breaking news. new sat lellite images that we just looked at them. let me show you. they show what was the 40 mile long russian military convoy near kyiv. you have heard about it that it was stuck. they were slow. they couldn t move. now we can see that it has largely disbursed and we deployed. okay? these images show elements of the convoy have been repositioned into forests and into tree-lined areas in the city. this comes as ukraine s president says 100,000 people have been evacuated via humanitarian corridors within the past two days. that s a small percentage of the 2.3 million that have fled ukraine. nearly 1.5 million have gone to poland alone. sara sidner is near one of the
are driving this spike for the american people. then, new concerns about the effectiveness of this year s flu shot just as the country emerges from the coronavirus pandemic. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our world lead today. amid new concerns for the ukrainian capital of kyiv, as local officials there report intensified fighting on at least three sides of that capital city. ukrainian defense officials sharing this video, claiming ukrainian forces were able to destroy parts of a russian military convoy advancing from the east forcing the rest of the tanks and armored personnel carriers to retreat. kyiv s mayor saying it s clear these advances are part of the russian plan to encircle the city and topple the zelenskyy government. we re also getting a horrific new look at some of the humanitarian costs of this war. we want to warn you what we re about to show you is quite graphic. photographers capturing this
a senior pentagon official saying russian forces are growing frustrated that the progress has slowed, partially because of tougher than expected resistance. showing a russian military convoy stretching for nearly 17 miles. one that has advanced to the outskirts of kyiv. cnn s matthew chance finding a different russian convoy destroyed earlier today on a bridge leading into kyiv. smoking remnants of vehicles, and the bodies of dead russian soldiers. and a first, the russian and ukrainian delegations megt for talks which concluded without any immediate breakthroughs. the talks taking place in neighboring belarus just as ukrainian government sources tell me, their intelligence indicates belarus is preparing to join russia in attack ukraine. belarus is already allowing russia to use it for staging and
ukrainian forces along with armed civilians have so far been able to keep russian forces from taking their capital city, but new satellite images show a large military convoy heading to kyiv. the photos place the convoy just 40 miles northwest of the capital and show a more than three-mile-long stretch of trucks, tanks and other military vehicles. cnn military analyst major general marks joins me. great to have you on. we appreciate it. what do these new images tell you? i suppose it can tell us some things and that is, you know, maybe putin is gearing up for a big siege on kyiv. it may also tell us, i suppose, that they need to do some
have been killed, and nearly 1600 injured so far. officials say that fierce ukrainian resistance and supply challenges have slowed down russian troops. and yesterday, moscow has now moved about 80% of the force into t-has amassed along the board near ukraine. the u.s. has counted more than 450 russian missile launches, since the conflict began. meanwhile, ukraine s capital kyiv also came under intense shelling and missile attacks as that massive russian military convoy remains stalled outside the city. explosions rocked the area this morning, with a large blast, just outside the city. while damaging a major heating pipeline near the central train station. officials say the 40-mile long convoy we have been watching and looking out for the last few days on the way to kyiv is being stalled by the ukrainian military as well as low morale among russian troops, poor