This is CNN Tonight.

I'm Jim Sudo, live from Lavive, Ukraine, along with Laura Coates in the U.S.

where the Biden administration today unveiled a new round of sanctions against Russia.

President Biden met with his top military advisers voicing the pressing need for the U.S.

to constantly adapt its response to the ongoing Russian invasion here.

Russia attempted some very public saber-addling today, showing off the test launch of a new

intercontinental ballistic missile.

In a televised address, Putin called it, quote, food for thought to those who might threaten

his nation.

The Pentagon, for its part, however, downplayed the test as a non-threat noting the U.S.

was warned in advance and monitored that launch closely.

What does remain a very real threat, though, is a new Russian offensive, a big one, in

the Donbass and the eastern part of this country.

And I have some new reporting in a moment on how Russian forces appear to be faring just

days into this new phase of the war.

We do know they have a stranglehold on the southeastern port city of Marriott-Pole,

where Ukrainian troops and many civilians, hundreds of them, remain surrounded, taking refuge

at a steel plant as they make desperate public pleas for help.

And Jim, I know in evacuation, I mean, it's unbelievable to think about what's going

on, because there's the evacuation quarter there that didn't work, as they said, as planned

today.

And of course, President Slinsky says that some 120,000 civilians remain trapped there,

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