Happening now breaking news. Ukraine says Russians are raising everything to the

ground during their offensive in the east as we're getting new video of a

village wiped out amid heavy fighting.

Putin's war machine launching new attacks in Western and Central Ukraine as well, striking

five railway stations within an hour.

Also breaking the Kremlin's top diplomat is again keeping the door open to the use of nuclear weapons,

calling the danger serious and real.

This, after the U.S. secretaries of state and defense,

held truly critical talks with President Zellinsky in Keith,

expressing hope that Russia will be weakened by its brutal invasion.

Our correspondence are standing by a key locations in Ukraine, as well as over at the White

House for CNN's live global war coverage.

You want to welcome our viewers here in the United States

and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation in the situation. This is CNN breaking news. There is breaking news this hour on heavy, very heavy fighting in eastern Ukraine right now,

part of Russia's major new offensive in the region.

There's new drone video just in that shows there isn't much left of a small village near Luhansk.

A Ukrainian official says it was decimated by repeated Russian airstrikes

as Kremlin forces are in his words raising everything to the ground.

We're also following new comments by Russia's foreign minister about the war and the Kremlin's nuclear stance.

That's good as seen as chief

national security correspondent Jim Schudo. He's joining us live from Ukraine

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