from ukraine starts right now. we are watching what's happening in ukraine, also watching what's happening in washington dc and just listening in the last moments, in my ear, here am ukraine and senator marsha blackburn asking the potential jurist asking about the definition of a woman and talking about critical race theory, it has become the new buzz term, right, like acorn did or antifa and on and on and on, it's really amazing to watch someone who is, quite frankly, an intellectual giant, be questioned by people who have really no idea about the law and what judges actually do, laura. >> it reminds me, and i can't remember who said it but a paraphrase of to my equals i debate, to all others i teach. i think she is teaching a number of people today in her conversations but also,

interesting as you mention the point, what you're really seeing here is the conflation of so many different issues that are in the national and political zeitgeist but what we want of supreme court justice as not dip their toe in the public politics and that's what ever seen in the times of this supreme court, are they truly apolitical or an extent of the political beings so it's interesting to think about this discussion and the dynamic at play, but she, you know, how difficult it must be to sit there, spine straight, ha hands folded together, and wait and listen for the moment where she has to then teach. >> yeah, well i spoke to my mom just before, i like to keep in touch with her since i'm over here. >> i'm sure you do, better be 10 times a day, are you kidding me? yeah! >> it is, and she said, you know, i've gone through what she's gone through and can see it in her face, i know what she's thinking and just sits there. i, am, i'm not that classy as

she is because i probably would have said something or when they asked me the question if it was a ridiculous one i would have just looked at them and said no comment, next question. >> we'll hear all the don lemon head talk you do, the pause before you smile, we all know that look, we're familiar with it. i suppose you are classy but we do know the don lemon look. >> thank you, laura, appreciate it. we'll keep an eye on that and take you through what's happening in ukraine, this is "don lemon tonight" we're here, in ukraine and back in the u.s. as well as laura and i have been talking about the historic confirmation hearings of judge ketanji jackson, defending herself from relentless republican attacks, more than in a moment. ukraine forces now fighting to take back territory from the russians, pentagon says there is information ukraine is more on the offensive now. take a look at this.

new video tonight, it is from the outskirts of the capitol city of kyiv. it is an intense firefight along a rail line just northeast of the city. ukrainian politician who posted the video claims the fighters are now chechyans taking up arms to defend ukraine, cnn could not independently verified that report but we have geolocated the video and what it shows is an upclose and graphic view of this war .

there you have it. the realities of war. and meanwhile, just 40 miles

west of kyiv, ukraine says they have taken back the devastated city of makariv following 24 hours of fighting. regional police released this video. cnn has geolocated it as showing makariv and surroundings and in ki kyiv, plumes of smoke darkening the sky, air raid sirens reportedly concentrated around the northern part of the city where russian forces are. it seems harder ukraine fights back, the more brutal russian forces are. in mariupol, mayor says 90% of infrastructure has been destroyed, senior u.s. defense official says they are firing on the city from ships in the sea of asov and new video tonight showing the launch of cruise missil missiles located off the coast of crimea. the missiles headed towards ukraine. but in a stunning interview you have to watch this, a stunning interview with cnn today, vladimir putin's chief spokesman

refusing to rule out the use of nuclear weapons, claiming they can be used if there's, what he calls, an existential threat for russia. watch. >> we have a concept of domestic security. if it is an existential threat for our country, then it can be used in occurrence with our concept. >> i want to bring you now cnn, sam kiley in kyiv, and ben liebermann here with me tonight in kyiv, so happy both of you can join us. sam i'll start with you, the video of intense firefight between ukrainian forces and russia's military on the outskirts of kyiv, are ukrainian forces gaining ground around the capitol? >> reporter: according to their own ministry of defense, we don't have directly, ability to verify this, but according to the ukrainian ministry of defense, they are successfully

pushing back against the russian forces that are gathered to the west, the northwest and, indeed, the east of the city. now this footage we're showing our viewers at the moment comes from the east of the city, it's a group of ethnic, allegedly chechian fighters, certainly muslim fighters, a number of muslim units within the ukrainian armed forces, many of them chechyans who object the russian rule there. elsewhere to the west, had the conquest or reconquest according to the ukrainians of makariv and certainly seen very heavy bombardment particularly in the west, northwest of the city, about 10, 15 kilometers from where i'm standing here, all afternoon, most of the morning, and into the night. very heavy bombardments there, which in all probability, mostly ukrainian weapons tarattacking

