>> translator: in the donetsk region in general, and in the reengs in general and kharkiv and the surrounding areas, the occupiers are trying to achieve a goal, to kill as much as possible and destroy everything they see. also ahead this hour, still can cultural wars, governor desantis signs law punishing disney which affects black voters and putting restrictions on how schools, businesses can talk about race and gender. i want to get straight to the war in ukraine now. live for us there in lviv. hello to you. what is the latest on the situation on the ground tonight? >> reporter: good evening to you, don. what we have been seeing in the last 24 hours or so has been the push and pull of battle. the fighting has intensified in eastern ukraine as ten of thousands of russian forces have amassed in the region and continue to unleash quite frankly a fire storm of artillery and air strikes. this is when we know for this hour in the east for w that new offensive. in the donbass region pb 42 settlements are now under control, but the ukrainian governments telling us they hope to get them back under their control. about 80% is under russian control, more than 2,500 people are still hiding in shelters and basements. that is terrifying. and that, don, is just here, but have a look at this drone video. this is a village or i should say was a village just north of kyiv, and it looks to the untrained eyes like a tornado has gone through it. this is not an act of god. it's the aftermath of a barrage of russian artillery and air strikes. the extent of russian atrocities that we have been seeing every day. just to be clear for our viewers, there is no military infrastructure here, just the houses of families. he was critical in portland cities, it enabled them to kind of repel the russian advance toward the capital, kyiv. so those soldiers will be here today, and that's not just them only. in the last 30 minutes or so, the ukraine minister said he met with soldiers from ashun and -- >> so russia lost its prized warship a little over a week ago after it was attacked. what more is russia saying about that key loss? >> if you remember, if you take your mind back about a week or so ago, the russians did say the naval ship had gone down but then providing what we can call con flicking narrative account of what happened. they insisted it was sunk by a fire. they blamed the weather for it. but now we're getting more information directly from the russians who say that one crew member has died, 57 are missing but 396 were evacuated to another ship in the black sea. but now we are hearing from the father of a sugs soldier who's son was a ship cook. he wrote this on social media. i want to read it out to you. it was reported that the entire crew has been evacuated. it's a lail lie, and now we'll have to look into the matter after how long this gone missing in the open sea can continue. so there you have it. a lot of unanswered questions still after what was a major military embarrassment for moscow, don. >> we appreciate you reporting. stay safe. >> thousands of people are still trapped in mariupol as russia continues to bomb. cnn's matt rivers was live in lviv today and he talked to some who had made an escape. >> the train was designated just for evacuees. if all went to plan, it would arrive here packed with evacuees. instead, just a handful of families found safety. including this woman and her daughter who fled mariupol. they are furious there are not more that got out. she said so many should have been evacuated, but the russians kept shelling. they are not human beings. i don't know who gave birth to them. horrific. hosk an active word to describe what the russians have done to the people of mariupol. a task now as common place as it is morbid. some of the dead are loaded into russian-marked trucks while others have been buried in alleged mass graves seen here in new satellite imagery. and yet, for the tens of thousands who survive here, they need to get out and cannot. he said humanitarian corridors declared by russia are only on paper. russians come mate the mass majority of the city. if they wanted to let people leave safely, they could. and yet, corridors have failed with ukraine accusing russia of repeatedly violating cease-fires. it's meant a couple of evacuees has slowed to a trickle, and even then, danger awaits. ukraine's military said this train actually came under fire as it was leaving a station. some of the train cars were so badly damaged, they had to be left behind. it's another example, ukraine says, of how russia continues to target civilians. for those from mariupol, these are some of the first moments they have felt safe in weeks. we were just thinking about our survival, she says. i don't know how i'm going to tell my son about such terrifying events. she says she'll eventually tell her son about russian brutality, about the needless destruction of an entire city, and maybe her son will live long enough to return to mariupol one day. others doubt they'll have their chance. she says, i want to believe that i'll return there, but i think we'll need many years to restore the city, and i'm not going to be around that long. matt rivers, cnn, lviv ukraine. >> i want to bring in now retired u.s. colonel. hello. thank you for joining us once again. one of putin's top demanders saying putin wants to establish full control of southern ukraine. that's more than just donbass. they want their land blij, but will they try to take odesa? >> i think that's the big question. let's take a look at this map right here