sam kiley, thanks so much. we're seeing this morning new satellite images that show that once 40 mile long slow moving russian convoy has now largely dispersed, redeployed, even hiding it seems in the trees. alex marquardt is in lviv. we watched this convoy for days, really. almost amazed and the various retired generals we talk to say, boy, that was bad planning, but now we're seeing it finally disperse. >> so much fascination with this convoy because it was so big, because it was so long, because of the kind of weaponry in there. lots of questions as to why it wasn't hit harder earlier on, and i think what we're seeing now again, the former officials and experts we t ss we talked t is a good sign for the ukrainians, they managed to disperse this convoy. you see some of the weaponry, some of the vehicles taking cover in the tree line. the ukrainian forces with this stiff resistance has managed to -- has managed to inflict some real damage on that convoy. however, we do know that the focus still very much is on

reporting for us tonight, cnn's sam kiley in mykolaiv. nick paton walsh and at the white house, cnn kaitlan collins. i just want to give you a broader look at the day from cnn's kristen fisher. >> russia is broadening its targets with new air strikes hitting the western city of lviv which previously had been largely spared. the mayor confirming missiles hit near the airport. the city is just over 40 miles from the border with poland and nato country and lviv has been a haven for refugees fleeing the conflict for a stop on the way to europe. and russia is not letting up on the capital kyiv with new strikes on the northern residential district, ukrainian emergency services say one person died after remains of a downed missile set fire to a residential building. in the northeast, fires broke out in this massive market in the city of kharkiv after it was shelled by russian forces. city officials say one rescue worker died. in the southern city of mariupol, 130 people have been rescued from that makeshift shelter bombed by russian forces. a th

sam kiley, thank you so much.uring 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 forces have to patrol the sky and potentially shoot down russian aircraft and basically get in a direct confrontation, a direct war with russia, but they would also have to take out russia's air defense systems which hav

cnn's sam kiley has more now. >> reporter: we're really stretched, whatever cars you have, send them here, he says air strike, maternity hospital, this was russia's response to a global appeal for a cease fire to evacuate a city of a million people, a bomb dropped next to a maternity hospital in mariupol. it's hospital number three. inside, a frantic search for survivors. early reports say that there were more than a dozen injured. a miraculous outcome to an attempt at a mass killing at a place where lives should begin. many women and children had already fled to underground bunkers after a week of russian bombardment. ukraine's president renewed his pleas for nato to drive russia from this nation's skies after the hospital air strike. >> translator: everything that the occupiers do with mariupol is already beyond atrocity. europeans, ukrainians, citizens of mariupol, today we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia. >> reporter: evacuations from other towns have been more successful but still very limited. around 700 people mostly women and children were bussed out of

sam kiley in dnipro. let's talk about this one humanitarian corridor out of the town of sumy that suffered a horrible evening last night with so many deaths there. is it working? are folks able to leave safely? >> it appears that this may be the one that, for now, is working. you're absolutely right, jim. it comes on the heels of a brutal attack overnight. just around 10:30 p.m. on monday night. there was a russian air strike on what we understand was a residential building that has killed at least 21 people. 19 adults, two children. told by local authorities the latest example of indiscriminate attacks. but out of sumy, quite interesting. it is the only one that the russians, the ukrainians have agreed on because it goes south of sumy to another ukrainian city and from there, people can head west and get out of the country in a way that they would want to, as opposed to the other humanitarian corridors that russia has suggested that ukraine has not agreed to that would have ukrainian citizens and residen

sam kiley in kyiv. what's it been like in recent hours? >> reporter: well, just over the last two days there's been a very powerful response from the ukrainian armed forces against the russian advance, notably about an hour and a half after sunset a really, really gigantic barrage of multiple rocket launching systems being fired probably towards pins, towards targets in the west northwest of the city. a pin as you're reporting there or as alex is reporting there, now 80% back in the hands of ukrainian forces. we saw heavy barrages due north of the city, again part of this ukrainian counter offensive. they say it's going well, going less well for the military elsewhere in the country, but they are keen to be able to trumpet their successes here in the capitol which might explain why over the last week during which we've been talking, anderson, we've seen here in the capitol the only real strikes have been of missiles, long-range missiles. the exception to that has been in the north and the extreme west of the city, much closer to the fighti

