this is cnn breaking news. hello, i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. thank you for joining us as we report on day 43 of russia's unprovoked war on ukraine. and ukrainian authorities now reporting heavy fighting in the eastern part of the country, especially the luhansk and donetsk regions known as the donbas. apparently, part of russia's new strategy. withdraw from the north and focus on taking russian-speaking areas in the east and the port of mariupol in the south. residents along the road to

donetsk are digging trenches and laying out anti-tank obstacles to try and slow the russian' advance. unlocal official claims russian forces attacked a humanitarian aid distribution center, killing two people, wounding five others. authorities in kharkiv report russian troops carried out 27 strikes on residential areas early wednesday. ukraine's president says moscow now shifting course now that atrocities like those in the town of bucha have opinion been exposed. >> translator: it seems the russian leadership really got scared of the world's wrath. that what we saw in bucha may repeat because of what we may see in other cities from where we will inevitably kick out the occupiers. we have the information that the russian military has changed its tactics and is trying to people from the streets and basements and occupy territory. >> new drone video released by the ukrainian government appears to show the location of trenches

in the highly radioactive forest around the chernobyl nuclear power plant. apparently, the work of russian soldiers who took control of the site of the world's worst nuclear accident in late february but they have since left with the now defunct plant under the control of the ukrainian officials. the pentagon says fighting in ukraine likely will intensify in coming weeks. but ukraine's military still has a chance of mounting a successful counteroffensive. >> of course, they can win this. and -- and if you look at what they have been able to do just thus far, mr. putin has achieved exactly zero of his strategic objectives inside ukraine. >> but the atrocities seen on the ground as russian forces retreat have sparked spragzle outrage and led to new u.s. sanctions. they include freezing all u.s. assets of russia's largest financial institutions, and its largest private bank alpha bank. new sanctions on russians elite

as well, including vladimir putin's two adult daughters. u.s. president rather joe biden spoke about the horrific images coming out of ukraine. >> civilians executed in cold blood. bodies dumped into mass graves. the sense of brutality and inhumanity left for all the world to see unapologetically. there's nothing less happening than major war crimes. responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable, and together, with our allies and our partners, we are going to keep raising the economic cost and ratchet up the pain for putin, and further increase russia's economic isolation. >> nato foreign ministers are set to meet in the next hour or so. but first, foreign ministers of the g7 are set to sit down this hour. just a short time ago, we saw the arrival of ukraine's foreign minister dmitry cue lepa.

making clear the best way to help ukraine fight the russians is with weapons. >> the more weapons we get and the sooner they arrive in ukraine, the more human lives will approbe saved. the more cities and villages will not be destructed and there will be no more buchas. this is my message to the allies. it's very simple and i call on all allies to put aside their hesitations, their reluctance, to provide ukraine with everything it needs. >> cnn correspondents are covering this conflict from a number of angles. we have fred pleitgen in kyiv. matt rivers in ukraine. delia gallagher in rome. brian todd standing by in washington. first up, special ukrainian army unit is helping to target and destroy russian tanks and military vehicles. just a few months ago, most were civilians who flew drones as a hobby. a warning now, our report from fred pleitgen contains some graphic video.

>> be careful. just move. >> reporter: it is like a scene from the gates of hell. the dead lay strewn across this highway west of kyiv. some still next to the wreckage of their vehicles as the dogs roam around looking to scavenge. thi this is what russian forces left behind when they retreated from here. alexander tells me these were civilians, gunned down from this position where the russians have placed a tank. >> and you can see it's actually -- you see? and these cars, look. there is no cars here because they would not let them come. they just shot as soon as they approach. >> reporter: the russian government denies targeting civilians. they call such allegations, quote, fake and propaganda but alexander is part of a drone unit ask nd they filmed one incident. it was march 7th when the russianser still in full control of this area and a group of cars was driving down the highway. they turned around after apparently taking fire from the

tank position. this car stops and the driver gets out. then, this. >> in this moment, he will shoot. >> reporter: two people were killed that day. max and his wife who was also sitting in the vehicle. the family has confirmed the identities to cnn. after the incident, the drone filmed russian troops getting two further people out of the car and taking them away. it was the couple's 6-year-old son and family friend traveling with them, the relatives confirmed. both were later released by the russians. the soldiers then searched maxine's body and drag him away. this incident, both, traumatize asking motivating for alexander's drone unit. >> in normal life before the war, we were civilians who like to fly drones around casually and just like make a nice video. youtube videos. but when the war began, we become actually vital part of the -- of the -- of the resistance. >> reporter: alexander sent us

