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
reporter: artillery fire breathing down the neck of 2 million for months. even still, it s a shock to see just how close the russians got on the other side of this road. we are told this is from the mining, a controlled blast. yet here everything is fluid. ukraine stopped russia s advance here on the first day of the war, killing two soldiers. three civilians shot dead in this car, and their bodies recovered only two days ago. you can see the colossal force used here. a tank literally thrown off the tank body. this village is liberated days earlier. people are starting to go back, he said, but they are still shelling it. two women died two days ago when
chart, northern kharkiv s scars seem imminent. troops breathing artillery fire breathing down the neck of this city of a million for months. even still, it s a shock to see how close the russians got. on the other side of this road. we are told this is from the mining, a controlled blast. yet here, everything is fluid. ukraine stopped russia s advance here on the first day of the war, killing two soldiers by this armor. three civilians shot dead in this car then, and their bodies recovered only two days ago. you can see the colossal force used here. a tank turret literally that full distance thrown off the tank body. the village lies ahead. liberated days earlier. people are starting to go back, he said, but they are still