his son, 18-year-old mykyta, 9-year-old daughter alisa, and his wife tetiana, together they decided it was too dangerous to stay. i told my wife, i m sorry i couldn t be there to protect you, but she said, don t worry, we ll get through it, everything will be good. serhiy tracked tetiana s phone, it showed up as a local hospital. 20 minutes later ha photograph flashed on his phone from the scene. the lifeless bodies of the children and the the young churn volunteer helping them escape ensaps lating the savage riof the war. i was able to recognize them by their clothing, backpacks and suitcase. that must have been a terrible moment for you. yeah. reporter: the wife he d known since high school has been killed, too. his son a computer programmer, just like his da and your daughter, just nine years old. yes.
against russian armored vehicles, especially the javelin, which pops up and strikes tanks from the top where the armor is the thinnest. on wednesday, president biden promised to send 2,000 nor javelins, plus 7,000 other anti-tank weapons. that s far more than the number of tanks that the russians have inside ukraine right now. so i think that leaves them in very good shape to continue this campaign for some weeks or months to come. reporter: the weapon shipments are being driven across the border from poland and romania. so far the russians have been unable to intercept them. they re going to simply have to do that to shut off the flow of lethal aid and if they don t the tide could turn against them. reporter: if putin gets desperate, he might decide to attack those weapons shipment sites in poland and romania directly. that could start a war the u.s. couldn t stay out of. norah. o donnell: david martin at the pentagon, thank you. turning now to the human cost of
at 3:00, cbs evening news is next and we are back at 5:00 with more captioning sponsored by cbs o donnell: tonight, the civilian death toll in ukraine rises but the department sauce russian troops are essentially frozen and the ukrainian resistants is working as the war enters week four. president zelenskyy sur prizeds a ukrainian family in the hospital with word that survivors in a theater s bomb shelter housing hundreds of women and kids. the satellite images showing the worden-written in russian so the build b would be spared. warning to china, president biden plans to tell president xi tomorrow there will be consequences if the chinese send military aid to russia. u.s. military aid to ukraine, the latt tdrthe anti-tank misss
ominous message today warning that vladimir putin is growing more and more desperate and could be preparing to use chemical weapons. on top of the growing death toll, the destruction in ukraine is vast. a united nations report just out details more than $100 billion worth of infrastructure has been destroyed in the first three weeks of the war. and we learned an american citizen is among the deaths tonight. jim hill from diggs, idaho was killing, waiting in a bred line in chernihiv. president biden will speak with president xi tomorrow, warning his country will bear responsibility if they support russia s aggression and face sy significant costs . we have a lot of news tonight. first to ukraine and chris livesay in the city of odesa. good evening, chris. reporter: i ve lost the signal. good evening, norah. russian forces have launched more than 1,000 missiles since the the start of the invasion,
war and the hundreds of civilians killed in gas the last 21 days and new today the united nations says the death toll includes 108 children. cbs s charlie d agata spoke to the grieving widow whose family s death has been captured on video and a symbo r rutality. reporter: the missile fired straight into a line of civilians, even as they were trying to escape.ng fleeing residents ( shouting ) but the cruelty of those opening fire on them. the embattled city of irpin had been under heavy shelling for days. when the war broke out, serhiy perebyinis was hundreds of miles away, looking after his ailing mother, but his family was hunkering down at their home.