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arwa damon, thanks very much. atika schubert, interesting that zelleenskyy gave an interview t independent russian journalists and it appears that inside russia there's been great effort made to block the access of ordinary russians to this interview. what did he say in it, and any reaction at all from inside the country? >> well, there's been no reaction certainly from moscow, from the kremlin. but i do think it is interesting. this is several times now that president zelenskyy has tried to reach directly to the russian people, to speak to them. and he does this quite often in fluent russian. of course he's a russian speaker. and to choose these independent media was clearly one avenue by which to do this. but i think that he made very clear that this terminology of demilitarization, de-nazification was just -- these are terms that ukraine simply will not respond to. i think in terms of the kremlin and in terms of how moscow sees its negotiating position it's always been very clear that any kind of negotiated set

arwa damon in istanbul where diplomatic negotiations are going on. lot of talks in recent weeks that have gone nowhere. what's exactly the progress you can see there? >> reporter: this is fairly low but that being said, any sort of progress is certainly a welcome development. what we know from the ukrainian side is key issues such as the fate of crimea as we now know well and russia back in 2014 that they're proposing to table for 15 years during which there will be bilateral talks. the ukrainians have also, as we have been hearing, talking about accepting ukraine having a non-nuclear neutral status. this would, of course, mean that any sort of nato membership would be off the table for the foreseeable future. the ukrainians have also made other proposals that we can understand the russians are taking back to their side for further negotiations. when it comes to something that is very key for ukraine, and this is not part of what ukraine is negotiating with russia but rather what ukraine is negotiating with western countries plus turkey. and that is u

arwa damon is in istanbul. turkish officials who are hosting these talks have been saying that they see some glimmer of hope. what do we expect out of these negotiations, arwa? >> reporter: well, hala, what we've been hearing so far is that it seems as if both sides are growing closer to what they describe as something as a middle ground. as we have been reporting, we do now know that the ukrainians are willing to discuss ukraine being a nonnuclear neutral country. given that there are seven security guarantees. that would in effect mean at least ukraine for the foreseeable member would not be a nato member. that has been one of russia's sticking points. we heard from president erdogan addressing both delegations before the meeting before it starts saying that he believed that there was a pathway for peace moving forward and making one particularly interesting comment to both of them saying that he expected that these negotiations had reached a stage where concrete results should be achieved. now all of that bei

arwa damon spoke with families that tried to leave the country but are in limbo due to their nationality reporter: for too many here, this is a family's last day together. on the road to ukraine's border with poland. at one of the border crossings it's a parallel story of different forms of pain. on one side, ukrainian families. some have already said good-bye to their husbands, fathers, sons, men age 18 to o60 are not permitted to leave. some stay together until the end. they move through within hours. on the other side, non-ukrainians. students and professionals from dozens of nationalities all who we spoke to said they had been here for days in below freezing temperatures, angry, delirious, cold, weak. they said they walked here, told they are not permitted to board the buses. those are for ukrainians only. so this is the fourth time you are trying to cross the border? >> yes. yes. >> yasid is from afghanistan, here with his unclclcle and fam >> two months that i didn't hear my parents voice. >> reporter: oh. >> yes. so that's so hard. >> reporter: they have all been on the road for f

cnn's arwa damon joins us with the humanitarian crisis. she's at the border in poland. wa, take us into what you're seeing and the conversations that you're hearing there. >> reporter: well, is this is one of the reception centers. we've seen them grow and expand and take on a certain rhythm to their own degree. if you look down there, inside this old building, that's nonbut converted into this massive space that just has cot after cot after cot. this is where new arrivals who have not yet picked up their rides to go on to the next location can actually come and rest for as long as they need. you have these makeshift medical stations. this one has been set up by germans. they're providing basic first aid, and they're getting requests from people for things like insulin. so, again, a lot of diabetes that's happening. people not able to get their medication. so they're coming to this point. inside now, we're actually not allowed inside because understandably these are refugees who are absolutely exhausted and have right now not much of a desire to speak to the media. and s

