good morning. i m bianna golodryga in new york. and i m jim sciutto reporting from lviv in western ukraine. a very busy morning here. any moment now the u.s. secretary-general will sit down with russian president vladimir putin in moscow while right now in germany, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin is meeting with his nato counterparts. he says that russia s atrocities in ukraine are, quote, indefensible, but he believes that ukraine can win this war. ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. we have much more to do. ukraine needs our help to win today, and they will still need our help when the war is over. this morning, ukraine says russian troops have intensified their assault in the south and in the east. officials say a bridge near the
monetary. i mean the price in human lives and blood. but the putin regime will end over this and there will be a democratic russia after putin. earlier today, putin made the provably false claim that his goals in ukraine are, quote, noble and he tried for a peaceful resolution. i m joined by garry kasparov, a russian pro-democracy leader and former world chess champion, also the author of winter is coming, why vladimir putin and the enemies of the free world must be stopped. garry, was was your reaction when you heard that your friend had been arrested and do you agree that this war will be the end of putin s control over russia? we hope so, for this war to be the end of putin s regime and to end putin s crimes both inside and outside of russia. we need ukraine to win the war. only military defeat could put dictator in jeopardy, and that s why i keep repeating, time and
national health commission warns shanghai covid-19 out break has quote not been effectively contained. meanwhile shanghai police say residents who violate the lock down order will be punished. this comes as the city has partially lifted the lock down. for almost 20% of the population. the city reported more than 26,000 new locally transmitted cases on tuesday. with more than 240,000 new infections since march 1. cnn joining us now live from hong kong. good to see you. a health official warns shanghai covid out break isn t over yet. what s the latest on that and the partial easing of some restrictions. it s not over. today cases 26,000 is up a few thousand from yesterday. and look, as you heard from the national health commission saying that this hasn t been
a tactic that the russians could use. i think i pointed to the possibility that these kinds of weapons would be used, and it s something that we re very, very focused on. meantime, new satellite images have revealed military equipment deployed on russian soil not far from ukraine s border. military convoys have also been seen moving through eastern ukraine near the donbas. we re also hearing now from the russian president vladimir putin during a news conference tuesday, he said peace negotiations with ukraine are, quote, at a dead-end. he also said the war will go on until moscow achieves its originals goals. the bodies of six civilians with gunshot wounds were found in the basement of a home outside the capital of kyiv. the discovery was announced by the ukrainian prosecutor who then earlier had spoken with fred pleitgen. a warning to our viewers, fred s report contains some graphic
crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression crimes, and we started on the first day. so started a case about genocide. reporter: all this as russia still claims its forces that have invaded ukraine have not harmed any civilians. on a visit to a space port with belarusian strong man alexandr lukashenko, russian president vladimir putin again claimed his forces are fighting against would be ukrainian nazis in what he calls a, quote, special operation. the goals are absolutely clear and they are noble, he said. i said it from the beginning and want to draw your attention to that. there are some in the u.s. at the top level who have spoken about a possible war crimes trial against vladimir putin. that something you think could ever be possible and something that you re working towards to provide evidence for? of course i think that everyone understand who is responsible for this war. that s why we do everything to