others. the president of the church told us a family in orlando who saw the story called to say they would also welcome ukrainian refugees in their home. others called saying they would help too. plus the mother told randi kaye she and her family have been invited to the cooper city community meeting next month, and a neighbor has set up a gofundme page for her and her family. the link is on the screen. let's hand it over to wolf blitzer and cnn tonight. >> thank you very much. i'm wolf blitzer. this is "cnn tonight." we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. is vladimir putin now arresting some of his own aides over frustration? are some of his sabotaging efforts in ukraine? there is more evidence of growing tensions within putin's own inner circle.

here's president biden today on what he's hearing. >> he seems to be -- i'm not saying this with a certainty. he seems to be self-isolated, and there's some indication that he has fired or put under house arrest some of his advisers. but i -- i don't want to put too much stock in that at this time because we don't have that much hard evidence. >> that followed a question about whether putin's being misled about the war by some of his own defense officials, something u.s. intelligence and the pentagon for that matter seem to corroborate. and as this barbaric invasion drags into its sixth week, british intelligence now says some russian forces are actually refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment, or accidentally shooting down their own planes, as morale keeps sinking on the front lines. and on those front lines, russian forces do remain in

positions around kyiv. they are still bombing the capital, even though the kremlin said this week it would dramatically scale back its offensive there. president biden also addressed that. >> depending on your view of putin, i'm a little skeptical. it's an open question whether he's actually pulling back and going to say i'm just going to focus on the donbas and i'm not worried about the rest of the country. the idea he's pulling all his troops out from around kyiv and moving south, there's no evidence he's done that. >> the northeastern region of kharkiv is coming under a very heavy shelling over the past 24 hours. there's also heavy shelling in the donbas region of eastern ukraine, where russia is now shifting much of its focus. talks between both sides are scheduled to resume tomorrow. but ukraine's fight for freedom goes on tonight with some words of encouragement from president zelenskyy. >> translator: they said three

or five days. they thought that this would be enough for them to seize our entire state, and it's already 36. and we are standing. and we will continue to fight until the end. >> all right. let's go live to cnn's fred pleitgen. he's joining us from kyiv right now. fred, what's happening there tonight? >> reporter: hi there, wolf. well, the battle for kyiv certainly continues tonight. there was a big missile strike that actually took place fairly close to the center of kyiv. at the same time, the main battles for the city took place and are taking place toward the northwest. there's a district there called irpin, and that's where the russians tried to push through all the way to the center of capital. and that's also where the ukrainian forces made a stand and are pushing russian forces back. that place is extremely dangerous. residents can't go back there yet. we did make it into irpin today. and here's what we saw. >> reporter: there is no safe way to get into irpin. the only feasible route is on

the back of a police special forces pickup truck on dirt paths. but even here, the earth is scorched after russian troops shelled the trail. >> ukrainian forces are taking us into this area on back roads because they said taking the main roads is simply much too dangerous. they want to show us the damage done when russian forces tried to enter kyiv. ukrainian authorities say this is still one of the most dangerous places in this war torn country. and we immediately see why. we are driving right towards an area engulfed in smoke from artillery shelling. this is where russian forces tried to push into ukraine's capital but were stopped and beaten back by the underdog ukrainians. the battles here are fierce. authorities say 50% of the city has been destroyed. to us, that number seems like an understatement. >> we have to keep moving

quickly because this place can get shelled any time. >> reporter: ukraine's national police now controls irpin again, but their forces frequently come under fire, the chief tells me. just yesterday, our officers, who were searching for dead bodies, they were shot at with mortars, he says. they had to lay under the bridge and wait for it to stop. but the grim task of finding and taking out the many dead continues. more than two dozen on this day alone. some have been laying in the streets for weeks and can only now be removed. when russian forces invaded jane, they quickly advanced on the capital kyiv all the way to irpin. here, the ukrainians stood and fought back. vladimir putin's army controlled large parts of irpin, and the battle laid waste to much of this formerly wealthy suburb. and this was the epicenter, where we find burned out russian trucks and armored vehicles.