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cnn senior international correspondent arwa damon is there for us. arwa, we've seen a lot of peace talks. to date, they've been meeting in belarus along the border between belar belarussia and ukraine, but do we believe there's a different moment now in terms of negotiations brokered by the turkish president? >> reporter: well, the sense is that one may be able to be cautiously optimistic, keeping in mind though, that it is all relative and going into these meetings, at least from the ukrainian side, the ultimate goal would be some sort of peace or cease-fire, multiple humanitarian corridors to allow at least to a certain measure the easing of the burden on the civilian population that's been trapped across multiple locations in ukraine but we have been hearing a number of indications that both sides are closer to what at best can perhaps be called something of a middle ground and to that effect, take a listen to what ukrainian president zelenskyy had to say. >> translator: security guarantees and on neutrality. the non-nuclear status of our state. we

i'm joined now by cnn senior international correspondent arwa damon, who is live for us from instan bthe talks are going on between ukrainian and russian representatives. how is it going there, arwa? >> reporter: well, it is actually a bit tough to tell because, brianna, the talks ended in person. but our understanding is that they will be continuing on line. as you were mentioning there, the russians have said that they were constructive, the ukrainians have said that it could potentially be the point where the leaders of both countries could be meeting, but that being said, no agreement has yet been reached. we also do understand that a lot of the discussions have been centering around some sort of a humanitarian cease-fire to allow for more humanitarian corridors to open up, especially ones that would hopefully at least be more secure than the ones in the past have been. we also do understand that the ukrainians have begun discussions at a medium level, let's say, with potential guarantor countries. what is all this about? ukraine wants certain countries, eight of them, to guarante

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cnn's arwa damon is along poland's border with ukraine. you are seeing. >> what we're starting to see is this sort of sad rhythm that starts to play out in reception centers like this one. the buses arrive. the people file off, exhausted. mostly women and children. but then there is this pretty incredible effort by an army of volunteers to provide them with food, water, diapers, toys for the children, clothing to replace everything it is that they had to leave behind. but you also need to remember that just because someone has managed to reach safety, they are so far from being even remotely okay. those who have been able to flee, the vast majority of them, are just utterly consumed with guilt and fear. fear for those who are left behind. guilt because they actually had to make that impossible decision to leave. and for the vast majority, it really has boiled down to saving their children. >> it's all been agonizing. arwa damon, thank you so much. >>> as the world watches, millions of people flee ukraine. many more are trying to send aid in

arwa damon is across the border in ukraine. sara, let's start with you.een following official reaction to these allegations particular ly of africans, some from nigeria, cameroon and elsewhere working in ukraine who had trouble and said they were discriminated against as they were trying to board on trains or get on buses. what are you learning? >> reporter: so here is what we've heard, and it isn't just africans. at this point we're hearing the same thing from indians, afghans, people from, like you said, places like nigeria and cameroon, who clearly have darker skin and who clearly aren't native born ukrainians and so they are saying to us, look, we felt the sting of discrimination as we tried to leave with everybody else, the women and children were pushed off the train, according to at least three people that we have spoken to who are from africa. i do want to say this, where i'm standing right now is the main border to get into poland from ukraine. we are in medyka. it allowed people to walk over the border in normal times as well as drive over the b

arwa damon, cnn. istanbul. >>> and the turkish president, recep tayyip erdogan, said last week that ukraine and russia appear to be making progress in some areas, including ukraine backing off of nato membership, which we heard from arwa there. selective security, and the use of russian language in ukraine. the chief adviser to president erdogan is involved in the talks and spoke with becky anderson about the sticking points. >> sometimes positions seem to be converging on some kind of an understanding. sometimes they seem to be diverging a little bit. so there are still important differences over these four issues, but in our assessment, the most difficult one, of course, is territorial integrity of ukraine, which must be protected of course. the ukrainian side cannot compromise on that, and that concerns donbas and crimea. crimea was annexed back in 2014. the situation hasn't rised, but no one has recognized the annexation of crimea since then. now the russian side wants the international community

