i would say another thing, anderson.we don't get it, we just plodding, we play checkers. but you know what? old sleepy joe, just playing checkers, moving from red to black down the board, meat and potatoes, putting together an alliance, i would say he's done pretty darn well. and the people who play chess, vladimir putin has been playing russian roulette, he just blew his brains out. and the chinese are really flummoxed because they get wheat, they get corn, they get fertilizer, they get oil from russia. all of these are rising in price. and how is that going to affect their lower and middle classes? they're sitting there thinking, boy, i really would like to see the americans fail there, but holy mackerel, this war is causing real inflation in commodities in my own country, and that's not good for old xi jinping. >> you write that there will be more surprises and they won't all be pleasant. do you think there's any hope of this ending anytime soon in your view? >> you know, i think the real wild card in this, anderson,

anderson? >> katie bo lils, appreciate it. victor, back to you. >> anderson, thank you. >>> some of the nation's top foreign policy experts are now calling on president biden and the international community to establish a limited no-fly zone in ukraine. that's something the white house and nato have strongly resisted. they feared could lead to all-out war with russia. kurt volker is the former u.s. representative for ukraine negotiations. mr. ambassador, thank you for being here. you are one of more than two dozen foreign policy officials who signed this open letter calling this limited no-fly zone. explain it. what's the case? >> first of all, we have an outrageous and inhuman attack going on against civilians in ukraine as we just heard in your reports. orphans being delivered from kyiv to the west in order to be safe. 2 million refugees, citizens in mariupol without water, without power for six days now. this is a horrific situation. so, the proposal is to impose a limited no-fly zone, is i'll explain what limited is, in or

>> reporter: hi there, anderson. one of the things we've been hearing throughout the course of the day from the ukrainians and seeing some of the videos coming out the fighting there has been intensifying. the russians are using a lot heavier weapons than before. big impacts on civilian buildings hit throughout the course of the day. what we saw on our side on the border, the russian side, across from the kharkiv frontline, a lot more air activity by the russian air force but some pretty heavy artillery fire, rocket artillery fire. a couple minutes before we went to air here, that is something we heard as well. now one of the unique things about the vantage point we have here being on the russian side we can actually see some of the weapons that go into the area of kharkiv from the russian side that the russians are bringing in there. when the u.s. speaks of vacuum bombs possibly being deployed there, we actually did see the launcher that launches those bombs called a thermobaric rocket launcher. that was brought int

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>> exactly what they're doing, anderson.ing their cities, in my view, has been magnificent. we've shown all of the cable channels, especially cnn, have had great reporters in the cities showing the humanitarian crisis that's ongoing, the devastation, the terror attacks by russia. what they have not shown are some of the ukrainian forces beating the russians. and in fact they're beating them quite badly, not only the ukrainian army but also the territorial forces. they are standing up. they are deploying the kind of technological weapons that they have been given by the west, that have been shipped into the country. they are using the intelligence that has been provided to them to stop russia every turn. and truthfully, anderson, too, russia is making repeated mistakes. there was a report today talking about how they have been communicating in unencrypted modes. another two-star general was killed today on the russian side. that's the second general in 12 days. the estimates of the losses by the urussian force -- you know, we

anderson?nt to go to alex marquardt. you were in that area outside of kyiv earlier today that was hit by a strike. talk about what you saw. >> well, anderson, this is one of those examples of a civilian target that cannot be mistaken for anything but a civilian target. this is the small village about 15 miles south of kyiv. it's a village where people general ly commute into this city. there is no major military presence nearby that would justify any kind of russian strike against it if the russians continue to claim they're not going after civilians. we walked along a small country road and on both sides there were large piles of rubble after a russian air strike on friday and on the left hand side of the road where one of the bombs had been dropped was a large crater and there we met a man named igor and he was being helped by friends and neighbors to go through the rubble to try to salvage anything they could from his home. he lost five family members. his daughter who was 12 years old in a