so, this is the area where some of the heaviest fighting took place in irpin. and as you can see, that there was a russian armored vehicle, which was completely annihilated. we do have to be careful around here because there could be unexploded munitions laying around. we met a local resident who says he stayed and took up arms when the russians invaded. always there was not a single day when i left town, he says, even during the heaviest fighting. it must have been difficult, i asked. just so you understand, he says, once, there were 348 impacts in one area in one single hour. and the battle here is not over. suddenly, irpin's mayor shows up with a group of special forces, saying they're looking for russians possibly still hiding here. i asked him how it's going. we're working, he says. there's information that there are two russian soldiers dressed

in civilian clothes. with our group, we're going to clean them up. ukrainian forces say they're going to continue the fight and further push russian forces away from their capital. they need the u.s.'s support to succeed, they say. what do you need from the united states? >> everything. military support first of all. >> reporter: weapons to help the ukrainians expel the invading army, they hope, and finally bring this suburb out of the reach of vladimir putin's cannons. >> at this point in time, wolf, that district is still very much in the reach of vladimir putin's cannons. and certainly there is a lot of shelling going on in that area. and especially towards the northwest of kyiv. nevertheless, the troops that we found down there, the ukrainian troops, their morale seemed to be very high. they were obviously very happy about the fact that they were confronted with this goliath army, the russian military, that was trying to blast through there and thought they would just wipe them aside, but they took a side and they managed to

beat the russians back. and they say they will continue to do so, wolf. >> fred pleitgen, stay safe over there. appreciate it very, very much. the russian ministry of defense says it will reopen a humanitarian corridor from mariupol. within the city, life for so many who remain is one without electricity, without water, a life where people are left to cook and eat out in the elements. the heartbreaking reality is apparent when you see one little boy wounded in mariupol in a hospital more than 120 miles away calling for his father. he is being treated in another part of the hospital. i want to warn our viewers right now, this hurts to watch. [ speaking foreign language ]

>> it's so heartbreaking to look at that. that's what's going on in this horrible, horrible war that putin started for no reason at all. i'm joined now by the former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, steven piper and the former retired general. thanks so much for joining us. heartbreaking to see those images. general, let me start with you. tonight president zelenskyy is warning that russia is preparing for what he's calling powerful strikes in the east and on mariupol in the south. what are you watching, as this war enters now week six? >> i think it's very important that we not get too

overenthusiastic about that somehow the war is over. we've entered another phase. tremendous fire power left within the russian forces. and there's more coming. i think it's very prudent now to stay alert. and i know that the ukrainians are going to stay alert. i just hope that the west will also stay alert to what may happen next. and that may be a large attack by artillery, by mortar, by all kinds of bombs and aircraft that could really do a lot of damage in kyiv. >> you're absolutely right. you know, ambassador, the intelligence now suggests that putin is isolated and he's angry at his top advisers. how could that impact this war and any potential, if there is any potential, for negotiations? >> well, wolf, i think putin's

isolation is a matter of concern. bear in mind even before covid, he worked in a very small inner circle, mainly consistented of people like himself from the security services. so, it was a group of people with a very similar world view. so, i think you have to ask questions. is he getting accurate information about the true extent of russian casualties and russian material losses in ukraine? is he talking to people like the head of this central bank, who reportedly tried to resign a couple of weeks ago? she's a very competent person, but has yet to talk to her and get a sense of just how badly the western sanctions are going to begin to bite into the russian economy. and, again, it's a kremlin that i would argue probably didn't understand that much about ukraine. it's strange to say, but it really looks like particularly with the initial assault on kyiv, that the russians actually

believe their own propaganda, that they would be welcomed as liberators. and they're finding out how hard the ukrainians are prepared to resist. >> they certainly are. general, when you look at the maps around kyiv and kharkiv, for example, are we beginning to see ukrainians actually retaking territory? >> yes. and they're going to do that all along the front. but that should not fool us into thinking that there's not a heavy event coming. i think there's a lot of fire power, a lot more conscript troops were called up. and they have the advantage in terms of artillery and air and could do a lot of damage. that's why i hope we're looking not just at the battlefield but we're looking at the total space between ukraine and russia and what follow-on forces may be coming. that's how they operate. >> they me follow-up, general, because as you know the uk

intelligence chief says some russian troops are refusing to carry out orders. russia is ordering 100,000 new conscripts. >> i've been watching the russians and the soviets since 1962. and they have very poor morale. the troops are not very well disciplined. they have poor leadership. and the troops attack their officers. this is nothing new. i just think you have to look at the potential that the russians have, and that's still a lot of potential. we've got to look at that, not just what's happening with some of the soldiers. >> they still have chemical weapons. they still have tactical nuclear weapons, god forbid. ambassador, as you know, president zelenskyy has now addressed 17 international parliaments, including the u.s. congress, as well as the european council, the g7, nato. how effective are his pleas to the international community?

