hello and welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. i'm live in hong kong. we begin with mounding evidence of possible war crimes in ukraine as russian forces retreat from the kyiv region and leave horror and devastation in their wake. a warning. these images are graphic, disturbing and may be hard to watch. cnn teams on the ground captured these images of a mass grave in bucha. the mayor said up to 300 people, many civilians, could be buried there. the discovery of that mass grave coming so soon after these images emerge, revealing streets

strewn with bodies. some with hands tied behind their backs. others seemingly killed execution style, with a shot to the back of the head. these horrific scenes in bucha, a northwestern suburb of kyiv, drew swift condemnation from world leaders with many demanding war crimes investigations and accountability. while the president of ukraine is accusing russia of trying to wipe out its entire country and its people. >> indeed, this is genocide. the elimination of the whole nation and the people. we are the citizens of ukraine. we have more than 100 nationalities. this is about the destruction and extermination of all these nationalities. we are the citizens of ukraine and we don't want to be subdued to the policy of russian federation. this is the reason we are being

destroyed. and exterminated. >> on sunday, russia denied killing any civilians. the ministry of defense claimed the images coming out of bucha are fake. another saying it was staged. similar stories have emerged across ukraine. on sunday, the regional military governor of kharkiv said 23 forces were killed and a rights watch said it has documented allegations of war crimes around areas of kharkiv and chernihiv. part of the cnn team was there on sunday. again, his report includes disturbing images. >> as the russians continue to withdraw from areas here around kyiv, toward the border with belarus, and the ukrainians move into these territories, two things are becoming increasingly clear. a lot more hardware was taken

out than anybody thought. and a lot more civilians came to harm as well. we witnessed some of that first hand. here's what we saw. as russian forces retreat from the area north of kyiv, in their wake, scenes of utter destruction. whole blocks of houses flattened. ukrainian authorities saying they believe dead bodies are still lying underneath. but here, the dead also lay in the open. ukrainian national police showed thus mass grave in bucha, saying they believed up to 150 civilians might be buried here but no one knows the exact number. people killed while the russian army occupied this town. this is what it looks like when the hope is crushed. vladimir has been searching for his younger brother dmitri. now he is convinced he lies here, even though he can't be 100% sure. the neighbor accompanying him had strong words for the

russians. >> translator: why do you hate us so much, she asks. since the 1930s, you've been abusing ukraine. you just want to destroy us. you want us gone. but we will be. everything will be okay. i believe it. >> reporter: video from bucha shows bodies in the streets after russian forces left the area. some images even show bodies with hands tied behind their backs. the russian defense ministry denies killing civilians and claims images of dead civilians are, quote, fake. but we met a family just returning to their house in a place they say was occupied by russian soldiers. they show us the body of a dead man in civilian clothes they had found in the backyard. his hands and feet tied with severe bruises and a shell casing still laying nearby. russia's military appears to have suffered heavy losses before being driven out of the area around kyiv. this column of armored vehicles

in bucha completely destroyed. the way the ukrainians tell us, the russians were trying to go toward kyiv and they were then intercepted by ukrainian drones, artillery, and also, the javelin anti-tank weapons. it is not clear how many russians were killed but they say many were and others fled the scene. a national police officer says the russian troops were simply too arrogant. they thought they could drive on the streets and just go through, he says. that they would be greeted as though it is all right. maybe they think it is normal to drive around looting, to destroy buildings and to mock people. but our people didn't allow it. and now it appears all the russians have withdrawn from here. ukraine says it is now in full control of the entire region around kyiv. but it is only now that the full extent of the civilian suffering is truly coming to light. what we saw there in bucha was obviously awful. unfortunately, it is not something necessarily unique

just to that one small town around the capital of kyiv. in fact, just today we were in various other places. various other small towns and satellite towns around the ukrainian capital and every single one of them, we saw the same scene. we saw utter destruction, destroyed buildings where the local authorities said there are still dead people underneath. dead bodies in the street. dead bodies in back yards. and as the time progresses, as the ukrainians make more and more inroads and access a lot more of these areas, unfortunately, they're probably going to find more of the same. >> the gruesome images in bucha have been met with almost universal condemnation and many world leaders say it is more evidence that russia is committing war crimes. ukraine's foreign minister likened the carnage in bucha to the savagery of jihadists. >> it is the most outrageous