>> hey, anderson.out and talk to people. i saw your story. you were interviewing these people in a bar. and instead of making cocktails they're making molotov cocktails. talk to me about what's going on. it's interesting to hear and to walk through those neighborhoods. >> yeah, you know, i've never been in a place at war in which the population, the civilian population is so united with determination to fight and fight back against an invading force. the last time i guess i saw this

anderson? >> alex marquardt, be careful. thank you. we've got some breaking news now from the white house. president biden says he's imposing new sanctions against russian oligarchs. president tweeting those sanctions will be one of the topics during his cabinet meeting, which is scheduled to begin, really, at any home. i want to take us to kaitlan collins at the white house who's following all of this. what do we know about these new sanctions? >> reporter: yeah, these are going, anderson, after seven more of these russian oligarchs and their family members. we know that this has been a target of president biden's and of course other governments worldwide as they try to squeeze president putin's inner circle, often aware of the fact that he does not hold all of his wealth himself but potentially passes it off to those in his inner circle, and so that has been a big focus ever since this invasion started and so today, the united states is adding seven more of these russian oligarchs and their f

this is a heavily fortified city now, anderson. and even if russian forces are enable to encircle it, it will still be an all mighty battle for them to get to the heart of it, anderson. >> kaitlan, president biden -- well, actually, kaitlan, before i go back to you, clarissa, let me just ask you. you talk about the russian forces in the northwest and in the east. how capable are they of actually surrounding kyiv at this point? because there are some who would raise questions about whether the russian military would be even capable of actually surrounding kyiv. >> so i think that the prognosis for people who, you know, military analysts who are watching this closely is that it would be feasible for them to surround the city although it's been a lot slower going than they had hoped it would be for a number of reasons. "a," i don't think they'd anticipated the fight they would get from the ukrainians. "b," they've run into all sorts of resupply issues. we know now from those maxar images that that large convoy has sort of broken apart

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not a nato no-fly zone, anderson. but i'll tell you what i do support. i mean by that is, we should be giving them not just stinger missiles, which reach up to about 10,000 feet, not bad. but we need to give them the weapons, surface-to-air missiles that reach up into that air stack. anderson, we should seriously consider the idea which was floated about a week ago of providing mid-29s. these are potential jets, fighters with ground attack capability. give them to the ukrainians to fly. we did this in world war ii. it's a lend lease. there's a lot of complications. got it. it would be a huge morale boost for the ukrainians and would change the facts on the ground by changing what's happening in the air. >> i want to ask you, we heard now from the leader in poland, also u.s. officials, jake sullivan, among others, talking about if a missile landed in poland, let's say, or any nato territory, the nato alliance would respond. as the former nato allied supreme commander, what would a response look like? how does nato operate? who makes the decision to respon

>> reporter: no, they've come from all over the country, anderson.n in the southeast near the city of mariupol now under russian control, his family is still there, you can imagine the anxiety and the fear these families are separated from each other, that woman sonya who i was talking to as well, her family is in kyiv, but they haven't seen each other in a week, her eldest son just 2 years old separated from her, and living under constant fear not just of the bombardment but that their children can't get the treatment they desperately need. the only potential glimmer of hope is that the ukrainian and russian delegation did meet today on a second round of talks. the one thing they may have possibly agreed on is the establishment of some kind of humanitarian corridor to get kids out to safety. but it is not going to be easy. and you can just imagine, anderson, horrifying to see sick children like this in any context. but under bombardment is just heartbreaking. >> my team and i went to today in lviv to a specialized children's hospital, mainly for kid

