>> i'm doing well, wolf. i found one of your conversations, all of it interesting, but this one particularly interesting that vladimir putin may not be getting accurate information from his people on the battlefield and his advisers. that is really interesting. >> it certainly is. and the question is, how is he going to react when he really knows what's going on? i assume he'll get more information. will he look for a way out to end this disaster, or double down and kill a whole lot more people in ukraine? for that, people here in washington are simply guessing. >> all over the world they're guessing. see you tomorrow night, thank you very much. i'm here in western ukraine in lviv. breaking news, ukrainian forces retaking the town of sloboda, further chipping away at russian forces encircling the city. cnn teams on the ground in the capital of kyiv hearing shelling well into the night as the

battle rages in the suburbs. that as ukraine's president says negotiations with russia are only words. >> translator: yes, we have negotiations process. but they're only words without anything concrete. there are other words about alleged pullback of russian troops from kyiv and chernihiv and reduction of activities of the occupiers in these territories. this is not a retreat, this is the result of the work of our defenders who pushed them back. >> a u.s. official saying today, intelligence shows vladimir putin is being misinformed by his advisers about how badly the russian military is doing. the uk's intelligence chief claims that some russian soldiers have refused to carry out orders, even accidentally shooting down their own aircraft. have you ever heard of something like that? meanwhile, penn resident biden weighing releasing a record

amount of oil from u.s. reserves. the price of oil has spiked during the war with ukraine. moscow rains down bombs one day after claiming it is scaling back the war. the pentagon warning russian troops not only have not gone home, they're hitting some places harder than ever. especially around kyiv. as heavy fighting rages in the outskirts. i have to warn you, what you're about to see is really graphic. the suburb of irpin under fire as emergency workers retrieved the bodies of the dead today. irpin has paid a heavy price. homes destroyed, lives shattered, bodies in the streets. the northern city of chernihiv under fire from russian troops with no sign of scaling back. no food, no water, just constant shelling. the mayor says what he calls the colossal attack on his city contradicts russian claims of a pullback. in mariupol, a city under siege, a red cross warehouse in the center hit by at least two

military strikes. the giant red cross on the roof clearly visible. mariupol was the site of the attacks on a maternity hospital and a theater sheltering hundreds of people with the word "children" clearly written outside. the people that i've talked to who escaped what they call hell on earth, and you can see it, why that is. nikolai, bodies still being pulled from rubble after a russian strike blew a hole through the government building, the death toll rising to 15. fred pleitgen is in kyiv and ben wedeman is in nikolai. fred pleitgen, hello to you. russia has been hammering ukraine, especially outside of kyiv. what's happening there tonight? >> reporter: once again the russians are hammering the positions here outside of kyiv. it's something which you're right, we've been seeing not

just the past 24 hours but the past couple of days, with a lot of artillery strikes that we're seeing, also multiple rocket launchers going off, air raid sirens, air alarms, you name it, it's happening. when you hear from the russians, they say they're going to scale down their military operations around the kyiv area, we've seen absolutely no sign of that. in fact, i would say from what we've been seeing, it's more an escalation than de-escalation. you know, one of those places we keep talking about is that district of irpin, toward the northwest of kyiv, where the russians tried to breakthrough into the city. the ukrainians cos confronted t. we got close to that district today, and i can tell you, there was just firing going on the entire time. the people there tell us that the residents can't return because there's shells landing the whole time. you really can't speak about a de-escalation on the ground here even though the ukrainians do say, they do believe that some russian forces might be somewhat pulling back.

but they don't think that's some sort of goodwill gesture by the russians, they say they confronted the russians, the russians took losses, now some of their units have to move out of here. >> another day of talks between russia and ukraine ending with no progress tonight. do ukrainians think much can come of this? >> reporter: no i don't think so. if you listen to president zelenskyy of ukraine, he essentially says that what's happening there, those negotiations, as he put it, is just words. i think one of the things that frustrates the ukrainians is that they feel they have a pretty clear agenda. they understand and their negotiators understand what they're willing to commit to, what they're not. they keep thinking the russians keep moving the goal posts. for instance, a day ago, one of the russian negotiators, deputy defense minister, he came out and said the russians would pull back some of their forces, would de-escalate here on the kyiv area, and president zelenskyy said today that's absolutely not happening. he's saying essentially, what's happening here is that the

