>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers around the world and in the united states this hour. i'm hala gorani. we are reporting live from lviv in ukraine where it is just past 8:00 in the morning. it hasn't even been a full day since russia announced it would drastically reduce its military operations in kyiv and chernihiv, and instead cnn crews on the ground in the capital are reporting the sound of major

rocket and artillery fire. take a look. it certainly didn't sound like a drastic reduction on the ground. the pentagon says a small number of russian forces have moved away from kyiv in the past few days, but that it's likely more of a repositioning than a withdrawal. the ukrainian president, volodymyr zelenskyy, says he does not trust the russian claims of a true pullback. >> 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 our territory. they carry on shelling in our cities. mariupol is besieged. rocket and air attacks are not stopping. >> well, this next video, we

have to warn you, is graphic. it's one of the first videos in weeks from the kyiv suburb of irpin. the city looks like an apocalyptic wasteland with buildings destroyed, dead bodies in cars just left there and on the streets as well, just too dangerous to pull them away for burial. ukrainian troops claim they recaptured the town just a few days ago after weeks of intense russian attacks. ukraine isn't the only country skeptical of russia's promise to scale back. the u.s. is not buying it either. cnn's alex marquardt reports from washington. >> reporter: new signs that russia's war on ukraine may be entering a different phase. the russian ministry of defense announced on tuesday that it intending to drastically reduce hostilities on two fronts -- around the capital, kyiv, and the northern city of chernihiv, which has been battered by the

russian assault. it's an acknowledgement, a top ukrainian general said, that russia's effort to take kyiv had failed, so it is focusing elsewhere. but the biden administration is warning of more violence to come. >> nobody should be fooling ourselves by the kremlin's now recent claim that it will suddenly just reduce military attacks near kyiv or any reports that it's going to withdraw all its forces. has there been some movement by some russian units away from kyiv in the last day or so? yeah, we think so. small numbers. but we believe that this is a repositioning, not a real withdrawal, and that we all should be prepared to watch for a major offensive against other areas of ukraine. >> tra >> reporter: in turkey, a new round of talks took place between ukraine and russia, which the turkish foreign minister announced had made the most significant progress to date. the top american diplomat,

secretary of state tony blinken, expressed skepticism, saying the u.s. has yet to see signs of real seriousness by russia. >> what russia is doing is the ca continued brutalization of ukraine and its people, and that deniy continues as we weak. >> reporter: while officials talk, the russian bombardment continues. the russian focus now, according to russian, ukrainian, and american officials is ukraine's south and east. in the southern city of mykolaiv, an administration building was hit on tuesday morning. the impact of the blast visibly shaking this camera. at least 12 people were killed, emergency workers say, and more than 30 wounded. the port city of mariupol is a shell of its former self.

the mayor says over 150,000 residents are still besieged without water, power, or heat. "we had a beautiful life, just beautiful," this woman said. "now we have nothing, just nothing." ukraine says there can be no peace deal without a full russian withdrawal from the country. and while ukraine is now agreeing to remain neutral and not try to join nato, they say that other countries now need to guarantee their security in possible future conflicts. that neutrality, according to an aide to president zelenskyy, would be voted on by the ukrainian people in a countrywide referendum. alex marquardt, cnn, washington. >> i spoke with cnn military analyst and retired u.s. air force colonel cedric leighton. i asked him if he thinks russia is truly de-escalating or simply repositioning its troops. here's part of our conversation.