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i want to go to cnn international correspondent arwa damon in shinyi, ukraine, along the border with poland. there, arwa, you see russian military action takes place in the eastern and central part of the country, it is pushing hundreds of thousands of people to flee to the west. u.n. refugee agency estimating some 660,000 so far. tell us what that flow looks like where you are. >> reporter: it's almost as if it's the story of two very different flows of people with, to a certain degree, very different stories. right here, you have this long line of mostly men, many of them students from, really, across the world. you have people from all different countries in africa, you have people from different countries in asia, and the thing is, jim, they have been waiting here, most of them, for days. there's a gentleman we were speaking to just in the back who said he's been here for 3 days. i overheard you saying four days. >> yeah. >> reporter: i mean, how does that make you feel to be waiting that long? >> for days, people help us and at least to do something. >> reporter: jim, to that eff

arwa damon is live in ukraine, near the polish border, to the west of where we are in lviv. atched this unfold, arwa, with some shock, to see the discrimination frankly before your eyes as to who was allowed to leave and who was not. has that changed now? is it changing? >> reporter: very much so. i can't begin to tell you what a relief it was for us to actually be able to come here to the same border crossing we have been reporting from and see that there are no longer were two lines. right here, this is where just 24 hours ago you had a long endless line of nonukrainians, or rather should i say noneuropean union, nonwestern passport holders and they had been not moving along this sidewalk, many of them for days. just take a listen at what some young men told us yesterday. >> who am i going to tell my problems to? we have no one. >> reporter: how long have you been waiting? >> for me, i've been here for two days now. >> reporter: and you? >> four days. >> reporter: four days? right here? >> yes. our friends are home waiting for us. i feel like crying. ukraine is a beautiful

arwa damon joins me now. how are you? the president zelenskyy is now ready to accept a neutral non-nuclear status for ukraine as part of the peace deal with russia. please explain what that means. >> well, as he himself said, this is pretty much what the russians want to hear. at least it is justification that he was using to launch this war, its concerns about ukraine becoming a nate ore member, nato encroaching on its territory. and so if we look at what that actually means, a neutral state, that means that ukraine could not be able to be a third party to any sort of conflict which effectively, if we toss the semantics aside, don, means that ukraine would not be able to become a member of nato. not in the foreseeable future. and so what zelenskyy is saying that we're willing to give russia this and this is one of the key points that russia wants us to see, give space on. is this going to be enough though for some sort of realistic cease-fire to come to fruition, for this to lead to peace talks. that, at this stage, we d

arwa damon, cnn, warsaw. >>> now, the people in ukraine may be in need of the very basics -- shelter,would like to help, please go to cnn.com/impact. there you will find several ways that you can help. >>> now, despite claiming otherwise, it is becoming clear that russia is targeting civilian sites. cnn's wolf blitzer talked to the ukrainian ambassador to the u.s. and asked her if there was a message for president putin. >> i can only quote my president with this message so that he said today that the occupiers saw that they could make ukrainians to surrender by switching off the tv, cutting off the mobile communication, interrupting food supplies, switching off electricity and heating. but even if they deprive us of oxygen, as my president said, we will take deep breaths, and we will say get out. so despite the fact that it has been really brutal, you all see in real time photos and videos of targeting hospitals, kindergartens, schools all over ukraine, residential complexes. ukrainians still standing strong. we are defending our homes. >> you certainly are. you received a standing o

arwa damon is there. negotiations so far, both in person and virtually not getting anywhere. any reason to believe things are different? >> i mean, that's what so many are hoping, although what we do know is the war in ukraine and other wars have taught us anything is that hope can tend to be a very cruel beast. but based on the ukrainian president's comments that you played just there, we are seeing perhaps something of more of a middle ground beginning to emerge. what does it mean when ukraine says that it is willing to consider the idea of being a neutral state? that means that ukraine would not be getting involved as any sort of third party in any conflict. and effectively, that means that any sort of membership to nato at this stage would not be happening. another key thing, though, to note in all of this is that if that were somehow to be the agreement that was reached, whether it's during this round of talks or a round of talks in the future, zelenskyy has also said that he would want to put that to a referendum to the ukrainian people. that might prove to be logistica