sam kiley, cnn in kyiv. >> well, thanks to sam for that. he is in the capital. a former ukrainian president is calling for sanctions on the russians who do president putin's pr bidding. speaking on saturday, on cnn saturday, poroshenko argued for sanctions against propagandists who promote the invasion. he also asked for more weapons, telli telling the west ukrainians are fighting your fight. >> here in the last two week, russian troops around kyiv one single meter because we have ukrainian armed forces, which demonstrate and maybe surprise not only putin but they surprise the world. we here fighting for the european security, freedom, and democracy, and for the global security. and for you, also. for the united states, because please help us to save the world. help us to save europe. help us to save you. >> well, poroshenko also urged u.s. president joe biden to visit ukraine during his trip to the nato summit in brussels next week. now, as we mentioned, u.s. officials are confirming to cnn that russia has used hypersonic missiles in ukraine. as cnn's kylie atw

sam kiley is in kyiv tonight. l hearing small arms fire and detonations in kyiv tonight? >> reporter: the last hour or so, anderson, it's been much quieter. we did, as you rightly point out, some small arms fire. it's not that uncommon. and these heavy detonations probably of outgoing surface-to-air missiles either tracking missiles coming in or indeed aircraft, russian aircraft overhead. because earlier on in the day, there was a strike against an apartment block here, which killed two people and injured at least seven. and a missile was shot down and actually landed not far from where we were working. in both cases, those were in the west of the city, and fighting has also continued in the north, northwest, and northeast, and a little bit in the east too. so, pressure continues on kyiv, although in the last few days, the things -- the view has been that russians are consolidating and reorganizing themselves, anderson. >> sam, we know that in, according to ukrainian officials in mariupol, more than -- as many as o

sam kiley in kyiv, what have you been seeing and hearing today? >> reporter: well, the day began with some kind of missile strike against an apartment building, anderson, in the west of the city and indeed an attack on the antonov aircraft factory. the strike against the apartment building killed two people according to local authorities. and then later on in the day there was at least one other missile strike quite close to where we were working. that, we believe, was a result of a very large missile being brought down by the anti-missile batteries that are around the city. tonight there's been the sound of some small arms fire, some loud detonations, which i think are outgoing missiles to try to take out aircraft or other flying objects that the russians are using against the city, all part of a pattern that is continuing to maintain the pressure against the capital while the russians do what they're expected to do next, which is to consolidate and to increase their attacks in the east and the northeast of the city, anderson. >> kaitlan, preside

sam kiley, cnn, in kyiv. >>> let's bring in retired u.s.s from glendale, california. what is the operational point of striking a target like the one that sam kiley just showed us? clearly, it's a civilian target. there was even a kindergarten nearby. what do you think the russians are doing there by doing this? because we have seen it all over the country. >> seen it all over the country, and i see it in conflicts in many different parts of the world. it's an effort on the part of the russians to basically demoralize ukrainians. just the very thought and the image that you showed at the devastation is something that grinds deeply in anybody's heart and set of emotions. but what i want to quickly say is reflective of what i see as a development in russian tactics. and over the last 48, 96 hours, we're beginning to see much more these both cruise missile drones, long-range artillery which allow the russians to cause this horrific devastation. and yet, reduce their body count. >> because the ukrainians are saying they have killed 14,000 russia

cnn's sam kiley is standing by in kyiv for us. phil mattingly is here in brussels covering president biden. we'll go to them in just moments. first, cnn's alex marquardt has more on all the breaking news on this war. >> reporter: tonight president vladimir putin's war leading to staggering losses of his own men. according to nato military officials, up to 15,000 russian soldiers have been killed in the four weeks since russia invaded ukraine. the shocking number coming as the battle for kyiv is raging. ukraine now claiming it is not just defending off the russian advance but pushing russian fosss back. in the suburb of irpin which has seen some of the fiercest fighting who said his own house was destroyed says 80% of the area has now been retaken and national police are going back to work there. in the town of mack receive west of kyiv, it says it has been fully retaken. this video was taken by the kyiv regional police. kyiv firefighters have had to work tirelessly to douse the flames from the russian strikes including on countles