>> hala, i believe it is at the very most a repositioning of the russian forces. i don't think they're really de-escalating, and i don't think that they are withdrawing. and it looks as if the russians are not being true to their word in this case. >> so why say it? >> because i think it gives them the idea that -- a little diplomatic leverage for them, and it makes it look as if they are doing something that is related to perhaps a peaceful resolution of this crisis. but, in es sence, it gives them cover, hala. it gives them cover to do other things, and it also serves to dec deceive, and that, i think, is really the difficult part of it. but it does work not only with their military doctrine but also

their diplomatic doctrine as well. >> but it doesn't -- they're not being very convincing. i mean from the moment they said it practically, every ukrainian official and military commander said, we just don't believe them. what do you think ultimately is the russian military strategy at this point in the war? >> so i think we have to divide it between strategy and tactics. so their strategy really remains mostly unchanged although people have, you know, made some different comments about that. but strategy is to take down the ukrainian government. the tactics are that they will bide their time. they will take a longer time to do what they want to do. their goals are to take kyiv at some point and, you know, take the government down and perhaps the entire country. but they can't achieve that right now, and so they will bide their time, and they will move their forces to places where they can control the territory and the population.

in some cases, they will eliminate the population as much as they can, such as in mariupol. but they will then go ahead and make an accommodation, but that accommodation will be temporary, at least in their view, and they will wait for another opportunity to do what they've done, you know, since february 24th. >> it's interesting that you say that because some analysts believe perhaps that russia has come to the conclusion and has realized that it can't take kyiv in any significant way, certainly can't hold it, and therefore potentially that a negotiation position would end up being, well, we can control mariupol, which we've gutted and completely leveled anyway, some parts of eastern ukraine. we have that land bridge to crimea, and essentially cut the country in half where you have the occupied and non-occupied zones. you think their objective is still the entirety of the country, including kyiv? >> i think so.

remember, hala, i think they have a calendar whereas we have watches. so they have a much longer-term view of how this is going to work. and, you know, this year, next year, if they can settle for a division of ukraine, they'll settle for that. but a decade from now, in 20 years from now, they will try to take the entire country, and that's the difference. they have a longer-term plan. we tend to operate in increments with short-term thinking, and that's, i think, a different perspective. so both sides may think they're winning at this point in time, but the russian side is looking at this from a very long-term perspective, i believe. >> all right. different timelines there. cedric leighton joining us earlier. we're getting a better look at the destruction caused by russian attacks in the city of mariupol. these are some of the first images we're getting from the center of the city, not released through russian state media. they're satellite images.

they show what used to be a neighborhood with homes and two separate apartment complexes. the homes are completely destroyed, and you can see the residential streets filled with debris. and here's the exact same spot near the center of the city before and after the russian siege. it gives you a really good idea of how much this attack and this invasion has ravaged residential areas in mariupol. and to the west, near the city of mykolaiv, the fighting has become too much to bear for many residents. cnn's ben wedeman is on the ground. >> reporter: the blasted, burnt-out hulks of russia's might lie on a road outside mykolaiv. rumbles in the distance. this lieutenant colonel doubts peace or even a pause is at hand. russia, he says, put such a huge effort into invading ukrainian

territory, it's hard to imagine it will leave so easily. as fighting raged on the road just a few minutes' drive from here were civilians, many of them huddling in their cellars for protection, scared of the fighting but terrified of the danger if they tried to flee. this house in a nearby village took a direct hit. bombardment is less frequent now. it's just calm enough for 72-year-old natalia to pack up and go. "it's impossible to tolerate this anymore," she says. "i'm already an old woman." a neighbor will drive her to nearby mykolaiv. shrapnel riddled his car and shattered the back window. "i'm not afraid to die," says

natalia, but i'm just not ready. i haven't gone to confession yet. in an adjacent city, this woman shows me the potato cellar she hid in for days. "it's cold here," she says. "there was no electricity for two weeks." as fate would have it, she did well to stay down there. one day, a rocket landed in her backyard. tongue in cheek, she told us the russians left a gift for her, a gift that keeps on ticking. all right. we have to leave this spot because this rocket has not exploded. many of the villages near the front have been largely abandoned. only the most stubborn stay behind. ben wedeman, cnn, outside mykolaiv. >> well, those who have escaped appear to be the lucky ones. the relentless russian attacks have already driven millions of people out of the country. we'll have the latest on this refugee crisis next.