arwa damon is reporting this. arwa, you've been covering this for days.ou talked to those who tried to stay in their homes, and now you're talking to people who everything they've owned is everything they're carrying with them right now. >> reporter: it is, kaitlan. what we're starting to see is this sort of sad rhythm that starts to play out in reception centers like this one. the buses arrive, people file off exhausted, mostly women and children, but then there is this pretty incredible effort of an army of volunteers to provide them with food, water, diapers, toys, for the children, clothing to replace everything it is that they've had to leave behind. but you also need to remember that just because someone has managed to reach safety, that are so far from being even remotely okay. those who have been able to flee, the vast majority of them, are just utterly wracked and consumed with guilt and fear, fear for those who were left behind, guilt because they had to actually make that impossible decision. for the vast majority, it's really boiled down to sa

our arwa damon is live. i think we have her live. yes, live across the polish border. ng with these people who traveled hundreds and hundreds of miles in some cases. >> reporter: yeah. and some of these stories, as you can imagine, in fact, all of these stories are absolutely heart breaking. and among these horrendous stories of fear and of bombs falling, you also have a segment of the population that was living in ukraine who are students, who are foreign nationals, and they have been going through unimaginable waiting times. in fact, let me just show you what i mean because the line here and we've been here since last night has not moved at all. and if we just go and ask most of the people in this line how long they have been waiting out here for, keeping in mind that these temperatures go below freezing. i'm sorry, can i ask you all, how long have you been waiting here now? >> from last six days. >> six days. how long have you been waiting here? >> more than a week. a long time. >> since it began, four days? >> no, more. five. >> i mean, the line here isn't moving at

. >> arwa damon joins us live from istanbul.ects any major breakthroughs. still, i think everyone watching closely to see how the two sides even talk publicly about these discussions. >> reporter: and also, john, to add to that, everyone will be watching to see on what points can both sides come closer together. you know, you just played that sound there from zelenskyy, talking about how all they want to see is a restoration to some sort of normal life. and the tragic, almost unbearable reality is that normal life in ukraine is going to look very different than what it used to for quite some time, moving forward. of course, one of the key steps towards even beginning to achieve that is going to be some sort of a negotiation. whether it's about peace in the long-term, or at the very least, about this stage, about some sort of a cease-fire. we have been hearing that both sides appear to be closer on some issues. ukraine, for example, indicating that it would be willing to accept a non-nuclear status. that it would be willing to ac

let's go to istanbul for arwa damon. i know the heads of delegation are on site. what can we expect to come out of this? i know president zelenskyy yesterday hinted at concessions but said he wouldn't compromise peace for territory. >> reporter: it's highly unlikely, isa, we'll see a signing of a document or more concrete outcome of the negotiations sadly although that is one of the hopes that does exist. we heard from president erdogan who addressed both delegations saying that the groundwork is there for a more concrete outcome, but realistically speaking there are just too many issues that have still to be resolved. even though, yes, ukraine is, as you mentioned, open to this discussion about ukraine becoming a neutral state, there are so many other mechanisms that need to get put into place, not to mention what you were just speaking about there as well, which is what is going to be the fate of crimea and the donbas region. we have heard from the ukrainian side they will not negotiate when it comes to territory, civilian lives or sovereignty, but what one can