atrocity of the 21 century. and by saying we all refer to bucha but we should not forget about other villages in the kyiv region which also became the crime scene for russian army. without an exaggeration, by what we've seen in bucha and vicinity, we can conclude that russia is worse than isis. >> the head of nato said he is shocked by the scale of civilian attacks that have occurred since the invasion began. >> it is a brutality against civilians that we haven't seen in europe for decades. and it is horrific and it is absolutely unacceptable that the civilians are targeted and killed. >> and the u.s. is once again describing the scenes in ukraine as war crimes.

>> you can't help but see these images as a punch to the gut. and look, we've said before russia's aggression that we thought it was likely that they would commit atrocities. since the aggression, we've come out and said that we believe that russian forces have committed war crimes and we've been working to document that. >> to discuss more, let's bring in former moscow chief joe doherty who was in moscow from the beginning of the war. thank you for joining us, jill. let's talk about bucha. ukraine has called out russia for war crimes there. we know some eu countries are pushing for it. the pressure is building on putin right now. what does this moment mean for russia and the war in ukraine? >> certainly, russia realizes how big this is. it is really enormous. the reaction is angry and really

distraught from the rest of the world to see this happening. i think it is important to note that no one directly yet can prove that russia did this. but there are calls from many countries for a real investigation of possible war crimes. russia knows that it looks at this point as if it happened while their troops were there. so what is russia doing? they are calling it, number one, an egregious provocation by ukrainian radicals, and then they're also very quickly going on the offensive and saying that it is actually fake. the video that we've been seeing on our screens is fake. and this is what russian citizens are seeing in the russian media. exactly the same message, that it is the ukrainians who are faking this, and in fact, that there is, like a fake factory in

a way for producing videos like this. this is all, of course, russian propaganda for what they say is happening. >> it's incredible to see and to hear how russia is reframing this. look, there are photos of civilian bodies on the streets of bucha. there are satellite images showing a mass gravesite. and yet as you laid out, the kremlin is framing this all as fake. this is how moscow is spinning this. the people in russia, they're buying it? >> well, it is the usual thing. that's what they are exposed to. that is the usual answer, that it is fake. and i think it is important to kind of look at the psychological part of this. because russian, let's call it maybe ideology, the way that russians look at themselves, and even going back to soviet days, is that they couldn't possibly do something like this because they are the victims. that is the way they look at the world.

and look at the comments by the patriarch, the head of the russian orthodox church. and he gave a service for russian soldiers at the cathedral of the armed forces, by the way. the russian orthodox church is quite connected to the kremlin. and he said, and here's a quote. we absolutely do not strive for war or do anything that could harm others. so that really is, for many russians, the perception they have of themselves. so it is really inconceivable in a world like that, that they could possibly do something as horrendous as this. >> it was on sunday when the patriarch, the head of the russianors docks church, urged russian soldiers to defend a peace-loving russia. why does he support russia's military action, and how influential is his support? >> well, he's influential among, let's say, obviously religious people. and also, in a political sense.

having the heft of the church, the real, you know, religion, the primary religion of russia, is important politically. and as i said, the russian orthodox church is very tied politically to the kremlin. so this is a message that is being repeated in the media, in the churches, from patriarch, and from every single official in the russian government. >> and i have to ask you about peace talks, jil. of course there's a lot to hash out. assuming they do sit and talk and assuming they do reach a deal, would russia even adhere to a peace settlement? >> well, there are many peace settlements and agreements that russia has not agreed to. has not actually carried out, i should say. it is hard to say. at this point so many promises have been broken.