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share of those who have left, some 2.3 million people. meanwhile, sources tell cnn that u.s. troops stationed in poland have been instructing ukrainian forces on how to use weapons shipped into ukraine by western powers. the u.s. president stated on monday that americans were, quote, helping train the ukrainian troops in poland. but then on tuesday came word that the u.s. is not doing any formal or active training. the pentagon used the watered-down term "interactions" to describe whatever it is that's happening. >> there is -- you know, there's some liaising going on as ukrainians go into poland, for instance, and they are -- we're transposing shipments of material to them, and so there's some -- there's some general liaising going on in that regard, and that's what the president was referring to.

>> general liaising. i want to bring in stanley bill, an associate professor in polish studies at cambridge university. thanks for being with us. poland is in this really unique position. i mean it's the country to the west of ukraine. it's a nato member. it pushed the idea of sending more fighter jets to ukraine. that idea was, you know, not taken onboard by the u.s. in a positive way. what role is poland playing? how might this change its position in the world, this war against this country? >> well, poland is certainly seeking to play a leadership role both within the european union and nato. it sees itself as a kind of advocate for ukraine, its neighbor. there's a very strong sense among poles but also among the political class of solidarity with ukraine, a sense of an understanding of what ukraine is facing in the context of what poles see as a history of russian imperialism that extends

into their own country in the past as well. so they really feel that there's a historical role to play. there are perhaps some political benefits that can be derived from that. i think there is a deep sense of conviction among poles more broadly but also among the political class in poland. >> what's interesting is that the president of poland had a very tight relationship with donald trump when he was u.s. trump, a u.s. president that denigrated multilateral organizations like nato. is poland coming to the realization now that perhaps these international organizations and western cooperation aren't such a bad thing after all when russia invades its neighbor to the east? >> it is a very interesting paradox, and it's certainly the case that poland and its illiberal regime benefited from donald trump being in power, which meant that there wasn't pressure coming from the united states at a very high level with respect to what the polish

government was doing with rule of law, eroding the independence of the judiciary, and other moves that were widely criticized in europe but also by non-government organizations in different places. but on the other hand, the polish government would view this particular period as one in which donald trump was the president and therefore they were seeking to pursue their relations with the united states, which they certainly view as their most important international relationship through trump. so that would be an argument that they would make. nevertheless, it's certainly the case that andrzej duda, the polish president, was one of the last international leaders to congratulate joe biden on his victory in the presidential elections, waiting a couple of months, in fact. and so there is certainly a sense -- and this criticism appears in poland as well -- that the current polish government was allying itself with illiberal forces, with forces, as you said, that have been eroding in various ways the

multilateral ties, the relationships that are central to poland's long-term security, and nato above all. and of course trump's ambivalent attitude to nato is at the center of that. so it does seem to be a little bit of a turn. on the other hand, that turn, when it comes to the polish president, did not happen yesterday. towards the end of last year and earlier this year, he has been putting out signals, even against his own government, by vetoing, for example, laws that the government was trying to pass that would have restricted the potential of u.s. company to own an important private television station in poland. duda vetoed that law, and by doing so, he was sending a signal to u.s. partners that he wanted to -- to biden in particular, that he wanted to re-establish good relations there. that was something that wasn't greeted enthusiastically by his own party that is in government. >> such an interesting development, and the

repercussions of this invasion obviously felt throughout the world as well as in poland politically. what about the polish population itself? how is it, you know, reacting to this naked aggression by russia on its neighbor? is there any concern there from them? >> well, first of all, there's been an outpouring of solidarity as we've seen with ukrainian refugees and with civil society mobilizing on an enormous scale to support ukrainian refugees coming into the country. as you said, it's getting close to 2.5 million that have crossed the border. i should say it's not clear that 2.3 million, as you mentioned before, are actually in poland because there's a certain number of those -- in fact, probably quite a high number according to some estimates that have already crossed other borders into other european countries. but secertainly a very large number of ukrainian refugees in poland, many of them staying in the homes of poles, of ordinary poles who are taking ukrainian people into their homes and

