on saturday and as we drove away from the mountain village, we got reports of the missile strikes in lviv, multiple explosions and a reminder how expansive, intensive this war is and how rare it s to hear the sentence i feel safe. it was the first time i d heard it seance i came to ukraine. thank you very much, salma. as some ukrainians find more and more ways to escape the country, the bodies of russian soldiers are piling up in ukraine. volodymyr zelenskyy saying the number of russian soldiers killed exceeded 16,000 as for er oil tycoon is making a bold prediction about vladimir putin and grip on power. he led the largest private oil company and crossed putin and spent ten years in prison. i spoke with him this week. thank you for being with me. one month into putin s invasion,
backtracking telling reporters he wasn t calling for regime change when he said putin shouldn t remain in power. good evening, i m erin burnett. welcome to a special edition of out front. russian forces with bombardment and air raid sirens in multiple cities including kyiv. zelenskyy saying russia is targeting more cities in the west. we have yet to see video of the strikes but it was yesterday when a fuel depot in lviv 40 miles from the polish border was also struck. the new attacks coming as ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy gave the first interview since the start of the war which is a significant thing and russia is banning anything there from publishing it. zelenskyy said he won t sit down
ukrainian shelter, food, water, with anything. go to cnn.com and we have links to organizations working on the ground to make a difference. so many people trying to help with such a huge need. 100%. thank you for joining us tonight. i m pamela brown in washington. i m don lemon in lviv. pleasure working with you. see you soon. special edition of erin burnett out foront is next. multiple explosions rocking ukraine tonight. the attacks coming as the war continues. mariupol the humanitarian cast tas fee is unequivocal and biden
then you just have to look at the russian mentality and russian history traditionally as soon as someone in russia loses the war and stand up in a difficult situation that means loss for them. at the moment, the situation in ukraine is not black and white and it is only if putin manages to actually claim that he has crimea and donetsk and also to assure that ukraine declares their neutralitiy and this will be enough for the russians and when he has his man in kyiv and when zelenskyy is out of the country or moves to lviv. thank you very much. i m grateful to you for your time and look forward to