sam kiley is in kyiv for us tonight. sam, first of all, what are you learning about this extraordinary attack on this russian warship? >> reporter: well, the russians would have had every reason to believe that they had total dominance of the sea, but the azov sea off the coast of mariupol where this attack occurred and also of course in the black sea. the ukrainians have got almost nothing to show for it when it comes to the navy. but look at this. a massive explosion against -- of a russian warship moored there. according to the ukrainians it was the first russian warship to have docked at this port, a very important port city, captured by the russians in the early stages of their assault against ukraine. and somehow, we don't know how, the ukrainians have managed to blow it up. not only did they blow it up with that very spectacular initial explosion, but they're also claiming that there was secondary detonations. in other words, fuel or ammunition or both have exploded there. they're also claiming that this has result

we'll go live to sam kiley in ukraine and phil mattingly at the white house in just moment. first, we have a new report from cnn's kristin fisher. >> reporter: russia is broughtening its tarts, with new air strikes hitting lviv, which previously had been largely been spared. the city is just over 40 miles from the border with poland and nato country, and lviv has been a haven for refugees fleeing the conflict for stop on the way to europe. russia is not letting up with new strikes on the northern residential districts, emergency services say one person died after remain of a downed missile sit fire. in the northeast, fires broke on you in kharkiv, with run rescue worker dying battles the blade. in mariupol, volodymyr zelenskyy says that people were re cued. russia denies attacking. >> hundreds of mariupol residents are still under the debris, despite the shelling, we will continue rescue work. >> reporter: it's led many in the biden administration, including the president and secretary of state, to accuse russia of war crimes, as the state department works to gather evidence

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cnn's sam kiley is standing by live with a report from ukraine. first, cnn's alex marquardt has more breaking news on the war. >> reporter: the booms of russian missiles landing near ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv, which has born the brunt of so much of the russian onslaught. but few places have felt the wrath of russia like the port city of mariupol, now facing an attack coming not just from land, but from the water as well. russian ships in the see of azov now joining the bombardment. the deputy mayor estimates 90% of the city's infrastructure is now destroyed. >> the city does not receive any humanitarian aid, city without food, electricity, water, energy supply. city is under continuous bombing. a lot of death, a lot of crying, a lot of awful war crimes. >> reporter: the ukrainian military says this explosion at a mariupol industrial compound was caused by a russian attack. as new satellite images show, the city is crumbling, while russian artillery units dig in around it. >> hard-working honesty of mariupol, which is being destroyed b

sam kiley in kyiv. stay safe over there. let's get more now on all of this. joining us the principal deputy national security adviser in the biden administration, jonathan finer. thanks very much for joining us. let me first of all get your thoughts on this. as you know the u.s. and other western countries assess that thousands, thousands of russian troops have been killed since the war began about a month ago. with a range from as low as 3,000 to as high as maybe 10,000. where on the range does the u.s. best estimate fall, can russia sustain this war with such high losses? >> thanks, wolf. so we don't have a precise number of russian casualties to give you but i can say that i think the casualty number is probably much beyond what russia expected. particularly just in the early days of this conflict. and we're taking a two-part approach. the first part is providing the kra ukrainians the tools they need, that is predominantly anti-aircraft and anti-armor weapons. the president laid out in some detail yesterday exactly what we're putting in to ukraine to supp

this was cnn's sam kiley who joins us shortly, doing the translation for us. there is word today russian forces are advancing on another nuclear facility, the second largest in ukraine. mean time, ukraine's most prominent survivor, president zelenskyy spoke by video to large crowds in european capitals, he called for their support, praise ukrainians who are defending the country, and took a moment to honor the fallen and as he did, ordinary, unarmed ukrainian civilians continued demonstrating their defiance in the most direct and frankly most terrifying way imaginable, face-to-face at gunpoint with russian troops . just imagine the courage it take to see do that, to stand in front of russian troops who have no compunction about slaughtering innocents. we got a lot to report tonight and coverage across the region, cnn's clarissa ward in kyiv, sam kiley at a location not far from the nuclear plant, across the border in poland where so many refugees arrive around the clock, cnn's sarah sidener is there and at the white house, kaitlan collins, first interview from