ukrainian forces were just too strong for the russians to overcome and that now they're regrouping in other areas because they have to move some of their units back. if you listen to some of the comments that the ukrainians made, the ukranian negotiators, the ukrainian leadership, they keep saying they're not sure whether the russians keep moving the goal posts, whether they really know where their goal posts are supposed to be or whether their own position keeps changing. it's clearly frustrating for the ukrainians as they say they're negotiating in good faith, they want some sort of settlement as fast as possible, but they're just not -- or they believe that the russians aren't sincere in the way they negotiate or whether the negotiators even have the kind of power that it takes to come to some sort of agreement. >> frederick pleitgen reporting, thank you very much, we appreciate it. i want to turn to southern ukraine where the kremlin's claim of troop movements has cities along the black sea on alert. cnn's ed lavandera is live in

odesa. hello to you. odesa has been bracing for possible russian attack, possibly an amphibious landing. what is the scene there tonight? >> reporter: we heard from a ukrainian military official saying that they have information that there's russian aircraft over this area flying reconnaissance missions. so that coupled with the news we're hearing out of northern ukraine that russian forces are supposed to be redeploying, perhaps reassessing their strategy here in the war in ukraine. it definitely has people anxious as to what exactly is going to happen. early on in the war, this stretch of the northern coast of the black sea in southern ukraine was an area of focus. there was a belief that the russians would try to move in along the coastline and essentially make ukraine a landlocked country. and so far, we've seen the horrific destruction that has taken place in mariupol.

they've moved a little further west of there but haven't made it really beyond that. for the last several days it has been relatively quiet here, don, in the odesa region. but there is concern about what could happen in the coming weeks, depending on what the russians do with their forces and how those forces are redeployed perhaps elsewhere into the country here. >> you mentioned mariupol. i mean, it's the -- the red cross warehouse has been hit, it was unbelievable to see that, why would they hit a red cross warehouse with a cross visible on top? much like the theater with the kids outside. >> reporter: right. the red cross saying that it was a warehouse that was hit. we'd be able to confirm that with satellite imagery from that warehouse. the red cross also says that they didn't have any teams on the ground there. but clearly what is happening in that city is a humanitarian disaster.

a lot of work is being done to try to create humanitarian routes that would allow more people to evacuate and supplies to be brought into that city. so exactly why a strike like this would be carried out is the question that so many people have. but it clearly points to just what a destructive scene and what a dangerous scene and horrific scene that city has been for some time. >> none of it make nits sense. ed lavandera, thanks very much. ukraine cities under assault, the death toll rising in nikolai, where at least 15 were killed in a strike on a government building. cnn's ben wedeman has the latest now. >> reporter: somewhere in this jumble of concrete bricks and twisted metal are more bodies. trapped in the ruins of the office of nikolai's regional government. tuesday morning a russian missile struck the building,

killing over a dozen, wounding many more. >> they bombard right sided our city. >> reporter: mykolav's mayor don't normally come to city hall like this but he saw war coming long ago and prepared himself. >> 2014, i thought that the war will be like this. all this i bought a couple of years ago. i started to learn how to shoot. i was in a special school for that. >> reporter: on the outskirts of the city, recently downed russian attack helicopters suggest the ukrainian military also saw this war coming. they've managed to stop russian forces in their tracks, regaining territory lost at the start of the war. 5-year-old misha is recovering from shrapnel wounds to his head in the basement-turn-bomb

shelter at mykolav's regional children's hospital. his grandfather vladimir shows me phone video of the bullet-riddled war misha's father was driving with his family to escape the russian advance. russian soldiers -- vladamir called them bastards -- opened fire on the car, killing misha's mother and grandmother. as we speak, the air raid siren goes on. taking shelter is an oft-practised drill. statements that russian forces will pull back from kyiv are not surprisingly being met with skepticism here. russian actions speak much louder than russian words. as the mayor of mykolav told me today, whatever vladimir putin says, expect the opposite. cnn military analyst and