supporting them there. so that's extremely significant, and that's something that poles very strongly about. but to return to your question, i think there is a degree of fear and anxiety. i think poles do have a general sense of confidence in the nato alliance and in article 5 of the nato treaty and in the security guarantees that that provides for poland as a member of nato. but i think there is also a historically conditioned concern about what could happen and about the possibility of conflict spilling over the border in ways that might be unpredictable and therefore that poland itself could be threatened. >> stanley bill, thanks so much for joining us. such a great analysis and an interesting perspective there on the role poland is playing in all of this. still to come, cnn's christiane amanpour introduces us to a ukrainian lawmaker who is armed and ready to defend her country.

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well, the u.n. says the war in ukraine shows no signs of easing and that it's taking an enormous toll on civilians. we are able to obviously witness that with our firsthand reporting here. humanitarian efforts are scaling up, but serious security risks are hampering efforts. many routes are disrupted, and convoys have to stop because of shelling, land mines, and fighting. as of sunday, the u.n. says more than 1,000 people have died, including 99 children.

>> we know these numbers are conservative and the tolls are far greater. cities like mariupol, kharkiv, chernihiv, and many others bustling and full of life just one month ago are encircled, bombarded, and blockaded. people in these towns lack food, water, medicine, electricity, and heating. they are trapped, desperate, afraid. in some neighborhoods, it's not even safe to bury the dead. >> while the death toll rises and the humanitarian crisis deepens, we're still seeing the indomitable spirit of so many ukrainians shine through amid this devastating war. cnn med upt up with a member of ukrainian parliament who is armed and ready to defend her country. christiane amanpour has her story.

>> reporter: day 34 of war, and the sounds are all around. [ siren ] >> yeah, that sort of disturbs your day all the time, but you learn to live with it. >> reporter: ukrainian m.p. lesia vasylenko says that after a month of this, she like her president and country folk believe the russians will never take this city, though fighting does continue in the suburbs. she wanted to meet here at my dawn square where ukrainians stood up for their rights in 2014 and brought down putin's wrath and his revenge. given his battlefield setbacks, though, i asked whether his shifting demands make a diplomatic compromise easier for ukraine to accept. now there's word -- we don't know whether it's going to bear fruit -- but that they might allow ukraine to join eu as long as you renounce nato. is that a compromise that ukraine would accept? >> all of this started 34 days

ago because one country cannot declare itself more sovereign than another country, and russia tried to do just that. we cannot go for that compromise because that compromise to putin would also mean a compromise of the general framework of defense and security of the world. giving in to dictators means incentivizing them. >> reporter: ukraine's dramatic resistance surprised the whole world, including vladimir putin. >> three days they gave us, right? putin thought he would be here in a matter of hours. we are doing this for our very survival, and when the survival instinct kicks in, people can do amazing things. people become superheroes, and this is what you're witnessing in ukraine. >> reporter: lesia is armed with her guns. the ak-47 is at mohome today bu she shows me her pistol. when we spoke, you said, i've got my machine gun, and you've tweeted that i've also got my

man manicures. your resistance takes many, many forms and you're actually carrying your pistol right now. >> i am. i am. i do have my p.m. with me and i carry it with me all the time. >> did you ever imagine in your life that as an m.p. in 2022 in ukraine, you'd be forced to carry a gun around? >> no, never. never. i'm actually very much anti-gun, and this gun posed a lot of problems for me because in order to recharge it, you have to do this thing. with the nails, i had very nice, beautiful, long nails. it was impossible to do so. they had to all come off. >> just so people are clear, the idea of beauty, self-maintenance, is also resistance? >> yes. all jokes aside, it's an important element for all women who are fighting alongside the man folk here. the women still want to be beautiful. they still want to have dignity as women. >> and to be hmm. >> and to be human. >> he basically said ukraine doesn't exist as a nation. you don't exist as a nation.

