapon, i'm sure, let's put it this way, we shall have multiple casualties. we do not have the means right now to protect ourselves from chemical attacks to the event it is actually possible to prevent people from the chemical attacks. so that is the force of the extractor. even without the chemical weapons he's killing hundreds of us daily. but the chemical weapons and that is truly scary. we did hear president biden saying there would be a tough reaction from the west. but i have to be honest with you, i do not think that putin will take that threat seriously, given the slow response of the west to do in the month or before. i think he understands that the west in its unwillingness to intervene will probably not react even if the chemical

weapons are used. >> i hope that's not the case. inna sovsun, we appreciate your time and perspective. we hope you stay safe. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. the u.n. agency says nearly a quarter of the ukraine's population is displaced. here's how it breaks down 10 million people forced to run for their lives when russia began bombing ukraine. most are still in ukraine but more than 3.5 million people fled to neighboring countries. that has put a strain on resources which is why germany has cited what they are calling an air bridge. for struggling leaders and place them across europe. the uk has just announced will provide $3 million worth of food supplies to cities around ukraine encircled by russian

forces. foreign secretary list truz said they will react fast to get to those who need it. the agencies are feeling frustrated by the bureaucratic delays. nada bashir reports. >> reporter: after an agonizing wait, victoria and her mother have finally been reunited in london. life returning to what little normality is left, after russian forces closed in on her hometown of donetsk. like many refugees, victoria's parents set first to moldova and then romania. but after getting to the uk where victoria had lived for more than a decade proves the most difficult source of their journey. >> i was the only source of their information, i was guiding them step-by-step on what to do, helping with the application. it was hectic, the instructions. >> reporter: government data shows thousands of ukrainians hoping to join relatives in the

uk are still waiting for their applications to be processed. a separate scheme sets up to allow uk citizens to open up their homes with refugees also has proven to be riddled with red tape. only in the fine print applicants are told they'll need to find someone to sponsor on their own. >> it feels generally every step of the way as a deterrent for people applying, that's how it feels. >> reporter: hoping to open up her london home to someone in need, elsa connected with a support group on facebook. still in ukraine with her 4-year-old daughter, desperately trying to make it across the border in hopes of reaching the uk. >> it's so frustrating, our houses are sitting, not empty. but the rooms are sitting empty. there's room for people today to come in. there shouldn't be this kind of red tape when people are getting bombed every day. >> do you think that's intentional? >> i think it's absolutely intentional. it's absolutely intentional.

it's in my mind, a pr stunt to say we're going to open uk homes to refugees. >> reporter: the two are perfect strangers but they've been required to share personal sensitive documents with one another as part of the application process. and she in turn left a trust in elsa's generosity. >> if something happens to them, whilst we're waiting for somebody behind a desk to put a stamp on a visa for them, i mean -- i don't know how i'd feel, i'd be more than devastated. >> reporter: the government has said ukrainians are welcome, asserting that its schemes will allow refugees to live and work in the uk for up to three years. but there is growing anticipation about britain's approach as they see as more bureaucratic. >> it still allows the approach to apply for a visa.

every human being has the right to seek asylum under international law. the uk home office said its streamlined the application process in order to help people as quickly as possible but for so many the experience has been far from straightforward. >> the government are afraid that these people will stay here for longer term. i don't think that's the case because their families, their men are still in ukraine fighting. as soon as as there is a chance, they will go back. >> reporter: despite the devasation at home, victoria's mother, like so many, remains hopeful she'll one day be able to return to a peaceful country. her life no longer in limbo. nada bashir, cnn, london. well, thanks for watching. i'm linda ynda kincade. for our international viewers "living golf" is up next. for those in the united states,

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well, u.s. president joe biden will close out his visit to europe with what the white house calls the major address with the war in ukraine. he'll make a speech in poland, after talking with his polish counterpart and meeting with ukrainian refugees. and in the next few minutes, mr. biden will meet with ukraine's foreign minister and defense minister. it comes as russia's advance on major cities stalls. a senior official says russian forces around kyiv are in defensive position. and new ground movement towards the capital has stopped. and ukrainian president

volodymyr zelenskyy is making an appeal to energy-producing countries to help wean the world of russian oil and gas. he spoke with the doha energy. >> translator: the future rests with your efforts, and depends on your efforts, i increase you to increase output or energy to ensure that everyone in russia understands that no country can use energy as a weapon and blackmail, to blackmail the world. cnn's sam kiley has more on ukrainian forces battling to retake territory east of kyiv. >> reporter: russian armor smashed in a ukrainian assault east of the capital. ukraine now claims to have blocked russia's offensive against kyiv. he said, we've been engaged in a counterattack to recapture it. the operation has been a