>> it would be a big step, anderson.een trying to play a game where they are supportive of russia in general. they've talked about a relationship or a partnership with no limits buchlt at the same time, they're caught in a trap. the principle criticism of the beijing regime of the united states for the last 20 years has been that the u.s. violates the sovereignty of nations. you know, iraq, afghanistan, lib rah. here you have a blatant violation of state sovereignty, the invasion of a country and annexation of its provinces. and the chinese are silent. they also have an awkwardness that i hope washington is playing up more. in 2013, china actually gave ukraine a security guarantee. it's a complicated story and it's not entirely clear why they did it, but they did. so, they have a very difficult situation where they have to at the same time support russia while deal with some of these issues where china has really been on the other side. so, they so far have not really done anything that would be materially assisting russ

anderson? >> in mariupol now, the red cross describing the humanitarian situation as increasingly dire, warning that hundreds of thousands of people are without food, without water, without electricity or medical care and temperatures here are dropping and are only going to get worse here in the coming days. what more do you know about what's going on? >> reporter: yeah, look, i mean, it's difficult to get a lot of information out of mariupol, frankly, but we do know, as you say, temperatures are dropping. hundreds of thousands of people are without water, electricity, heat. we do know that the atrocious aftermath of that strike on the maternity and children's hospital in terms of the russian explanations for what clearly was, it seems, an air strike by them is increasingly ridiculous, frankly, and not only did they suggest that there were not, as pictures had shown, patients in there, but instead a ukrainian nationalists. now the russian ministry of defense was suggesting the whole thing was s

anderson? >> sara sidner, that's one of the things that's so good about you.'s unusual, you ask them, you talk to them, you learn about it, and you tell us about it. it's -- it is wonderful to watch in action. sara sidner, thank you. >>> just ahead someone who was in ukraine when the war began and has seen the humanitarian crisis up close. actor sean penn shares his thoughts on the crisis he witnessed first hand and talks about his impression of ukraine's president, who he met while he was there, on the cusp of t the invasion and on the da of. what matters most to her. and she can simply focus on right now. that's the planning effect. from fidelity. ♪ it wasn't me by shaggy ♪ you're never responsible for unauthorized purchases on your discover card. (johnny cash) ♪ i've traveled every road in this here land! ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere, man. ♪ ♪ crossed the desert's bare, man. ♪ ♪ i've breathed the mountain air, man. ♪ ♪ of travel i've had my share, man. ♪ ♪ i've been everywhere. ♪ ♪ i've been to: pittsburgh, parkersburg, ♪ ♪ gravel

we're honored to be joined this evening by professor elijah anderson professor anderson. is this sterling professor of sociology and of african american studies at yale university. he's one of the leading urban ethnographers in the united states his publications include code of the street winner of the comorovski award from the eastern sociological society streetwise winner of the american sociological associations, robert e. park award for the best published book in the area of urban sociology and the classic sociological work a place on the corner. the cosmopolitan canopy race and civility in everyday life was published in 2011. his latest most recent ethnographic work which jacob mentioned black and white spaces then during impact of color and everyday life was just published this month. it's available now from chicago university, press and pre-orders on amazon for delivery later this month. i was just chatting with dr. anderson said that i read the e-text version yesterday in this morning, and it's really an engaging ethnography. that one's stories history current eve

>> he does seem to be a different man, anderson.g man who took office. he was careful in his military interventions. he seemed to weigh cost and benefits more. what changed? he's been in power 22 years. when he took over, russia was a basket case. it now has high oil prices, high energy prices. big foreign exchange war chest. so at some level, anderson, probably it is more than anything else that old line, power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. which lives us with a dilemma. as you say, he's now mercurial, unpredictable, rash. we can use all these descriptive terms. he's also evil. what he's doing is wicked. he is showing extraordinary vengeance against a country, against a people who have done him no harm. >> also, this is a leader who has said that he believes that the fall of the soviet union was the greatest geopolitical tragedy of the 20th century. we have seen what he has done in other countries. you think about in chechnya, what leveling of groceny, the installing of a vishing thug who now rules in chechnya.