and even going back. when i was in moscow, as the war was just beginning. russia was insisting up to the very last minute that it had no intention of invading. in fact, they were mocking that idea. and then of course, they went in. so we just have to draw our conclusions from that behavior. >> we always appreciate your insight. thank you. humanitarian groups are doing their best to get vulnerable civilians out of harm's way but continued russian strikes are making this effort difficult. take a look at this. this drone footage that shows the havoc wreaked by russia on the city of mariupol. nearly 500 residents there escaped that devastation in their own vehicles on sunday. although numbers have slowed considerably, displaced ukrainians continue to flee the country. more than 4.1 million refugees have fled since the fighting

began. but not all of those who fled are staying. tens of thousands are returning to ukraine from poland despite the threat of war. cnn spoke with them to find out why. >> reporter: in some ways, we've almost become accustomed to these images because they are now so common almost six weeks into the war. ukrainians carrying everything they own in bags they can roll. their babies in tow. except they are not fleeing to safety. we are on a platform. a bus platform in warsaw, poland. what you are looking at are ukrainian refugees here in poland but they are not running from the war. they are returning to ukraine. at the us about station in warsaw, poland, the platform is packed. but not with people arriving from ukraine. they're heading back. the reality of life as a refugee more unbearable than war.

katarina said after two weeks, she's returning to kyiv. >> what is it like trying to live away from home all this time? >> so bad. because you don't know what is wrong with your relatives, your family. >> reporter: it's not a permanent way to live. >> yeah. >> reporter: the polish government said 2.5 million ukrainians have come in since the war began. as of this weekend, 442,000 have gone from poland back to ukraine. housing is a problem. poend struggles to absorb the influx of women, children, and the elderly. poland's residents have welcomed ukrainian families into their homes but living on strange floors and out of bags can only go on for so long. poland allows ukrainians to work and collect government assistance, but there's the red tape. standing in long lines with fellow war refugees to file the

proper papers. and then there's childcare and schooling. trying to raise kids with new language and cultural barriers. poland wants to help but nearly six weeks into this war, the signs of strain are getting harder to ignore. >> the polish people will welcome ukrainians, whatever happens. they are fighting for our freedom and we understand that. but of course there is a certain human limit. what we can do. >> reporter: when you say you're at capacity, what do you mean? >> the population of my city has grown almost by 20% in a month. of course it puts an enormous strain on the city and its services. we are doing our best. we are welcoming everyone who needs help but improvisation has to end. >> reporter: some of the stories that we're hearing from these passengers who are heading back into ukraine, a pregnant woman who says that she does not want to give birth in poland alone, that her husband has remained in ukraine to fight in the war.

she wants to be with him. another woman who owns a business who says her heart is shoot entered into a million pieces being here in poland. she plans to try to pick up her life in ukraine. this bus to lviv has just pulled up. it will be leaving in minutes. kyung lah. still to come, as people continue to go missing in ukraine, the family of a journalist is holding russia responsible for her abduction. we'll have that story just ahead. ♪

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. russian forces deny allegations that they have detained scores of civilians since the war began. but the family of a missing ukrainian journalist isn't buying that denial. they are in agony, waiting to hear from her again and hoping that she is safe. ivan watson has their story. >> reporter: she plays by the banks of the river under the watchful eye of her grandmother. in a few days she'll be turning 4. her mother may not be there to celebrate. she is missing, taken captive her family says. the family last heard from her on march 26th when she called from her home in the russian occupied village, saying russian soldiers had searched her house.

>> translator: she was very frightened. she told us the russian soldiers said we know everything about you and you should be shot on the spot for what you did. >> reporter: the next day the neighbors say the russians returned and detained her. she works as a 47 lance journalist. they haven't heard from her since. >> we don't know where she is. we have no information about her. >> reporter: the alleged russian abduction fits a broader pattern. ukraine's commissioner for human rights accuses russians forces of detaining at leave 55 civilians since invading ukraine on february 24th. a kremlin spokesperson said he is not aware of cases of disappearances, but adds that they should be examined carefully. at least 11 detained civilians are elected mayors like yvonne. a security camera caught russian troops kidnapping him on march 11th in the russian occupied