sam kiley is life for us sam kiley is live for us. what is the situation on the ground? >> once again here we have had one of these pinpoints accurate long-range vigor missiles into the city. this hit a residential area and hit more specifically a shopping mall, a very large shopping mall causing an enormous amount of damage and wreaking havoc across the northern area of town. it is not that far from the front lines. i was in a similar location a couple of days ago where a missile had been shot out of the sky. these are very damaging missiles. probably resulting to using these because the russian forces have been pushed back from the outskirts to ukrainian counter attack. we are now seeing a lot more of these attempts to use the missiles. some of them get shot down and some of them get through. this is a part of the ongoing attempts to head out. the bombardment is going on but they are clearly getting better. these very specifically a mobile missiles. >> you said russia put out a video showing ukrainian weapons a system but ukraine is denying that? >> they have completel

cnn senior international correspondent sam kiley in the city of dnipro in the central part of the country. national security correspondent alex marquardt here with me in lviv in the west. sam, i do want to begin with you because dnipro has seen some of the heaviest shelling today, the last 24 hours. i wonder, you were living through it. tell us what you saw. >> reporter: so dnipro, this morning woke up to missile strikes or air strikes, strikes from the air, rather, than artillery shelling in three differe locations, jim. in the center of the country, important by the river, controlling the northeast and southwest routes too and for the first time on any significant level, these strikes hit. now, they hit quite close into town, not right in the center but in the western part of the city, a shoe factory where earlier on today, several hours after the strikes, the firefighters were struggling to put the fire out there. one person was killed, and overnight guard in that shoe factory and then a kindergarten was damaged by a missile that landed about 200 or 300 meters from it and an apartment

. >>> i want to go to our senior correspondent sam kiley. sam, ukrainian president zelenskyy he called that attack, and i'm quoting him now, terror at an unprecedented level. what are you learning about the situation there now? >> reporter: well, at the moment the russians are saying that they seized it to prevent it from falling or to continue being in the hands of terrorists. they're explaining the ukrainian authorities who have been there for many decades. they are currently under the control of the russian military. the power station, according to the international atomic energy authority, is okay. there has been no leak. it is functioning normally. there can be no shift change though with the people who are being held by the russians there to run it and, wolf, we just obtained video of the moments before the control room fell into russian hands. quite an extraordinary exchange that i'd like to kind of -- i think we've got and we can play you and if we can run that a bit, i can do a sort of -- we've done a simultaneous translation. it's a

for more on what those days might hold, cnn's sam kiley reports from kyiv, kaitlyn collins is at the white house which has tough diplomacy coming up and cnn's ed lavandera is close to poland where almost 2 million refugees have arrived safely. first a look at the headlines of the day from cnn's kristin fischer. >> reporter: the ukrainian resistance is not letting up, but neither is the russian offensive. this residential building was hit by the debris of a downed missile. ukraine's emergency service says at least one person was killed. incredibly in the besieged city of mariupol, signs of survivors. one day earlier an airstrike hit a theater where they were hiding despite the word children written outside. survivors who had been sheltering shows the cramping conditions aside as the city has been cut off from water, power, and heat. >> despite that, they accuse ukrainian militants of killing their own people. in the southern city of mykolaiv, bodies have been piling up. they're accusing russia of using cluster munitions to kill many civilians. it's banned. secretary of state antony bl

sam kiley. >> reporter: we're really stretched. whatever cars you have, send them here. he said airstrike, maternity hospital. this was russia's response to a global appeal for a cease-fire to evacuate a city of a million people. a bomb dropped next to a maternity hospital in mariupol. it's hospital number three. inside, a frantic search for survivors. early reports say that there were more than a dozen injured. a miraculous outcome to an attempted mass killing at a place where lives should begin. many women and children had fled to bunkers. ukraine's president renewed pleas to drive russia from its skies. >> translator: everything that the occupiers do with mariupol is already beyond atrocity. europeans, ukrainians, citizens of mariupol, today we must be united in condemning this war crime of russia. >> reporter: evacuations from other towns have been more successful but still very limited. around 00 people, mostly women and children, were bussed out of the site of europe's biggest nuclear reactor which was captured recently by russia. >> translator: the shops are empty

cnn's sam kiley reports. >> reporter: a collective breath is held as a long-awaited evacuation train slows to a halt. the odds of getting out determined by access to a carriage door. police struggle to contain the crowd. all are desperate to flee west. the mass evacuation from zaporizhzhia is part driven by the recent capture of a nuclear power station by russian invaders. here they're being begged by the control room over a public address system to stop their attack on the six reactor plant, the biggest in europe. they say you are endangering the security of the entire world. attention, stop shooting at a nuclear hazardous facility. attention, stop it. there is now a disregard as much for nuclear safety as civilian lives in cities across the country being bombarded by russia. scenes like this have not been seen in europe since the second world war in the 20th century. the mass evacuation of civilians from a major city. it's been accelerated here because the people now believe based on the evidence that they've seen elsewhere in ukraine that it is civilians who are now going to be ta