complete success. we decidedly repelled the enemy. at time, it's been a ferocious infantry fight and taken several weeks. ukraine has also relied heavily on modern drones, here ambushes forces from the air. tank crews have sent running to cover. ukraine has claimed that badly led russian forces do have more manpower, but they're reeling from unexpected attacks and flies. what they say may be true, attending to this woman tending to her husband in a nearby hospital. her village was overrun by russians. she described dealed with russian soldiers who were hungry and cold and out of control. she said they wore my women's hat, my hat, my boots. our clothes. my clothing. i don't know what they've done with it. they slept, they ate, they

wandered about. they stole our money. a russian sooldier who she said was drunk blasted her husband's leg off with a stolen shotgun. then we were two days in the basement. we started stopping the blood flow and we got two medics, i'm a midwive and there was a nurse with her. two officers later admitted they didn't support putin's invasion and others helped evacuate her husband to ukrainian lines. this man, a ukrainian soldier was shot in the shin a few miles from the hospital. she shared her extent of the russian forces. these bastards are sent to their deaths. they don't even count their losses. civilians here do. andre arrived at the hospital

when we were there. he'd been helping his brother dmytro, a beekeeper attend his shelves when russian shells fell a few hours earlier. mortally wounded he was dead on arrival. he leaves a wife and three kids. he said these men, they aren't even animals. i don't know what to call them. sam kiley. cnn. russian president vladimir putin has accused russian nations of trying to cancel russian culture. in a televised meeting mr. putin claimed that russian cultural events around the world had been cancelled in the weeks. and called sufficient actions. >> translator: the cancel culture has turned into a cancel culture. tchaikovsky is excluded.

and the masterful campaign for favorable literature was carried out by the nazis and germans years ago. >> and putin also compared the treatment of russian culture to the backlash over harry potter over her opinions on transgender issues. >> children's book writer j.k. rowling was recently cancelled because her books copied did not please the fans of the so-called gender freedom. today, they're trying to cancel the country, our people, and talking about the increasing discrimination of everything related to russia, about this trend which is unfolding in a number of western states. >> well, for her part, rowling pushed back against being brought into the discussion. tweeting, quote, critiques of

western cancel culture are possibly not best made by those currently slaughtering civilians for the crime of resistance or who are jail and poison their critics. a top russian general claims that the first stage of the invasion is complete. and its efforts will now focus on eastern ukraine. journalist atika shubert is following this. and following this from ukraine. good to have you with us, atika. what are we putting down with this change in narrative that we're seeing from the advance from russia? >> well, it is definitely and significant public messaging shift. and it's delivered by colonel general sergei rudskoy. it's a significant voice. by saying that the main goals, the liberation of donbas, those were his words, this is the

disputed eastern ukraine region that has been partially controlled by russian-backed separatists for years now, since 2014. he's also signaling that this has been a military success. now, that's very different from what will we heard before, certainly from russian president vladimir putin. he previously said that ukraine shouldn't exist at all as a state. and should be demilitarized and dena denaziified. it's unclear what he denies by that, it's failed to capture major cities, recently kyiv, where russian troops have been beaten back recently. and it's hard to call this a military success in any way, especially when by russia's own admission yesterday, more than 1,300 military personnel have died in the war so far. the ukrainian officials put that

number much, much higher. and nato and u.s. defense officials believe at least 7,000 russian troops have been killed. including several high-ranking commanding officers. why then do we see this messaging of changing the goals and painting this as a successful military operation. i think this could be a possible way to find a face-saving tenable position at the negotiating table. remember that ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has repeatedly said, the only way forward, the only way to solve this is direct talks with russian president vladimir putin. so what we could see now is the russian military signalling that its changing its goals, changing the narrative, in order to walk it back to the negotiating table. that doesn't mean that we're going to see less fighting on the ground. in fact, we could see an intensification, certainly around the disputed areas like mariupol right in the donetsk.

lynda. >> atika shubert, great to have you with us. thank you. some military experts take the russian strategy with a grain of salt. that's partly because moscow declared the first phase of the war over, only after the ground offenses take the war. it has not taken what has become the main target, the capital, the city of kyiv. cnn's ben wedeman has the details. >> reporter: russian forces continue to be pushed back from the capital kyiv. although they continue to fire long-range missiles and artillery in the city, u.s. defense officials say russian forces around kyiv are beginning to take up defensive positions. friday, the russian ministry of defense acknowledged that 1,351 members of its armed forces have been killed in this war. that contrast starkly with what we're hearing from nato officials who estimate that somewhere between 7,000 and

