nuclear facility that they attacked and plant officials saying technicians are working now at gun point. i want to go now to cnn international correspondent michael holmes in levive, ukraine and our senior white house correspondent phil mattingly live from the white house. michael, i ll start with you in lviv. the pentagon is saying russia fired more than 500 missiles in ukraine and western intelligence officials telling cnn that the u.s. and nato believe that russia now plans to, quote, bombard cities into submission. talk about the toll that could take on the ordinary people who are helping to fight for their country. hi, don. it s frightening, isn t it, just those words, chilling, this intel moving to bombard ukrainian cities into submission. just those words. as we have discussed in the past you can look at grozni and chechnya, aleppo in syria, and
now. they cannot beat us face to face so they are resorting to these techniques they used in aleppo and grosni but nevertheless, i m sure ukraine will overcome. western intelligence official telling cnn that u.s. and nato officials now believe that russia is changing strategy, they are poised now to bombard cities into submission. they expect more attacks and casualties. how does this end? this will end, this will only make putin s crime bigger, but he cannot conquer this country. this country doesn t want him. this country wants her freedom and her way of life. this country wants, the russian reality where two men sit in one room and say you know what, i ll be president next four years and he will be prime minister then
saving you up to $500 a year. so boost your bottom line by switching today. get the new samsung galaxy s22 series on comcast business mobile and for a limited time save up to $750 on a new samsung device with eligible trade-in. situation continues here on the ground in ukraine and as we re reporting senior western intelligence official says u.s. and nato officials believe russia is poised to, quote, bombard cities into submission and likely cause significant civilian casualties. no clear end in sight. many are still sheltering in ukraine, i ve spoken a number of times this week with el eleni ganesh we spoke earlier today a mom in a shelter in kyiv
the u.s. and nato officials saying tonight that russia is poised to, quote, bombard cities into submission, that source telling cnn there could be significant civilian casualties, so joining me now is colonel john spencer, member of the california state guard and an urban warfare expert, so glad to have you back on, colonel, thank you so much. we ve seen how bad this is getting, entire apartment buildings destroyed, firefights around nuclear plants, convoys with trucks capable of deploying thermobaric weapons have been spotted and now this warning from the u.s. and nato, i hate to ask you this, but how much worse can this get? unfortunately, i think it will and can and will get much, much worse. we ve only unfortunately seen the beginning of this.
that s beginning at 10:00 a.m. moscow time, which was about half an hour ago. now, it declared this cease-fire along these corridors, those exit routes had been agreed to, say the russians, with the ukrainian side. now, at the same time according to both the u.s. and nato russia is prepared to now, quote, bombard cities into submission, a move that will no doubt cause even more significant civilian casualties. it comes as the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is blasting nato for not approving a no-fly zone over ukraine. he said that gives russia the green light to bomb ukrainian towns and villages even more. and he called nato countries weak and insecure. translator: nato s summit took place today. a weak summit. a confused summit. a summit that shows that not everyone considers the struggle for freedom to be europe s number one goal. now, we re learning around