sam kiley is on the ground there. sam, russian now targeting in the middle of the country where you have been for quite some time. what are you seeing and hearing? >> reporter: well, alex, the landscape behind me, i think you can probably see some smoke there. this was an air strike in the early hours of this morning, or a strike from the air. i'm not sure if it was a cruise type missile, but a very large explosion there. tragically, one person was killed. it could have been much worse because it was 6:00 in the morning. only the caretaker was killed at the shoe factory. ot but this of course is dnipro in the middle of the country, a long way from the nearest russian ground troops. this site has no military value, clearly. it's not an airfield. airfields have been attacked in the west of the country. that at least makes some kind of military sense. but the military sense as we are seeing right across this country is from the russian perspective to try to break the back of ukrainian resistance by increasingly targeting

sam kiley, cnn in kyiv. >> all right, thanks to sam for that. for more on russia's request for aid, economic and military aid from china, we briefly told our viewers what beijing's response was through our ambassador in the united states, that it wasn't necessarily wear of a specific request. is china likely to come to the aid of russia here when it asks for it? >> well, hala, we have just asked the chinese foreign ministry for comment as well. so far they have not responded. but when they do hold their daily briefing in about three hours, i expect officials to stick to their usual talking points to stress their supposed impartiality in this conflict and likely denouncing the u.s. effort to quote, unquote smear china and probably again pointing a finger at the u.s. and nato's eastward expansion as the root cause for this conflict, which of course is really a key kremlin talking point as well. now the timing of this leak from washington is very interesting. the u.s. security -- national security adviser jake sullivan is actually going to meet his

i want to begin with sam kiley. he is "out front" again in kyiv. sam, what is the latest where you are? >> reporter: well, we've had air raid sirens. there have been distant sounds of shelling. we don't know if that's incoming or outgoing. there has been a curfew coming to an end tomorrow morning. 36 hours of curfew. there had been supposed to be potentially to clear the ground to deal with fear of a russian thrust from the east or the northeast, but actually most of the fighting seems to be concentrated in the west of the city. really the local horror has been the nearby town of cherniav to the north where ten people were killed in some kind of missile or artillery strike. others wounded. people waiting for bread reminiscent for syria, the tactics of syria where the russians systematically bombed hospitals and other civilian areas in support of president assad have been repeated across the country here clearly expanding now with the attack you're reporting on there in zaporizhzhia. we were in zaporizhzhia just last week, indeed, covering a mass eva

cnn's sam kiley is in the region for us.his bombing is certainly standing out as especially ruthless. >> reporter: yes, wolf, a new load but not unpredictable load as we look at the disregard for civilian life that the russians have shown and the record of vladimir putin's particularly in syria where there was targeting of hospitals by russian aircraft throughout his support there of president assad. by his standards, it is a new low. this is what it looked like. >> we are really stretched. whatever cars you have send them here. maternity hospital, this was russia's response to a cease-fire to evacuate a city of a million people. a bomb dropped next to a maternity hospital in mariupol. it is hospital number 3. inside a frantic search for survivors, early reports say there were more than a dozen injured. a miraculous outcome to an attempt to a mass killing at a place where life should begin. ukraine's president renewed his plea for nato after the hospital air strike. >> after the occupiers do with mariupol is already beyond a

sam kiley, cnn, saparisia. >>> that was the final message from russian channel news tv range shot down by the kremlin after implementing a strict as well as overreaching censorship bill to make it impossible to accurately report the news. the spread of fake news 15 years for those convicted. "the new york times" reports the law could make it illegal to refer to the war in ukraine as a war. the russian government ultimately decides what is fake and what is real news, prompting many networks and publications to suspend operations. cnn spoke with a news director about what information the people are actually getting and how much harm this new law has inflicted. >> i think that the society in russia is divided terribly. one parliament of russian society believes the propaganda machine which tells them every day, 24/7, shouting from televisions that russia is under the threat of nato, that nato is right around the corner and nato rocket are going to be on, i don't know -- someone is coming for vladimir putin who -- so on and so forth. but another part of russian society, this people are the