town. he said he was later released in a prisoner exchange for nine captive russian soldiers. >> translator: i would happily offer myself in a prisoner exchange for her freedom, irina's mother said. just let her go. she has a child. they tried to rescue irina from her russian occupied village on march 7th. but they were forced to turn back after gunfire shattered their car window. >> reporter: she is showing me a bullet encasing from a round that she said hit her car on march 7th when she tried to reach a village that her daughter lives in. she said russian soldiers opened fire on her vehicle. at some point in the first weeks of the war, irina nook a russian soldier. >> he said that she was treating

him, changing his bandages. >> reporter: when russian troops searched her house on march 26th, alexandra said they detained the wounded ukrainian. >> he was wounded in the arm and the leg. they got him and took him out right away. >> reporter: on march 28th, after the alleged abduction, her mother made it safely to the occupied village. she said the russian officer told her irina had been taken to the russian-backed separatist city to be tried in court for sheltering the wounded ukrainian soldier. but that's not a crime, according to international laws of war. >> the first geneva convention is a convention that protects wounded and sick soldiers in the field. >> reporter: if a civilian treats a wound combatant, according to the geneva convention, is that allowed? >> not only allowedful it is also protected. it is crystal clear about it and says that no one may be molested

or convicted for treating wounded. >> reporter: cnn reached out to russia's ministry of defense regarding the alleged detention of irina. the ministry never complied. her family now wait in terrifying limbo. >> translator: marsha often asks, where is mama? every day, i say she's coming soon. she'll be here in an hour or two. >> reporter: the truth is no one knows where she will see her mother again. ivan wattson, ukraine. a lithuanian filmmaker has been killed in ukraine. he was 45 years old. according to the ukrainian ministry of defense, he was killed by russian forces while trying to leave the besieged city mariupol. his film premiered at the berlin international film festival in 2016. he won the amnesty international film prize in 2011 for his

documentary about russia's war in chechnya. at least six journalists have been killed since the war began. president volodymyr zelenskyy has posthumously awarded a medal of bravery to one of them. a ukrainian photojournalist. they said saturday that he was killed by russian forces near kyiv. he worked for a number of major western news outlets including reuters and the bbc. still to come, russian missiles hit an oil refinery in odesa. we'll have thahat from the scen just ahead. blood sugar levevels and contains high quality protein to help manage h hunger and support muscle health. try boost® today.

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welcome back to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we are following a horrific discovery in bucha, ukraine. as russian troops retreat from the area of kyiv, they're leaving behind evidence of a massacre. these images are very, very graphic. this is a mass gravesite. up to 300 people could be buried there. this is according to the town's mayor. russia wants you to believe that this is staged. but a cnn crew saw it with their own eyes. at least a dozen bodies piled

here on church grounds. some people are not yet buried. their bodies still contorted on the streets or tied up with their hands behind their backs. the president of ukraine is accusing russia of genocide and war crimes. russia has denied any involvement in bucha, maintaining it doesn't target civilians. russia also claims that the images of bodies on the streets of bucha are fake. russia filed missiles at the port city of odesa. the attack happened in the early hours of sunday morning. ed lavendera spoke with some of the shaken residents who live nearby. >> reporter: the missiles exploded in a startling violent barrage. about six strikes lit up the sky. russian military officials say the attack on odesa was launched from the sea and land, using high precision missiles.

the massive plumes of black swirling smoke covered much of the city of 1 million people. the strikes landed in a largely industrial area, destroying an oil refinery and fuel storage facilities. multiple air strikes hit the port city of odesa here in southern ukraine just before sunrise sunday morning. there were no air raid sirens that went off before the blast, and the explosions could be felt and seen from miles away. ukrainian officials say there were no injuries, but tatiana says the explosions threw her from the chair she was sleeping if and window blasts shattered all over her. tatiana volunteers in this building late into the night, cooking meals for ukrainian soldiers. in recent days, she says reconnaissance drones were flying over the fuel storage facility. two other residents told us, they saw the drones as well.