hours of video showing his team scoping out russian vehicles, even finding them when they're hidden and almost impossible to spot. and then, helping the ukrainians hit them. >> we are eyes. we call eyes because with eyes, you can see and you can report and soon as you see, you can conduct strikes, artillery, air strikes. >> how long does it take to get information to the right places to then be able to act on the intelligence you provide? >> in good time, it is about matter of minutes. >> reporter: and sometimes, a little mosquito can take out a whole herd of elephants. this is drone footage of alexander's unit searching for a massive column of russian tanks and armored vehicles and this is that column after the drones found it. alexander tells me units like his played a major role fending off russian troops despite the ukrainians being vastly outgunned. >> as territorial defense, we need to go but the army, they have to stay. they ordered to stay. they stay. they dying but they staying. they holding. >> reporter: nobody knows how many russians died here.

but the group says it was many. taken out with the help of a band of amateur drone pilots looking to defend their homeland. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. >> joining me now here in lviv, senior fellow at the atlantic council and former spokesman for the organization and security cooperation in europe. michael, good to see you here with us now. the sanctions which have been proposed, you know, fifth round i believe on moscow and vladimir putin. what will they do? >> not much. the sanctions that were announced when the war began did nothing to deter mr. putin. i think a lot of these sanctions should have been introduced before the russian aggression started. but -- and i think, you know, i have written a lot for cnn opinion about this. i think russia has been preparing for this for a long time. partially, in coordination with china to inoculate itself against sanctions. a full package would have included also a ban on russian oil and gas not just coal. but of course, that would have caused pain in european

countries. but what's better to take that pain now? or get it later when the russians could possibly take over all of ukraine, then move even to poland and other parts of europe? >> that's the point right now. until the europeans are willing to bite the bullet, if you like, end the natural gas imports. 40% of their -- their energy needs. those sanctions aren't going to do any good because what the situation is, the europeans are paying a billion euros a day which seems to negate the sanctions. >> russia is actually going to make more this year off energy even with sanctions than last year according to bloomberg' calculations. so that money is going to fund this war. and by the way, john, i mean, the figures of casualties here, of deaths here is in the thousand or so mark. but if you include the past, um, eight years, it's about 8,000 deaths on the ukrainian side in the donbas. so those are high, high numbers. >> also, looking at very high

casualty counts on the russian side, as well. um, the ukrainians put it up to i think 18,000 russian troops have been killed. um, what sort of impact does that have on russia, on vladimir putin? >> it's a very inhumane regime. they don't care about human life. we have seen that what has happened in bucha and body bags will come home to the mothers in russia and they will cry and scream but there are such controls right now in russia on any sort of dissent, even a hint of dissent that it's very difficult. look. we have even heard stories of, um, mothers disowning their kids for going on the ukrainian side on social media and saying this war shouldn't be happening. so it's causing some sort of destabilization in russia but not on a massive scale i think. >> when you look what happened in bucha and irpin, these sort of places, game changer if you like or at least people thought it might be a game-changer when

these atrocities were revealed. but what we are seeing now with this nato meeting and these sanctions, it hasn't really had the effect many thought it would have. >> a lot of rhetoric, a lot of platitudes, sad to say. even from my own government, canada. um, yes. one would have thought this would have been it, a game changer but it isn't. and, you know, also what's been happening we are finding out is the russians have been trying to cover their tracks. things like the kyiv independent has been reporting mobile crematoriums, that sort of thing to get rid of the evidence. so it's really, really important right now for ukraine to move quickly to collect the solid evidence, and get impartial also third parties here. they have been talking, for example, of getting angela merkel here, people like that to really witness and document it. but um, sadly, i don't think it will approximbe a game changer. >> the fact they are trying to cover their tracks, destroy evidence, it indicates obviously they are worried about that at the very least, right? >> they are. and um, you know, i got to say one of the oddest images i saw is, you know, the bodies in

places places like bucha being thrown into makeshift depraves but also, so many russians killed, their bodies are also being thrown in there. what an undignified way to have to approxibe put away for etern. but i think there is plenty of evidence out there. you will see as people get out of liberated cities, they will have cell phone images, things like that because don't forget a lot of them were cut off from cell phone service and electricity. i think there is a lot more to come. >> and when you say it is important to -- to start collecting this evidence for -- for future trial -- >> yeah. >> -- the russian president doesn't care. you can take him to the icc. he's -- you know, they have been found guilty of -- didn't care. why is he going to care about this? >> he won't and with m 817, they haven't given up any suspects or witnesses. i think at the end of the day, the only leverage that is left for the west is to work on china a and india.