retired army lieutenant general mark hurtling. thanks for joining us. a senior defense official saying some russian forces have 1 from chernobyl that was taken in the earliest days of the russian attack. troops repositioning largely ones that have been fighting north and northwest of kyiv. what does that tell you about the battlefield? >> it tells me the russians have failed in and around kyiv. that was mr. primary objective is to take the capital and replace the president. they could not get to the city. they couldn't even get close enough to get their artillery behind it to get artillery and missiles into the center of the city, although they have been, as you know, hitting around the edges. they have lost the initiative and have been beaten soundly by the ukrainian forces. so they are shifting their priorities to lesser objectives. there's no other way to say it. they've lost. and your earlier report saying that mr. putin doesn't even know

what's going on tells me that there is a toxic, narcissistic leader in charge of russia, one that not only beats up his cabinet members and his military so that they become so afraid they don't give him facts, but also one that is ordering some of the war crimes that you just talked about with ed and with ben. you're talking about a red cross facility. if they can't get any lower than that, i don't know what would happen. there have been 60 hospitals that have been bombed just like the russians did in chechnya and syria. there have been bombs landing in schoolyards and on school buildings that have been targeted. all of these things tell me that mr. putin is just a power-hungry maniac, and unfortunately his forces are losing and he doesn't even know it. that's the thing that concerns me the most. the casualty rates of russian soldiers who didn't know what they were getting into continues

to increase, while the civilian casualties in ukraine are also, unfortunately, increasing. >> let's talk more about this quote, unquote repositioning. the pentagon says they've seen 20% of forces around kyiv repositioning, some heading into belarus. but there's been no letup, really in the bombing campaign. what do you think those troops are likely to be used for? >> first you have to consider they're not coming out as complete units. they have been mauled. in fact, some of the films i've seen of those forces that are repositioning are the airborne troops. the vvk. they are forces that were in the initial assault. they've now been in the field in ukraine for 30 days and in belarus for four months before that. these guys are fatigued and have sustained casualties, i would say, that are very high. you just don't pull a force out and send it somewhere else that's been mauled like that. you have to attempt to

reconsolidate. either build them as part of another unit or fix their wounded, treat their casualties, refix their equipment. military equipment breaks down more than your typical american family car. so they've got problems across the board with resupply, feeding, personnel replacement, everything. so, you know -- i think many americans think this is sort of like a video game where you just pick up and move to another place and suddenly appear somewhere else on the battlefield. it will take weeks, if not months, for these forces to be reconsolidated, regenerated, and repositioned in another area. but having said all that, and i'm sorry for going on so long, there certainly appears to be a move by mr. putin and his generals to open a larger front on the east, in the so-called donbas. i believe he's going to have problems there because he hasn't been able to encircle that area.

we've been talking about irpin for a long time. the next cities we're going to be talking about is izium in the northeast of ukraine. it hasn't received a lot of attention yet. but that's going to be the next objective for the russians. i don't think they're going to be able to take it. >> you're right, we talked about some of what's happening. izium, we haven't spoken much about it. can we dig in a little bit more on this morale issue? the chief of uk intelligence saying today that russian soldiers are low on morale. >> yeah. >> some even refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their equipment. he didn't give any specifics but can the russian army sustain that low level of morale for long, general? >> no, because they went into it with that. that's the issue. this is not a force that can just regenerate on the fly because they've been trained and they've got great leadership and they've got junior ncos standing up. they had none of that. i've been saying that from the very beginning. so you don't have the junior

officers that take initiative. you don't have any sergeants who are going to drive the force. you don't have anybody that's putting things together at the junior level. one of the reasons why a lot of the generals have been killed. and if you don't have those things, an army falls apart. when you don't have trust between soldiers, when you don't have trust between soldiers and their leaders, and as importantly as coming out today that we've talked about several times before, when you don't have trust between the army and the leaders of the country, mr. putin, because he doesn't know what's going on, you're going to see an army that's going to collapse within itself. we've already seen parts of that with desertions, with awols, with people giving up. and i wouldn't bet against in the next couple of days seeing long lines of russian prisoners of war with their hands up marching toward kyiv or some other place because ukrainian forces have not killed them but captured them.