15,000 russian forces have been killed. new video and details are beginning to remerge about the strife on the theater in mariupol a week and a half ago, a theater that was clearly marked "children" outside. and an adviser to the city's mayor said 300 people were killed in that attack. 600 people survived. mariupol is a city of about -- was a city of about 450,000 people before the war began. there are less than 100,000 souls left there now. the russian forces have cut off gas, water and electricity to mariupol. on friday, there was a cruise missile strike on the air force command for west central ukraine in the city of vinnytsia.

according to the ukraine ministry of defense, there was, quote, significant damage to the infrastructure there. meanwhile, the british ministry of defense says that the russian advance on the black seaport city of odesa has been stalled, largely as a result of logistical problems among russian forces, southwest stiff resistance by the ukrainians. now, of course, odesa is ukraine's largest port, losing it would be a major blow. i'm ben wedeman, cnn, reporting from odesa on the black sea. well, the situation is so bad in some parts, people are resorting to burying the dead in their backyards. take a look at this video. you can see wooden crosses marking a grave next to an apartment building in mariupol. one woman who buried her

stepfather near a playground is sharing the story. he died after the car he was in was bombed while a doctor was trying to get him to the hospital. >> translator: when the doctor was taking our stepfather to the hospital, we found the doctor in a nearby building. and this guy took a seat in the car instead of me. and they blew him up in this car. it could have been me. >> we'll take a quick break. we'll be right back. syststem in the countryhee with fivee nationally ranked hospitals, including two world-renownwnd academic medical centers, in boston, where biotech innovates daily and our doctors teach at harvard medical school, and where the physicians doing the world-changing research are the ones providing care. there's only one mass general brigham.

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welcome back. 15 countries have condemned's north korea's launch of a ballistic missile on thursday. their statement following the security council on friday where the u.s. argues that the launch poses a threat to the entire international community.

cnn's richard roth has the details. >> reporter: the united states ambassador to the u.n. led a pack of u.n.-member countries to stand in front of the u.n. security council friday evening, following a day of discussions about north korea's latest missile launch. an icbm test. however, russia and china were not among the group. they oppose u.s. and western approaches diplomatically, regarding north korea and it's ongoing missile test. u.s. ambassador linda thomas-greenfield told the security leader in a formal meeting on friday that the u.s. was going to propose a new resolution updating and strengthening existing sanctions by the council on north korea. the ambassador also told her fellow colleagues that the time to act is now. >> this launch violated multiple security council resolutions. and poses a threat to not only the region, but to the entire international community. >> reporter: china and russia

have their own u.n. security council resolution prepared, but imminent action is not expected. the chinese ambassador told a security counselor in a formal meeting that the u.s. needs to engage in direct political talks with north korea. the chinese ambassador noting the ukraine situation says it's time for action on the korean peninsula. >> like now, all is not quiet on the international front. no parties should take any action that would lead to great attention. the peninsula cannot afford a change, much less a reversal with desire consequences. >> reporter: the security council lock on ukraine is likely to repeat itself in deciding whether new sanctions are needed. richard ross, scnn. and the u.s. officials with

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kyiv. and now announcing a new curfew in the capital. it begins until 7:00 a.m. monday. klitschko said only vehicles with special permits can operate and residents can only go out when alarms sound. it'ses conditions like this that has led pope francis to offer a special prayer. during a speech at the basilica, it's joined around the world. but as delia gallagher says some catholics offer a choice. >> pope francis offered a prayer from friday evening from st. peter's basilica. it's faced on a 1917 prophesy in which the fatima of war. asking for the consecration of

mary to be sent to be sure that peace would follow. it's something of a surprise that pope francis would choose this political prayer given the historical and political overtones but many catholics are devoted to the figure of mary. and orthodox christians who make up the majority of russians and ukraines venerate mary. so the pope is seeing this as a unifying factor during the prayer. during the prayer service the pope said this is not a magical formula but it is a spiritual act and he included the whole of humanity in addition to russia and ukraine in his prayer for peace. delia gallagher, cnn, rome. the ukrainian dance school in chicago is giving children a special kind of virtual class. this girl is providing free lessons via video link ages 6 to

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