anderson?an imagine either the sanctions are being removed or putin feels like he's in a stable situation or we can look forward to even a frozen conflict on the ground in ukraine. the ukrainians aren't going to suddenly say, okay we're done, and we'll just sit in a rump of the west of the country while putin and his forces occupy the rest of it. that's just not on. the very best scenario here looks to be a minimum of 5 million ukrainian refugees and another 35 to 40 million that are occupied directly by a brutal russian force. that's not stability going forward. >> especially 35 million people who hate the occupier and i mean with a burning passion, understandably, and seem more than capable of maintaining an ongoing guerilla fight, whether it's in cities or in the countryside. >> seem more than willing. and of course a big part of the problem is that information warfare, which is being won in extravagant fashion by zelenskyy all over the world. so, there's going to be an enormous amount of wi

>> it's interesting, anderson.le out the fact there may be confusion and differences of opinion between the military and putin. given the losses they have suffered. i still believe that putin's choices once he got everything wrong from the beginning were lose early and lose small, lose late and lose big. there clearly is some effort there to lose early and big. lose early and small, and the way to do that is to claim that they were just going for, you know, a link between crimea and russia and the eastern regions. but i think we shouldn't underestimate how confused they might be themselves and what kind of divisions might be going on there. i still think, though, anderson, putin's overall fallback position is to try to create as absolutely as many refugees as he can from ukraine into the surrounding eu and nato countries. and put them under tremendous stress so they will come to zelenskyy and get him or force him eventually to cut whatever deal putin wants. i still think that's his plan. >> do you think that could

thank you so much. >> thank you, anderson.see more of lindsey's pictures and reporting, go to the "new york times" website. >>> for more on the war russia is conducting, the threat the could pose to the nato alliance. joining us is wesley clark. general clark, the attack on a military base 26 miles from here, less than a dozen miles from poland, how significant is that? u.s. national security advisor said if any strike whatsoever from russia made it into a nato country, it would quote bring the full force of the nato alliance to bear in responding to it. what does that actually mean? >> well, first of all, we don't know exactly what was at the base and i don't want to ask. i'm glad i don't know but that was a nato base set up as a nato training area 25 years ago in ukraine. and the attack apparently was targeted because a junior ukrainian diplomat took a social media photo that identified the time and location and had all this stuff in the background and that was seized on by the russians who quickly got some long range target

anderson?arquez, glad you're there in bucharest. >>> coming up next to some people who did not leave or could not leave they lived in a village outside kyiv, miles away from the nearest military target. they didn't matter. cnn's alex maryaquardt has more. >> reporter: the small country road is lined by rubble, burned out cars and a deep crater where the russian missile struck. the attack caught on a village security camera hit the home of igor in a small village about 15 miles south of kyiv where he lived with his family. now they're gone, killed in an instant. five family members and a friend including his 12-year-old daughter who was disabled in an accident with a drunk driver. his wife just 46 years old, and his son-in-law, the father of his grandchildren. today, black eye and face bruised picked through the debris trying to find belongings and documents. there was a brief moment of happiness when he found one of his missing cats. but the reality of how his life is forever changed has not ye

anderson. >> i want to talk to joe doherty in moscow. what has been happening in that city, and also are there -- do there continue to be protests on the streets in moscow and other cities in russia? >> reporter: well, with the first question, we did hear from president putin today. obviously he's following the fighting in ukraine, but the big thing here, anderson, there's no question. it's the sanctions they are slamming into the russian economy, and so we saw president putin on tv today meeting with members, senior members of his government, and they were discussing what they say is a plan that they have to deal with these sanctions. they say they were expecting a lot, and they are ready. that's the message they are trying to get across to the russian people, but obviously there's an effect on the russian people, and the other thing that happened today with president putin is he spoke with the french president macron, and there's certainly concern about the escalation possible in ukraine, in the fighting. in fact, a spokesperson for th