russia, i've also been speaking to fighters on the ground, saying they're capable of punching into pockets of the russian controlled area. ukraine talking about establishing three lines of defense to protect the city, don. >> there's also video tonight, sam, of a plume of smoke rising in the northwest of kyiv, is it clear, my question is, as to what that may be from? >> reporter: well, there are a number of plumes of smoke. that was from some kind of substantial missile or artillery strike, soon after that image was filmed, there was a series of explosions that were audible and visible, smaller explosions in a line along the horizon. this is an area not very far from irpin, don, the area where you saw those refugees coming across the downed bridge about a week and a half ago amid scenes of incredible desperation, whole

family killed by a russian mortar when that was going on. this, the irpin river is now swollen, a lot more flooded. that has created problems for the russians as indeed as this ukrainian counteroffensive going on the better part of a week and today, in a, halfway through, a bit more than halfway through a 36 hour curfew in which everybody has been ordered off the streets completely, across the whole of the ukrainian capitol so the military can get to their work and arguably, able to move around without being spied upon because there's no question here in the ukrainian authorities that there are plenty of spies around to reveal to the enemy the movements of their military, don. >> i want to bring in ben liebermann, you've been tracking the humanitarian crisis and refugees coming to lviv. what have you been hearing? >> reporter: well they continue to struggle, the ukrainian authorities to deeal with this

influx of refugees, it's not quite as bad as it was a couple weeks ago but still about 200,000 refugees or displaced people here in lviv. we heard president zelenskyy say that ukraine, in the last two weeks received about 100,000 tons of humanitarian goods. so they're doing okay. but we did speak with, spent a lot of time yesterday with refugees, or displaced people who said that more than anything, they're worried about the people they left behind. >> tra >> reporter: i'm not so well, says natalya who led a choir back home, i'm worried about my parents, in mariupol, who she hasn't heard from in 20 days. she shows us video of a performance before the war shattered their lives. the choir has gone silent, the

light at the end of this tunnel is receding. and of course, you know, we're now four weeks, entering our fifth week into this war, and many of these people who have been patient, put up with so much, i worry this could go on a very long time. >> in the kindness of strangers, that's what they're living off of. >> reporter: that's right. >> thank you, appreciate you bringing us those stories. i spoke with retired general and cia director david petrayas earlier what's happening on the ground in ukraine. listen to that. general, thank you for joining us. vladimir putin's spokesman revealed today that he acknowledges the possible roll out of nuclear weapons if russia assesses that threat, what are those comments meaning to to you

as someone so close to the russian leader. >> don, great to be with you and thank you for your great reporting from ukraine. it's an extraordinary admission from someone close to president putin and it's really quite an extraordinary effort to rattle the nuclear saber once again, having heard vladimir putin do that himself a couple of weeks ago, a reminder again of the arsenal russia has to which it has access, perhaps even a veiled reminder that their doctrine is one that causes them to escalate, to deescalate if you will. so again, it's quite worrisome, and i think validates some of the concern that we have heard from individuals like nato secretary-general and press secretary to biden, like no-fly zones, and transfer of migs have been proposed. >> general, i got to get your

assessment on this, at least for assessment of the fight right now, is it a stalemate or does ukraine have the upper hand here? >> i think it's a bloody stalemate and i'd have to underscore and highlight the word bloody, because on the one hand, the ukrainians have basically stopped the russians in many areas. they have inflicted enormous losses on the russians. by some estimates now, in the first, whatever, 27, 28 days of this campaign, the russians have lost nearly twice as many soldiers as we lost in 20 years in iraq and those were very, very tough losses. i can tell you. beyond that, would be many more who would be wounded, the losses in weapon systems and vehicles are really quite extraordinary and it's clear that russia is scrambling to try to find replacements, in the eastern military district, in georgia, in syria, from mercenaries, from friendly forces if you will.