>> we say to him, life goes on. you carry on living. your fighting against us is in the background now, and we'll go on fighting it for as long as we have to. but we will go on living at the same time. >> reporter: she is still an m.p. parliament is still passing laws. and since an army marches on its stomach, this too is their fight, their war effort. and so the ordinary becomes extrao extraordinary. this trendy bar has turned into a wartime canteen. do you feel you're going to win? >> of course. we must destroy the russian army. >> you said you must destroy the russian army? so they help turn out 600 meals a day and counting for the army and territorial defense, for hospitals and shelters. outside, lesia shows me the pictures of her three young

children, who she's had to send away for their safety. >> this is my baby from this morning. >> wow. >> this is my youngest. >> how old? >> she's going to be 10 months in just a couple of days. >> wow, that must be painful to be without her. >> it is. and she's sort of looking at you like, really, mommy? really, you're going to be away from me? >> reporter: staying on the front lines with this struggle comes at a huge personal cost, but lesia has no doubts. >> i'm where i have to be. i mean things happen for a reason. i'm a firm believer in that. there's a reason i was elected in 2019. we have a task. we have a duty, and we will complete it, and then we will see where life takes us. >> reporter: christiane amanpour, cnn, kyiv. i'll have more from ukraine next hour. first let's bring in lynda kinkade in atlanta. linda. >> thanks so much, hala. keep up the great work there in lviv. we will tune in next hour. still ahead on cnn, fighting for the crowds for a simple bag

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welcome back. several european countries including the netherlands, belgium, ireland are all expelling dozens of russian diplomats. belgium and the netherlands accused those being asked to leave of espionage. several of the russian embassies have condemned the move saying it will not go unanswered. tuesday's announcement follows similar moves by poland as well as some baltic states earlier this month. british authorities have

seized a superyacht they say belongs to an unnamed russian businessman with ties to vladimir putin. cnn's david mckenzie filed this report from london. >> reporter: it's an extraordinary vessel, nearly 200 feet and costing almost 50 million u.s. dollars. it has an infinity wine cellar and a freshwater pool. this is the kind of wealth, the luxury of those allegedly associated with vladimir putin. but this vessel, this superyacht, isn't going anywhere soon. so this yacht is only a few months old. it was delivered to london with much fanfare from a firm in the netherlands. earlier today, officers of the national crime agency were onboard effectively impounding the vessel. now, these yachts have a 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. i'm david from cnn. are you able to say anything? >> no comment. no comment. >> there's still crew members onboard but 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 putin is doing in ukraine incredibly serious. people who have benefited from his regime cannot benefit from sailing around london and the uk in ships like this. >> reporter: whether it has any impact on the ongoing conflict really is up for debate, but it really is a powerful signal that this superyacht is now stuck at this wharf. david mckenzie, cnn, london. >> while the oligarchs may not

be suffering from the loss of luxuries, everyday russians are starting to feel the squeeze of international sanctions from a war many don't even support. cnn's anna stewart reports. >> reporter: people are fighting for sugar. the words of the woman filming this video in a moscow supermarket. the shop worker asking people to stay calm and to stop fighting. in another video posted to telegram, you can hear shouting as sugar just arrived doesn't even make it onto the shelf before shoppers grab it. inflation has hit more than 14% in russia, and this economist expect s it to reach 50% by the end of the year. >> when the sanctions hit, everybody wanted to cash their rubles from the bank accounts as

fast as possible or buy the goods before the prices had increased. >> reporter: according to official government statistics in russia, certain goods have seen huge price increases. compared to last year, sugar is 37% more expensive. the prices for bananas and tomatoes are up by around 50% and rises, albeit smaller, across a whole range of household staples. what you see here, empty shelves, is largely the result of panic buying, and some supermarkets have placed limits on how much customers can buy of certain products, like buckwheat, rice, diapers, and chicken. there's also the very real risk that some products may become harder to get. many retailers have closed their doors as western companies exit a country waging an illegal war. the world's biggest shipping companies will no longer carry nonessential cargo, and western countries have also banned

selling certain components to russia. >> so probably about half of russia's foreign trade has ceased, and this means that companies can't get parts, and the russian economy is basically integrated with the world economy. my guess is that the whole automotive industry will just come to a stop because that's an area where you have many of those parts are imported. >> reporter: a new car is already 20% more expensive compared to a year ago. the ruble has crashed in value, making imports more expensive and sanctions have been in place for little over a month. how long can russia afford to continue on in this vein? >> people can run down an economy extremely badly as we have seen in venezuela, as we saw in zimbabwe. the question is when the political forces says this is enough. >> reporter: anna stewart, cnn,