>> general hertling, always appreciate it, thank you. vladimir putin's forces hitting some parts of ukraine harder than ever just one day after claiming they're scaling back the war. next, i want to bring in a couple that you met on this show. they goat married on the first day of the invasion. they have been fighting to defend their homeland ever since then. >> translator: we will not give anything away and we will fight for every meter of our land. (music throughout)

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last month we introduced you to a newlywed ukrainian couple. they were supposed to marry in may, but tied the knot on the first day of the russian invasion. hours later they eagerly took up arms to defend ukraine. they sxwroin me now from kyiv. so good to see you guys. i'm glad to know you're safe.

stanislav, i know you've been out fighting. again, thanks. irina, it has been a couple of weeks since we've gotten to talk with you and to stanislav. how are you two doing? >> right now we are much better than we were some weeks before. just because the front line moved away from the capital for 30 or 35 kilometers, and even irpin is still under ukrainian control. there are still a lot of mines but it's really a great sign that the front line moved away from the capital. i hoped they wouldn't try to take it again. and the situation in the defense of kyiv right now is absolutely wonderful. because a lot of people with the military experience came there, and there is a long queue to the

old battalions of defense forces, like three people for one place. and that is a sign of great determination and people, all people are ready right now to protect their country. but that was the reason why our commander of our battalion asked us to leave, as we don't have military experience. to make a place for those who are more professional than us. so we came back home, but we couldn't standstill and doing nothing while there is war, we have to fight, we have to do something. so we started to volunteer. also, the situation, we were asked to leave, all our friends, they are like 19, 20 years old, just as we are, they also had to leave the defense for those who

are more professional. so right now or small company of activist friends who were working before the war as activists are reunited just as the ukrainian nation is reunited. we started doing volunteer work. and i think my husband would tell you more about this specific -- like what we are doing right now. >> let me jump in. i'm having a little bit of trouble hearing you guys. i'm sure the people at home can hear me with the big speakers, i have a little earpiece in my area. stanislav, as i understand, you were on the front lines but you're not anymore? is that correct? >> yes. >> yes. >> do you wish that you were on the front lines of the war? are you just happy to help in any way that you can? go on, please, sorry. >> yes, i'm just happy to help in any way i can. because still i have my arms, my

rifles, my ammunition with me. and i'm ready to go back on the front line any time if my country, if my people, will need me in that case. but still, as it was on the front line, i have received many mess messages for my whereabouts, asking for help for ammunitions, for bullets, helmets, and some earlier -- some ammunitions like boots and something like that. >> just think of the bravery of the people in the defense who went there as volunteers. that was their will. they weren't asked to go to the defense. and they just go to fight with

no military mess no helmet, no clothing. some of them just went fighting in jeans and sweaters, but still took up the arms and went fighting. so right now we have some problems, especially with the protection. and right now we're trying to solve it. we've gotten letters from a lot of battalions all around ukraine right now asking to get them like 300 vests or more. and it's like a great amount of them. >> actually, it's already 900, 900 requests for any -- for any battalion which was asking for help. i just opened my paypal in that case, trying to contact with some funds. >> let me jump in and ask you something, stanislav. you're not on the front lines, but you have been out there. you've been -- so what is it

like out there? what is it like where people are fighting? >> well, first of all it's -- i didn't scare about my life, i was scared about my comrades, my family, my wife. it was really not so fun as many people thought from film and other. it's really hell sometimes. every time you can be -- you can shoot, you can get artillery fire.

every hour was under fire, from our side, from enemy side. and just waiting to contact any minute. >> do you feel like you are beating the russians or that you've beat them? >> yes. so my first combat mission, we beat them. because we were waiting, russian enemy tanks come with some heavy techniques. but some attached groups was -- some attached groups were detected out on time. and the russian tanks go, and after they break through our regular army line, they just try

to -- to round us through the forest. but our machines were cued on them. >> that y >> thank you both. you are safe. irina, it's good to see you, stanislav, you as well. see you soon, hopefully. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. a classified briefing on the hill tonight about ukraine. we're going to speak with someone who was behind closed doors of that meeting next. (swords clashing) -had enough? -no... arthritisis. here. aspercreme arthritis.

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president biden speaking nearly an hour today with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying the u.s. will provide ukraine with another $500 million in aid. that as russia steps up its shelling of ukraine's main cities despite claiming it will drastically reduce its attacks. tonight the biden administration briefing lawmakers on the situation in ukraine. joining me, senator ben cardin, a senior member of the senate foreign relations committee. we're happy you're here, thank you so much. give us some information. what can you share from your classified ukraine briefing? because russia said it would scale back their invasion. they have not. so what happens now?

