Happening now Ukraine fires back at new Russian attacks in a pivotal battle is Vladimir

Putin's brutal war nears the one-year mark.

CNN is on the ground in Kyiv and in Moscow

amid new estimates of Russia's losses.

The bodies said to be piling up.

Also tonight, five former Memphis police officers

plead not guilty to second-degree

murder and other charges in the fatal beating of Tyree Nichols. Nichols's mother at the

arraignment saying the defendants could not look her in the eye.

I'll speak with the Nichols family attorney Ben Crump this hour.

And Republican Senator Ritz-Tot backing down from a controversial plan dropping social security and Medicare provisions

after bipartisan backlash including President Biden's direct attack

during his State of the Union address. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world.

Well, Flitzer is on assignment today.

I'm Pamela Brown and you're in the situation room. And we begin this hour on the front lines in Ukraine a new round of Russian shelling

adding to the mounting toll of death and destruction after nearly a full year of war.

CNN's International Security Correspondent Alex Mark Hart is in Kyiv.

Alex, tell us what's happening there on the battlefield at this critical moment in the war.

Yeah, Pamela, you're absolutely right. It is a critical moment in this war and we have seen the beginning stages of a new Russian offensive and that

offensive is not going well. A senior State Department official on

Thursday said that what they are seeing is very pathetic and just earlier

today Pam we did get an update from the White House about one area where the Russians have been trying to push forward for months in Bachmoot, where Ukrainian forces have been facing off against mercenaries and convicts from the Wagner mercenary group.

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