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Kirby also says that the harsh truth is that russian troops may have been misled about their mission to begin with. >> it is not clear to us that all of the soldiers that russia has put into ukraine realized that thats what they were doing, that they were actually going to invade ukraine. >> this is war coverage remains blacked out in russia after putin signed a law that criminalizes news reporting on his invasion. not even allowed to call it a war. russias last independent network among the net...

Committing in ukraine? >> reporter: i dont know, howard, the answer to that. obviously, the presence of journalists on the ground is indo dispensable -- din us dense bl, but lives do need to be protected, positions do need to be made as this unfolds. there are lots of images. i mean, i think that the damage to vladimir putin has been done, the atrocities have been well documented to date, and one is more shocking than the next. i think there are a lot of ukrainians on the ground who will continu...

The features of authoritarian society, censorship, mass surveillance, going after political opponents, the idea of a one-party state, the kind of corrupt gangster regime in charge, you realize all those elements are present in our own country, and so suddenly its a very different way of thinking about these conflicts. its not about the fact that anybody is championing putin. no, its simply about we are asking what are we supposed to be defending one many of the things we deplored abroad are depl...

Strangled. they are shelling these areas indiscriminately, and they are shelling them -- . we have seen this before, weve seen russians do it. and theyre doing it now in the northern and southern part of the country. >> and cal, there continues to be reports about poor morale among russian soldiers in ukraine. many dont know what theyre doing there, why theyre fighting. whether the ukrainian leaders saying theyre learning from captured soldiers? what are they hearing from these russians? >> so t...

The north of the country. in the city, we saw the united nations pull off their first really successful humanitarian corridor. they were able to get food and water restored. food restored to 35,000 residents and water restored to 50,000 residents of that city. that is the first, again, humanitarian corridor that we have seen have najor success. ari? >> thats one note of some poem help for them. cal perry, thank you. let me tell what you is coming up. well continue our war coverage. i have someth...

Its showing the donbas region and saying how its being pacified and everything is fine. its a completely non-real image of the world and younger people dont watch tv for the most part, they really dont. but older people do and older people are the people who vote for president putin and they make up the majority of the country so thats what the kremlin watches and looks at. >> jill doherty there. along with russias control of war coverage comes amid the misinformation campaign. the white house a...

Criminal for the first time hours after announcing hundreds of millions of that, in ukraine. this as putins forces are brutally targeting civilians as they see food, shelter and escape from the fighting. our correspondents are in key locations in ukraine and here in the u.s., for cnns live team coverage of the russias war against ukraine. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i am wolf blitzer. you are in "the situation room." . >> this is cnn breaking ne...

>> it is the kind of thing that could get through. >> exactly. >> andrea mitchell, thank you very much for coming on this morning. we really appreciate it. all next week andrea will be reporting live from brussels and warsaw as president biden visits the region. catch "andrea mitchell reports" weekdays at 12:00 p.m. eastern. ambassador michael mcfaul, thank you as well. we really appreciate it. see you again soon. coming up, does vladimir putin have an escape route? if he does, our next gues...

On squirrels water skiing? >> so many. i think i water skied with a squirrel during my local news day. >> did you really? >> yeah. >> just give us 15 seconds for the cheerleader. >> i can do it, just not today. back to the war coverage. president biden is set to speak with chinas president xi two hours from now, a pivotal conversation that could shape the future of the war. plus, new attacks in western ukraine overnight as russia targets the city of lviv, humanitarian hub where refugees have...

Countries have made where people will be able to work there, to live there, to make their lives there however temporarily that may be. cal, we also mentioned those advances made by the ukrainian military, turning back russian forces outside of kyiv, sinking a landing vessel. youre on the western side of ukraine, but are people following those updates? has lviv changed significantly in the last few days? >> reporter: absolutely, people are following it. its the talk on every network is constant w...