cnn's arwa damon joins us. arwa, we know you've been following this so closely. what are you seeing this morning? >> reporter: yeah, well, of those numbers, some 800-plus thousand of them have ended up here in the poland. since this has all broke out, you have people coming across the border and getting greeted by an army of volunteers. and what's quite interesting about all of this but also sadly part of this routine of war is just how quickly things that are of normal become normal. people volunteers here who would not have been involved in these sorts of tirchtss before have all felt the need to mobilize, to come and help. and conversations that, say, 10, 12 days ago, hi, how are you have shifted into things like my relative has decided to go into ukraine and fight or things like my friend is stuck, my friend can't get out. when it comes to those who are in -- able to actually cross over onto this side of the border, there's obviously that understandability that massive sigh of relief. there's also overwhelming guilt. nobody wants to leave their country, their

cnn international correspondent arwa damon joins us live from warsaw, mopoland. really an incredible journey, arwa. >> reporter: it is, it's both heartbreaking, terrifying and in some ways even uplifting, brianna. i mean, just to try to begin to understand what it is that these mothers went through. i mean, it is hard enough to try to keep your child safe, as you're trying to leave a war zone but then on top of that, to have a child who's critically ill while you're trying to make that journey, it's just incredible, take a look. a train speeds to the darkness and crosses the ukrainian border into poland. most of these children are from hospices in and around kharkiv. it had the best palliative care for children in ukraine. now, one of the area's most intensity bombarded. the carriage filled with words inprehenceable for words. but filled with love. love among strainers, seen with the the tenderness of the touch of the medical team, the whispered words of "you are safe now." love of a mother who will dig up super human strength just to keep her child safe. >> hi.

i want to dig into that with arwa damon in istanbul. turkey's foreign minister hailing today's talks as the most meaningful progress yet, arwa. what progress was made? >> well, ana, let's keep in mind that it's a very, very low bar when it comes to any sort of meaningful progress, but that being said, any progress better than no progress at all. when it comes to things like the highly contentious issue of the fate of crimea, what the ukrainians are proposing is basically kicking the can down the line. and so they are saying, we will spend the next 15 years in bilateral talks with russia to try to decide the fate of crimea. when it comes to the fate of the donbas region, that is not at this stage anything that both sides are even close to reaching an agreement on. and then you have the issue of what ukraine is willing to do and then what ukraine wants to see take place. so ukraine is, in fact, willing to take on the status of being a non-nuclear neutral state. but only with security guarantees. and those security guarantees will be laid o

arwa damon and sara sidner have been doing remarkable reporting from poland near the border of ukrainet's go to arwa first. arwa, you spoke with parents of sick ukrainian children who were evacuated by train. what did they have to endure to simply get out of the country? >> reporter: you know, wolf, i cannot believe that they were actually able to get through this because these parents, these mothers who we met, their children weren't just sick. these were children who were in hospice and not just in any part of ukraine, in kharkiv. one of the hardest hit areas in all of ukraine. these mothers were telling us about how -- and we've all seen now the images of how crowded these trains were and what a jostle it was just to get on them and through all of that these mothers would cradle their children, carry them in their arms as they tried to push their way through and many of them were saying that up until the moment they were able to get on that train that evacuated them from ukraine back to poland, they had not been able to put their child down. and you really just see the love of these

these are also a number of people who said that they tried to get here -- >> arwa damon, we'll try to get her back. she's talking to people who are on the boarder, on the polish side and do we have her back? a arwa, are you back? >> reporter: okay, yeah, we're back. we're back. >> go ahead, arwa. finish your report, please. o you cut out for a moment. >> reporter: sorry about that, don. i was talking to these young men over here earlier. you are all students, right? and you tried to get on the train and what happened when you tried to get on the train? what were you told? >> we were traveling from a long distance for about eight hours and we came to lviv to the border also left you behind from 10,000 and after that you walk act eight miles, eight hours to the border, which is very stressful. >> yeah, of course. did you try to get on the train? >> we got on the train. we get on the train. >> reporter: and there was someone i was talking to here earlier who tried to get on the train and wasn't allowed to get on the train. >> we're told that they're only -- they're not allowing the black