sam kiley. thank you. let's talk about this. joining me, the united states undersecretary for nuclear security at the u.s. department of energy. thank you. so for joining us. can you explain to our viewers, what is the importance of a nuclear power plant of this size? >> well, this power plan is the largest power plant in europe and provides a significant amount of the electricity to the ukrainian people. >> so ukraine's foreign minister warned, if this plant blows up, and certainly people were worried about that while it was being, it was under attack by the russians, including by russian tanks, according to the prime minister. if it blows up, it will be ten times larger than the chernobyl disaster, which also took place in what is now known as ukraine. is that a fair comparison? is that still a risk at this point? >> legalit me say two things ab this. it is not necessarily a fair comparison in that it would depend on what happened exactly at the plant. last night, there was never a threat of a meltdown of the power plant. so t

and as cnn's sam kiley shows us, the destruction that resulted from that one missile is staggering. >landed here in the small hours of this morning. now, officially according to the authorities, it was shot down. normally, that would mean the warhead was destroyed in the air. but clearly, that is not the case. beyond this truck here, beyond the jcb working, a kindergarten. mercifully, no children in it because -- because of the level of bombardment of kyiv. of course, the kindergartens are closed. but it's right opposite another school for older children. but look at the ferocity of the blast. that is what remains of a vehicle. right at the center, the epicenter, of this blast. absolute scene of devastation. if we look over this way, you can see the extraordinary level of devastation in this very densely populated residential area. these are homes, humble homes, of ordinary ukrainians struggling to get by, working with dignity, hoping one day to join the european community, possibly even nato. and this from vladimir putin's perspective is the result. now, if we walk over this way, you

our sam kiley is in dnipro in ukraine with details. >> reporter: the russians have admitted they haveent troops into the nuclear power station just south of zaporizhzhia, itself about 80 miles south of where i am in dnipro. they say that they captured it to keep it out of the hands of a terrorist regime here in ukraine. the ukrainians have said that main battle tanks fired their guns, their big guns, against this nuclear facility. we don't have independent verification of that, but we have seen video evidence that it was struck by at least one missile on the outskirts of the nuclear facility in a room designed -- described as a training area. this has been a catastrophic event that could have been utterly, utterly devastating with international condemnation of the russian move coming from around the world. but equally desperate video evidence of the efforts made by the control room inside that location have also emerged with the scientists there working inside the control room, broadcasting on the public address simm saying "this is a dangerous nuclear facility. stop your firing. do n

the senior international corn sam kiley is on the ground for us. you're in kyiv, the capital. what are you learning about this halt on the capital by the russians? >> reporter: i think they've been halted. that's the claim being made, i think with some authority, by the ukrainians. you and i have discussed it over the last week, the very aggressive campaign being conducted, particularly in the west and northwest of the ukrainian capital. very heavy exchanges of artillery fire. today there was also very significant pushes on the right-hand side dnipro in the city. that area was very significantly inundated effectively by russian troop, up until about two and a half weeks ago. then there was this counter attack. a very substantial counter attack. it is ongoing there. in both cases, the ukrainians are saying and the pentagon is confirming, they are saying the same thing. they have managed to push these forces significantly back in the west northwest and the east, wolf. now, one of the other characteristics of this combat, and these are the latest images you're looking at. that's

sam kiley in kyiv, the ukrainian capital.hank you. >>> ukrainian authorities say a ukrainian convoy was attacked in the southeastern part of the country earlier today. at least five people, as just rep reported, were injured including a child who ease listed in serious kchbl cnn's fred pleitgen is joining us now from lviv. let's talk about this, free. what are you learning about this strike on this civilian convoy? >> you know, wolf, it's part of a string of incidents where people were killed. certainly that convoy is one of the main incidents they're talking about. people originally were coming from mariupol. it's the place where the largest nuclear power plant is in europe is from as well. the convoy was seven vehicles. one thing we have to keep in mind about evacuating from the area is the terrain is quite difficult when you're trying to move large groups of people out of there. you're moving out a wide river, meandering river, so convoys like that would p move very quickly. what the ukrainians are saying is the convoy was

sam kiley in ukraine. thank you. >>> and will here in the united states, president joe biden is calling on business leaders to prepare for russian cyberattacks. he said putin is like i to use this against the u.s. for harsh sanctions. live to jeff zeleny, tell us more about the president's warning. >> reporter: president biden is delivering that blunt warning. he did it last night directly to american business leaders at a meeting of the business roundtable in washington and he told the american business leaders to really shore up their cyber defenses. he believes an attack could be imminent from vladimir putin in retaliation to all the sanctions that have been imposed over the last month or so. we're learning more information. a top cyber security official said this is not about espionage. this is about destructive activity that could be planned for some type of u.s. sector. the fbi sent out an urgent warning a couple days ago saying that russian hackers had been looking at five energy companies. essentia