anderson? >> yeah.n fact, they were blocking, you know, german weapons from being sent to ukraine. they finally had a reversal on that policy. but it was certainly late after the invasion had already begun. sam kiley, thank you so much. during a press conference with the slovakian counterpart, secretary of defense lloyd austin reiterated the u.s.'s decision to keep ukrainian air space, well, to not have some sort of a no-fly zone. cnn's white house reporter natasha bertrand joins me live from brussels. talk about what the defense secretary said. he said there's no such thing as a no-fly zone lite. >> reporter: that's right, anderson. so, he was asked again about the possibility that nato could set up some kind of no-fly zone there in accordance with the demand that president zelenskyy has made to close the skies in ukraine. and he reiterated what we have heard over the last several weeks and months from u.s. and nato officials, which is that this is just not feasible for us, because not only would nato

anderson. >> clarissa ward, thank you. jim sciutto, nick paton walsh as well. >> coming up next, my conversation with lindsay adario, one of the preeminent war photographers working today. her thoughts on what she's seeing here and what's affected her the most. she also took that now famous photo of the family that was killed just the other day in irpin. we'll talk to her about the moments before and after that photo was taken. >> also, clarissa ward's report on some of the most vulnerable people who often cannot flee, in this case, seniors in irpin. we'll be right back. - wow. - uh-huh. $0 copayays on virtual visits for primary care anand mental health. tatake advantage now. wow! i've always focused on my career. but when we found out our son had autism, his future became my focus. lavender baths always calmed him. so we turned bath time into a business. ♪ and building it with my son has been my dream job. ♪ at northwestern mutual, our version of financial planning helps you live your dreams today. find a northwestern mut

. >> reporter: hi there, anderson. it's all part of this gigantic battle going on here for control of kyiv, with the russian forces continuing to try and press their offensive. what we saw today was a huge amount of explosions especially towards the northwestern part of the city as well with the ukrainians saying they're launching a counteroffensive. but the russians also pressing and devastating consequences for the civilians on the ground. here's what we saw. [ sound of gunfire ] >> kyiv remains under full-on attack by vladimir putin's army. ukrainian officials say russian forces are trying to storm the capital but failing, unleashing artillery barrages on civilian areas in the process. we drove to a village north of kyiv, only a few miles from the front line. even the streets here are pockmarked with shrapnel and massive impact craters. whole buildings laid to waste. i mean just look at the utter destruction caused by this massive explosion. there's some really thick brick walls that even they were annihilated by th

>> well, what they're trying to do, anderson, is encircle the city.traffic jam north of the city which is reflective of the general level of frankly degree of ineptitude they demonstrated so far. there is a call coming from the east toward the city, presumably they want to get around to the west with the forces from the north and try to cut off the ability of those in kyiv to still receive weapons and so forth. but as you heard the secretary of state confirm, they're still being provided there. the ukrainian defenders are absolutely resolute. they are in urban settings. it's very tough for those who are on the attack to penetrate defenders have an enormous advantage in that usual rule of thumb is that you have to have five for every one defender. if you're an tacker. so, of course, what russia will do as it has already begun to do is get frustrated and use inaccurate systems such as artillery, rockets and so forth and then perhaps some precision weapons as well. although as we've seen in a number of the precision munition that's have been directed at

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anderson? >> yeah.people behind in their family. their husbands, their partners, boyfriends. fathering. wha fathers. whatever it may be or whoever just can't make the difficult journey. it is a personal tragedy as well as a tragedy for ukraine writ large. sara sidner thanks for being there. wolf, back to you. >> thank you to you both. >>> more on breaking news right now. joining us, poland ambassador to the united states. ambassador, thank you so much for joining us. how dire is the refugee crisis on the ground -- >> thank you very much for the invitation. >> thank you. is poland prepared to start receiving over the next few weeks even months thousands and thousands, tens of thousands, of ukrainian refugees crossing the border into poland? the numbers are enormous. >> first of all i would like to correct you. it's always about 800,000 refugee whose have crossed the polish border since beginning of the hostility a few days ago. i have to tell you frankly this is probably the first such migration crisis i

