rock in the immediate. >> all right. brian, thank you very much. i'll be back in a half hour on our new streaming service, cnn plus with a debut of "the newscast." and at 9:00 eastern for cnn tonight. stay with us. lots of news. erin burnett starts right now. >> up next, breaking news. kyiv under attack. our crew on the ground reporting major rocket fire tonight. russia claims it is scaling back on attacks there. plus, cheating death. a survivor of the theater bombing, the single deadliest attack of the war so far. speaking to cnn about how she narrowly escaped death. and a super yacht belonging to an unnamed russian businessman seize bid authorities tonight inside so-called infinite wine cellar. fresh water swimming pool. so what is that yacht's connection to vladimir putin? let's go out front.

cnn's crew on the ground reporting they heard major artillery and rapid fire attack tonight. they scaled back on attacks in kyiv. that claim is coming after weeks failed attempts by russians to overtake the cities. ukrainian president zelenskyy calling out putin's empty promises tonight. >> translator: the signals that we hear from the negotiating platform can be called positive. but these signals don't drown out the explosions of russian bombs. >> president biden echoing zelenskyy tonight saying he and his administration do not believe russia's promise to deescalate after meeting with ukrainian negotiators. >> we'll see. i don't read anything into it until i see what the actions are. >> well, the actions are loud

and clear tonight. we can hear them. we can hear all of that fire in kyiv. louder than any night recently. so why then did russia today say it will dras tlik tically reduc assaults. the capital of ukraine? and instead, focus on the donbas. maybe putin is trying to regroup or totally changing his goal and trying to pretend that was the goal all the way along. the reality is that he is saying anything at all and making any move at all because he failed to seize kyiv and conquer ukraine. failed to get control of the capital after four weeks of fighting. failed to keep his own forces safe. russia lost up to 16,000 troops so far. according to zelenskyy, the u.s. intelligence numbers are not far from that. that's more than the 2300 troops that the united states lost during 20 years in afghanistan. a staggering number of russian ships are damaged or destroyed. this video here is from outside

kharkiv. showing off russian equipment they captured. and they're now using it. despite being outnumbered, ukra ukrainian troops stiffe opposition. men young and old were signing up at military recruitment centers. they were showing up when the missiles landed and they were unafraid. there was not a pause or a heart beast a second pause. now the pentagon says despite russia's setbacks, the threat to the capital is far from over. today our teams were visiting a residential area outside kyiv. this is what they witnessed. you can hear it. the thud of explosions. they also heard the sound of multiple rocket launchers. we have reporters across ukraine also tonight hungary.

i want to start with you, fred. you were out. you were in here. you were hearing major ar till and rocket fire. rocket launchersal within the past couple of hours. so, you know, tell me what is happening on the ground. the sounds we're hearing are fast and furious than it has been the case in recent days. even as putin says he is scaling back. >> yeah. you're right. the sound certainly have been a lot more furious. one thing we did, erin, we heard that announcement coming from the russians after the negotiations is we actually went to an area near here and right very close to the front line. then we spoke to a couple people and frankly, no one believed that putin was really withdrawing his forces because he went to spare the capital or wanted to create trust with the ukrainians. they all said the reason why they believe this is happening is because the russians lost in trying to get into kyiv, that they were not able to get in because the ukrainian forces were so strong. one thing that is really important to say is that what wear hearing right now tonight, what we have been hearing tonight, those explosions much

more than in days before. ukrainian troops on the ground told us that is something they've been seeing for a couple of days. and they said that their leadership has also seen some russian forces withdraw. they say they're not sure whether this uptick in shelling that they're seeing could be because there is some sort of scorched earth tactics or possibly because the russians might be covering their withdrawal. in any case, the ukrainians say they obviously remain very confident that they're going to pull through. the russians are not going to get into the city and certainly you can tell that there is still a lot of distrust noi especially, of course, to vladi putin. let's have a look. >> russia announced it plans to withdraw most forces from around kyiv, the fighting continues. residents we spoke to told us they don't believe moscow's words are for real. >> translator: on one hand they retreat and on the other they will transfer their efforts to other positions. so it's difficult to talk about it withdrawal.

i do not believe in it. it's probably just a rotation. it's a regrouping of the troops. >> reporter: despite the forces being stalled near kyiv for weeks, russia claims they withdraw because they achieved the military objectives and now wants to make a positive gesture to ukraine, moscow's negotiating temperature said after talks in istanbul. >> translator: a decision was made to radically at times reduce military activity in the k kyiv. >> reporter: but the,s also made clear this is not a cease-fire. and the sounds of heavy battle still reverberate around the capital. but the territorial defense forces at this check point say make no mistake, if if the russians really do withdraw, it's because they lost. >> from the days of war, it was obvious that russians were defeated on the battlefield and political field. it was out of commission.