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sam kiley is in dnipro, ukraine. what is the latest? can people move around? can they escape this violence? >> reporter: they can escape. well, if you take someone like mariupol, there are 300,000 people at least hoping to the out on a humanitarian convoy out of the city. one has been offered somewhat cynically by the russians to go back into russian territory. that's a nonstarter. humanitarian convoys have been unable to get food and supplies in. the mayor there now more than a week saying that they have had no food, no water, no electricity. very few -- very little ability to communicate. and then we have sumy. now sumy in the north of the country very close to the russian border. the russians did allow a convoy to go, the only one that they have allowed to go into ukrainian territory. it's technically open until 9:00 tonight local, although the sumy authorities, that's the ukrainian government, are closing it at the bottom of this hour. that's in order to allow people to move after dark and not get into difficulties through curfew. a few hundred foreign stu

more now from sam kiley who joins us from kyiv. sam, you hear the russian spokesperson talking about people from mariupol fleeing into russia, saying they're being held hostage. i wonder what you make of that and his claims people aren't being allowed out. we have seen residents of mariupol using improvised or even unofficial humanitarian corridors to try to seek safety in other areas in ukrainian territory and some of them being shot at. >> yeah, i mean, the claim that people coming occupant of mariupol have gone into russian controlled areas, particularly in what used to be known as the donbas, the areas captured by russian backed rebels in 2014, are true. they're relatively low in number, we understand. these are people who have got family connections, whose russian speaking, may not be entirely comfortable, maybe deeply reluctant to go into those locations, but they want to stay alive. there is independent reporting on the fact there have been some people fleeing into the russian held areas. the point is that's the only way that

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we're joined now by cnn's seen your international correspondent sam kiley. he's live not far from the nuclear power plant now under russian control. sam, we'll get to that in a second. if you will, i'd like to start on mariupol, a town under siege, surrounded by russian forces where there's supposed to be this temporary cease-fire, a temporary corridor to let some people out. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, john, the details of whether or not people are able to get out are still extremely unclear. there was supposed to be a brief window negotiated for mariupol, another city seized. we're not that far away. we might have expected to see the beginnings of refugees perhaps arriving perhaps in advance of that agreement on a cease-fire. prior to that, though, the city had been almost entirely sealed off. they're telling cnn more than 36 hours ago now that there was no water, electricity, or food, that the town was being constantly shelled. i think that's consistent with what united nations -- rather nato sources and western intelligent sources have said i

i want to bring in sam kiley joining us from southern ukraine. sam, i understand you are with refugees -- you were there earlier today. there were reports of russian troops blocking these agreed to evacuation corridors. what's the latest on that? >> reporter: anderson, behind me here we just have a bus that literally pulled in this second as you were coming to me, it has come from a town next to that power station seized about a week ago by russian troops in the first-ever attack on a nuclear power station. these people have been desperate to get out and this is only one of two really successful evacuations, at least in the east of the country. a relatively small number of people. there are more buses that have arrived in the last half hour or so, eight or ten buses here, anderson. we're told about 700 people. some people are standing behind even though it has fallen under occupation. this was a touch-and-go process because they were able to leave the town and then they got about two-thirds of the way in and were held up by another -- in another t

let's get straight to cnn's sam kiley in ukraine. sam, what can you tell us about these latest attacks? >> reporter: well, they are now part of a well-established pattern, aren't they, jake. this morning there was an attempt to fly a cruise missile against a target unknown, but it was brought down by sur surface-to-air missile, missile-to-missile technology here in kyiv. when it came down, unfortunately it killed one civilian when it hit that residential apartment block. many other residential apartment blocks have also been attacked over the previous days, but this one was not necessarily deliberately targeted, unlike what local authorities are saying in cherniv where we've seen 53 civilians killed in a relatively small town close to the belarusan border, including the american, and ten people killed outside a bread store, queueing for bread just yesterday. and then southwest of kharkiv, another city that has been really hammered with indiscriminate rocket fire, probably almost on the level that we've also seen in mariupol, indiscrim

