FACING THE OPPOSITE OF WHAT HE WANTS. >>> WE BEGIN OUR
COVERAGE NOW WITH GABE
GUTIERREZ.
>> Reporter: IT WAS
ONE OF RUSSIA’S MOST
IMPORTANT WARSHIPS BUT
TONIGHT IT HAS SUNK
ACCORDING TO RUSSIAN
OFFICIALS AFTER ITS
CREW WAS EVACUATED.
THE UKRAINIANS CLAIM
THEIR CRUISE MISSILES
HIT THE "MOSKVA,"
WHICH IS NAMED FOR
MOSCOW, IN THE BLACK
SEA.
RUSSIA SAYS THERE WAS
NO ATTACK BUT THAT
AMMUNITION ON BOARD
DETONATED.
>> WE CANNOT CONFIRM
THE UKRAINIAN REPORTS
THAT IT WAS HIT BY A
MISSILE, BUT WE ARE
ALSO NOT IN A POSITION
TO REFUTE THAT.
>> Reporter: THE
SHIP’S LOSS IS NOT
JUST A MILITARY
SETBACK BUT A SYMBOLIC
EMBARRASSMENT TO
RUSSIAN FORCES IN
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN
UKRAINE WHERE SENIOR
U.S. OFFICIALS SAYS
THEY’RE NOW ALL
LOCATED, THOUGH THE
ANTICIPATED MAJOR
OFFENSIVE IN THE EAST
HAS NOT BEGUN.
IN THE EASTERN CITY OF
KHARKIV THE GOVERNOR
IS ACCUSING RUSSIAN
TROOPS OF NEW BRUTAL
ATTACKS ON CIVILIANS.
AS THE FIGHTING
INTENSIFIES THERE
SECURITY FEARS ARE
MOUNTING AROUND THE
WORLD.
FINLAND AND SWEDEN ARE
NOW SERIOUSLY DEBATING
WHETHER TO JOIN NATO,
EVEN THOUGH RUSSIA’S
PRESIDENT PUTIN HAS
WARNED OF RETALIATION
IF THEY DO SO.
WHILE TONIGHT
UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT
ZELENSKYY IS BLASTING
EUROPE FOR GIVING
PUTIN AN ECONOMIC
LIFELINE BY STILL
BUYING RUSSIAN OIL.
>> Translator: WE
DON’T UNDERSTAND HOW
YOU CAN MAKE MONEY OUT
OF BLOOD, HE SAYS.
>> Reporter: TODAY
WEST OF KYIV WHERE
RUSSIAN SOLDIERS
RECENTLY RETREATED WE
VISITED THIS ONE-TIME
BAKERY WHERE NEIGHBORS
SAY UKRAINIAN TROOPS
WERE STAGING.
AT LEAST 15 PEOPLE
WERE KILLED HERE
DURING AN AIRSTRIKE,
THE WAR COMING RIGHT
TO A 75 YEAR OLD’S
DOORSTEP.
THERE WERE BOMBS
EVERYWHERE, SHE SAYS.
I WAS SHIVERING ALL
THE TIME.
IN A NEARBY VILLAGE,
THIS MEMBER OF THE
UKRAINIAN ARMED FORCES
NICKNAMED WOLF SHOWED
US A SCHOOL YARD WHERE
HE SAYS RUSSIAN
SOLDIERS DUG A TRENCH
TO HIDE AN ARMORED
VEHICLE, ALSO ROUNDING
UP MEN AND EXECUTING
THEM.
DID YOU EXPECT THIS
TYPE OF BREWUTALITY.
OF COURSE NOT, HE
SAYS.
TONIGHT HE AND HIS
FELLOW SOLDIERS ARE
BRACING FOR A
DRAWN-OUT FIGHT AS THE
WAR ENTERS ITS EIGHTH
WEEK.
>> GABE IS AGAIN IN
KYIV.
GABE, PRESIDENT PUTIN
SEEMS TO BE
ACKNOWLEDGING THAT
SANCTIONS ARE HAVING
AN IMPACT.
>> Reporter: YES,
LESTER.
PUTIN SAID THE
SANCTIONS WERE
DISRUPTING THE GAS
INDUSTRY AND DEFIANTLY