world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, president biden leaves for europe in a few hours. we ll look at how a controversial decision to supply ukraine with cluster bombs could complicate talks with u.s. allies as ukraine marks 500 days of war. and president zelenskyy welcomes home five commanders captured in the siege mariupol. plus the united states is not seeking to decouple from china. u.s. treasury secretary janet yellen says the world is big enough for both the u.s. and china to thrive. we ll break down the key takeaways from her meetings in beijing. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. nato leaders are meeting this week and will try to cover a lot of ground in just a few days with ukraine topping their agenda. president biden is set to leave in the coming hours stopping first in london before going on.
but the main supermarket is still operating despite being shelled earlier, a lot of the fridges and storage areas are damaged. the constant volley of attacks seen half the town empty and the other half can t understand why this is happening. they ve attacked our houses, our schools, our shops she said. they re hitting us too much. for what? please someone explain. putin s scorched earth tactics are more apparent in mariupol where 80% of all residential buildings are damaged or destroyed according to local officials who spoke to the bbc. without water or electricity, residents facing starvation must scrounge for food and have no opportunity to bury their dead except in temporary graves. according to the new york times , there are reports of on going street fights between ukrainian and russian forces and even more chilling, evacuated residents and a local official tell the times resident haves been forcibly taken across the border into russia against their
leader of one of the national guards units an hour ago. he is on the siege mariupol and i asked him, what is his message to americans? i ll talk to them soon. mariupol will never surround it and i absolutely believe what he says. there are 3,000 of them and they re not ready to give up the city, not ready to give up civilians that are still there and they re suffering from russian attacks and i can assume will it go more and more and more and none of the ukrainian cities you mentioned and others are going to surrenderer. i ve seen many of these cities have been there and i can tell you the moral of both troops and civilians is very high and everybody is very resilient, everybody is willing to fight until the end and when i say the end, i m saying just our
columnist from bloomberg opinion. thank you for being here. the comparisons between mariupol and what happened in aleppo is everyone is making them but you ve been making them for a long time, we should pay attention to what happens in aleppo. tell me about that. you were there contemporaneously. what you re seeing in mariupol, is this the same campaign? the same campaign. people were warning syrians, refugees were telling us that the campaign that he wage in syria with gassing people, starvation, beseeking people, bombardment, the double attack which is he would send his airplanes to bump people and first responder would arrive and agree secondly, he will second time bomb people to create terror campaign. rape was used as a weapon of war
sirens when we spoke to you last. reporter: well, i ll give you an update. friday night we were on the air for your show and heard these two booms and i spent the next sort of 12 hours trying to figure out what it was and it wasn t until the next morning russia announced they fired hyper sonic missiles we were able to put the timing together. that s what we heard the first ever use of these hyper sonic missiles flying over us on the way to targets in the west and this geopolitical discussion what the aim of that was. maybe russia was sending a message to the u.s. here in the western part of the country, the message is these missiles fly really fast. air can t pick them up and they re hitting the target. it s changed the way this city is operating. you see more sandbags and people headed for shelters when the sirens go off. in the eastern part of the country, you re looking at video from mariupol. this is a city being wiped off the map. the russians put together this weird offer of a