watching basketball. not us. i wouldn t do that. this is cnn breaking news. good morning, everyone. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m laura jarrett. i m christine romans and john berman is in lviv, ukraine. what are you seeing today? good morning to both of you. heavy shelling underway this morning in eastern ukraine. officials say that heavy fire is concentrated around kharkiv in the north east and liuhansk and
he is still hoping for some victories on the ground which will enable him to be more strong in his position during the negotiations but we are sure this will not happen so he will be, he will have no major victories on the ground and that is why it is high time to sit at the negotiating table with president zelenskyy and possibly participation of international leaders such as president of the u.s. and other world leaders. those negotiations are tomorrow. we ll see what happens. are there any circumstances in which ukraine would be willing to give up territory, igor? no, not in any case. we will not give up any single inch of ukrainian territory. we will not trade ukrainian territory. all ukrainian territory should remain ukrainian. putin has said ukraine is not even a real country so do you think he will ever sit down with president zelenskyy? well, it is his usual mantra which he is speaking for all the
of villagers waiting for humanitarian handouts. they receive a bag of bread and basics to get them through these difficult days. the first week of the war a shell hit us near the greenhouse. we barely survived says this woman. we had help from strangers around us. they gave us bread and canned food. we wouldn t have managed otherwise. no one here knows when this war will end or whether russia still has designs on kyiv. the front line is about a mile away. for now an uneasy calm prevails ever since the ukrainian defenders stopped the russian advance here. it was february 28th they say day four of the war. they want to show us how they did it but first we have to clamor over the bridge they downed to see the armored column they managed to take out. the liriver bank is littered wi their remnants.
essentially. people who haven t chosen where their homeland is. the implication is these are people working on the other side. what s truly interesting is how little of that there s been over the last five weeks. i think the russians thought there might be more. phil black, thank you very much. joining me now, kimberly do dozier. we know so little about it but the idea ukrainian helicopters would have crossed into russia to attack a fuel depot there. what do you make of that? well, this is one of the concerns the biden administration has had that the ukrainian military starts doing so well that it goes on the offensive and goes into russian territory. it s something that we heard reports of in the beginning of the war and it s something that u.s. officials are worried could trigger a violent response with
conflict by far. general, thank you. i am so glad, i wanted our viewers to hear every word you have to say. it is so valuable. we appreciate you joining us. russian ground troops stalled near kyiv but from the air attacks are only increasing. cnn s christiane amanpour is there on the front lines right after this. (music throughout)