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>> while russia says its nuclear intentions are purely defensive, that brings to mind its previous assurances that it had no intentions to invade ukraine. >> translator: its in the minds of western politicians that nuclear war in going on. not in the minds of russians. >> only putin knows how far he would really go. in the meantime, its a gamble the west cant afford to take. cnn in london. >> high level talks between ukraine and russia are scheduled for tomorrow. the kremlin already previewed so...

Vladimir putin repeatedly lied about his intentions to invade ukraine. should the rest of the world ever believe putin? especially when hes put his nuclear deterrence forces on high alert and warned the world about, quote, consequences never experienced before. cnn takes a closer look now at putins nuclear arsenal and the legitimate fear that people have that he might actually use it. >> reporter: as russias tanks rolled into ukraine, vladimir putin made a threat not heard since the height of th...

Put down with our own jets, but we are unfortunately running out of those. so, when i hear about this war, this world war iii, lets be -- lets talk directly how it is being called now. i think if putin wants to go into war, he will. because ukraine never escalated. in 2014, when he invaded ukraine and took crimea and donbas, we were a neutral country. we had no intentions for nato, and the majority of population did not support ukraine joining nato. actually, we had more support for nato after h...

Lack of funds to pay the police and propaganda and then you can expect a palace coup. unless you win soon the war, he might be facing many challenges he couldnt cope with. thats why he uses every resource at his disposal and also the statements very timid statements from president biden and other leaders are just basically giving giving putin a greenlight to continue his massing against ukraine. >> based on what you know about putin why did russia attack ukraine? >> putin never -- was never shy ...

>> reporter: cnn found that in one place, any man gets special attention from police. >> we are afraid that russians may have sent some of their own. >> reporter: ukraines rail chief says security has been beefed up to guard against saboteurs planting special targets to guide russian missiles. staff detained this man mere kharkiv. how do you no hknow for sure ? >> russian documents. >> reporter: his wife found someone suspicious. >> translator: im happy that there are such security measures. if ...

This. he received the link in his office for this. you start this conversation mentioning what the u.s. was saying. okay. u.s. normally is provide evidence. u.s. find a way to provide evidence to the prosecutor if the u.s. really wants to support justice for ukraine. >> yeah, i mean, is it complicated by the fact that the united states doesnt recognize the icc, nor does russia? could that undermine or muddy efforts to hold russia accountable? >> well, the prosecutor has to collect the evidence. ...

Anything other than the russian targeting is now screwed up. im being quite frank here. russians would love, the russian forces would love to have more migrants moving along the humanitarian corridors and demonstrated they want to use those as targets. im being very cynical here but honest if this corridor held, its because the russians couldnt target. >> thats really interesting. kim, i mean, this came after, this corridor in sumy, after a russian air strike killed 21 civilians in that city. if...

Presidents lets get, im sure youre fully aware, has been critical of the alliance after the refusal to in force a no fly zone, deliver jets to ukraine, and now he says that ukraine should accept that it wont be able to join nato. how has this conflict shaped the alliance? for better or for worse? >> i think putin deserves a lot of credit for solidifying the alliance, as i, said the end of magical thinking about russia and putin and what his intentions are. and the need -- if you were -- the util...

Heard that he was killed. in terms of overall death toll, if he is part of that, the u.s. believes around 2,000 to 4,000 russian soldiers have been killed so far in this campaign and this war in ukraine. but the u.s. intelligence community saying that assessment is one that they make with low confidence. anderson. >> alex marquardt, appreciate the reporting, thank you. tensions between the u.s. and russia may be skauyrocketin but theres a new report as it comes to their intentions with the uni...

♪ ♪ >> carley: developing right now, irans supreme leader signaling support for tehrans nuclear negotiations in exchange for sanctions relief. it comes with world powers near a turning point in efforts to revive the no to obama -era nuclear deal. whether to remove the u.s. pair of designation for irans revolutionary guard. allies including israel want the forest to remain on the terrorist list. after they were thrown into disarray when russia demanded trade with iran be exempt from western i...