and facility, targeted. maryopl is the city that vladimir putin said, he was liberating, cortical, from those at, and this what he s doing to that. thank you, holla. i want to go now to christian. visited a town on the oscars of kyiv today. a town, being pummeled by russian airstrikes. reporter: missiles have struck the town of southern kyiv twice this week alone put this tangled, jagged massive metal and cladding is was left of a massive warehouse that stored food, paper and beer and alcohol that s no longer allowed to be consumed under martial law. this happened at almost exactly the same time that the russians were announcing the de- escalation around kyiv. this missile struck right here. imagine the good fortune of the truck driver who was loading up to take crates and packages and
boxes of food and supplies to the supermarkets in this town, and also to kyiv . he managed to survive. we are told three workers were killed, but they have never fallen to russian forces. directly west of here, russian and ukrainian troops have been fiercely fighting over the town, and now it appears the russians are retreating from here. a clear indication that this war around kyiv has simply not gone the way russian forces plan. whatever the reason moscow says, it s retrenching, and they intercepted radio conversations, verified by the new york times, showing their shoulders in distress from the very start. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: this was west of the capital in the very first
in a village 15 kilometers away, but held by the russians. they haven t yet been able to get his body released. [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: even boris heartbreaks when he tells me about a father who s just lost his son, his only child, and who asked what do i have to live for now. christiana umen, cnn, bravia, ukraine. thank you , christian. colonel, hello to you. the pentagon says, 20% of russian s forces that had been moving against kyiv were repositioning now, some, likely to resupply elsewhere in ukraine. how does that happen in an active battlefield? that s very difficult, don. good evening to you. the belarus border is right here, north of kyiv, right in this area right here . so, what they re gonna have to do is
security space for over 21 years and i learned a simple theory. one of the theories i talk about in the book. we should make sure our friends love us and our enemies fear us. the fact that president zelenskyy is saying there is more we can be doing is a sign our friends aren t loving us right now. dana: we learned abramovich, one of the oligarchs. he was going to negotiate a peace deal and poisoned. not enough to kill him. we found out the ukrainians have told their delegation at the peace talks don t eat or drink anything put on the table. this is part of the russian s m.o. they have been assassinating people for decades and poisoning people for decades and this is a sign that you cannot trust the russian government. yes, we re hearing these reports that the russians are pulling back from kyiv in order to honor peace talks. no, they are getting their tails handed to them. that s why they are pulling back and using it as an excuse. now is the time for us to
trace: moscow claims it pulled its forces back from kyiv as a show of good faith heading into today s talks. this as we get new video from the hard-hit city of mariupol. watch. dana: that video showing a russian tank being hit in the street despite this, the mariupol mayor saying his city has fallen into vladimir putin hands. trace: weeks of russian shelling has devastated the port. 100,000 people are trapped there and officials say nearly 5,000 have been killed. dana: we re hearing muddled messaging from the white house. president biden seen with note cards to explain his remarks that vladimir putin cannot remain in power. trace: and that statement rattled u.s. allies and threatened to undo weeks of diplomacy. the president insists he is not walking it back but at the same time he claims he is not calling for regime change. listen. president biden: i m not