biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple failed
back food he s got for his six dogs. i haven t really left my home for two months, he said. i crossed the fields, past the bomb fragments to get the food. his gentle stroll in the open, a sign of how long the violence has swelled here. not that it is slowing. nick paton walsh, cnn, ukraine. nato foreign ministers are in berlin today for talks on the crisis in ukraine. it comes as finland announces support for joining the alliance and neighbor sweden is expected to follow suit. swedish government published a security policy review on friday saying nato membership would deter conflict in northern europe. meanwhile, president zelenskyy s chief of staff accused nato of a double standard for welcoming those two nations and not ukraine. cnn asked ukraine s ambassador to the u.s. if she agrees. listen here. we would welcome nato and sweden joining nato and, of