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Way, and theyre being very smart about how theyre marshaling and using their air defense missiles. >> reporter: russias enemies if not russia have learnt the lessons of the afghan war. no one yet, though, predicting the collapse of putins power. nic robertson, cnn, brussels. >> nic, thank you very much. and here in lviv, ukraine talking every day with people affected by this war. today i spoke with the mayor of this city. a city that has become a magnet for desperate people from all over ukraine...

He called out the invasion right on the eve of the invasion, likened it to russias getting involved in afghanistan back in the 1970s and 80s. so he is somebody who clearly is not going to go down quietly. at the same time hes someone the kremlin absolutely wants to shut up and get away from the media and have his voice silenced. >> what a stand. what bravery on his part. nic, before you go, we played recently the video from arnold schwarzenegger that he had made against the war in ukraine, direc...

>> with all the trump stuff for the little bit he had the democrats liking them. he never had to limp seeing nic stuff about it. again, being mormon, doesnt have a lot of thrills, he doesnt even like to drink coffee or anything for it he ha a lot of kids. >> thats fun. >> i guess. his biggest thrill is having kids. so now hes like i cant, admit that the mask thing sucks because they wont like me anymore. >> do you know what youre talking about and its a brilliant insight strange new respect awar...

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Event. >> translator: i have been working on channel one and doing kremlin propaganda, and now i am very ashamed of it. i allowed this to come live. i helped zombify russian people. >> reporter: the real news, the news we all see of the lost and shattered lives of terrified civilians, of millions forced to flee bombed-out homes is barely getting through to russians. give putin more time and hell try to shut them off completely. but there is one thing here that president putin really is strugglin...

N tv has declined to comment. they show how many russians remain to put their liberty on the line, heartwarming for ukrainians, but so far the numbers are nowhere near the tipping point for the kremlin. now, if the kremlin is giving her a lesser sentence, they could really lock her away for a long time. it is to sort of keep her and her antiwar protests out of the headlines. she wasnt given leeb yenlt treatment. she was held for 14 hours and wasnt given access to a lawyer or her family. thats wh...

Navalnys skill is exploiting putins political vulnerabilities today the price for his success just went up. >> and navalny, too, seems to want to put up the price for putin, vowing to take his campaign global saying that his great rate for all of the kind words of support and sympathy, but thats not what he needs, he says. action, any action to bring down president putin saying the toad on the old pipeline wont overthrow itself. erin? >> thank you very much, nic. i want to bring in now vladimir ...

War he had a five and a half hour meeting with president putin. they had a press conference. then they had another hour pull aside. and president macron is trying the most optimistic tactics and going for the best possible outcome. but we did hear disappointment from his office after those talks and subsequent conversations with president putin. didnt work out. he starts out on ptimistic but s aspirations are templed by rea -- tempered by reality. >> of course the french election this year. so t...

Seem to suggest that there was some progress. officials say the talks may have set the stage even for russian president vladimir putin and volodymyr zelenskyy to meet in person. cnns nic robertson live in brussels. nic, everyone obviously very skeptical of the possibility this happened though it was raised as a possibility. what do you think? >> reporter: the russians raised it as a possibility. it was one of their two conclusions from the talks, that and stating they were dialing back their off...

Well, as the fighting rages in ukraine, western leaders are trying to show that they stand united in brussels. but the greek prime minister is warning about the price tag of sanctions on russia. he gave an exclusive interview to cnns nic robertson, who joins us again from the belgian capital. nic. >> reporter: yeah, kyriakos mitsotakis is concerned about the rising energy cost in europe at the moment. indeed, he has been a proponent at the european union of trying to find a way to cap those ener...