because he keeps repeating the same desperate requests. >> remember, zelenskyy, before he became president, was a television and movie actor. and i think he knows very well how to get a message at his audience. so, my sense is that he's been very effective when he addresses western parliaments and when he addresses the congress. and what he's trying to do is build continuing support. there has been a burst of western support for ukraine, so i believe now something like 30 countries around the world are provided defensive assistance or military hardware, including lethal weapons to ukrainians. he needs to sustain that. the west needs to keep that flow of weapons flowing to ukraine so that the ukrainians can do what they've been doing for the past five weeks, which is defending their country. and they're defending their country far more effectively than the russians believe they would. >> you've got to give the ukrainians a lot of president. ambassador piper, general,

thanks to both of you very much for joining us tonight. coming up we're going to take you live to odesa, and i'll be joined by one of the few ukrainian parliament members who can travel abroad while her country fights back home. she just met with key lawmakers here in washington on capitol hill. is ukraine's plea for more help getting anywhere though with washington? we'll have much more on that when we come back. new dove men stress-relief body wash... with a plant-based adaptogen, helps alleviate stress on skin. so you can get back in sync. new dove men. a restorative shower for body and mind.

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tonight the pentagon believes a, quote, small number of russian troops are beginning to reposition as they maintain pressure on kyiv and other cities. that movement, by the way, comes as ukrainian officials announce there are no more russian forces on the site of chernobyl nuclear power plant. our ed lavandera is joining us right now from odesa in ukraine. ed, what's the latest? what do we know? >> reporter: hey there, wolf.

as people are closely monitoring what is happening with the troop movements in the north of kyiv, the air strikes throughout most of the day also continued. but the real question and the belief now is that russia -- russian forces are regrouping, retreating back toward belarus to regroup and refit their forces and will begin focusing on that donbas region in eastern ukraine and also along the southern part of ukraine. and the concern is that it would begin moving along the northern coast of the black sea and the sea of azof and start continuing southward toward odesa. the uk minister of defense said tonight that there are about 2,000 troops in the georgia region that are being redeployed to be moved into eastern ukraine. so, that's where all of the focus is and what ukraine is bracing for now is a renewed push into that eastern contested

area. and what all of that means for the ukrainian forces is still very much in the air. president zelenskyy was saying tonight that they will continue to defend as hard as they can in all of these regions. this is what they are bracing for. i think one of the questions that really remains up in the air as well at this time is just the timing of all of this. how long will it take for those russian forces to make their way and reposition themselves to renew that focus on eastern ukraine? >> you're just in odesa, where the people there have been bracing -- bracing -- for russian attacks. how are the people preparing right now? what are you seeing? >> reporter: well, this is a key port city for ukraine on the black sea. losing odesa would be devastated. it would essentially mean that ukraine becomes a landlocked country. much of the city center has been

fortified into a lockdown situation. we toured that area earlier today. and it is void of life. it is just all fortified, military presence heavy. there are some people living there still. they have permission to kind of come in and out. but businesses are closed and it is all shut down. there are other parts of the city where life is going on as normal though. wolf? >> all right, ed, be careful over there. ed lavandera in odesa for us, watching what's going on. members of the house introduced a bill to hold vladimir putin accountable for potential war crimes. the legislation focuses on strengthening efforts to those alleged crimes and that comes amid calls from republican lawmakers for the white house to speed up weapons transfers to ukraine. joining us right now is a key member of ukraine's parliament, joining us. she met with members of the u.s. congress and others in the u.s.

government on wednesday. thank you so much for joining us. thanks for all you're doing. what is your message to your american counterparts in the u.s. congress during the course of these meetings? >> thank you so much for having me. so, our messages were really straightforward and simple. we do need more weapons to be brought to ukraine because, you know, your previous speakers, the general, were speaking the truth. i mean, the russians are repositioning. and actually the situation on the battlefield will decide, you know, how it will proceed. so, by the time they are regrouping, we understand their plans. we are not naive. we totally understand what they do. we do need to give, you know, additional strength to our army because we really are standing

for 36 days. we are really thankful for those weapons that were already shipped to ukraine. and, you know, our fighters are doing a very good job with javelins, with stingers. i mean, they shot a missile with a stinger. it's probably, you know, first time in ever it was done. but we do need some more heavy weapons. we would have the air defense systems because they're sending missiles from the black sea, from very, very long distance. and we do not have enough of that air system in ukraine. so, we would need that and we would need also the fire jets to do our job of, you know, closing the skies for ourselves. and, you know, we don't need any other army boots on the ground. we're doing that ourselves. i mean, there are queues to go to military, to join the defense