>> reporter: many here hope the battle could end soon. the toll in blood and infrastructure is massive. and parliamentarian tells me he's not sure ukrainians will ever be able to trust russia again. how long do you think it could take to make relations better again, before there can be trust between russia and ukraine again? >> i think it will be years and years. maybe hundreds of years. and, you know, every people in ukraine lost all their house, relatives, of friends in this war. and our children, they have a night in shelters. they listen to the bombs. and it's for ages. >> reporter: so as you can see, erin, a lot of trust just destroyed between russia and ukraine. obviously with this assault that happened here on the ukrainian capital. and, you know, what we're hearing from ukrainian politicians and ukrainian people

for the folks here in kyiv is they don't trust the fact that these russian forces are really going to leave. they certainly want to see evidence before they would believe it. and we also have to keep in mind in the reporting about this, this is not just the only city that has been under attack. you still have the city to the north of here surrounded by russian forces. they claim they want to get out of that area. the folks don't trust that just yet, erin. >> thank you very much, fred. a former cia official oversaw spying operations and retired army journal is the forming commander general of the coalition military assistance team in iraq. thank you both. in russia's defense minister says the main tasks, his words, of their special military operation in ukraine have been completed. but they had, of course, you know, missiles had come down across the entire country. and they have troops around kyiv and around chernev and going to pull back.

that may be completely untrue. translate this for me. why they would be saying that their operation is complete given that they failed in so many obvious objectsives. >> right. thank you. this has been just a terribly run campaign. it is an inept performance by a very large army. so right now we've got a commander in chief in russia, president vladimir putin, who is looking desperately for an off ramp. so i think what he's created here is an opportunity to say we have accomplished our abjectived we're going to back off. we're going to break contact. and don't ever make us come back here again. that is probably going to be the next thing he says. the artillery that you're hearing, the missile strikes, the mrs that are going in, that may be covering the withdrawal.

there could be negotiations, perhaps. >> until they give something up. he's not going to stop. he is still capable of doing. i can see your logic there. so the defense minister, right, who is back out again, says, the ukrainian army suffered significant damage. this allows us to focus efforts on achieving the main goal. now they killed count less civilians. they leveled entire cities. just wiped them off the map. prior to the invasion when all the cities were there and the people were alive, they were two self declared republics before a single shot was fired. it is possible that they could have inflicted the pain and suffering on ukraine that they have and on their own economy and lost their global standing to literally get back to where

they started? >> well, what we have is -- >> i'm sorry. >> i think what you're seeing here is what happens when a chess player gets cornered. i think he -- putin overestimate the his capabilities. i think the logistical capabilities are intelligence. they really telegraphed a lot of the punches. he expected and we anticipated he wanted to get this thing over in 10 to 14 days. and what he did is he ran into -- he ran into the fog of war as we say. i don't think he counted on ukrainian resistance. i don't think he counted on his own troop incompetence, the inability to deal with small units. the problem just with logistics, it's the story about strategy, people talk about strategy, but logistics matter. this is the largest russian operation since afghanistan. with, you know, cheap tires on the trucks and no gasoline. i mean it's really been, for

what he was expected to be a try mm-h -- triumph, a disaster. he is now clearly beginning to, as they say, expand his options and don't forget ever that one of the options is to go back in there if he can and win and by win i mean he takes ukraine or leave ukraine destroyed. we're not out of the woods on this one yet. but you're beginning to hear him expand his options and including, by the way, the negotiations. i love the russians coming to the negotiating table. talk about a stall. and that's, i think, what we're doing now. looking for options, catching a deep breath. he's just as dangerous as he was weeks ago. >> right. keep in mind in syria, it was negotiations constantly, right? nothing ever stopped. that has been their modus operandi for a long time. so those explosions, general, so what do you think they are? i guess they could be a

