desperately-needed crop. details how president biden is responding to this inflation and gas prices hitting a record high. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we begin in the ukrainian city of severodonetsk which is being fought over street by street. ukrainian governor said most of the city is under russian control, but he says ukrainians are still putting up resistance. russian officials say negotiations are under way about hundreds of civilians believed to be sheltering at a local chemical plant. in mariupol, russia isn t trying to give proper burials to civilians killed during its bombardment of the city. russian forces have torn down 1,300 high-rise apartment buildings even though there were dozen of bodies buried understood beneath. and ukraine is condemning what it calls a sham trial of three foreign fighters who fought in its military. they ve been sentenced to death in a pro-russian separatist. in the past hour, ukraini
understood beneath. and ukraine is condemning what it calls a sham trial of three foreign fighters who fought in its military. they ve been sentenced to death in a pro-russian separatist. in the past hour, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy took his message to a top security summit in asia. he virtually addressed the dialogue which is under way in singapore. zelenskyy said ukraine will definitely prevail against russia and the world must draw the line from moscow. here he is. we must stop russia. we must stop the war which this state has stated against my state trying to bring the world back in the old times when the freedom of peoples and people s lives were of no significance at all. we must break the ability of
russia and any other country in the world to block, cease and destroy the freedom of navigation. if it s about sanctions, then we need sanctions. it s it s about symmetrical measures, then we these need measures. russia must feel that its belligerent policies will have consequences for itself as well. cnn correspondents are covering the conflict from every angle. our salma abdelaziz is in kyiv with the latest from ukraine and oren lieberman is in singapore. so first, to you, salma in kyiv. we got word from ukraine s prosecutor s general office that it learned about the deaths of another 24 children in mariupol due to russian shelling, compounding the growing tragedy in that city and the country. reporter: absolutely. and these estimates, according to president zelenskyy, are absolutely not complete.
so for ukraine to be able to claw back or even just defend what s left in these regions, that s going to require a lot of help, kim. yeah, absolutely. salma abdelaziz in kyiv, oren lieberman in singapore. thank you to you both. germany s agriculture minister joined other european leaders in accusing russia as using food as a weapon of war in ukraine. russia s blockade of the port in odesa seen here in better times left ukraine unable to ship some 22 million tons of grain. that s raised global food prices and could cause a catastrophic foot shortage. turkey is working with russia and ukraine on a plan to restart grain exports but no deal has been reached. u.n. backed plan was open a safe shipping corridor but among the key issues how to safeguard it and clear russian mines placed off ukraine s coast. ukrainian agricultural official says next year s grain harvest could be reduced by as much as
everyone here acknowledges that there is a parallel, either perceived or actual between ukraine and russia s invasion of its smaller neighbor and what might be a possibility in taiwan as the u.s. warns that china may be or is using rhetoric suggests it may be willing to change the status quo with taiwan with perhaps in the future an invasion of taiwan. for those reasons ukraine has been an issue that s come up over and over again. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy knows his audience here. it s not just a conference in singapore. this is also where many of the heads of the militaries and military officials have come to gather here. so he knew exactly who he was talking to. as we have seen him do so often, he at least to some extent tailored his message to this audience. quoting the first prime minister of singapore as he spoke. here is part of what he had to say just a short time ago. translator: russian prop began is insidious and disinformation campaign that russia s war again