sam kiley is there on the ground for us. russian targeting is moving into the center of the country, where you have been. there have been rather peaceful parts of the country, and it seems like no longer. what are you seeing? >> reporter: >> i think you're right about that, brianna. if you look at the russian strategy at the moment, it seems to be to reach over the heads of the fighting ukrainians and hit the civilians in the background. now, and perhaps to try to break their spirit as -- alongside efforts to win the war on the ground as it were against the fighting folks. so what we have seen here in dnipro is in a shoe factory, one caretaker was killed in the small hours of this morning when some kind of missile, substantial missile hit this factory, destroying most of it, was mercifully an abandoned factory and set fire to it. firefighters were still trying to put that flames out when we got there midmorning. and the same time, more or less, there were a strike that fell close to a kindergarten causing that damage and clo

. >> well, cnn's sam kiley is on the ground in kyiv, where intense fighting continues around the capital city. >> reporter: sirens have continued to go off here in the capital kyiv as the ministry of defense on the ukrainian armed forces continuing to claim that they're pushing the russians back. they've been fighting them hard in the north of the city, to the southwest, west and indeed to the east. they've inflicted casualties, some of which have been caught on video. these are russian soldiers who've been killed fighting here. and according to the ukrainians the russians are running out of logistical support. they're out of weapons. and they've been pushed back at least 70 kilometers in the east. now, we've got no independent verification of that. but clearly there has been a slight shift in tactics by the russians here, using long-range missiles to attack the capital rather than artillery, which would indicate that their artillery has now been either destroyed or pushed further away. but miserable scenes have also been witnessed on the other side, if you like, down in the south of the

in just moments, we'll go live to sam kiley in ukraine. first, alex marquardt has all the breaking news. >> reporter: across ukraine -- tonight, the sounds and scenes of war. these air raid sirens in the western sacities. in the the capital kyiv, an overnight attack on a shopping center which local officials say killed eight. the besieged port city of mariupol is emerging as a critical fight in this war. the ukrainian officer tells cnn that bombs are falling there every ten minutes. russian forces bombed an art school being used to shelter around 400 people, according to the city council, with the number of casualties still unknown. satellite images show the aftermath of the bombing where over a thousand civilians were reportedly sheltering, with the russian word for chain written clearly on the ground. tonight, ukraine rejecting a russian ultramatum. the mounting death toll across ukraine, particularly among civilians, is the result of what american and nato officials see as a stalled russian military campaign. >> the ukrainians have cont

cnn's sam kiley is live in kyiv. what are you seeing on the ground there? >> reporter: here in kyiv, there is still something of what might call an operational pause, bianna, the russians have not been maintaining the level of bombardment at the city we've seen before but nonetheless, there have been some strikes. one indeed was shot down by an anti-aircraft battery and in the west of the city, landed, some minor injuries and some severe damage to some shops and so on, but nothing catastrophic yet because the expectation is the russians are preparing to regroup and come in from the east of the country. simultaneously though, with this, there have been civilians out on the other side, if you like. civilians have been killed, about 20 of them, but probably have been a ukrainian missile, a long range ballistic missile but the russian backed separatists or russians themselves shot down over donetsk and fell down on civilians killing 20 there according to local authorities but i think the really significant development here in the humanitarian story is this move

sam kiley in ukraine. please stay safe. >>> top officials in the u.s. say they're worried that china could send aid to russia to help in the war against ukrainian. the biden administration has already promised to punish china if it does. a warning president biden repeated during a call with president xi jinping this morning. kaitlan collins reports now from the white house on what the two leaders discussed in their nearly two-hour discussion. >> reporter: for an hour and 50 minutes today, president biden spoke to chinese president xi jinping as he seeks to deter him from bailing out russia. >> china needs to sound on the right side of history. it needs to ensure that it does not backfill or in any way impede the sanctions on russia. >> he also described the consequences of china for providing material support to russia. >> reporter: biden hoping the persuade the chinese leader to distance himself from president putin and find out whether china plans to answer the request for desperately needed military equipment. >> what is critical is for every nation

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