combination of both. right? both covering and retreating and proving the point of if you don't make a move on your side now, we can -- we can still crush you with this awful artillery? >> so, erin, he has -- the russian army has proven incompetent in integrating maneuver direct fires and indirect fires. they have proven incompetent in integrating the joint force to create an effect on the ground. so i don't believe that he has suddenly gotten competent enough to cover a withdraw with fires. i believe that what we're seeing is old vietnam tactic of hni, harassment and interdiction fires. but they're completely dedicated to creating terror in the civilian population of ukraine

and to up the ante on the russian side for further negotiations. but i believe he has an off ramp that he has seen here. and i hope he takes it. >> can i ask you a question given your experience in the cia. how did vladimir putin not know he would see resistance? you would imagine he has excellent sources in ukrainian intelligence. in the two weeks that i was there, blatantly obvious. i'm not in your line of work, that there would be fierce resistance. the one thing screaming clear in your face, don't need to be an intelligence person to know it. yet, he did. >> i'm sorry, erin. i lost the signal here. but i think one of the issues at hand here right now is that, you know, he had sort of cleaned out his services a couple times. he has people around him who want to tell him what it is that he wanted to hear. and so, frankly, i think he was blindsided. i don't think he was given the

kind of information that i needed to have going in. i'm not so sure what he would have listened to at this point either. there is another problem here as well. it's not just in till jens fai -- intelligence failure. >> thank you both very much. next, a terrifying story of survival. we're hearing from a family that survived that deadly attack on the theater. remember the one where they had children written on both sides used as a shelter? >> my woman was in another part of the building and the wall fall on to her. >> plus, uk seizing a russian super yacht complete with a wine cellar, fresh water swimming pool and wait until you hear the lengths the owner of the yacht went to try to keep his identity hidden. and the january 6th select committee focusing on white house records that show reported seven hour gap in trump's phone logs. ame my focus. lavender baths calmed him. de a plan to turn bath timime into a business.

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air in front the eyes of the h whole planet . >> an unknown number are buried in the trouble. and tonight for the first time the survivor who narrowly escaped the attack is speaking to cnn. i've been watching "out front. you know, just to think about this, to think about the bombing and then to die buried underground it's horrible. to think about how narrowly some escape death and others died. >> you're right. and the apartment was destroyed by the russian bombardment of her city.

which prompted her and her mother and sister and their cat to go and seek shelter in a friend's apartment. they spent six days hiding in the hallway of the apartment from the on going fighting. until they got some information to try to go take shelter in this iconic building in the drama theater. >> this was the drama theater before vladimir putin ib vaded ukraine. a cultural and architectural symbol of the city. and when the russian military laid its deadly siege of mariiupol. >> it was like cat and we go to the street and they start shooting us. we were running with craziness. then we go to the theater. the theater was a the lot of

people. they were like it will be okay. we have food. they gave us a tea. and they said like you should find a place where you could, like, a bed. >> this woman and her family recently escaped from mariupol. >> on the morning of march 16th, maria, her mother, sister and cat joined hundreds of other civilians sheltering in the theater. footage from march 10th shows families huddled there in the dark. feeling protected, perhaps, by the signs children in russian that volunteers posted outside the building. shortly after arriving, maria went to check whether an uncle who lived nearby was still alive. >> now i hear the noise of the plane. like bombs plane. we know how it -- you know, how -- this noise. because bombed every day. >> she returned to the theater to find it destroyed.

>> so i left my family in the theater. and everyone screaming the names. you know? like momma? poppa? and i'm calling like mom! >> footage of the meet aftermath shows dazed civilians covered in dust while the roof over the main auditorium had completely collapsed. >> when the theater was bombed, my sister was standing with the window and the window was like blow up. and she fallen down. and my mom was in another part of the theater and wall fall on to her. >> maria's mother and sister were wound the but survived. >> you're sister doing all right? >> no. >> really? >> she's like confused. >> she has a concussion? >> yeah. >> shortly after the initial strike on the theater, maria says what was left of the building came under a fresh artillery attack. >> everyone started screaming

that theater is on fire. so we should run. and we run. but russians bombed it. so we running from the theater and bombs were like this: >> it took nine days for maria and her family to get through russian checkpoints and reach relatives safety in ukrainian-controlled territory. >> you seem very positive and upbeat right now. >> i understand that i'm very lucky. you understand? like thousands and hundreds people still in mariupol and bombed and no food, no water. they have no medicine, nothing. and i understand i'm very lucky. like i have my arms. i have my legs. i don't need anymore. >> and your family. >> and my familiarly. my cat is safe. >> this is little mushka, she's a 2-year-old cat. and she survived the bombing of the theater. with her family.

