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To be said there has been some progress made. there is high level talk tomorrow in turkey. between the foreign ministers of russia and ukraine. and as i was saying earlier, some shift there in the negotiating position. ukrainians saying they would no longer insist on nato membership. thats very significant and russian side ukrainian neutrality and recognition of donetsk, and crimea as independent. some real hopes for negotiated settlement. the feeling is they are not quite ready for that but pos...

>> and when you say that, you say a better negotiating position with russia. what will it take to get to that, to that stage, to get to the negotiating stage where seriously there is talk of ending this senseless war here? >> well, what has to happen is the kremlin must understand that it simply cannot win. it simply cannot achieve those ridiculous objectives that putin identified, such as, you know, complete demilitarization, some imaginative denotification of ukraine. one of putins objectives ...

Lifts, to try to take people wherever they need and the same thing is happening here. local people really supportive of the ukrainians who are coming over. most of those who are coming over, 30,000 ukrainians were told to come all of them are staying here in this tiny country, just waiting to see what is going to few of them are going on to countries outside. that with lucy reporting from the moldova ukraine border. ive got some lines coming in from the advisor to ukraines presidential office. h...

Sentiment. at the time when putin is struggling to do that, i dont want to give them any propaganda lifeline. look. putin is losing. but a defeated putin is also a dangerous putin. and i think we do have to be -- weve got to support the ukrainians, but do it in a careful way. i think the russians want to bring us into this conflict. i think that may be putins last ga gambit, if he sees the forces in ukraine. and if he can bring us in, and in effect, terrify us into believing that world war iii i...

Out to me how putin focused on the strategic key elements here. hes taken -- working on taking the coast and black sea, kharkiv and if he gets kyiv itself hes in a really good negotiating position. people look ahead to the outcome. nobody know what is putin is planning here. full occupation or not, if he can control strategic sites he has a stronghold in the country and he doesnt have to go the whole way if he can control those sites. its interesting to do that and quite successfully and once yo...

Happen. if russia using tactical nuclear weapons. if russia using chemical of biological weapons. what happens if putin inadvertently or deliberately ventures on to nato territory. every time we saw that you know, if putin ventures, you know, were going to protect every single inch of nato territory. what putin hears is well i guess the rest is mine. so nato has to figure out what to do. the eastern flank needs to be bolstered. what are the kinds of things where we cannot only ramp up sanctions,...

Hold for 12 hours. >> well, a few things. first we have to maintain this increase and expedited stream of lethal assistance. there are still missile systems, body armor, sniper rifles the ukrainians need. without that hard power on the ground the ukrainians dont have a good negotiating position. were doing a ban on russian oil. as we do the global economic war against putin which i support, we cannot maintain the war on domestic american oil and gas production. that is the fatal flaw in our appr...

Here in the united states and all around the world. it is wednesday, march 16, im john berman with brianna keilar. and breaking overnight, russian forces shelling a residential building just a short dancistan from kyiv. and this is new video were getting in, rescue workers evacuated dozens of people. there are reports of injuries. we have the video just into cnn showing the moment the building was hit. watch this. that is a residential complex just a short distance from the city center of kyiv. ...

This. hes going to try. i dont know how you try. thank you so much for that. . >> youre welcome. >> and "new day" continues right now. >> this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, march 16th, and im brianna keilar with john berman. breaking just moments ago, before he addresses the u.s. congress, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is getting more realistic in their negotiating position as talks between the two c...

But, again, from where i sit, diplomacy requires both sides engaging in good faith to de-escalate. and i dont see signs right now that putin has prepared to stop. on the contrary, if you listen to, just for example his most recent remarks yesterday, that suggest that he is moving in the opposite direction. >> so to pick up on the point that you were talking about there about putin showing us his cards, it seems that hes refusing to negotiate in good faith. is diplomatic -- is a diplomatic soluti...