>> reporter: well, anderson, it's been yet another grim day here in kyiv. some 2,000 people did manage to get out of irpin. irpin is that suburb that we visited over the weekend where you showed that harrowing footage that "the new york times" was able to capture as a mortar fell, killing an entire family. but today it was a little quieter in that area and some people were able to evacuate. it was a very different story in a village to the west of kyiv. a shell hit a bakery there and according to our estimates, more than a dozen people were killed in that attack. and so the question really becomes, as the bombardment continues and as the civilian toll continues to climb, the u.n. now saying more than 400 civilians have been killed in this conflict in just 11 days, anderson. how can an efficient and truly secure safe passage be facilitated to get people out? now, the russians had proposed a cease-fire beginning tomorrow morning starting at 10:00 a.m. moscow time, that's 9:00 a.m. kyiv time. but the humanitarian corridors that they are proposing in conjunctio

. >> reporter: another 36-hour curfew, anderson. imposed last week. i think largely because ukrainians then at any rate were trying to get in term of military campaigning and had a substantial push in the east of the city. northern and west of the city. now we've seen a slight change in the use of these long-range ballistic missiles against kyiv. fred plight geitgen out on the as a location, the shopping mall russians claim ukrainians also had been storing some kind of w weaponry or missile launching systems. a few days prior on the ground a mill shot down by ukrainians and hit, the warhead hit a residential area causing extensive damage. we're seeing a switch, because the russians can't reach a lot of these civilian areas with anything other than these long-range ballistic missiles. not able to get at them with the multiple rocket launching systems and even the dumb bombs that aircraft are dropping. standing off over longer distance and also hitting more and more very important military targets. notwithstanding what's happening in kyiv. you saw when

anderson? >>> yeah, listen, a kill om terp kilometer away from a city administration building in mariupol have been identified by cnn as other locations hit by an apparent russian military strike. you can see it there, windows blown out and rubble scattered everywhere. the images are heartbreaking. streets and buildings reduced to almost nothing. we begin with cnn's scott mclean who is joining me here in lviv. what more do we know about the attacks? >> reporter: just look at the pictures. interest ukrainian authorities and the videos, the many videos coming from the scene, and ana described it as apocalyptic, you look at the crater in the ground. seven, eight meters, looks several meters deep as well. all of the windows are blown out. what really struck me as well what some of the people are saying in the video. one of them someone is saying, look, we're on maximum extend, whatever cars you have, send here, referring to emergency vehicles. in another someone is asking where the wounded kids fro

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>> yeah, anderson, the u.s.intelligence community every year releases what it calls the worldwide threat assessment which is how the intelligence community is looking at all of the major threats to the united states in a given year. the timing of this year's report coincides with this remarkable dp geopolitical moment that we are watching with ukraine. so the u.s. is getting a realtime picture of how the u.s. is looking at russia specifically. the u.s. intelligence community assesses that russia does not seek, does not, i emphasize, seek a direct conflict with the united states and in fact would rather avoid that. now, this is something that broadly correlates with what we've heard from our courses but it's certainly a reassuring message in this moment given that over the past couple of weeks russian president vladimir putin has publicly invoked the specter of his nuclear forces, saying that he -- or ordering that his strategic forces should be placed on special alert status. director of national intelligence av

anderson cooper is in lviv, ukraine. just into cnn, we are learning white house officials are having early discussions about president biden traveling to europe, including a potential stop in poland. that could be a crucial diplomatic play, especially now that russia has killed 35 people just miles from the polish border in a devastating air strike on a military base right on nato's doorstep. this comes as a fourth round of talks between ukraine and russia are put on hold until tomorrow. >> there is no pause, however, in russia's offensive. overnight in kyiv, unrelenting attacks on residential buildings. scenes of horror and heroism. trying to evacuate people from that building. still a senior u.s. defense official says russian advances remain stalled. officials telling cnn russia asked china for military support, including drones for this invasion. something the administration is watching very closely. cnn is covering this from across the globe, starting with clarissa ward in kyiv and kylie atwood in washington. clariss