and they're now headed to western ukraine in this bus. >> but no one knows how many people may have died under the rubble. russia denied that the forces bombed the theater and russian state tv recently showed what was left of it. after russian troops moved in to this part of the city. judging by the damage the russian reporter claims, it was bombed from the inside. he alleges there is information that ukrainian nationalists organized a terrorist attack here. a claim that people inside the theater strongly reject. >> you are angry right now? >> no. i want the russian just go away. this is ukrainian territory. i don't understand why they can't tell me that it's not my land. they're not fighting with an army. they fighting with every citizen. you know? they bombed hospitals. they bomb schools. they bomb the houses of peaceful people. they not fighting with army.

>> maria and her family rushed to a waiting van. the driver will take them for free to western ukraine where maria hopes her sister can safely recover from her injuries. >> now, erin, like all of the tens of thousands of other ukrainian who's fled, they have to escape by going through russian front lines and checkpoints. and suffer the indignity of having their vehicles searched, their phones searched by the same troops that have destroyed their homes and their city. this is relatively safe. the ground war has not reached this city. but maria and her family were not going to stay here even though it's the safest they've been in really more than a month. because the russian military is only about 20, 30 miles away from where i'm standing. there are curfews here and air

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200 feet, $50 million u.s. dollars. it has an infinity wine cellar and fresh water pool. and this is the kind of wealth that the luxury of those allegedly associated with vladimir putin. but this vessel, this super yacht, isn't going anywhere soon. so this yacht is only a few months old. it was delivered to london with a much fanfare from a firm in the netherlands. earlier today, officers of the national crime agency were onboard effectively impounding the vessel. these yachts have very complicated ownership structure often. it's registered in the caribbean, they say, with a flag from malta and throughout the world, there is now a crackdown to target these boats, these yachts allegedly linked to vladimir putin's oligarchs. you are able to say anything? >> i cannot. >> no comment. >> there are still crew members onboard. they wouldn't say anything to us. the british government has been

criticized in recent months for not being harsh enough on oligarchs allegedly linked to vladimir putin. we tracked it down. we now know the connection. the ship won't be going anywhere for the time being and that's because we take what vladimir putin is doing in ukraine incredibly serious and people who have benefited from his regime cannot benefit from sailing around london and the uk in ships like this. >> whether it has any impact on the on going conflict, really that is up for debate. but it really is a powerful signal that this super yacht is now stuck at this warf. >> well, uk officials have yet to name this mysterious businessman. but it does point to the complex nature of these transactions. often the oligarchs have the shell companies, they have sophisticated financial instruments to try and hide their ownership. not just of yachts but of jets and, of course, of real estate, particularly here in london and, of course, in the u.s. as well.

there is pressure prefor offici to try and squeeze these assets, to try to have some kind of impact on those closest to putin. erin? >> david, thank you very much. as western nations continue seizing yachts and inflicting other punishments, president biden and his european counterparts are determined to continue raising costs on russia for its brutal attacks in ukraine. out front now, a long time kremlin watcher. i really appreciate your time. uk authorities seizing this super yacht. it is owned by a russian businessman. the latest example, of course, of what we've seen. assets seizures in some jurisdictions of oligarchs. at least eight yachts said to be owned by the individuals have been taken by the west. there are other place that's haven't participated in this at all. the idea is that by taking the money and assets of the richest

russians that putin would then feel pressure. you have seen any evidence that's working? >> i don't really think that this approach is working because the oligarchs own the super yachts do not really have political power in russia anymore. and we call the oligarchs by a force of habit. so they combine political and economic power in the '90s. but in the last 20 years, they were completely suborder natured to the regime. they were suborder nant personay and don't have any influence on his decisions. you can take every yacht, you know, from these people. but they won't be able to do anything even if they're angry at putin, even if they do not agree with this -- with his invasion. but they don't really have much

