catastrophe last night. mr. putin must stop this madness. and he must stop it now. nato also confirmed today that russia has dropped cluster bombs. those are banned under the geneva convention and condemned by the international community because they create a huge risk of civilian casualties. new video from the outskirts of kyiv shows more civilian buildings being attacked. here is the town of chica, a business center you re looking at. one of many destroyed by a russian attack. cnn s anderson cooper is live in lviv. we ve seen schools and government buildings, shops, this industrial complex as well. the russians say they re not targeting civilians but there is this extreme disregard for civilian areas. reporter: that is absolutely right. and i think it goes beyond disregard. certainly part of the russian
by a tiny circle of corruption leaders and their cronies who put their interests above those of the russian people who are doing everything they can to hide their war of choice from the russian public. today s discussion with nato, the e.u., the g-7 affirmed that we re fully aligned on our goals, and our determination to meet them. we ll deepen our support for ukraine brave civilians suffering as a result of the deepening humanitarian crisis. we ll continue to raise the costs for president putin and all who carry out and enable his war of choice and the d devastation that it is causing. we ll continue to strengthen our defense of further escalation including by upholding on article 5 amendment that an attack on one is an attack on all. nato has never sought and will not seek conflict with russia. but as president biden has said, we will defend every inch of nato territory.
trying to help europe with getting off dependence on russian oil which is providing huge income to vrld vld to continue this war. and he said no strategic interest in reducing the global supply of energy. the united states has no strategic interest in reducing the global supply, driving up prices in russia and padding their profits obviously. and then dep pleating the supply elsewhere. so clearly this is something of a last resort. nothing they ve been entertaining over the last several months because it would jack up prices in the united states potentially effecting the president and his administration politically and it is just not feasible for them to completely sanction the sector because of how reliant europe is on russian oil and gas. now, what did he mention there, which was a key kind of victory that the united states has been promoting, is the destruction,
will. or another region to his will. we saw it in chechnya, we have seen it in syria, we saw it of course in 2014 in ukraine. and what we re seeing on the battlefield is russian forces seeking to encircle the major cities including kyiv and we re seeing them use increasingly brutal methods, including going at civilians, the civilian populations. so, i think the the terrible expectation is that the suffering we ve already seen is likely to get worse before it gets better. for as long as russia pursues these methods. so, that is unfortunately more likely than not. although we re doing everything we can to try to move to a
syria. i ve been in aleppo and saw what they did in terms of extreme destruction all across that city. and the scenes that we re seeing now are resembling that. and what russia has done before in places like chechnya. i m thinking about a area just northwest of kyiv called bora bianca and we have just extraordinary video from there. again, residential area, residential buildings, big blocks of apartment buildings that have been torn apart by russian alex, i have to interrupt you. we re go fog co we re going t back to you. john kirby is giving an update. let s listen. northern command is hosting arctic edge in alaska. held every two years. this consists of 1,000 u.s. military personnel and made up from the army, navy, coast guard and command and are elements