children s ward crying out for his father, who is being treated in another part of the hospital. we want to warn you this video is distressing. it is heartbreaking. officials say at least 153 children have been killed in ukraine since russia s invasion began and 245 have been injured. it is heartbreaking. it s heartbreaking video. i m glad just to know that his father is alive, berman, to be honest. but i m looking at his little
bell going rod. this was attacked by two ukrainian helicopters flying in at low altitude. cnn cannot confirm this claim. we were told there were no victims. but this would be a very significant development and an extraordinary counterattack by the ukrainians. russians have been attacking ukraine s fuel depos for weeks. also this morning, new attacks in the donbas region in eastern ukraine. russia conditions to prioritize military operations in the separatist controlled area. translator: the situation in the southern direction and in the donbas remains extremely difficult. russian troops are accumulating the potential for strikes and powerful blows. zelenskyy is also sending a
invades. but it also gets to the issue of not wanting to put u.s. and western forces in direct confrontation with the russians. so it is very preliminary at this point. the russians are in a different position than they were in before the war. so there are considerations whether they might be more willing to accept something like this. ultimately it runs into the same problem, which is they do not want to get in a direct shooting war with the russians. that is my question. is it is the same obstacle with a different name. well, it is the same security guarantee. they want something like an article 5 which says in the treaty, if one nation is attacked, all are aing tad. they will respond in that way. that is what they want. the discussion has just started. this is just the beginning of the conversation of this. but nations are taking it seriously, discussing it themselves, amongst themselves. and i think there is an argument
this facility. that s interesting. i m told 3.5 million gallons of fuel on fire is what you are seeing in some of those pictures. geographically, if you look at kharkiv, it is just over the border of kharkiv in the northeastern part of the country. you can see the fires there. a lot of oil, a lot of fuel burning there. phil, russian forces have left the chernobyl region yeah. so we know they have been pulling out from kyiv, the northern city of chernihiv. chernobyl is something they took the very earliest moments of the war. it is the site of the world s worst nuclear disaster in 1986. we are told by officials they up and left and none of them left there either in the region or at the facility itself. ukrainian officials also say, and this is something we can t verify, that while the soldiers were there, they were digging in the ground, digging trenches, building fortifications. as a result of that activity,
warning to what he calls traitors within the ukrainian military. he fired two generals, saying, quote, if you don t decide where your homeland is, you will be punished. russia is redeploying t troops. up to 2,000 soldiers are being reorganized into battalion tactical groups. ukraine is retaking irpin in the suburbs of kyiv. this is an area that is still extremely dangerous and remains off limits to civilians. russian forces have handed the chernobyl nuclear facility back to ukraine, ending their five-week occupation. talks are set to resume after limited progress was made early in the week. all right. i want to begin with the situation perhaps over the border in russia.