maoer power. >> so the sanctions, whether they have influence or not is a separate issue from whether it is hurting them, right? it is hurting them. even though obviously they have money hidden in all sorts of places that no one will ever touch. but the sanctions are really hurting ordinary russians as well. the kremlin has acknowledged that people have resorted to panic buying. we've seen video of it. elderly russians fighting in grocery stores over packs of sugar. impossible to independently verify some of the videos though because there is no independent media in russia. there is just not. it's been all completely shut down. how bad is the situation for regular russians right now? >> it is pretty bad. and i think that's sanctions reeffective in -- affecting the lives of ordinary people. so at first financial sections were the most effective. but now i think that logistics

and logistical and maritime locate of russian trade is even more effective in terms of disrupting russian economy and russian people and do suffer from shortages of certain rules, certain rules and from skyrocketing inflation and it's not like they have a lot of spare cash. you know, russia -- >> right. >> was already a poor country when the war began. so they don't have a lot of money to spare. >> right. right. and i think that is such a crucial point that you make. and, you know, for so much of the country, incredibly poor. incredibly poor in a way that many in the west would not recognize. i appreciate your time. >> thank you. and next, new evidence of russia's deadly assault in southern ukraine. this video showing a moment a government building was struck by a missile. we have details on the deadly toll. it was deadly. plus, trump's phone logs

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a giant building into the side of the building. 12 people have been confirmed killed in that strike that you saw. struck 12 people. you see that, their lives gone. we're out front tonight in budapest. ukrainians are seeking refuge from this lentless shelling that has cost countless lives. >> each time a new group shows up, it's anybody's guess how many refugees there will be. but more than a month into this war, weary ukrainians keep coming and coming, look forg safety in the hungarian capital of budapest. >> authorities say things are much more organized.

they come in and get processed. the whied is to get them to where they want to go. if they want to stay here, they go to door number four to get local accommodation. door number three tamz kes them the airport. they want to go to the train station locally. >> she is a volunteer translating ukrainian into hungarian or english. here she helps to speak with this couple. just a week ago. >> are you worried about them. >> everybody would stay alive and we have. >> she wants everybody to be safe. >> julia has a gentle touch. she is warm and kind and empathetic because she, too, is a refugee.

she fled in intense fighting. julia took this video just before she left. they were falling and on her way out of the city. she took this video of shell casings on the ground. >> was it difficult to leave your country? >> yes, of course. >> why? >> because it's your country. it's your land. it's so, so shock. it's so sad for what happened and for why? >> she's been here for several weeks with no plans to leave. julia desperately wants to be back in ukraine but for now, she'll help however she can. why are you doing that? >> help is help for everybody. you want help ukraine, how you can. >> and today that meant everything from serving up hot drinks to guiding this woman to get her medication. however she can show people that she cares, at the end of our interview, a hug for us, too. >> tell everybody we're sorry.

and a message. >> stop. stop this, please. >> we will. >> thank you. >> you great. >> and we know that julia is not the only ukrainian here in budapest that is actually helping refugees as they cross the border. several people in that facility, erin, were also doing the same thing. according to hungarian national police data, 500,000 ukrainians have crossed making hungary their home. increasingly helped out all those people by fellow citizens. >> all right. thank you very much, matt. and next, what explain a recorded seven hour gap in trump's white house call logs as the insurrection is unfolding. what caused a unity between russia, 2400 miles of buffer. when we fo

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official white house records show a gap of more than seven hours in phone calls to or from former president trump on january 6th. this is according to "the washington post" and cbs news. not a single call between 11:17 a.m. and 6:54 p.m. that of course is the entire window of the insurrection. the records turned over to the january 6th select committee reportedly do show trump having at least 11 phone conversations that morning with people including rudy giuliani, stephen miller, and steve bannon. at least 13 phone conversations that night, once the seven-hour blackout ended. again, steve bannon, sean hannity from fox news, two calls with the social media director, dan scavino, and also attempted by trump to call bill hagerty and mitch mcconnell as well as vice president pence around 9:00

a.m. so all of that is on there, and then there's the seven-hour hold of the insurrection itself. evan perez is "outfront," and evan, it's hard it believe trump would have all those calls on january 6th and there's not a single one, not a single one during the entire insurrection itself. >> right, erin. the committee that's investigating the january 6th insurrection is looking into and investigating why that 7 1/2-hour gap exists, from 11:17 a.m. to 6:54 p.m., there are no records from the white house records office or from the switchboard, and so the question is, were those records removed by someone? were they just simply not recorded properly? did the committee not receive the full list of records? those are the questions that they're asking. we know for a fact, for instance, that there are calls not listed on this -- on these records that were turned over to the committee that did occur.