to isolate russia to the point that it's like north korea and to cut off those energy payment flows. but um, i -- i still think there is some leverage there at least i like to think so with india and with china. >> very quickly, india did condemn bucha, which is a significant move on their part? >> it is but they have to stop buying russian energy to cut them off completely. >> good point to finish on. thank so much for being with us. we will take a short break. when we come back, a small town in western ukraine has become a magnet for refugees fleeing the violence but also at a crossroads for those struggling to decide whether to leave the country. also, pope francis displays a flag from the ukrainian city of bucha to condemn killings that horrified much of the world.

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meantime, the red cross which has opinion trying to reach mariupol for days says the humanitarian crisis is only getting worse. on tuesday, around 500 residents were evacuated to zaporizhzhia which is in ukrainian control. ukrainian deputy prime minister says the number of evacuees now is around 1,200 but many in mariupol are still trapped. a red cross spokesperson described the situation there. >> we were hearing really tragic stories. people who had fled walking, leaving also part of the family behind in mariupol right now there is nothing, no water, no electricity, barely any connection. so, no way to be able to say also to the family that they are safe. no medication. and the -- the humanitarian situation is really growing worse and worse. >> millions have fled ukraine since the fighting began. but more spernlly displaced people wait now in towns along the border, hoping and waiting for better days. they are now faced with a

difficult decision to either build a new life abroad, or clutch what's left of their country. cnn's matt rivers has our report. >> reporter: the convoy gets loaded up several times a week. workers with hungarian baptist aid making the several hour drive from budapest. destination, western ukraine. today, they are headed to a quaint town just across the border that's become a magnet for ukrainians fleeing the war. upon arrival, supplies unloaded by some of the kids staying at this shelter, what used to be a school. inside classrooms, bunkbeds replace desks and photos of former students hang on the wall above the tiny shoes of the kids staying in the room today, like little yava and her mom deanna. they fled kyiv a few weeks ago, leaving behind her husband to fight the russians. she says we stood there and cried at the train station. my daughter was so mad at him,

she thought he was leaving us. he said come give me a kiss but she wouldn't. just too young to understand the sacrifice her dad is making, like so many other children here, scarred by the war. even in this safe place, air-raid sirens still go off. so down here, in the school's basement, they are using this as a bomb shelter. and the school's director says that they are coming down here, on average, a couple dozen times every week. even though no bombs have fallen in this area but when the children come down here, the director says so many of them are still traumatized. so for instance, the other day, it was raining outside. there was a clap of thunder and a lot of the children screamed, the director said, because they thought it was a bomb. aid continues to flow in. in the beginning of the war, it was largely just a stop for refugees fleeing to other countries. now, they are staying put. >> those who are arriving they want to stay for the long-term.

and it certainly requires different kind of hosting. >> reporter: for hungarian baptist aid, more refugees means more need for everything else, including helping hands. >> it's not really like a war. for me, i feel like it's a genocide of ukrainians. >> reporter: pharmacist daniel came to help from philadelphia. the son of ukrainian immigrants. >> people come together and come to the country and try to help out, something actually gets done. >> reporter: it is definitely the spirit at a nearby church where a tiny volunteer operation has ramped up to hundreds of meals served every day as refugees decide to stay long-term. the reasons can vary. everything from hope that the ukrainian army will prevail, to simply not wanting to live in a foreign country. for deanna back at the school, the reason to not flee to neighboring hungary was simple. she says we feel like we're closer, somehow closer to my husband. i will go back the moment it's safe for my children.

matt rivers, cnn, ukraine. around the world, activists and supporters of ukraine are trying to raise awareness of the war. there have been public displays that are very hard to miss. crowds gathered near the parliament. some tying hands behind their backs, while others lay on the ground. they chose poses bearing the carnage in the city of bucha, which was the scene of some horrendous war crimes, at least alleged war crimes. in berlin, thousands came together to stage a die in outside parliament. force others to visualize the war. they are also pushing for lawmakers to put sanctions on russian oil imports. pope francis has issued a strong condemnation what he called atrocities in the town of bucha. delia gallagher has more now on the pope's reaction. >> reporter: pope francis once again showing solidarity with the people of ukraine from the vatican on wednesday morning. when he unfurled a flag which he had said had been brought to him from bucha.