>> translator: the drones were flying around and i knew they were up to something. and we were thinking where we could hide in case something happens. >> reporter: a small pocket of apartment buildings and homes sit just across the street from the bombing site. families stood outside their homes, under the clouds of dark smoke. watching flames shoot up into the air. the explosions shattered windows and any remaining sense of security these residents had left. >> translator: of course i'm scared. now they're hitting everywhere. they are doing it in all cities. we know it. we see it. >> reporter: the attack on odesa follows a similar pattern russian forces have carried out for weeks. hitting fuel storage facilities across the country it claims are supplying the ukrainian military. if the odesa strike is a precise

attack, ukrainian officials say the strikes hours later in the neighboring city of mykolaiv are. despite being this close to the bombing and with tears in her eyes, she said she refuses to leave ukraine. she tells me, these people won't get away with it. ed lavendera, cnn, odesa, ukraine. >> for analysis, i'll joined now by josh roggin, a cnn political analyst. thank you for joining us. you argue that they need better air defense systems. what impact would they have and would they be able to blunt the kind of strikes that we saw happen for example, on odesa on sunday? >> it is very clear that the ukrainian forces have many different air defense systems

with many different capabilities. what the ukrainian officials are telling us, they need more and they need the better and more advanced systems. specifically, they need more of the s-300 russian made systems that can simply cover more land and intercept more advanced than the less capable systems. and there are a number of reasons they're not getting them. but there are systems like these sitting in nato countries, unused. there is a lot of bureaucratic problems with getting them into the ukrainian forces' hands. when you talk about odesa, what the mayor of odesa told me, he needs anti-ship weapons. the shells are coming from ships and they can't attack them. so these are a couple things they could use more of. they would save more lives. >> so what will it take? for the biden administration to send more weapons to ukraine including defense systems like the s-300? >> the biden administration is

sending a lot of weapons and nato countries individually are sending a lot of weapons into ukraine. the pattern has been that they only send the weapons that they feel are not escalatory. in other words, the bidens administration will make a decision about what will and will not provoke putin. what they are saying clearly is those calculations are nonsense and that putin will escalate anyway. so the best way to stop the war would be to give them more weapons now. and the pattern has also been that the biden administration eventually gives them the weapons they ask for. not always. i think what will have to happen is people will have to see more of these horrendous photos and then pressure will have to rise. eventually, it will increase the an tate for risk and give the ukrainians more weapons they are asking for. >> are ukrainians right, that sending these weapons would not necessarily antagonize putin or escalate even further? what is the best way to handle

it? >> i think the ukrainians have a different priority than the biden administration, frankly, if we're being honest. the biden administration wants to limit the scope of the war to get to the negotiating table to make a decision to end the fighting. the ukrainian government, while open to negotiation, and open to a deal, prioritizes winning the war. that means pushing the russian forces out before that. and this has been the basic divide between washington and kyiv this whole time. and yeah. i agree more with the ukrainians. i think that the quickest way to limit it is to push the russian forces out sooner. i think they know more what they need than we know. the reason washington isn't giving the ukrainian forces what they need is a lot more to do with washington than what's going on in kyiv. and american politics and american considerations. all of that is very complicated but the longer we debate whether to send weapons, the more innocent ukrainians will get

killed. that's not the americans' fault. that's the russians' fault but if we can do more to stop it, we ought to. >> ukraine has said it is prepared to discuss becoming a neutral country and president zelensky has said that ukraine must recognize it will not join nato. what will a neutral status outside nato mental for the future of ukraine? >> reporter: we have a really good answer to that. ukraine did have a in the ral status -- a neutral stat us in 2014. if they gave up their weapons in 1994, they would be secure. that didn't work out really well for them. so i think what zelenskyy is doing is very practical and pragmatic. he is saying since nato won't accept us anyway, we won't stick tom demand because we won't get it anyway. even. in scenario where they strike a deal and ukraine declares