so they're in a very tough spot. they have extended the tours of their conscripts that would have ended in april, the one year service conscripts, to longer. obviously, a terrible effect on morale, and then bringing in the new conscripts on early so they have an awful lot of challenges but also have an awful lot of fighter power so the ukrainians have extraordinary determination, motivation, actual skill, resourcefulness and so forth, and heart. and the russians have a great deal of artillery, rockets, missiles, and even bombs. and they're making use of those. and then, at the strategic level, don, i think you have to describe this as a bit of a battle of attrition, almost, between two capitols, moscow where vladimir putin is watching his economy, his financial system be really hammered and where also, there has to be an

undercurrent of real resentment as what has happened, at rejection, the decisions he has made. >> u.s. and nato officials tell cnn they believe belarus could soon join russia in the war against ukraine, one saying it could happen within days. what kind of impact would that have on this war? >> well, it could be very challenging. the question is whether the belarusian soldiers would really have their hearts in. there are an awful lot of reports that they do not want to fight, they see what's happening to the russians. president lukashenko himself is reported to have very little enthusiasm for this. he has to know that he will be hammered with the same sanctions, the same economic and financial actions, and of course, his country has much less in the way of resources that russia has that could enable them, perhaps, to withstand at least some months of this. >> general, i had the opportunity a few days ago to

speak with secretary lloyd austin. he said the russians are making multiple missteps in this war. ukraine said they've killed five russian generals so far and sources tell cnn the u.s. doesn't even know if russia has a dedicated military commander to oversee the operation, could the u.s. be doing more to help ukra ukrainians exploit the weaknesses? >> well there's always more than can be done, don, without question. i think the secretary i served with, of course, worked with me twice in iraq when he was a three star and then a four star as well, and was an extraordinary commander there. he also observed that the russians were feeding their soldiers into a woodchipper. and i don't think that's not an inappropriate analogy, but certainly there could be more and i suspect the u.s. is exploring more. again, just committed another billion dollars, just a huge amount of money in one week in defense assistance then some 13

billion in overall assistance. the game changer i'm waiting to see will have to do with the impact of the so-called switchblade drone, this is manned portable, launched out of a tube, it expands, it's essentially a suicide drone it's electric so you can't, battery powered, you can't hear it. and it can loiter above with a soldier looking at it and guiding it at the feed and then have it dive on to an enemy after about 25 or 30 minutes or so, quite accurate, can lock on to a target. i'm told the first hundred of these in the initial package will be the smaller warheads more for personnel than vehicles but if more of these can be fed in, this could be of enormous assistance as the ukrainians are carrying out these local counterattacks such as the one you described northwest of kyiv in the past 24 hours.

>> general david patrayas, we appreciate having you and of course, love getting your perspective. thank you so much. >> pleasure, don, thanks for your great reporting. >> today's marathon senate confirmation hearing for judge ketanji brown jackson's nomination to supreme court just wrapping up. i want to get straight to cnn's paula read for the latest, couple more folks to get to, now on the air, at least marsha blackburn needed to wrap up. it was a long day for judge jackson, what key questions did she face, paula? >> you're right, extremely long day, over 13 hours of questioning, this was the first opportunity for lawmakers to grill the nominee, but don, she had a good sense of what was coming after lawmakers made their opening statements yesterday, which is what we saw at the opening of today's hearing. she issued a preemptive defense

against one of the key lines of gop attack, accusing her of being soft on crime, specifically child porn offenses but even her preemptive offense didn't stop some gop lawmakers from spending most of their allotted time on this issue. let's take a listen. >> as a mother, and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, i was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth. >> judge, he was 18, these kids are eight. i don't see what sense they're peers. i got a nine-year-old, a seven-year-old, and a 16 month old at home and i live in fear that they will be exposed to, let alone, exploited in this kind of material. >> this particular defendant had just graduated from high school. and some of, perhaps not all, when you're looking at the records, but some of the materials that he was looking at

were older teenagers, were older victims, attempting to take into account all of the relevant factors and do justice individually in each case. >> but senator holly, a likely 2024 presidential contender did not seem terribly interested in judge jackson's analysis. instead, using her record as a dog whistle to appeal to q-anon which of course has had a strong focus on democrats and pedophilia. >> judge jackson also faced questions over critical race theory. why is that even brought up, paula? >> so great question, don. look, holly is not the only 2024 likely contender and senator ted cruz bringing up critical race theory, even with props, charts

and children books as he grilled the judge over this issue and one of the few times over the entire hearing judge jackson appeared visibly annoyed. let's take a listen. >> you agree with this book that is being taught with kids that babies are racist? >> senator, i have not reviewed any of those books, any of those ideas. they do not come up in my work as a judge, which i am respectfully here to address. >> she repeatedly noted that critical race theory is not something she studied and had nothing to do with her work on the bench. but again, using this hearing to seize on an issue that could likely appeal to republican voters in 2024 primaries. >> all right. paula reid keeping close watch for us, appreciate it. next, i'll talk to the man known as the sherpa for judge ketanji brown jackson, ask