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israeli police say five people were killed during a shooting at a city near tel aviv on tuesday, the third attack in israel within a week. authorities say at least one attacker used an assault rifle against civilians in several locations before being killed by police. an israeli police officer was among those killed in the attack. the shooting came just a day after a landmark summit between israel, the u.s., and four arab countries. at least 11 people have died in three attacks over the past week. isis had claimed responsibility for two earlier attacks.

the omicron subvariant ba.2 has now become the dominant strain of covid in the u.s. accounting for more than 50% of all cases. that's according to the cdc. it comes as the fda expands the emergency use authorization of the pfizer and moderna vaccines, which allows adults 50 and older to get a second booster shot, which means four shots overall. those eligible are able to get that shot four months after their first booster shot. council to the u.s. says everyone should take advantage of. >> the boosters work, and americans should get their booster. there is waning across time. so it's important people take advantage of the extra protection. >> in shanghai, nearly 6,000 new covid infections, accounting for

70% of new cases across the country. the outbreak is fueling panic in china's financial hub, and authorities are clamping down with even tighter lockdown restrictions. cnn's david culver has more from shanghai. >> reporter: emotions in shanghai are at a breaking point. chinese social media showing people shoulder to shoulder, pushing to get vegetables, panicked shoppers stocking up ahead of an unprecedented shutdown. the plan is to shut shanghai down in two phases, first the eastern half, then the west. in all, some 25 million people confined to their homes. already desperate stories emerging. this one pleading to leave her compound, saying her husband needs his cancer treatment. this latest is the worse since

wuhan two years ago. yet for some living in the financial hub shanghai, this is unlike anything experienced here before. videos circulated on social media show hundreds of covid patients filling up crowded hospitals so as to keep in line with president xi jinping's zero covid policy, shanghai has turned stadiums and exhibition centers into centralized makeshift hospitals. this video is from the shanghai expo center, said to hold more than 6,000 patients. on twitter, testing mild with symptoms, taken to the expo center, given just a bucket and rag to wash up every day. just about every day outside, you hear a blaring loudspeaker with a new announcement. on this cold rainy day, another mandatory covid test. my neighbors and i hurried out to the nearest government testing sigte. >> they only let us out for the

test and then back in. >> reporter: stores and restaurants that have had one case pass through are treated like a crime scene, roped off and disinfected. since confirming its first omicron case in mid-december, mainland china's average daily case count has surged from double-digits to more than 5,000. there are more than 65,000 active cases and counting. the virus has spread to 29 provinces and regions. the lockdowns and mass testing bring life to a near halt in many place, and could have global economic impacts. chi china locked down. silicon shenzhen is only just reopening after putting 17 million residents under lockdown for a week. back in shanghai, this latest lockdown is forcing tesla's gigafactory to hit the brakes on production, and it's already caused shanghai disneyland to shut its gates. this bustling metropoulos

powering down. to the outside world, the scenes are apocalyptic. china once again trying to prove it can contain the invisible villain. david culver, cnn, shanghai. before we go, a moment of unity. hundreds of kilometers above earth, handshakes and hugs exchanged between russians and americans aboard the international space station on tuesday. one of the russian cosmonauts who is now headed home reflected on working together, even amid the war in ukraine. >> people have problem on earth. on orbit, we are like -- we are not like. we are one crew. and i think is symbol of the friendship. like my space brothers and space sister. >> well, the russian and american crew will arrive on earth in the coming hours. that does it for me here in

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