>> well, don, one thing is clear. you can't believe anything that mr. putin says or russia says. we do know that they are certainly not performing the way that they thought their military would. they are using up a lot of their military capacity, and we do know that they are now planning to concentrate more of their military efforts in the east. and i think the ukrainians understand that. so i think we'll see some repositioning of the russian troops. but once again, you can't believe anything, and they're still doing the air attacks which is one of the areas that we know we have to give the ukrainians everything they need in order to defend their country. >> well, they want to close the skies, the president has said. no, they're not doing that. defense secretary has said, no, not at all. was that part of the discussion at all? >> absolutely, we're talking about that. we also know that they need air defense systems. we hope that is in the works. they need the short -- the

short-range missiles, they need all the above, quite frankly, in order to defend the skies. we know that there's a limit as to what we can do because question don't want to escalate the conflict. but quite frankly, we believe the ukrainians are capable of defending themselves, but they need our help in order to have all the equipment they need to do that. >> $800 million, $500 million, how much more is the u.s. willing to give to continue to support the ukrainians? >> we're with the ukrainians. this is about the third or fourth tranche of funds we've used to help them with defensive lethal weapons. we're not alone. our allies are also providing significant support. we've gone through the list. as to where the equipment is they need, which countries have it, how we can get it to ukraine

as quickly as possible. it's not just united states, it's our total alliance that are working to help the ukrainians. but we're in for the long run. we recognize that this is not going to be a short campaign. so no, this is not the last of the support. we're going to be continuing to give them what they need. they're not just defending their sovereignty, they're defending the sovereignty of europe and very much our national security interests as to make sure the ukrainians are able to defend their country. >> senator cardin, how about the pentagon? the assessment from the pentagon that putin isn't being fully informed about what's happening in ukraine. can you tell us about that? >> we know mr. putin isolates himself from a lot of the elite advisers within russia itself. so we don't know how much information he's getting and how reliable that information is. but we know that he is the decisionmaker within russia. he's making the decisions. so we're not clear as to if he's

getting advice and just not following it or he's getting bad advice or whatever. but this has been a disaster for russia. look at their economy. look at what's happened militarily. russia, mr. putin, made a huge mistake by going into ukraine. he's paying a heavy price. i can tell you the global community is going to stand with ukraine and ukraine's sovereignty. >> president zelenskyy is saying that negotiations with russia are only words. can diplomacy work if everything russia is saying is not true? he said at the very beginning of that, you can't believe anything that russia is saying. >> well, you know, obviously we are looking for a way to end this war. so we have to explore diplomacy. that's what mr. zelenskyy has said. he will explore diplomacy. but he's certainly not going to believe what mr. putin says. it's going to be actions, not words. a part of what he is asking for is the protection of the

sovereignty of ukraine and its territory and that that has the strength beyond just ukraine's military. so there are a lot of areas that will need to be filled in. but you are absolutely correct, mr. zelenskyy's not going to take mr. putin's word on anything because mr. putin lies, he uses misinformation. this is an unprovoked attack on a sovereign, peaceful nation. he'll do it again. he'll go to their neighbours. you can't believe what he says. it's got to be backed up by action. >> senator ben cardin, we appreciate you joining thus evening, thank you very much. >> thank you, don. inept strat gist. that's what my next guest is calling vladimir putin, saying he has made a profound miscalculation, stay with us.

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tonight the biden administration is saying it believes vladimir putin's been misinformed by his defense officials about how poorly the russian military is doing in ukraine. even though russia's bombs are killing ukrainians and destroying cities and towns. earlier i spoke with jaroslav hertzac, historian and professor at the ukrainian catholic university, who said putin's made a profound miscalculation by invading ukraine. here's our interview. professor, thank you very much for joining. >> it's my pleasure, thank you. >> you wrote a piece in the "new york times" where you said, but mr. putin may escalate further, he is far from the military victory he sought. a master tactician but inept strategist, he has made his most profound miscalculation. explain that, please. >> actually, putin made two big miscalculations. the first one, the character of identity. he believed the ukraine identity