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former senator doug jones making his way to our camera to talk about being the sherpa for the possibly soon to be justice. in the mean time, news happening here in the ukraine region, many residents of kharkiv, heavily bombed city in eastern ukraine forced to leave their homes and seeking shelter in the city's subway stations. kharkiv's metro system was designed in the soviet era as a nuclear shelter and now serving as a safe haven for russia's constant shelling of the buildings above ground. those photo hes taken by photo jour jour journalist vorshak for washington post and he joins me now. thank you for joining us. so these photos you took, we see tents, building bundled up in

winter coats, walk dapway handl used to hang clothes they've been under so long they've developed a routine. >> yeah, is completely surreal, these people trying to get any normality in the situation they're being brought into. you know, it's amazing how they're trying to make their life more comfortable, how they're trying to make this life more normal so they're organizing themselves, saying they're like one big family. you can also see the flowers in there, brought by some volunteers, women staying in the subway system, right. so there are platforms there to trains on the stations that people with families are staying together like in big flats and also people staying just in the

spaces like in each space between those trains. >> if you're at home and just listening to this i would really urge you to look at your screen, these images from wojciech from the washington post are really extraordinary, say they're developing routines, wojciech, what did you hear about the help from volunteers? >> well, if it wasn't for the volunteers they would need to go out many times and would need to risk their life, because every time they go out of the subway this is like they're risking their life. there might be a shelling, might be get killed so volunteers bringing food twice a day so this is the time that they can go out, stand in queue, and

also, they are bringing like everything which is needed there just to survive, just to live. >> i think we had this image up already, but you took a photo of a man on the subway escalator, name is sergay miranovich, he's worked in russia 27 years, says he can't understand what happened to russia and remembers it being a peaceful country. are you hearing that sort of sentiment a lot? >> yeah, there's a lot of sentiment, especially with coming from the people that lived in russia, and they're asking the question, what happened with this peaceful country, what happened with this peaceful nation they remember that they have great memories with. so they cannot understand what this, you know, what turned them into killing, like, their own

friends because they're, still think they are friends. >> yeah, one photograph in particular was really striking is tulip sitting in the window of a subway car, really captures the semblance of normalcy in the most frightening and not normal of times. >> there was international women's rights day and volunteer brought flowers to each woman in this train station, this subway station, just to feel them happy, just to feel them a little more like women, little less like victims of this war. >> yeah. it's hard to take my eyes off of these photographs. they're really extraordinary. there's another one you took, it's disturbing, it's body bags piling up outside kharkiv's morgue and shows the sheer devastation of the cost of

russia unprovoked war and really you have to ask, and for what? >> excuse me, i didn't hear you, something disconnection. >> i just said it shows how devastating this unprovoked war is and people are asking for for what? and that was my question to you, the body bags you showed. >> very good question, but i don't have an answer for this. i don't know, it's unprovoked. it's very bloody, and it affects, mostly, this is like the first we're uncovering, the civilians are mostly targeted. so, in kharkiv, and in the morgue, you can see a lot of bodies. really, a lot of bodies, civilian people being brought everyday. there are like 50 bodies, 50 dead people that ukrainians being brought to this morgue. so the chief director of the morgue is saying they don't have more coffins, don't have anymore

body bags. they're just asking for all like, rags just to cover the body because the situation is really critical there. so they're asking, basically, for any help that could be provided. >> wojciech, i'm going to try to run those, see if i can get the producers to run those later in the show, maybe close with them or something, but your work is extraordinary, i want you to be safe and keep doing the great work. thank you so much, wojciech giorshinsky, did i butcher your name or get it close? >> you did it good. >> thank you, appreciate it. next, the man they call sherpa for judge ketanji brown jackson, former senator doug jones, from today's hearing what he thinks of the relentless republican attacks on the judge. only from discover.