units in different cities. and we have proven that we can fight and we can counterattack. and what's been happening in kyiv region -- and you know, you showed this piece about with the policemen in kyiv region. and it just breaks my heart because my husband is in kyiv region. he is head of one of the police departments. and i haven't seen him for more than a month because he has to stay there all the time. and he sent me a message today with the numbers of small villages that were liberated by our army. and you should have seen how these russian tanks are, you know leaving, fleeing. they're putting puppets on there. a bunch of monitors and pillars. >> you know, today, it's interesting, house lawmakers here in washington introduced

formal legislation to hold putin accountable for potential war crimes. you said you presented a file on ukrainian children who have been killed in this war. can you tell us more about the contents of that file? >> this is the most horrible file i ever, you know, read in my life. and every time i go, every day i go to another meeting, i have to cross the number. why? because the number are growing. right now it's 148 children killed, but the number is much higher. we do not have these numbers, for example, from mariupol. and it can just go rapidly two or three or five times more because we cannot, you know, get that. and this contains pictures and how these kids were killed. you know, i totally don't understand what is the difference between kids in mariupol, in kharkiv, in kyiv, and kids in other countries, different capitals, in washington, berlin, in paris?

you know, the morality doesn't have to end with borders. and we are right now not fighting a war between ukraine and russia. we are fighting a war for democracy, for all these pillars. united states is a country state. i've been a foreign exchange student in united states when i was 15 years old. i know the values. and i've seen how you chase the terrorists after 9/11. i was here for 9/11. guess what. russia is terrorist. putin is war criminal, and he needs to be stopped. if he's not stopped, he will go further and we will lose the whole security architecture. we have -- the wars have been building after the world war ii. it's very essential. there's everything at stake for us. that's why we fight so fiercely and we will fight until the end until the victory.

>> yeah, thank you so much for all you are doing. thanks so much for joining us. >> thank you. >> good luck to you. good luck to all the people. >> and thank you for the people for supporting us. that's very, very precious for us. >> i know. you're grateful to all the support you're getting from around the world. we're going to have much more coming up on the fight for ukraine just ahead. but there's also -- this has been an also very important day for the january 6th select committee here in washington. the panel got to hear directly from jared kushner, the son-in-law of the former president trump. he's the first member of the trump family to testify, and there's now word he volunteered information. we have a committee member -- a key committee member will join us. there she is. zoe lofgren will join us when we get back. doing nothing... that's bad, they shouldn't do that. ththey're getting crushed by inflation. well, i feel for them. they're taking financial advice from memes. [baby spits out milk]

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. we'll have more on the fight for ukraine tonight. that's coming up. but a busy day, a very busy day in the january 6th investigation. for the first time a member of the former president's family speaks with congressional investigations. we're talking about jared kushner, trump's son-in-law, who spent more than six hours talking to the house select committee. one of those committee members is joining us right now, zoe lofgren. congresswoman, thank you so much for joining us. were you surprised at how much information the former president's son-in-law actually

volunteered? >> well, as you know, wolf, our committee rules don't allow us to discuss the substance of interviews without a vote of the committee, which has not occurred. but you can imagine the interview went on all day long, which it did, that there was -- it was a useful exchange. and we appreciate that mr. kushner came in voluntarily and spent this time answering questions. it's important. >> i assume he answered all your questions, right? >> well, what he could remember, he responded to. >> the length of today's interview, more than six hours, would seem to cover a lot of ground, a lot of territory. do you expect to cover that same amount of information, for example, with his wife, ivanka, should she meet with you as well? >> well, we're still engaging with her counsel, and we do hope that she will come in and talk

to the committee. it just depends on, you know, there is a lengthy process going through the events leading up to january 6th. obviously we're interested on what happened the day itself. it was a terrible day for the united states. but it didn't just happen randomly on january 6th that thousands of people came and brutalized the police and tried to stop the transfer of power. so, there were steps leading up to it. and we need to uncover all of those steps. and not every person who talks to us was part of the plot. but people heard things. people saw things. so, you know, it's understandable that the media attention goes to those few who have defied the committee and wrongfully so. but meanwhile, hundreds and hundreds of people, including