anderson, thank you very much. we'll check back with you. let's discuss these investments are michael bosser, a former spokesperson for the organization for security and cooperation in europe. he's also a senior fellow at the atlantic council and he joins us from lviv. as he has been for many years now, we're happy to see you. do you feel the onslaught getting closer to lviv now given that attack on the military base near there? >> oh, yeah, absolutely. this was after all in lviv, not that far from here and i poke to people who live on the outer edges and they felt the shock waves from those missiles as well as by the way, people on the polish side of the border. it was that close to the polish border. so, i mean, this was clearly a provocation from the russian side. alisyn, if i could pick up on something that clarissa said about the granularity of the meetings. in the past eight years, since the russians invaded eastern ukraine, there was something called the tri-lateral contact group and that includes representatives of russia and the rus

d, w, spoke to the swedish prime minister magdalena anderson, about e. u. session talks with albania and doors, macedonia. here's what she told us. what i mean, countries should be able to join european union when they are ready for it. and i think it's important that all countries can have a process coming closer to a era peon and membership and, and from a swedish perspective, we have been supporting countries. for instance, ukraine add to help build their institutions to become so they could come closer to the coming that members of the european union attacking ukraine was not only an attack line ukraine, but also european security order, which means that every country can make their desist in themselves, so of course we know we have the right to do with the decision that we think is right for our country. but of course when we do do that, we have to away all the different risks with the different options that we have. the situation in round the baltic sea has changed after russia, sa invasion of ukraine. we've had the deteriorating a security situati

anderson said it's e u member shipment sweden was no longer a neutral country. his german chancellor will actually magdalena and myself agree that we want to strengthen the make it more resilient as well. the turning point in history is something that means we must achieve real progress with american union. thus, we talked about the fact that the time has come to pass the albanian and macedonian campus. accession talks, begin as soon as possible. otherwise these isn't about to as well. can. states will be vulnerable russian inferencing, and we need to strengthen our passages in terms in a number of different ways. with the w spoke to swedish prime minister magdalena anderson after that press conference. we asked her about sholtes is comments about you at session talks with albania, north macedonia. here's what she had to say. what i mean, countries should be able to join european union when they are ready for it. and i think it's important that all countries can have a process coming closer to european and membership and, and from a swedish perspective, we have

>> thank you, anderson. we mentioned before, time actually is not on the russians' side. the longer this goes on -- and they've had a very clumsy first five days -- the more the pressure mounts within their own forces who are probably staggered facing the resistance by fellow slavs. and the international condemnation and their sanctions. and there are cracks in that facade. you see it in the arrests on the street and rumors about dissent within the corridors of power and the oligarch. so, the russians have got to finish this. and that column is coming in with the logistics, what we would call the second echelon. they will -- they don't have time to do a long siege. a long siege could take weeks and be dreadfully bloody. and as general hertling mentioned earlier, they don't have the numbers for a massive stalingrad type siege battle. so, they've got to finish it. it's bloody, brute force, artillery including the thermobarrack. all of that. i think the whole facade is beginning to crack around them. they are i

>> reporter: that's absolutely right, anderson.kind of not just symbolically but also tactically very important for kyiv. it has been -- you see there, those hundreds of people hiding under a bridge that the ukrainians destroyed to prevent the russians being able to cross into the capital with their heavy armor. there was a family of four where lindsey o-dario's photographs, all added up to this very kind of iconic series of evacuations that have been going on. but then the russians effectively overran that whole area. but the river flooded, further preventing the russians being able to get further into kyiv, and then the ukrainians have counterattacked. and they counterattacked with some force. and we've been seeing multiple rocket launching systems and many, many of them firing this huge amount of furious ordnance at the russian positions to the northern side of irpin, allowing the ukrainian infantry to push in on the ground. and yesterday they announced they were even able to get police patrols into that city. amazingly though,