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welcome back, everybody. i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine. new drone footage from the town of bucha shows russian forces deliberately shooting ukrainian civilians. the images are graphic, and they are disturbing to watch. but the images were recorded about a month ago showing a man on a bicycle turning onto a street when a russian armored vehicle opened fire and a high-caliber weapon. the man's body and his bicycle were were found weeks later in that exact same spot after ukrainian troops retook the town. the u.s. official tells cnn the u.s. now believes it will approximate able to identify the russian troops responsible for atrocities in places like bucha. and new drone video released by the ukrainian government shows russian forces were digging trenches in the highly radioactive areas in the forest around the chernobyl nuclear power plant. russian troops took over the site of the world's worst nuclear accident when the invasion began but last week, they withdrew.

ukrainian authorities now are in control of the defunct plant. the u.s. has announced new sanctions targeting vladimir putin's family, in particular his two daughters. and any secret stashes they may have hidden outside of russia. not much is known about the russian president's family, especially those two daughters. but cnn's brian todd has this investigation. >> reporter: they are among the most closely guarded of the kremlin's secrets. vladimir putin's two adult daughters from his first wife. both believed to be in their mid-30s, now the subject of u.s. sanctions. a senior biden administration official confirms their names are maria who is believed to be the older daughter and also goes by the name maria and kateryna shown here once speaking at the saint petersburg international economic forum. putin spoke about his daughters in 2017. >> translator: my daughters work in science and education. they are not involved anywhere in politics or somewhere else. they have ordinary lives. >> reporter: putin is so

secretive about his daughters that analysts have been left to fill in some of the gaps in the mystery. >> maria's now in healthcare in moscow. the old -- the younger daughter, kateryna, is now working in an ai institute at the moscow state university. >> we know they have traveled widely, especially in the west. we know one of them, kateryna, was married to russia's youngest billionaire and we know she also tried to pursue a career in acrobatic rock and roll. the other one, maria, we don't know quite as much about. we know she has pursued or reportedly pursued a career in medical sciences. >> the younger of the two adult daughters, kateryna, was married to a russian billionaire who is also under sanction but they are now divorced. putin's discomfort with speaking about his children was exposed in a series of interviews he did with american director oliver stone where he acknowledged he has grandchildren. >> are you a grandfather yet? how do you like your grandchildren? >> yes. >> so are you a good grandfather? do you play with them in the garden?

>> very seldom. >> very seldom? you are a very lucky man. two good children. >> yeah. yes, i am proud of them. >> would have been happier if we were under deposition. you acknowledge you are a good family man but he is more interested in appearing with the russian orthodox church or in military situations or -- or riding shirtless on the back of a horse to project his power. >> but one analyst says putin has a darker reason for keeping his family details secret. >> he doesn't want to be vulnerable to anybody else doing something to him if, um, a lot is known about his family. >> reporter: a senior administration official says the u.s. is targeting putin's adult daughters for sanctions because officials believe many of putin's assets, his money, his luxury possessions are hidden with family members. >> he is keeping bank accounts. he is keeping shell companies. he keeping large-scale purchases in the names of not himself but those around him.

>> reporter: experts say there is also putin's ex-wife, the mother of maria and kateryna, who also may have accounts in other places where putin is hiding his assets. one expert who tracks putin's finances says he doesn't believe she's been placed under any sanctions yet but he says that could be coming as the u.s. tries to ratchet up the personal pressure on vladimir putin. brian todd, cnn, washington. then there is the high price ukrainians are paying for this war. last hour, i spoke with the ukrainian member of parliament, the youngest member of parliament, just 26-year-old. his longtime girlfriend, a girlfriend of a decade, a journalist, killed by russian shelling. here he is. >> she was more than a girlfriend the ten years we knew each other, ten years we lived together. from the teenagehood to now and, yes, she was killed by the russian shelling and it's just one of the examples of how