individuals were part of the former president's inner circle have come in and talked to the committee at great length. so, we've learned quite a bit. >> let me play something for you from monday when you and several members of the select committee were calling for more action from the department of justice. listen to this. >> this committee is doing its job. the department of justice needs to do theirs. >> we are upholding our responsibility. the department of justice must do the same. >> attorney general garland, do your job so that we can do ours. >> so, congresswoman, what's your response today to the news that the department's criminal probe is actually gathering information about the planning of the january 6th rally and the effort to subvert the 2020 electoral college vote? >> well, it's obviously quite interesting, although, as you

know, they are the prosecutors and we're just the ledgegislati committee. but i think those comments made by myself and other members were really directed at the lack of action on these referrals we've made for scoff lines. mark meadows was the chief of staff, and he asserted some kind of executive privileges, refused to come in. you can't do that. that's not what the law provides. if you think you have some privilege, you have to come in and assert that question by question. and clearly, they were questions we had for him that we let him know about that had nothing to do with his discussions with the president, his discussions with state legislators. that wasn't privileged. and certainly he's published a book where he's talked about things and we've waived the privilege. so, really it's very

frustrating. the department has to do what it thinks is right. we all understand that. but we're not getting any action. and his behavior was in violation of the law. so, there's some degree of frustration, yes. >> i'm sure that will continue at least for a while. congresswoman love grin, thanks so much for joining us. >> you bet. new information also coming in tonight on the chaos at the oscars. so, what happened immediately after the actor will smith stormed the stage and slapped comedian chris rock? we're learning more right now about the role of police that night. brand-new information from a top producer of the award show. that's coming up next.

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we'll have more for you on the war in ukraine coming up shortly. but first we're learning more tonight about what happened behind the scenes after that infamous slap at the oscars. the ceremony's producer, will packer, spoke to abc news earlier this evening. he revealed that the los angeles police department told chris rock, it was prepared to arrest will smith for battery. >> they were saying, you know,

this is battery was the word they used in that moment. they said, we will go get him. we are prepared. we're prepared to get him right now. you can press charges. we can arrest him. you have -- they were laying out the options. and as they were talking, chris was -- he was being very dismissive of those options. he was like, no, i'm -- i'm fine. he was like, no, no, no. and even to the point where i said -- i said, rock, let them finish. the lapd officers finished laying out what his options were. and they said, you know, would you like us to take any action? and he said, no. he said, no. >> in boston where the -- where rock continues his comedy tour this evening. chloe, you've got some new reporting on will smith meeting with academy leadership earlier this week. what can you tell us about that? >> yeah. so, i learned this afternoon

from a source who told me that on tuesday will have a 30-minute zoom meeting with academy leadership, wolf, and he apologized to them once again, the first time during his academy awards acceptance speech sunday for best actor after he slapped chris rock. and the source said the academy leaders listened, heard him out, and told him there are going to be repercussions for what you've done. the academy released a statement saying they have given will smith 15 days notice and on april 15th, that is the day they will announce what their internal investigation has revealed, what they've decided to do next. >> who would have been the final decision maker on whether will smith should stay or go? was it the oscar producer, will packer? >> look, i mean, we're going to learn more tomorrow morning on "good morning america" when we get to hear the full interview with will packer. i mean, it is fascinating. we know that academy leadership was seated all over the doll by

theater. but we do know that they did come to some sort of consensus, at least the top, top brass that will needed to leave. they told his publicist, a source told me to tell him. and we've seen photos behind the scenes of denzel washington on one side and a team member of will on the other. perhaps it was in that moment that was photographed, telling him, you know, firmly that they asked him to leave. and that's when will said, no, i'm not going to leave. and, you know, according to this source, they simply ran out of time before the best actor category was announced. but in their statement yesterday, they said, look n hindsight, wolf, they wish they could have done something differently. we've heard wanda sykes come out and say he should not have been allowed to stay. she agrees with the consensus that it was wrong, and he should not have been able to stay and accept the award. >> do we know if smith and rock have been in touch since the incident? >> according to chris rock, no. during his 10:00 p.m. show last night, after i spoke to you, he

told the audience, despite what you've heard, no discussions have taken place. that's in reference to diddy saying they have squashed things after the award show last weekend. >> chloe, excellent reporting. thank you very, very much. we turn back to vladimir putin's war on ukraine. just ahead, the most innocent refugees, babies, like this one, not even born when the invasion began. you're going to learn about the heroic efforts of one mother. plus the sounds of solidarity, the music that is as powerful as any tank or missile. ♪ people with moderate to severe psoriasis, or psoriatic arthritis, are rethinking the choices they make like the splash they create the way they exaggerate