arwa damon, cnn, ukraine. >> just heartbreaking.resident volodymyr zelenskyy has quickly emerged as an international hero, standing up to vladimir putin and inspiring the ukrainian people to fight back. now he is speaking directly to cnn. or the plalaces we didn't go. ♪ ♪ when you need help it's great to be in sync with customer service. a team of reps who can anticipate the next step genesys technology is changing the way customer service teams anticipate what customers need. because happy customers are music to our ears. genesys, we're behind every customer smile. >>> amid the ongoing siege of ukraine by russian forces, cnn's matthew chance talks with the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. here's that. >> what matters, so many messages. i think that he has to give those message what will really work. that is very important to be -- to be very useful in this situation, in this war against russia. >> translator: i think first of all, he's a world leader, and it's very important for people in the united states to understand tha

let's begin our coverage with cnn's arwa damon live in istanbul, turkey, on these high stake talks. arwa, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, both sides, ukraine and russia have been calling these talks constructive with turkey saying they have seen the most progress to date when it comes to any kind of talks happening, but it must be said that the bar is quite low. however, any progress, of course, is much better than no progress at all. a couple of key points to share. one, the issue of crimea annexed by russia in 2014. that the ukrainians are proposing having bilateral conversations to take place over the next 15 years. so effectively, tabling that contentious issue, moving it further down the timeline. now, as we also know, ukraine had been offering to consider itself take on the status of being a non-nuclear neutral state. regarding that, there are further conversations ukraine needs to have. not necessarily at this stage with russia but with countries from whom it wants to see security guarantees. nations that would be acting as guarantor countries such as the u.s., the u

arwa damon is in a town near the polish ukrainian border. >> reporter: hi, jim. and the vast majority of those refugees, upwards of 800,000 of them have ened up in poland, but you will not see refugees waiting out in the cold. that is largely because of this massive effort happening on the part of volunteers and also because of this rhythm that sets it itself into place, where refugees will arrive at the train station, get scooped up by volunteers offering free rides, warm places to stay. some will end up as these reception centers such as this one where they can get just about anything they need from diapers, sim cards, food, water, medication, there's a couple of medical stations here where some of those arriving have been asking for medicines such as insulin in that massive building there that we're not allowed to film. people can spend a few nights in the warmth. you have individuals carrying around signs offering rides to countries outside poland itself, but there is one thing that i think is quite important to talk about, jim, and that is even for those who

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cnn's arwa damon is live in istanbul with more on this. this is something he is point to go as sort of failed expectations again on the part of vladimir putin, arwa. >> reporter: that's right, brianna. and we have been seeing a number of similar indications in the sense that the sense that russia most certainly expected for this to be relatively speaking, fairly easy, fairly quick. not quite anticipating or preparing for the level of resistance they have been getting on the ground. yes, president zelenskyy pointing to these uniforms as further evidence of that. take a listen. >> translator: did you know that we found their dress uniforms? i don't know if you know this or not, but it's a bit funny. it would have been funny if it wasn't so tragic. how they are preparing to hold a parade at the independence square, basically to ride through it on the third or fourth day. >> reporter: and of course, brianna, for ukraine, for the population there, for president zelenskyy, the key right now is trying to figure out some sort of peace agreement. an

. >> millions of people, let's get to arwa damon. what do you see now?e and you were just mentioning how cold it was there. let me try to describe it to you. i am wearing multiple thermal layers, thick gloves. i've been standing here for about 20 minutes right now, 20 minutes and i'm shaking. these men have been out here for two whole days, and they don't understand why they're being made to wait this long. they don't understand why they weren't allowed to get on buses to be able to get here and why they ended up having to walk for 50 kilometers. that is hours. people who we met last night are still here. people are becoming delirious from the cold, from the hunger, from the sheer frustration, they say, of being treated like this. and let me show you what's happening on the other side. on the other side, that is where ukrainian nationals are moving through and there, it's mostly women and children, and that line is moving fairly quickly. now, authorities will say it's in part because it's women and children, but the wait for that side is about an hour or