good evening. i'm kate bolduan in for erin burnett. we have breaking news, russian president vladimir putin's warning to the west. test launching a new in intercontinental police tick missile saying anyone thinking of threatening russia should now, quote, think twice. [ speaking foreign language ] >> translator: this truly unique weapon will strengthen the combat attention of our forces and provide food for thought for those who in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten our country. >> but as we know it is putin who is the aggressor not only threatening but invading another country. a country that has managed to hold its ground for 56 days now. a surprise to many including president biden today. >> i knew that they were tough and proud but i tell you what, they're tougher and more proud than i thought. >> still, russia's continuing to cut a path of destruction across eastern ukraine tonight. the head of the military administration tells cnn 80% of his region's territory is now under russian control. he says russia is, quote, destroying everything in its path and for the south in mariupol, the nonstop russian bombardment continues and the city utterly destroyed as ukraine barely maintains control. it is crucial to both sides. it would allow russia to more easily mobilize troops and move supplies by creating a land bridge between the donbas and crimea which russia illegally annexed in 2014. ukraine says an evacuation corridor out of mariupol did not work as planned. those are their words. ukrainian president zelenskyy says scores of civilians are still trapped in the fighting. we've got all the angles of this covered for you with reporters on the ground. i want to start with jim sciutto in lviv. jim, what is the latest on the ground tonight? >> reporter: well, the ukrainian air force about to get a helping hand from the u.s. and its allies. we're learning this evening that by sending spare parts to the ukrainian military they're able to make 20 more jets operational to join the fight. you remember the debate, kate, about sending jets, migs, old soviet made jets themselves to ukraine. that faced some opposition as perhaps being too escalatory with russia but this move getting the spare parts in may have the same effect. nearly two dozen new planes for the ukrainian air force as it faces a tough new fight in the east. as russia's attacks on the east intensify there is new evidence some of its own soldiers have had enough. the security service of ukraine releasing purported new intercepted communications among russian soldiers. one man recounting a conversation he had with his commander, he can be heard saying, why asked the commander, quote, what shall we do? we got nothing. he says the commander told them, effing shoot all the civilians to the end. and then warned the troops, quote, whoever leaves their post will be a deserter. that's when another soldier can be heard saying, tell them to "f" off. as the conversation continues, the soldier complaining that russia has all but abandoned them saying, just imagine they didn't provide a way to retreat. didn't say anything, didn't even bring food. "f" them. cnn cannot vouch for the authenticity of the recording but ukraine previously released audio of russian soldiers and russian troops have used unsecured lines of communication according to military observers. as the war enters its 56th day new images reveal how the situation in mariupol is getting worse by the hour. bodies piling up from the nonstop shelling and fierce street fighting. human remains lining the streets. some with bullet holes in their backs. others killed by missile strikes. ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy says the slaughter is the worst ukraine has witnessed. >> translator: crimes happening there are in larger scale. >> reporter: the town outside kyiv where russian troops killed numerous civilians and left behind utter destruction. the president of the european council visiting the town today and meeting with zelenskyy saying that russia's assault has left him speechless. >> there are no words in order to explain what i feel, not as president of the european council but as father, as human being, these are atrocities, these are war crimes. it must be punished. it will be punished. >> reporter: the biden administration is preparing another large weapon shipment to ukraine. $800 million following the $800 million last week and the focus of this, i'm told, kate, this new shipment is going to be heavy artillery. u.s. made 155 millimeter howitzer, ammunition, for that the u.s. drawing on help from allies as well and shows you the kind of battle they expect in the east. artillery tank on tank. air strikes, they're expecting sadly to be big and bloody. >> yeah, jim, thank you so much. outfont for us retired colonel cedric layton, steve hall, the former cia chief of russia operations. thank you for being here. colonel, russian forces in addition to everything that jim laid out, russian forces have added 17 battalion tactical groups, four in just the last 24 hours. ukrainian officials as i mentioned earlier say 80% of the luhansk territory is now under russian control. you add that together. can ukraine continue to fend them off? >> well, kate, that's a good question. i think they can. i think ukraine can do that but they're going to have a really tough fight on their hands because with about 82 battalion tactical groups, a raid against ukraine in the east, that's going to create a situation where what they're going to have to do is have to be extremely agile and mobile in their response to the russian forces. so as soon as russians move in one way they have to respond to that and possibly preempt them and cut them off. that will be the tough thing they have to do and i think they can do it with the right supplies but those have to get there. >> that's absolutely the key at this moment and, steve, i want to play a little bit more of that recording released by the security service of ukraine. they say it's intercepted communications of a russian soldier in communication talking about -- talking about their commander. listen to this. >> translator: we sat there for three days without anything. our commanders received provision, cigarettes, food and our command have all f'd off. they abandoned everyone and f'd off. we don't even know where they are. just imagine they didn't provide a way to retreat. didn't say anything. didn't even bring foodstuff. [ bleep ] them. shoot him. quit. the first one. >> i mean, cnn can't vouch for the authenticity of this recording, of course, but if true it tracks with what we have heard anecdotally throughout this war which is bad morale among russian forces. what do you make of it? >> well, first, kate, i don't have any reason to doubt this is a valid intercept. i listened to it a couple of times. it's certainly possible it is fabricated by the ukrainians but my guess is it's probably accurate and don't disagree with cedric in terms of the difficulty and hard fight ahead of the ukrainians but what we're hearing in that particular take is, you know, almost astounding unprofessionalism, a lack of professionalism in the russian government -- in the russian army. i mean, you've got guys communicating, you know, in an insecure fashion. you know, probably via cell phone and talking about killing their own commander and so they know this is going to be picked up. perhaps it's gotten to the point where the russian troops don't care. a lot of them are simply the guys in russia whose family didn't have the bribes to be able to get them out of military service, unfortunately, that's the way it often happens in russia. it doesn't surprise me we're beginning to hear things like this. >> and then, colonel, president zelenskyy in speaking today, he said the way he put it ukraine doesn't have enough serious and heavy weapons to defeat russia, the russian army when we're talking specifically about mariupol. we know the u.s. is obviously accepting in weapons. you said the key is getting it to them in all various parts of the country. anything else when it comes to mariupol that the u.s. could or should do now that it hasn't to help there? >> well, i think in the extreme case, kate, you know, it would open up a humanitarian corridor but that, of course, would entail a whole bunch of political and military decisions that i don't think anybody is willing to make at this point in time. having said that, though, you know, the key thing here, i think is providing them with some kind of, you know, almost hate to say it air cover to have a humanitarian exit out of there. the other thing would be to get those heavy weapons including howitzers into an area where they could potentially do some good on the other side of the russian forces, so not in mariupol itself because that's almost impossible to get to now. but on the northern edge of the russian territory that they've occupied. so those would be the kinds of things that could potentially happen. i don't see it happening. i think it's highly unlikely. but that's the kind of thing that would need to occur if they were serious about getting these people out and basically sustaining them. >> steve, as we mentioned, putin tested an icbm today. the u.s. says russia properly notified them of -- that it was a planned test but putin was also quoted in russian state media saying this test should give thought to those who are triing to threaten russia. what is vladimir putin doing here? >> well, i think he's doing a couple of thing, first and foremost important for viewers to understand this is standard operating procedure. this is normal, this isn't, you know, this wasn't a missile test that was done necessarily to threaten the united states or our western allies. there was notification. it was a planned thing so this is a routine type of thing. that said, the second thing that vladimir putin is doing besides testing his missiles is he's using it to do more nuclear saber rattling and saying, look, people have to remember the west has to remember that i have these weapons and, you know, he's going to continue to do that. i continue to assess that the likelihood of some sort of i intercontinental exchange where you use strategic nuclear weapons to destroy each other's capitals is an extremely low probability. tactical nuclear weapons maybe a little higher likelihood but still pretty improbable. that would be a real slap in the face to the international community but putin is clearly signaling that, look, take me seriously, i have these nukes and might possibly use them. that's something that policymakers in the west have to take into consideration. >> yeah, it's good to see you both. thank you very much. outfront next, u.s. officials walk out of a g20 meeting when a putin deputy starts speaking. this as the u.s. is stepping up sanctions on an oligarch leading a global network. who he is is next. what was zelenskyy thinking when trump said this to him? 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>> well, i mean i think you have to remember that inside russia, you know, people aren't probably going to be seeing much of that statement that was put out by e e egor tinkof. the narrative on russian state television which is where most people get their news is not one we saw from vladimir putin there that this is a special military operation to save people inside ukraine and they're fed a diet of that 24 hours a day, seven days a week and so it's not like there are competing narratives really inside russia but clearly i mean i just want to say that statement from tinkov shows you there are russians that see it what it is and do not agree with this operation. >> we don't know what kind of impact that has. if it has any impact on vladimir putin or just like vast public opinion. that's, of course, i guess yet to be seen. it is what it is, right? i mean, there's also this clip surfacing that's getting a lot of attention from 2019. it was at the united nations general assembly between president zelenskyy of ukraine and then president trump. where the former president, he urged zelenskyy to try to essentially patch things up with vladimir putin. watch this. >> i really hope that you and president putin get together and can solve your problem. that would be a tremendous achievement and i know you're trying to do that. >> the whole time you're just watching zelenskyy's face because it is -- it's something, like something is going on there. you've been covering ukraine for a decade plus and covering him ever since he's kind of come on the scene. what do you see going on there? 