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americans who never had anything close to this kind of opportunity. from my gardenparandparents wit gradeschool education but instilled in my parents the importance of learning and my parents who i mentioned here already, the first in their families to get to go to college. so this nomination, against that backdrop is significant to a lot of people -- >> let's bring in now white house nomination adviser for legislative affairs and former senator from alabama, doug jones, and our former colleague here on cnn as well, doug, thank you so much, appreciate you joining us to talk about this. a long day on capitol hill for judge jackson, and you, by the way, how do you think she did? >> oh don, she did great. i mean america got to see an absolutely amazing jurist.

her qualifications, background, experience, her family, her faith, all on display. she handled it very, very well. everything, tough questions, to easy questions, it was a long day for everybody but i think this was a very good day for her, and i hope america sees exactly why the president nominated her, that america will be getting a justice for everyone in this country. >> well judge jackson, she certainly offered strong rebuttals to gop senators over her record on child porn case and see this manufactured outrage on critical race theory. let's listen to this, then discuss. >> do you think these laws are too tough, that we're too tough on sex offenders? explain what you meant in this case in 2013, and it seems to be the same thing you said many years ago. >> senator, it's not the same thing i said many years ago. many years ago, as a law school

student, i was evaluating a new set of legislation, state laws, about registration and i was analyzing them as law students do. as a mother, and a judge who has had to deal with these cases, i was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth. these are some of the most difficult cases that a judge has to deal with. >> do you agree with this book being taught with kids that babies are racist? >> senator, i do not believe that any child should be made to feel as though they are racist or as though they are not valued

or as though they are less than, that they are victims, that they are oppressors. i don't believe in any of that. >> you know, that pause kind of said everything in when she took that deep breath, but you served with these senators. what are they trying to do here? and talk to me about how you think the judge handled it. >> well, i thought she handled it extremely well, don, look, a lot of these are political questions. you've seen these before, and those are questions that are going to end up tweets, going to end up in policy statements for a campaign, but the fact of the matter is there are so many good things that came out of this today. you can cherry pick anything, but what came out so strong was a 10-year record as a judge, clerking for three different judges in the federal court system, a democratic district judge, a republican court of appeals judge, and a democratic supreme court justice. what came through was her work on the sentencing commission,

that was unanimous with conservative commissioners working with her, had unanimous decisions on that. what came through was her ability to really think through and answer the questions and making sure people understood her approach to judging. and i think that's the critical component of this. and by the way, that, the school that she was a board member of that senator cruz was referring to, you know, don, that school was founded in 1945 by a group of white parents and black parents who didn't like segregated law and see wanted their kids to have a more diverse education so they created this school, to allow for school integration ten years before brown versus board as opposed to so many of the private schools that popped up around this country to promote segregation and maintain segregation. that's what that, and she said, there was not -- has not baeen single parent come to her to

complain about these books which by the way, if you really want to check, have been a lot of conservative members of congress who sent their kids to that school. >> well, and that school speaks to the jewish and black alliance that really helped during the civil rights movement and that needs to be galvanized and reignited again in this country so i think you're right about that, that school started by jewish parents and black parents saying we don't want to deal with this, we don't want our kids seg rregated and i think mt of america can agree that is and was a good thing. as somebody who was helping with the process, we could see you sitting behind her in the hearing. did you expect these sorts of attacks and how did you prepare for it? >> you know, we knew there were things that would be a line of some people, will call it attacks, other people will just say it was a line of very rigorous questioning about her views and about her background. you know, her background is always and her record is always

fair game. what's not fair game is when you just kind of cherry pick things out that mislead. so we saw this starting to build as we were coming to the hearing. i think she was ready for it. you can never quite be prepared to just sit there and take it as someone really kind of pontificates about it but the fact of the matter is she was very forth right in her answers, really kind of explained what it means to be a judge and how to judge, that's why, don, that the fraternal order of police, the national association of police chiefs, all of these conservative lawyers and former retired federal judges, including, you know, judge griffith who introduced her on the court, that's why they support her. they see someone who follows the rule of law and judges fairly and impartially as she says, you know, without fear or favor. >> doug, thank you so much, and please, tell her we're thinking about her and would love to have

her on this program when this process is over. thank you very much. >> i'm sure you would, don, i think everybody would. but hey, look, my friend, you stay safe where you are. okay? >> all right. thank you very much, you stay safe where you are. thank you, doug, appreciate it. >> okay, don. >> war tearing families apart, mothers and children escaping to relative safety, right here in lviv, while their husbands and fathers, they fight. i spoke with some of them today and i'd like you to meet them. that's next. now we've created a brand new way for you to sell your car. whetheher it's a year old or a few years old, we want to buy your car. so go to carvana enter your license plate, answer a few questions, and our techno wizardry calculates your car's value and gives you a real offer in seconds. when you're ready we'll come to you, pay you on the spot, and pickup your car. that's it! so ditch the old way of selling your car and say hello to the new way.

