economic recession. watching the oil prices. thanks for joining us this tuesday morning. i m christine announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, april 12th. i m brianna keilar in llviv, ukraine w john berman in new york. the war is entering a new stage of terror against ukraine. that is the words those are the words of president volodymyr zelenskyy as fear is growing about russia resorting to chemical or biological warfare. ukrainian military unit in the city of mariupol is accusing russian troops of already using chemical weapons there. cnn cannot independently verify that claim, but we did just speak to the head of the military in that region, the donetsk region, he said there are three people being treated
there hasn t been much progress in that regard. i want to be careful that we re not reducing the kind of damage and death he s causing to some sort of message signaling. pentagon press secretary answering some questions focused on that attack on yesterday west of llviv. saying he wuld not look at that as the ability to bring in security assistance. there s lots of ways to bring in assistance to ukraine.