Welcome to the lead I'm Jake Tapper.

We start today with breaking news in our world lead, the Pentagon said just moments

ago that the Russian push towards Kiev and the Russian military's massive 40-mile long

military convoy are currently stalled due to a combination of logistics issues and

unexpected resistance from the Ukrainian people.

But Pentagon press secretary John Kirby also said the U.S. does believe that Russian

forces are currently regrouping across Ukraine grim new scenes of destruction by the Russian

military.

More than 2,000 Ukrainians have been killed in Russia's attacks since it began last

week, according to Ukraine's state emergency service.

2,000, a number, a horrific number that does not include the deaths of Ukrainian soldiers.

CNN cannot confirm these numbers from the Ukrainian government in Ukraine's capital

of Kiev tonight.

What has become a hauntingly familiar sound, air raid sirens across the city and on the

outskirts of Kiev, military planes, fighter jets, flying terrifyingly low, followed by

this.

Russia today also claiming to have taken control of her son.

That's a southern port city in Ukraine of about 300,000 Ukrainians on the Black Sea.

Although the government of Ukraine insists that the battle in her son still reaches on,

the Russians have not yet captured the city.

The her son city council says that at least 36 Ukrainians in that town have been killed

in the fighting, including a 14-year-old boy.

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