which shows southern ukraine. right over here is mariupol where of course all the big fighting is going on, and we have the siege which in essence is getting into its final stages. look how close this is. this is the closest point of approach i should say to odesa. it's not far. it's less than 50 miles. the russian troops on that little peninsula there. so what the russians could do is try to go to mykolyev and from there go to odesa. the other thing they could do if they're brave enough to do this, they could try to go in from the sea with an amphibious attack. having said all of this, this would be under ideal conditions from the russian point of view. there's a lot of stuff that's going on that really may prevent the russians from realizing this goal, but the ukrainians have to be aware that the russians are trying to do this and the best way to prevent this from happening is of course to have a defensive force ready to go, postured to make sure none of this happens from the sea, and none of this happens from land. >> the mayor in southern ukraine there says that one person has died and six more wounded today as shelling is increasing in his city. what can ukraine do to reenforce cities like odesa so those battles don't turn out like mariupol? >> that's a really critical question for the ukrainians because what they're going to have to do is make sure that they prevent the encirclement of these cities. so they'll have to have defensive position around here when we look here and the same really goes for any land approaches to odesa ask. same of course for the sea sae. they in essence from v to use the antiship missiles that the americans and british are providing the ukrainians. they have to be in place in order to be effective against anything that might happen from the sea. so those are two things they can do. the other thing is to defend from the air. anything they can do whether it's stinger antiaircraft missiles and of course if they get tanks into this area which they're not getting into as of yet, but if they do get them, they'll have to have the proper equipment to go after them. that's part of the goal of the shipments that president biden and the western allies have authorized. >> speaking of -- i found it interesting that lithuania's president is calling for more nato troops to be sent to eastern european countries, including his own. what is the threat russia poses to its neighbors if putin won't settle for biting off pieces of ukraine? >> that's a great question because the the threat levels where the president made that comment, they're right on the front line. this is the belarus border right here. this is the russian border, and st. peters sberg right there. so all of these areas are really at risk from the russians going in and actually trying to take over some of these areas. it's not far to get from here all the way to the baltic coastline of estonia or lithuania, and these are all nato member states. so if that happened, article five of the treaty would be invoked, and that means all of the nato countries have to defend this territory right here. that becomes the big issue, are we ready to do this and are all the different countries ready to go in and make sure they protect their territory, and i think the answer is becoming yes as we get equipment into these countries and make sure the older equipment goes into ukraine where it can be used for the fight that's currently going on against russia. >> i want to talk more about the latest weapons package to ukraine. that includes drone as well as a significant amount of artillery. how can weapon systems like these work together to give ukrainians the edge that they need so desperately on the battlefield right now? >> so one of the key things in this area, take a look at the how lit ser for example. it has a lot of electronic equipment that's associated with it. this is basically a cannon that's designed to provide the kind of fire support that the ground forces need against opposing ground forces and especially against armor. so when these weapons are fired, their targeting is based on intelligence inputs and radar inputs. this also goes for the things like the s-600s. all of these things can be put together in a way that gives you a common operational picture. that's a fancy way of saying using all the weapon systems that you have and all the sensors tough give the commander exactly what he or she needs to see on the battle space. so they get a picture like this, that's what the ukrainians need in order to get a real time view of the battle space. when that happens, they can then act on it and provide that kind of information to each of these weapon systems so they can target all the different pieces coming towards them. >> colonel, thank you so much. we'll see you soon. >> you bet, don. could vladimir putin actually win his war on ukraine, and what could that mean for the rest of the world? 