we know for instance that he reached out and spoke to mike mccarthy, the leader of the house republicans, during that time. we know that he spoke to tommy tuberville, senator mike lee, we know those calls existed, and they're not listed on here. so the question is, why is that? one of the possible answers, erin, comes from the former president himself, in a statement he provided to "the washington post," he says to his knowledge, he has never heard of the term burner phone. so that's a possibility that that might be one of the explanations here. we know for a fact from some reporting on the white house that the president did use other aides' phones and personal cell phones that were not recorded by the white house system. >> all right, evan, thank you very much. and i want to go now to our senior legal analyst, laura coats. the select committee trying to figure out what happens in these seven hours.

did they just not get the full call logs or did, was there literally a black hole that every phone call going on in those seven hours was on a burner phone or an aide's phone? what do you think possibly happened here? >> well, we know he wasn't napping, and we also know that during that particular point in time, it was part of the most devastating experience for many members of congress and all of the world watching as people descended on the united states capital. so it's completely inconceivable there were not telephone calls made, and of course, we know from other corroborating discussions, from investigative journalists, those who have spoken to members of congress, those who have volunteered information about those moments that they had spoken to him. the question now, is it a cover-up or inadvertent failure to report and record the information. and if it's the latter, who was responsible for that. president trump was not the person actually dictating the diary or the log, so was he dictating or did somebody say to leave off information? that's part of where we have to follow the story. finally, we're relying really in

whole part on people to be able to volunteer the information or to come forward as witnesses responding to subpoenas to offer what the committee does not know. it does not bode well at all they have are these huge seven-hour gap and no real end in sight for people until they're going to cooperate with the committee. >> what's amazing. we know, obviously, many years prior to when he was president, trump then mr. trump, would take phone calls always through the phone. through the switchboard, through his office. he was not a heavy user of his cell phone except for when he wasn't in the office, and then he was. we know he didn't just take calls through the actual switchboard at the white house. tons came through cell phones and other people's phones. we know there were calls that trump had during those seven hours that they have spoken openly about. that aren't on this call log. evan referred to them. here's a couple. >> i was the first person to contact him when the riots were going on. he didn't see it.

>> i know i talked to him after we left off the floor. >> he said a few things. i said, mr. president, they have taken the vice president out. they want me to get off the phone. i gotta go. >> so these were calls with the president. and they were in that seven-hour window. so again, how do you inkterpret that? >> yet they're not reflected on the logs. the question is who else may have been unwilling to come forward or admit they were in fact there. that's part of the committee's investigative practice, to understand what led up to and all around it. you know what they're actually fighting with one hand tied behind their back. that hand could be released by the department of justice who has much more of an opportunity to be able to have the investigative authority to figure out who in fact were those people, through call logs, through other information and ways in which to dictate and determine who it actually was. this is part of why this has to be this symbiotic relationship and why we're waiting for the public hearings to come out

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in space. a russian cosmonaut talking about working side by side with americans at the international space station amid the russian invasion of ukraine. >> people have problem on earth, on orbit. we are like, we are not like, we are one crew, and i think iss is like symbol of friendship. they are like my space brothers, and space sister. >> that cosmonaut is set to leave the space station in just hours along with american astronaut mark vandehei who has spent a record breaking 355 days in space. this isn't the first time a russian cosmonaut has made headlines in putin's war. earlier this month, three

russian cosmonauts arrived at the international space station, and look what they're wearing. the colors of the ukrainian flag. one of them merely said, we had a lot of yellow material, so we had to use it. they couldn't be open about what they were doing, yet that picture, as we say, said it all. incredibly powerful. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" starts now. >> good evening. air ride sirens have been going off tonight in kyiv. they stand in contrast to russia's announcement after peace talks earlier today it would quote drastically reduce military activity around the city, and in chur nieve as well. tonight, there were the sirens followed by artillery and rocket fire. here's how ukraine's president framed this. >> translator: the signals that we hear from the negotiating platform can be called positive, but these signals don't drown out the explosions of russian bombs. the enemy is still in ou