journalist. and elon musk sends twitter stock into a frenzy regarding his multi-billion takeover of the company. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with dkim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been taken from the russian forces and that the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. translator: today we can report on 200 downed military aircraft. russia has not lost so many aircraft in any war in decades, and russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claim it is successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas, that it destroyed 70 armed vehicles, including tanks. about 30 tanks were left stranded after make bing the crossing. the pentagon says secretary lloyd austin again appealed for a cease-fire and to keep the lines of communication open
driver adds. desperation takes different forms here. and caught by another kind of survival is dimitri, whose wife moved away some time ago. wheeling back food for his dog. i cross the fields, past the bomb fragments to et gget the f. his gentle stroll, a sign of how long the violence has swelled here, not that it is slowing. nick paton walsh, ukraine. ukraine is also start ing a high-profile war crimes trial. prosecutors say the soldier carried out orders to shoot and kill an unarmed civilian under concern that the rusperson coul