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[ cheers and applause ] the same day the state senate passed a bill called for by the governor that would dissolve disney's special district, desantis send out a fund-raising email saying if disney wants to pick a fight they chose the wrong guy. >> what is he going to do next? today he's passing legislation to eliminate black majority districts and to punish disney for speaking out against him. who is next on the hit list for intelligence ron desantis if they don't get in line and support his extreme right wing agenda? >> reporter: now, the desantis map is set for final passage and that room back there sometime tomorrow. it will increase republican seats and likely reduce the number of seats that are currently held by black democrats in the state of florida and inevitably end up this court and democrats said it is blatantly unconstitutional. we reached out to the governor's office for comment and says he appreciates the legislature addressing his priorities. kate, we were told, quote, speculation about his supposed aspiration beyond florida is unfounded. >> until it's not, that's how it always goes. thank you very much. 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announcement a doj spokesperson saying the department had already filed a notice of appeal and if this is a complicated decision for the cdc because this comes at a moment when a lot of people across the country feel like the pandemic is entering a different stage. they feel like they are ready for things to be different for their lifestyle choices to be different and i should note though that the public polling on masking in public transit has remained divided across the country. now, the white house, of course, is in a bit of a tricky spot this week. it was certainly caught off guard and didn't know this court ruling was coming and now there is so much riding on this -- the success of this appeal, the white house has been pretty consistent throughout this pandemic that they believe that these kinds of public health decisions should be made by the agency, the cdc and that it should really come from public health experts and doctors and people who know what the consequences are and now 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lockdown. these videos circulating on social media show people confronting police for being forced from their homes. these are not folks with covid-19. but rather people whose apartments are being turned into government quarantine facilities to cope with the surging covid cases. the rising tensions come as chinese officials vow to send every positive case of covid-19 and any close contact to government quarantine. no matter the age. here you see an elderly man shuffling towards a group of other senior citizens, some in their 90s, most in wheelchairs transferred from their nursing home to this isolation facility after testing positive. video shared from inside another center shows elderly patients seemingly left unattended. cots set up in the halls with woodening boards and thin sheets as bedding. since the start of this outbreak in early march more than 400,000 cases have been reported in the city according to china's national health commission. and most in this metropolis of 25 million people are still in strict lockdown. cnn's been living through it. we've mostly been sealed inside our homes let out only for mandatory covid tests and the occasional government distribution of groceries. last week we had a brief taste of freedom. i could step out of my apartment and walk all the way to the compound gate. still down locked. but since a reversal for our community, new restrictions have us sealed back inside our properties. the draconian and inconsistent policies coupled with a constant uncertainty weigh heavily. people tired pushing back. physically and through words. these banners appeared on the streets. this one calling residents to resist the limitless lockdown. this one reading, people are dying. referring to the dire struggle to secure food and medical care. online a flood of frustration surfacing on china's heavily controlled internet. on chinese social media playforms, users began quoting the first sentence of china's national anthem, it reads, rise, those who don't want to be enslaved. a rally call no longer aimed at foreign oppressors, but rather beijing's pandemic response and its harsh restrictions. that line, now censored. some residents even boldly calling out chinese officials for a perceived hypocrisy. this person wearing a photo of one of the spokespersons who repeatedly accused western covid's response of harming people's well-being. the sarcastic critique shared repeatedly online. the backlash likely to worsen as the weeks' long lockdown drags on further damaging its economic engine. >> you command the strategy in an excessive manner could lead to exactly what the zero covid strategy wants to avoid. >> reporter: the growing dissent calls into question china's zero covid strategy at a critical time. later this year president xi jinping is to assume an almost unprecedented third term but the highly anticipated coronation now marred by discontent over a policy so closely tied to the people's leader. now, there is a lot of 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everything happened before my eyes. the explosions erupted all around him when this strike hit. russian rockets often target his village of 500 people. we were covered with dust, just dust and shrapnel all the way here. i fell to the ground crawling, not feeling my legs or arms. it was scary. for those who have not gone through this, you would not believe it. >> reporter: sergei keeves one eye on his heard and the other eye on the war. so these are sergei's six dairy cows, and if you notice he has them spread out. he wants to separate them so they don't all get killed in one strike. he must keep the cows alive. this is the life of a farmer in ukraine. maxine and his family grow the traditional ukrainian crops of wheat and sun flower on these lush wide open fields, but the war has upended his business. >> translator: it's been unfortunate for all of us. basically everything has shutdown and we aren't working now. >> reporter: maxim says the costs of fuel and grain seeds have skyrocketed. it's difficult to find parts to repair farm machinery. he's supposed to plant this year's wheat crop in the coming weeks, but if the fighting returns to this land, it won't happen. so this is the storage area where they keep their sun flower seeds, but they haven't been able to sell it because of the war. maxim is also stuck with an entire season's sunflower seeds harvest. it just sits in this storage space. will this war kill your business? 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