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In the city, as across the country, watching the speech president biden gave very closely. while on the one hand they say they need more weapons and they wanted the no-fly zone, theyre grateful for the support from the u.s. and he ask the way it has united the west. >> fred pleitgen, thank you very much. much more on our braungseaking right after the break. youre live in the "cnn n newsroom."

Freedom and for the good of the whole world against evil, yes, but we want to know that we will be weaponed, because now some of our people are coming and russia is using the sky to attack us with missiles like in lviv. hospitals and schools in our country are under attack from the sky, so we desperately need air defense and aircraft. >> alex, you toured the city of ker neve, the mayor says the city is surrounded and there have been direct hits on hospitals. tell us what youre seeing there and w...

Fire. my mother was -- [ speaking spanish ] zbloonl . >> my mother was still alive while she was on fire. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: she died at that location and she was still alive. she got the fire -- the clothes caught fire and she just burned. >> alex, its so awful to hear these stories. that young man was just talking about his mother who was burned alive. what is your response to vladimir putin and the russians who continue to carry out these kinds of war crimes? its jus...

Also in poland, meeting with refugees and leaders. and more than anything else trying to rally western democracies to the challenge of this moment thats going to be one they will be dealing with more months and years ahead. >> and the president also put putin on notice, not to make one move on any inch on nato territory. phil mattingly, thank you very much there in warsaw. we appreciate it. were following the breaking news of a fuel shortage. a storage facility was hit by russian missiles toda...

How does that message penetrate -- or what can the u.s. government do to get those kinds of messages inside and breaking through putins, you know, firewall of propaganda? thats going to be difficult for all russian people to even hear when president biden had to say today. >> no question, jim, that its difficult. but i think we have to use every tool at our disposal. one of those is when a president has microphone on the world stage, as president biden did today, and has on most days. we have to...

Reaffirmation of our nato article 5 commitment when he talked again about protecting every inch of nato territory. i think it was also a good message to the russian people, a truthful message, an accurate message about what vladimir putin is not only doing to the people of ukraine, but what hes doing to the people of russia destroying their economy as he tries to destroy ukraine. lastly, jim, id say the speech was a marked contrast from what we saw in july of 2018 in helsinki, finland, when pres...

About the city. i think its 720,000. he said 1 million people. plus 200,000 additional people who have come here from other parts of the country, parts of the country that had been under bombardment, really heavy bombardment. and they thought there was relative safety here, but many of them were worried that this could actually happen, that this could happen or it could get worse. so they went across the polish bo border. >> could it be a coincidence that the russians struck this city a few hour...

Ago saying the same thing. thats what he and a lot of -- i would argue probably all ukrainians would like to see immediately vladimir putin to leave the scene. colonel leighton, great to see you. thank you very much. we appreciate it. coming up, were live with the reaction to president bidens flamethrower of a speech. well have more in just a few moments. youre live in the "cnn newsroom." his future became my focus. lavender baths always c calmed him. so we turned batath time into a business. ...

President bidens speech in that last hour. do you think he went far enough in reassuring the ukrainian people? and what did you make of his warnings to vladimir putin? >> the speech was strong, passionate, so i liked the speech. but what i think should be more in the speech is some precise details of what will be done in support of ukraine. i mean, i would be happy to hear about air defense systems or finally the decision about aircraft, polish aircraft, because its poland. ukraine is so despera...

Missiles hit lviv on natos doorstep. cnn military analyst colonel leighton. people were wondering where putin or the russians were trying to send a message to the americans, that they can strike where they want to at any given moment. what was your thought when you saw that? >> i definitely thought, jim, this was a case where the russians decided we were going to send a message not only to president biden but to the poles and all of nato that we can strike without impunity. that if you attempt t...