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>> the thing that the russians have been most successful at so far has been withdraw. the withdraw from particularly around kyiv. they weren't routed when they took those troops out. the focus of that redeployment the overwhelmingly the donbass. they're trying to mop up the city they've destroyed is because they want those troops available to take the rest of the donbass. it's probably a couple more months, but that is the intention to take all of the donbass. it's about 2/3 more territory than they occupied in south ukraine before they started the invasion. it is the land bridge to crimea which they largely already hold, and it's also the this city which is very important because that was how the ukrainians cut off the water to crimea back when they annexed crimea in 2014. those are their proximate goals. they're likely to be able to solve them in the coming months. the ukrainians have the ability to counterattack. >> i want to read something you said and the economists about president putin. he doesn't have much more to lose. russia already faces a transalantic political military alliance that has imposed harsh sanctions on its country. -- genocide and to treat mr. putin. a scorched earth approach would probably win him a limited military victory. so what should the world brace for? >> since i wrote that piece, today the german chancellor actually made another point in that regard. he said we will do nothing in germany that will risk world war three. kind of like what biden is saying. there's not much more you can do. you're not going to do a no-fly zone. you're not going to send your troops to directly fight against the russians. that mean russia doesn't have much to fear. if they take all the donbass, they'll get it and maybe they sit for a while. but if they don't, if the ukrainians can push them back, the willingness of the russians to destroy more cities with b the willingness of the russians to use chemical weapons. the cia director said it's plausible they would use tactical weapons in the battlefield, the worst case scenario. the russians don't feel like those sorts of activities in ukraine would risk further action against them in russia. and that's what we are bracing for if reality is this war is going to continue. >> the u.n. secretary-general is set to meet with putin early next week. can anything come from that meeting? >> i'm glad he's going. i will tell you, an tone owe is a good friend. he has a working relationship with the russian defense minister that he's had for a couple of decades when they were both working on decon flix in the north caucuses. that's helpful. he is obviously very strongly trusted by the ukrainian president. he's been critical of russia, but he has maintained that relationship in a way that none of the nato leaders could do for obvious reasons, right? they're fighting against russia, the head of the united nations, but he's not fighting against russia. so anything we can do to have a person who is trusted by the west that can engage directly with putin, understand where putin's head is, understand how he is from a health perspective, understand kind of what he's thinking, we need more intelligence and information. at the very least, i think an tone owe will be able to accomplish that when he meets with putin next tuesday. >> you say there is a goldy locks scenario for the war to end. what does that look like because i can't imagine where everyone involved is happy with the outcome. >> that's exactly the point. it's still much worse than if there had never been a war or invasion. it's a scenario where no one gets what they want. so the russians aren't able to remove zelenskyy or take over ukraine. you still have this international hero who is running a country that putin doesn't believe is legitimate, but the russians are occupying a piece of territory in donbass that allows putin to go back to his own people and say i've averted genocide. i've now protected the russians on the ground. now, that's not going to get i a negotiated settlement, but it at least freezes the fighting for a while. he's going to want to talk about freezing the conflict and bringing in peace keepers. frankly, there are countries out there that would be willing to send peace keepers on the ground to ukraine if there was a frozen conflict. that's not a happy scenario at all, but it's better than some of the directions we could be heading. >> all the action the west has taken against russia including all the sanctions and cutting off energy, that's going to influence economies and politics worldwide. what risks do you see there? >> the biggest risk is about food. you had 9 million people around the world that died of starvation last year. those numbers are going way up. and they're going way up because energy prices are much higher, they're going way up because fertilizer is suddenly not available and because food exports are more channeling. i was just in washington for the imf world bank meetings, and this is an absolute pyre priority for everyone at the meeting. even if they do what's plausible in the coming months, a lot more people are going to strarve or be food stressed just because the largest grain producer in the world has just invaded the fifth largest grain producer in the world and all that supply chain is disrupted. on the back of the pandemic when we already had these challenges. >> the book is called how three threats and our response will change the world. and it is by the great ian brimmer. be well and thank you so much for being here. >> good to see you. math textbooks, disney world, businesses addressing how to talk about race and gender, they all have one thing in common, they're caught up in ron dedesantis' culture wars. tater totting, cold or hotting. mealin', feelin', pie-ing, trying. color your spread. upgrade your bread. pair it. share it. kraft singles. square it. ♪ ♪ ♪i'm so defensive,♪ ♪i got bongos thumping in my chest♪ ♪and something tells me they don't beat me♪ ♪ ♪ ♪he'd better not take the ring from me.♪ you're a printer, you're supposed to print! ugh! i mean is it the cartridges? 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