is based in ukrainian language. since some part of ukraine speak russian, that must be russians. by definition, if the russian army enters ukraine, it will be flowers, did not happen. >> so there's been another round of peace talks which apparently nothing came from. president zelenskyy's putting a lot of stock, i think, in peace talks with putin. but doesn't history show that maybe he's putting too much stock in something that's never going to happen? >> i don't know why -- i don't believe that russia has a good scenario, judging by history, so to say. what i'm afraid of, if the victory, if people have a victory, i guess some kind of preliminary armistice so to say, there's also danger that we will have the same situation in 10 or 20 years, so to say. >> is there something else that zelenskyy should be doing? because he's obviously got a great pr campaign. he's on television all the time. he's got the people behind him

here in ukraine. is there something else he should be doing? >> i believe he does a great job. i don't really believe he could do something better than he already did. now everything depends on the decision of the politicians in the west, particularly on biden and the united states. we badly need weapons. we need other resources. because basically i believe, i'm afraid we're moving to a war of attrition. a war of attrition, the most decisive factor is resources. >> let's talk about that. with the president of the united states and zelenskyy speaking by phone, they said just under an hour, they talked about the resources that ukraine needs. what do you make of that? do you think they need more weapons, the u.s. should be giving ukraine more weapons? and is that -- >> not just more weapons, but other type of weapons, so to say. to make ukraine more efficient, especially to cover the attacks

from the air. this is the most urgent task nowadays. >> what does it take to defeat putin at this point? >> that's hard to say. i mean, first of all, i believe that this is -- it takes good army and ukraine has a good army. and there is a political view and the people fight to the very end. i believe the only thing, we have good access to resources, this is the main criteria, the main condition of the victory. >> how long do you think this goes on? >> it's war for long, definitely. >> for long? how long? >> in best case, it's probably several months. >> several months in the best case? >> best case. >> worst case? >> worst case, it will go for several years. and they'll have a syria scenario. i don't believe putin could be in the war, but he could destroy a lot of the country, and what price are we supposed to pay for

the victory. >> what price will he pay, do you think? >> his price is very hard. this is his end. when he defeats -- would he defeated -- who has legitimacy to stay in power? the stakes are very high. therefore, i don't believe any kind of armistice is possible. basically, this is war by one person, the person is putin. his scenario is based on not realistic, the physical, so to say. so i'm afraid it will be war to the very end. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> appreciate it. >> thank you so much. one republican says they'll vote yes to president biden's pick of the first black female justice. we'll tell tell you who that is right after this. lavender baths calmed him. soso we made a plan to turn bath time into a business. ♪ ♪ find a northwestern mutual adadvisor at nm.com

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back in the u.s. republican center, susan collins says, she will go to and from president biden's! how many, jackson. this is what collins told cnn tonight. >> i came to the conclusion that she clearly had the credentials, the experience, the qualifications, and the integrity that i looked for in a supreme court justice. i'm sure that i won't agree with every decision that she casts on the court. i haven't agreed with every decision that any of the justices have voted for and cast on the court. >> collins is the only gop senator so far to say that she

will support joe jackson's nomination. only three republican senators voted in favor of jackson in 2021, when the senate confirmed her to the powerful dc-based appellate board. collins, lindsey graham, murkowski, and graham, not yet saying where they stand with jackson's nomination. senator mitt romney has also not yet said whether she will support jackson after accessing openness to vote in favor of her nomination. all the coverage of this, as the boat nears. up next, empty promises from the kremlin. claims of de-escalation, proven false. in all his attacks, ongoing here in ukraine. we'll continue our live coverage right after this.s. for people living with h-i-v, keep being you.

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close captioning, product to buy feel the way up! enhance,,, forget. this is don lemon tonight. the city in western ukraine with breaking news tonight. ukrainian forces retake the town of sobotta, roughly 10 miles from churnyev, russian

being circled, as 50% of the city has been destroyed by russian apartment. the mayor of churnyev, saying, quote, his city has been under cost of a moment. what can happen to reduce this attack on kyiv? with all the disruption, what is happening with the man behind it? u.s. officials say, vladimir putin has been misinformed by his own initiative defense. apparently, he didn't even know how badly the russian military is doing in ukraine. >> we would concur with the conclusion that mr. putin has not been fully informed by his initiative defense at every turn over the last month. >> the head of british intelligence, saying, russian soldiers are refusing to carry out orders, even asked, shooting down their own aircraft. i want to bring in cnn's rabbani now lived for us. hollow, hello