This is CNN Breaking News.

Welcome to the lead-up, Jake Tapper, and we start today with breaking news in our

world lead, the United States trying to ramp up the pressure on Russian President Vladimir

Putin this afternoon, slapping a new set of sanctions on a new group of Russian elites.

The role was to maximize the impact on Putin and Russia and minimize the harm on us and

our allies and friends around the world.

Meanwhile in Putin's war on Ukraine, a poca-liptic scenes on the outskirts of the capital city

of Kiev, where Ukrainian officials claim Russians bombed civilian targets in the town of Barodayanka

for two days.

This is what remains of a residential apartment building there, residential Ukraine's emergency

services say, at least 33 dead bodies were pulled from the rubble across the city, and

in the northern Ukrainian town of Chandigiff, the city's mayor says two civilians were among

the nine Ukrainians killed in these airstrikes when Russian forces hit blocks of residential

homes.

Again, residential homes.

The city, which is about two hours outside of Kiev, has suffered through several days

of shelling by the Russian military.

To be very clear, the Russians, Putin, they're targeting the civilian population of Ukraine.

These are not errant bombs.

These are not mistakes because of strikes on military targets nearby.

These are Russian forces trying and succeeding in killing Ukrainian kids and moms and dads

and grandparents.

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