casualties is taking place around back hewitt. the wagner merscenary group see to be making gains. ukrainian forces say they re standing their ground in the face of intense russian assault. fred, over the course of the past few months, this fight has evolved from a longer range battle with artillery, tanks, to urban warfare in the city, fighting street to street, building to building. there is no talk yet of surrendering the city on the ukrainian side. president zelenskyy has stoft en softened his stance on that. meanwhile, fred, as this second year of the war starts, there is no indication that president putin is softening his stance that he plans on changing course or he plans to pull back or sit down for any kind of negotiations. the cia director, bill burns,
unnecessary and escalatory. this as u.s. and european allies seek so further punish russia for its invasion of ukraine that includes tough new financial sanctions and new flight bans. still russian forces are pushing deeper into ukraine. resistance has reportedly been fierce. and in some placing the fighting street to street. but russia forces are advancing, these new satellite images you see show columns of military equipment 40 miles outside the capitol kyiv, and closing in. today ukraine s president volodymyr zelensky agreed to negotiations with russian officials without preconditions. as the fighting rages the unit nation reports nearly 400,000 people have fled the country. most of them women and children. we begin tonight on the ground in ukraine with cbs holly williams. reporter: in just a few short days ukraine has transformed into a war zone. one russian missile hit an oil depot on the outskirts of the capitol kyiv early this morning. according to ukrainian officials. and
our country. ukrainian soldiers are fighting street to street in the country s second city were russian tanks and vehicles are on the streets. the european union announces tougher sanctions again including closing its airspace to russian aircraft. let me be very clear, our aircraft will be closed to every russian plane and that includes the private jets of oligarchs. find plane and that includes the private jets of oligarchs. plane and that includes the private jets of oligarchs. and these people here are searching jets of oligarchs. and these people here are searching for jets of oligarchs. and these people here are searching for safety. - here are searching for safety. poland says at least 200,000 refugees have crossed from ukraine since the invasion began. hello, welcome to bbc news, let s continue our coverage of russia s invasion of ukraine. the ukrainians
we heard from a ukrainian military officer on the ground who told us the shelling and the strikes are continuing around the clock, from the air, from russian ground forces, the naval bombardment as well. we had this offer from russia, perhaps more accurately an ultimatum overnight offering to essentially let everyone out of the city safely if those defending the city give up their weapons. we know that was very quickly rejected with some pretty colorful language by the mariupol city council. but what it does show is clearly what the russian strategy is, simply to hammer this city, inflict massive pain and suffering on the civilians, on the defenders until their will is broken, until they decide to capitulate. in doing so, what russia gets to avoid is going in and fighting street to street, a bloody urban battle that would be very costly. today the ministry of defense
russian resupply line is dependent on railways. particularly these those forces that came down from belarus forces surrounding the capital city of kyiv. need those rail lines. the bell resolution railway workers are not in support of this war. some of them are striking and some have gone as far as to subtaj rail lines and it will really inhibit the ability. brian: mike is, it also the case the russians haven t made much progress and gained much ground the only urban fighting is in mariupol? well, i think it s a little bit different in the town of mariupol. we have more reports and seen some video of the russians getting into the town in mariupol and fighting street to street. but that doesn t mean that they have expelled all of the ukrainian fighters from there what it seems to be is ukrainian fighters are now concentrated toward the center of the city of