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a top pentagon official saying today there are signs ukrainian forces are going on the offensive trying to take back territory from russian forces. and that means most families are experiencing separation.

husbands and fathers called to the front, called to fight on the front lines while mothers seek safety for their children. today i met some women whose families have been torn apart by this unprovoked war. >> this is when he came home from war? >> reporter: oksana buel has lived in lviv for her entire life. but for now without her husband maks, who is fighting in southern ukraine. >> you miss him? >> translator: yes. >> you miss dad? >> yes. >> reporter: she and her two children sleep in this hallway in case of an airstrike and worry. one of the countless families across ukraine separated with a spouse at the front. >> translator: i try to track if he's online and get very worried if he hasn't been online. >> so you check just to make sure he's okay? >> translator: yes. i'm very worried when i get calls from unknown numbers. >> what do you worry the unknown

phone number is? >> translator: i'm afraid someone i don't know will call and tell me some bad news. >> it's sad. >> what's the hardest thing? >> translator: that it's indefinite. and you can't influence anything. you try to monitor the news but you can't do anything. that and the uncertainty. >> reporter: oksana and her children zlata, 7, and stanislav, 4, are relatively safe in lviv. but as other cities across ukraine turn into front lines, other families have a difficult choice to make. >> translator: if not for my son, i wouldn't be here. >> reporter: tatiana nikovaczi and her son nikita fled from their home in kyiv, where nikita's father is fighting. >> translator: for every mother the most important thing is to keep their child safe. >> reporter: so you would have stayed in kyiv if it weren't for

your child? >> translator: most likely, yes. >> reporter: why? >> translator: because it's my home. my family and relatives are in kyiv. >> reporter: here in lviv, 10-year-old nikita is trying to adjust to life with war. do you worry about him? >> translator: yes. >> reporter: what do you worry? >> translator: that he doesn't get hit. >> translator: when we first came to kyiv, i asked what he wanted for his birthday. and he didn't say toys. he said i want -- i want this day to be done. >> reporter: everyone is dreaming of the day the war ends. what's the first thing you're going to do when you see your dad? >> translator: i will hug him. >> reporter: and? >> translator: i'll say i'm happy he returned. >> reporter: and you? >> translator: i will hug him and say thank you. >> reporter: thank you for what?

>> translator: thank you for staying strong. thank you for bringing peace. thank you for risking everything for us. our people and our country. >> reporter: something that was very striking to me as i am getting to meet people here and going around the city is that all of a sudden, overnight, without warning many mothers here, thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of mothers here became single moms overnight and they have to fend for themselves and their children no matter how many children they have. but they are pulling together with the help of family members and even neighbors. and you heard the woman there saying -- i asked her-i said when the airstrikes -- when the air sirens go off, what do you do? do you go to a shelter? she said we sleep in the corridor of our apartment in the strongest part of the apartment as if they're getting ready for a hurricane or tornado as we do in the united states. they sleep there. she said it's tough to wrangle two children in the middle of

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after four weeks of russia's bombardment of cities and towns in ukraine and ukrainian forces fighting back, casualties are mounting on both sides. ukrainian and russian soldiers are dying. tonight cnn's ivan watson on the high human cost of this war. >> reporter: this military

cemetery brings home the stark reality ukraine has been living with for years. all of these crosses, they mark the graves of ukrainian servicemen who've died fighting against russian-backed separatists in the donbas region since 2014. and on this side we have new graves. and they're devoted to casualties from russia's invasion of ukraine that was launched on february 24th of this year. one of the fallen is mikhail zadiraka, born in 1997, just 25 years old. and if you come over here, you see something else which is a reminder of how grim this conflict is. the authorities have dug dozens of additional graves, anticipating the likelihood of more casualties in this terrible

conflict. this refrigerator truck represents another side of this war. it's parked outside a city morgue. and city officials say that it is partially filled with the bodies of some 350 russian soldiers. there is another refrigerator truck, they say, that is parked in another part of the city with another 400 russian corpses. and when you come to this side here, you can smell the stench of cadavers. the ukrainian officials say that they are conducting dna tests of the russian dead and that they are then going to send these bodies to the ukrainian capital to eventually be returned to russia and to the families for proper burial. ivan watson, cnn, dnipro, ukraine. >> ivan, thank you so much for that report. it's theop