anderson speaking to a spokesperson tonight, giving some information on that plant. it is burning after an assault by russian troops and plant spokesperson who spoke to anderson just moments ago said it could result in a nuclear accident. again, could result in a nuclear accident, don't know exactly what's going on, all of the details, again, some of this just coming in, however there are mixed reports about fighting at the plant having stopped and radiation levels are currently normal at the moment. only one power generator unit out of six is operational and that's what i was telling him, there's redundancy built in for emergency situations but when you have these things start going out, things can certainly take a turn for the worst. we are going to keep watching that for you, the president of the united states also speaking tonight, monitoring the situation. he's spoken with president zelenskyy at the white house who continues to monitor the situation. two white house officials say their latest information shows no indications of elevated radiation at the complex

i want anderson to come back into this conversation. anderson, you've been on the ground now in ukraine for about a week, bearing witness to ukrainian resolve which is so impressive. what has stood out to you most of all among the things that you've heard and seen? >> reporter: i mean, i think, you know, it's almost a cliche to talk about the resolve, but you can't not talk about it. i've never been in a country at war that is so united by -- among its civilian population in support of resistance and in the desire to do something to band together, to small acts, large acts, whatever people can do, they're trying to do. and i think it's just extraordinary to see. i've been in a number of countries at war over the last 25 years, and i've just never seen anything like the sense of determination, not just for last week and this week but the sense that even if this goes on a long time and even if russia occupies this country, there's that sense that there will still be resistance even then. >> i 100% think you're absolutely right. clarissa,

anderson? >> just briefly, matthew, is it clear to you if these weapons that have now been promised by germany after long opposing sending any weapons to the battle field are now saying they're going to send weapons. sweden sending weapons. all these countries pledging more weapons. is it clear if any of that weaponry has arrived and in the hands of ukrainian fighters in kyiv? >> i'm not sure, but obviously it's a very urgent situation. but certainly what we know is that the british and american weapons, anti-tank, anti-aircraft missiles have been sent from the united states. they have already been deployed on the battlefield. we've seen the evidence of that directly. russian armor that had been absolutely devastated by anti-tank missiles that had come from them united states and britain as well. they are using those sophisticated western missile systems and battlefield weapons to cause real pain on the ground to the russians. the problem with that, of course, is it completely derails russia's

then you look at the current situation, anderson, if the russians are saying that they are essentialust going after the donbas, they are still surrounding the town of chernihiv and shelling that town, a town slobuche near the nuclear reactor surrounded and shelled, you obviously have kharkiv where civilians are being attacked and mariupol as well, where we have of course that devastating humanitarian situation so certainly from our vantage point difficult to explain the rugs saying the only thing they're after is the donbas and it's been that way ask that's been their strategy the entire time, anderson. >> ben you, are in odesa tonight, the russians essentially, saying now it is the south and southeast which will be the focus. what are you seeing and hearing in odesa tonight? >> well tonight we did hear a burst of antiaircraft fire coming from within the city. it's not clear whether there was something incoming, a plane, or what, but that does appear to have passed. the city, however, is on edge. odesa is ukraine's most important port and sometimes there are russian ships visible jus

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anderson? >> yeah, and again, these are civilians trying to flee an area, residential area that has already been attacked by russian forces. now they're attacking the evacuation route. ukrainian president zelenskyy is calling the killing of unarmed citizens, in his words, deliberate murder and is warning more attacks are imminent, he says. russian tanks are taking up new positions in densely populated areas just outside of kyiv. these tanks are just a few feet away from apartment buildings. we also have some video into cnn of a residential building burning in southern ukraine near a strategic port city. we're told russian troops are now encircling key cities along the black sea. zelenskyy says that russia is preparing to bomb odesa, ukraine's third largest city, next. and cnn is learning more about the weapons that the u.s. and others have sent to ukraine and what they may be planning to send next. i want to bring in our live team coverage of alex marquardt who is in kyiv in the region of kyiv.