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the u.n. now says more than 4 million people have fled ukraine over the past six weeks. that is nearly 10% of the country's prewar population. most of the refugees are women and children and some are women who escaped ukraine to give

birth in a land that is free of war. we're following their stories at a hospital in poland offering free medical care to all ukrainian women. >> reporter: born just hours ago in poland this baby is already a survivor of the war in ukraine. is it hard to be happy? >> it is, she says. this is her first child. >> reporter: you feel guilty? why? because i left, she says. left her home in western ukraine. the war had begun. the bombing neared their city. she escaped by bus then walked on foot across the border. paramedics rushed her to the hospital. she delivered adelina a month

early separated from her family. my mother, sister, grandparents still in ukraine. he is killing our people, she says, of vladimir putin. how could anyone be so cruel? i'm terrified that something like this can happen and you can leave your every day life and all of a sudden because of decisions you have no influence upon there is a war and you have to flee. it is unbelievable. it is terrifying. >> reporter: this doctor is a psychiatrist at the specialist hospital in warsaw. the hospital focused on treating women has seen 80 ukrainian patients this month, delivered 11 babies, and treated cancer patients like 58-year-old tatiana. i ran with my granddaughter in my arms she says. missiles had already blown out the windows in their building. as they fled something exploded next to their car. her city is now occupied by russians. she is grateful to her doctors at the hospital and the free health care in poland treating

her cervical cancer. christina is one of the doctors. we're not using her last name because she, herself, is also a refugee from ukraine, a mother of a 5-year-old, and the wife of a ukrainian military man. >> your husband -- >> my husband has been in the military since 2014. at the moment he is in lviv. >> reporter: you had to leave your husband behind. >> yes, she says. now in warsaw i can't sit and do nothing, she says. i have this opportunity here to help women who fled the country. with each breath, baby adelina offers her mother a respite from the war. what will you tell your daughter about her birth? the truth, she says. we will tell her everything as it was. she should know the truth. >> reporter: all the ukrainian patients you've seen in this story, their health care is covered by the government of poland including all of the care once they leave the hospital. they're not alone.

197 ukrainian children have been born in poland since the war began. wolf? >> our thanks. thank you very much. despite the hardship in ukraine there are glimmers and sounds of hope. here are just a few of those moments from my show on cnn plus "the newscast." ♪ not all sound out of ukraine are those of explosions and gunfire. ♪ there are also sounds of strength, voices of determination. the resilience in the ruins. ♪ home video of a ukrainian woman playing the piano in her bomb damaged apartment viewed nearly

a million times. ♪ a concert given in a subway station in chkharkiv now servin as a shelter. one woman who listens says it is like a ray of hope in this dark kingdom of war. ♪ refugees crossing into poland greeted by a piano man for peace. that man, who traveled from germany to be there, said maybe he could soften vladimir putin's heart with music. throughout the war when the attacks have paused ordinary ukrainians have gathered to sing their national anthem. ♪ so as the fighting stretches into a second month, they hope the rest of the world will continue to hear their defiant

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again that very stirring piece you just saw in our last segment with the musicians in ukraine is just one example of the unique story telling you'll find on our new cnn plus program "the newscast with wolf blitzer." stream it week nights at 7:30 p.m. eastern or watch it any time on demand. learn more at cnn plus.com. also join me in the situation room tomorrow at 6:00 p.m. eastern. i'll see you right here once again tomorrow night as well. i'm wolf blitzer. thanks very much for watching. "don lemon tonight" live from ukraine starts right now. how are you doing? as i always ask you. >> yeah, it's raining and a

little misty out and very cold but, wolf, i'm okay. especially considering what the people here are dealing with. this is nothing to deal with. but speaking of reporting i am so proud of the reporters here on cnn, cnn international reporters who travel all over the world and do this kind of work all the time and they don't always get the recognition for it. everyone from our ed lavandera to channe amanpour, too many to name. i don't want to leave anyone out. everyone here on cnn international and it has just been, i have been amazed to watch them kick into gear. fred pleitgen, everyone. amazing reporting that they do and again this is what they do every single day they are out here risking their lives and covering the world >> i couldn't agree more. all the years i've been at cnn, i've been watching them. they risk their lives, they are courageous and people don'