all right. welcome back. this is cnn s special live kofrpblgt russian invasion of ukraine. i want to show you some video right now. this morning we are just getting a new understanding of what we know is happening here. these are nuclear power plant workers trying to block access to the russians who are trying to sraopbs on a nuclear power plant. you can see them throwing op sta cals to block the russian advance towards this nuclear plant. it is just one of several around the country. everyone knows chernobyl, but there are other sites as well. this is right here where they were trying to block. also this morning, ukrainians are asking for assistance to try to keep the russians away from the nuclear sites because there is concern about what might happen if it falls into russian hands.
have captured kherson, a major strategic city in southern ukraine. there are new images that show russian military vehicles parked in a main square. ukrainian defense officials deny kherson has fallen. cnn has not been able to independently verify the russian claims. so just a short time ago, president zelenskyy claimed 6,000 russian soldiers have been killed since the invasion seven days ago. 6,000. now, cnn cannot confirm that number. just into cnn, i want to show you new video. this is at a nuclear power plant. and the on the road here are russian sorry, ukrainian plant workers and citizens. and what they re doing, you can see in the distance there, they are blocking or trying to block a russian military advance toward the nuclear power plant. so ukrainians filling the
it. he is now an international hero, a living symbol of standing firm against overwhelming odds. reporter: in an exclusive interview with cnn s matthew chance, zelenskyy played down the personal risks and hardships he s enduring? i m the president of ukraine. i m not iconic. ukraine is iconic. and i always was sure and i knew it that ukraine is special country. ukraine is the heart of europe. reporter: zelenskyy has met his foe. he sat across president putin in late 2019, clearly the junior, less experienced statesman. now putin s forces are coming for him. this moment, he s revealing zelenskyy s character as he rallies his people and the world to resist russia s assault and
this is new video into cnn just a short while ago in kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine. this was a police building. also hit in this attack, we re told, a university complex. at least four dead, several others injured. a firefighting operation now under way there. let me give a sense where it is. the upper northeast part of the country, kharkiv. you can see the russians moving ever closer to the city. our frederick pleitgen is over the here in belgorod. reporter: as you correctly
beachhead? . exactly right. it would probably be proceeded by artillery strikes, naval gun gunfire. there will be air forces that two in there. this map is a powerpoint slide. it doesn t show the size of this area. this is a couple couple miles long between odesa and over here in mariupol with crimea in the middle. general, thank you so much. next hour we will have you back and talking about russian objectives and whether they have met them. i will say a little bit of a teaser. no, they haven t. so we will be going through that formula and looking at that. general, thank you. you got it. university war, holocaust memorial site, just some of the civilian locations hit by russian attacks. this is cnn s special live coverage of the russian invasion of ukraine. we have new developments next.