kyiv and mariupol. would you see they re already becoming aggressive and bombardment and missile and rocket attacks, already stepping up so we ve already seen the violence increased by been by a measure of magnitude here as mr. putin continues to get frustrated on the ground. he hasn t made as much progress toward kyiv or kharkiv. he s isolated mariupol but he hasn t moved into mariupol. and we know that he s frustrated that he hasn t gained ground that he wanted and he underestimated the ukrainians and we re seeing an increasing aggressiveness in use of rocket and missile attacks. so is there any off-ramp for putin at this point and that allows him to at least save some face? i would think so. but that is a discussion that s that he s going to have to have with ukrainians and be sincere. there was a set of talks ongoing today. they ve now been postponed until tomorrow. we in the united states obviously encourage a diplomatic
you can see why they need assistance. thousands of civilians have escaped attacks like this one in mariupol, a city decimated by the relentless assault by russia. but many more remain trapped and are unable to flee. cnn s john berman spoke with a family who was lucky enough, i guess you could call them, to escape this violence. reporter: this small apartment in lviv in western ukraine is now a safe haven for a family of refugees from mariupol. she and her parents arrived in lviv just a day ago after a harrowing cross-country journey. your parents are elderly. they re in there 80s. how hard was it to get them out? translator: it was incredibly difficult. in fact, i had no chance to evacuate my parents. i ve got elderly parents and four pets that i will not leave.
to be under russian control. these pictures mark some of the only glimpses into mariupol right now since there are, as far as we can tell, no independent journalists left in that city. meanwhile, the ukrainian president says negotiations with russia are still under way. translator: we continue to work at various levels to push russia for peace. until the end of this brutal war, ukrainian representatives are working on the negotiations, which continue virtually daily. it s very difficult, sometimes scandalous, but step by step, we are moving forward. well, russian forces have been stalled on the ground, but their bombardment of ukrainian cities is leaving widespread destruction and claiming an unknown number of civilian lives. alex marquardt has the latest on the military developments. reporter: the booms of russian missiles landing near
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they would potentially have implemented a no-fly zone had russia not been a nuclear power. they re really, really concerned that any direct confrontation will lead to a war, an all-out war with a nuclear-armed superpower here. i think that s correct. i mean if this was some third-world dictator in the middle east, then we would have been in boots on the ground by now. but it is russia with 5,500 nuclear weapons and clearly putin is willing to rattle nuclear sabres and make coercive nuclear threats, and that really has constrained nato s options for intervention, including in regards to a no-fly zone. mm-hmm. absent that, though, let s look at the advances of russian troops on the ground and in some cases they re being repelled. we see it on the outskirts of kyiv. they re resorting, as a result, to longer-range missiles. they re firing from the sea into mariupol. they re not putting their boots on the ground as close to the