senselessly russians were trying to destroy anybody who was here in kyiv trying to cover the madness of their invasion. again, and she was telling the story to the world, together, with some of the best american tv and she was -- she paid highest price for that but she will live on in all the projects, all the works she has done for ukraine, for the world. and we will make justice come for -- for her death. >> well, customs officials in finland have confiscated three shipments of russian art worth $46 million under european union sanctions. shipping crates full of paintings and sculptures were seized before approximating returned to russia last weekend after being exhibited abroad. finland says they qualify as luxury goods under eu sanctions and this seizure is normal operations but a russian politician was quoted on state

media as saying it was theft. those customs officials in finland have said the artwork will be stored safely and they will be stored for some time. it seems. let's go back to lynda kinkade at cnn world headquarters there in atlanta and just go back to the interview you did with the young 26-year-old. that is a young man who was the youngest elected member of the ukrainian parliament who has now basically taken up a rifle to defend his country, and never thought he would be put in that situation. and if you look at his face and his words, this -- this is a young man who has aged incredibly in -- in just a month. >> yeah, he really has. heartbreaking, hearing him speak about the loss of his -- his girlfriend of ten years. good to have you with us, john vause, from lviv. we will see you at the top of the next hour. thanks so much. >> you bet. most ukrainians fleeing violence remain europe but some

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>> reporter: this woman and 2 1/2-year-old son are living in a tent in tijuana, mexico, along with her husband, they escaped the war in ukraine. and are hoping to enter the united states. >> this is your son? >> yes. >> reporter: one child? >> she shows me on the map where she says she once lived in western ukraine before the russian bombs started to fall. how long did it take you to get to mexico? your travel? she tells me she traveled through four countries to get here. mexico is allowing ukrainians in with a simple travel visa. they just ran, she says, taking only a small suitcase and a blanket for her son. she worries about him with the cold temperatures at night. they are just one of hundreds of ukrainian families camped out here at the u.s. border with mexico. the tents are set up at the border crossing just south of san diego. at the time of our visit, about 2,400 people were waiting to

enter the u.s. which has promised to allow 100,000 ukrainians in on humanitarian grounds. they can stay for one year. how quickly are these refugees able to get into the u.s.? >> oh, my gosh. not quickly enough. we -- we can get across maybe 300 people a day on a good day. some days are 200 and some days are 150. so, it's -- it all depends. >> reporter: inna is from orange county, california, and helping coordinate the volunteer effort here. every family here has a number and when it gets called, it is their turn to cross. >> do you have a number? >> reporter: this woman and her three children have number 1,594. they are sleeping here, she says, until it's their turn. toys. can i see? another woman, irena, tells me she has been sleeping in this tent with her five children. do you know when you might be called to go to the u.s.?

>> i think soon. >> reporter: there is food and games for the children. we found this boy playing with blue and gold plato. the same colors as the ukrainian flag. eugene and his family escaped mariupol for mexico. >> our house is destroyed. we -- we lose everything. you know? we don't know anything about our friends and we don't know nothing about the parents of my wife. >> reporter: if he and his family make it to the u.s., they will stay with family in california until it's safe to return to ukraine. >> i have a cousin u.s. >> where? >> sacramento. >> reporter: as the day wore on, oxana refused to give up hope she and her mother would make it to the u.s. what is it like waiting here for your number to be called? >> i don't know. i mean, we came hoping that

there is going to be fast. maybe another hour. but they are saying two or three hours at least till the number will with be called. and then from there, i have no idea how long will it take us to cross the border. >> reporter: she lives in colorado and flew to warsaw hoping to bring her mom to the u.s. before coming here, her 66-year-old mother had opibeen sheltering in a basement in ukraine for ten days. will she come live with you in colorado? >> yeah. i have a good place to accommodate her. my kids can't wait to see her, the grandma, and spend time with her. and we want -- we want her, you know, happy and safe and relaxed in the family circle. >> reporter: there is some good news. the woman you saw at the end of our story and her mother did make it across the border. they caught the last flight from san diego to denver. so her mother was able to sleep in a warm ped and wake up to her granddaughters in colorado, which is very good news by as you know, she is one of the lucky ones. there are hundreds of thousands of people who have been seeking asylum here in the united states from countries and areas of the world that they say are dangerous like haiti, mexico,

central america. but back in march 2020, the trump administration put something in place called title 42, and the biden administration has upheld it and it's supposed to expire next month but that has kept many of these migrants out of the united states because this isn't so much a immigration policy as it is a health policy. the administration have said it was all done to prevent the spread of covid. so of course, a lot of frustration and a lot of anger on behalf of these people from these other countries who say it's dangerous for them and they want to enter the united states as they watch these ukrainians get cleared to enter the united states. randi kaye, cnn, at the u.s. border with mexico. yemen's president has announced the establishment of a presidential leadership council. he dismissed the vice president and transferred both his and the vp's powers to the council on thursday. the leadership council will be responsible for political, military, and security affairs

