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Who are in care. who are in kyiv. my cousin's wife, she said that we were starting to panic. they are hiding somewhere in the basement. we are starting to panic because the tanks are in the city. there is fighting in the city. they don't have any food, they don't have any money, there's nothing they can do. the war needs to stop. i need people to be more proactive, if they have russian culture within them, they need to be more proactive about stopping the war. sonja came from russia to study, and now works in the music industry. she's also incredibly anxious about what is happening. horrible e...

Mind its previous assurance that's it had no intentions to invade ukraine. >> translator: it is in the minds of western politicians that nuclear war is going on. not in the minds of russians. >> reporter: only president putin knows how far he would really go. in the meantime, it's a gamble that the west can't afford to take. cnn in london. >> our thanks to nina for that report. a city under fire. people crying as adults franl particularly look for a lost orphan as they try to evacuate one of the ukrainian cities being targeted by putin's barbaric war. stay with us.

>> reporter: this expert says the mere threat is designed to change the dynamics of the war. >> he's in a corner. somebody in a corner. in situation does become more dangerous. he's more prepared the take risks. still, it is most unlikely. the probability is low. >> reporter: the last time nuclear weapons were unleashed in 1945, more than 100,000 died. could a u.n. disarmament conference, japan expressed grave concern about russia. >> as the only country to have suffered atomic bombings during the war, japan is fully aware of the catastrophic human consequences of the use of nuclear weapons. w...

Russians seizing on record breaking gas prices. >> president biden keeps breaking records. but unfortunately, those records are breaking america's budget. these are not putin prices. they're president biden's prices. >> reporter: an economic data point the white house is bracing for is the consumer price index report that is coming out tomorrow. the white house saying that they do expect to see a high headline inflation. one of the major reasons is energy prices and the president himself and his aides have made clear that russia ill port ban, the oil import ban announced yesterday, that is onl...

Nuclear. >> reporter: only nine countries have nuclear weapons. the theory is they are preventive, hopefully never to be needed in battle. according to the arms control association, russia has the largest number of warheads. just over 6,000. while the u.s. isn't far behind no, other country, not even israel or north korea, has anywhere near this time of capability. most of russia's warheads are not on missile bases. just over 1,400 of them are deployable at the moment. these find. they on weapons like ballistic missiles, submarine missiles and also on bombers. but would russia's president real...