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welcome back. the world health organization reports significant drops in global covid cases and deaths in the past week compared with the previous week. global deaths were down sharply by 43%, while global cases fell

16%. however, some of the decline is due to changes in how some countries are accounting covid deaths. globally, nearly half a billion people have been infected with the virus since the pandemic began. nearly six million people have lost their lives to it. well, there may be a decline at the moment, but the top u.s. infectious disease expert says it might not last. dr. anthony fauci says to expect a surge later this year, but there is hope. >> i would not be surprised if we see an uptick in cases. whether that uptick becomes a surge, whether a lot of cases is difficult to predict. but the one thing i hope and i believe there is reason that this will not happen is that we won't get a very large increase

propor prop proportionately. >> one way to keep that down is vaccines and boosters, however, the food and drug administration is concerned about people getting tired of getting booster shots and not getting them. what really keeps me up at night is the technology we can't keep boost:00 and we're going to have vaccine exhaustion. shanghai is still trying to get a handle on the stubborn covid outbreak there. nearly all of china's new infections are being reported in the city. on wednesday 20,000 new covid cases. the entire city of 25 million people remains under lockdown. city officials have turned convention centers into makeshift hospitals and learned that shanghai that will ease a policy that has separated parents from their children. kristie lu stout is following developments and joins us from hong kong. good to have you with us. how are people in shanghai reacting to the extended lockdown? >> there is frustration.

there is mounting anger in shanghai as you have all residents, 25 million residents under extended lockdown with no end in sight as cases continue to rise there. earlier today shanghai reporting nearly 20,000 new cases of covid-19. and there is anger and frustration over the conditions, the terrible conditions in some quarantine facilities, over the disruption in medical care, over the disruption in the food supply. i want to show this video with you, and it will show you just how difficult it is to order food and groceries online. it's completely sold out. which is remarkable for a modern tech savvy city like shanghai. next i want to share a tweet with you. it's from a shanghai-based analyst and mother, a resident of shanghai. and she is sharing just what she has left in her kitchen. she says this, i'm staring down the end of our fresh food supply this morning while frantically trying to buy groceries on multiple platforms, wondering whether all we really need is love. then the neighborhood said it will start bulk buying. so grateful and hoping for eggs.

and then this video clip that caught our attention. it's been circulating going on social media. it shows a confrontation between residents in a compound and the police. the residents are shouting, quote, we are starving as they try to break out of the compound. people are getting angry and fed up. just a few weeks ago, authorities in shanghai said that no, there was not going to be a citywide lockdown. but there is a citywide lockdown under way. and it's open-ended as cases continue to rise. this is a test for zero covid, the policy in china. it's also testing the patience of the 25 million people who live in shanghai. listen to this. >> we're using 2020 tools for a 2022 virus. i think that the government is really committed to this and that we will be living with varying levels of lockdown until we're back to zero, which frankly feels daunting. i do think there are some high levels of anger and frustration

because people are hungry or they can't get medicine that they need. >> but china won't quit zero covid. chinese officials, they have dispatched the people's liberation army, military, tens of thousands of medics from other provinces to shanghai to help control this growing outbreak in the city. back to you. >> all right, kristie lu stout in hong kong. thank you so much. and thanks, everyone, for watching. i'm lynda kinkade. we'll be back next hour. john vause is next live in lviv, ukraine. thanks for watching. stay with cnn. ♪

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this is cnn breaking news. >> hello. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause live in lviv, ukraine. the ukrainian foreign minister in brussels this hour, pleading with nato to increase the supply of weapons to counter a move by russia, now focusing on the donbass region in the east. vladimir putin's goal appears to be to take most of the east of the country, ukraine's industrial heartland. also a region where moscow-backed separatists have been fighting for independence for years. residential districts in luhansk now reporting heavy shelling. and a local official in donetsk claims an aid center was targeted by russian forces, killing two people, wounding five others. many are now choosing to flee the area.