neutrality, that could end the fighting for a little bit but it won't solve the problem. history has shown us that russia doesn't care about neutrality claims, and the only countries safe in europe are the ones that have limss. nato countries. those are the ones russia actually won't attack. >> and talks on get to the negotiating table arer currently underway. would sending mill aid now to ukraine in the middle. these talks be a bad idea? >> you know, i have to think, it is obvious at this point that these talks will go on for a long time and therefore, there's no way to stop sending military aid to ukraine while they're talking. in other words, putin is not stopping killing ukrainians while they're talking so we can't stop helping the ukrainians defend themselves while they are talking. so they'll have to fight and talk at the same time. if we stop sending them arms while the talks are ongoing, then the talks become a thing they can use against the

ukrainians to keep them down, keep them weak. so very unfortunately, we have to keep sending them arms and keep encouraging them to talk. it seems a little crazy but that's what we'll see the next few months. >> always appreciate talking to you and your argument about sending arms to ukraine take. care. ? russia's war on ukraine dominated parliamentary elections on sunday. hungary's viktor oshaan called them one of the many opponents he overcame to win the election. he secured a fourth consecutive term after his party won a supermajority in parliament. he has drawn international criticism, particularly from europe and the west over the erosion of democratic rights during his time in office. and he made light of his long-running tensions with

europe during a victory speech and budapest. >> translator: we have scored a victory so big that it can be seen even from the moon. but definitely from brussels. >> his main challenger from a rare coalition of parties conceded defeat late on sunday. peter questioned the fair bls of the election but said that he accepts mr. orban's victory. still ahead, shanghai homes more covid testing will help curb the latest rise in caseses. is clinically shown in a 7 day s study toto cause fewer ulcers than immediate release aspirin.n. vazalore. the first liquid-filled aspirin capsules...amazing!

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economic unrest is leading to widespread anger in sri lanka. police using tear gas to disperse protesters. this all happened on sunday. a state of emergency declared by the government. a shortage of foreign currency as well as the covid-19 pandemic all fueling an economic crisis there. the country has seen rising prices, a scarce know of goods and rolling power cuts. pakistan's prime will stay on the job despite his country's own efforts to oust him.

he will continue as prime minister until the appointment of a care taker government citing the constitution. this after the speaker blogged about the no contest. he called for fresh elections sparking protests of those who accused him of mismanaging the country's economy and policy. china is holding firm to the no tolerance of covid. there is another round of testing after week of rising cases. the city recorded more than 9,000 new infections on sunday. that's the highest shanghai has ever seen. shanghai is under lockdown until tuesday as officials rush to complete covid testing for every one of city's 25 million residents. joining us now from tokyo with more, record high infections

being recorded in shanghai. what's the latest on the outbreak and the lockdown? >> reporter: well, as these covid cases in shanghai rise, public frustration continues to grow. on sun, shanghai reported more than 9,000 covid-19 cases and more than 10,000 medical workers from across china are being sent to shanghai for additional medical help. these numbers, they may pale in comparison to numbers we're seeing in other parts of the world including the u.s. but for china, this is the biggest covid-19 outbreak they've been dealing with since the early days of the pandemic and it is a critical test for china's harsh containment strategies. right now essentially, the entire city, some 25 million people, are under strict lockdown. the scale is staggering for the most populous city. for part of the city, the eastern half of the city, that went into lockdown early last week. it is now being extended.

now on friday, shanghai's western half went into a strict lockdown. the city is now implementing more rounds of mass testing for its residents. for the frustration here, it is important to note that for many of the residents in shanghai, they've been in strict lockdown for weeks. even before this citywide lockdown went into effect and they are confined into their homes until entire community tests negative for covid-19. on top of that uncertainty, people are dealing with struggles to get daily necessities, food, even medical care. >> and stories of family semiragss happening as it happened here in hong kong and shanghai as well. >> reporter: exactly. now in shanghai, photos and video circulating online. some of which we're showing here. babies, young children, even infants, separated from their families. they're quarantining alone, isolating alone, many even

sharing hospital beds together. the anonymous poster that these children had tested positive for covid-19. cnn was not able to independently verify those videos but a mother told cnn that she was spread from her 2-year-old daughter after her baby tested positive for covid-19 and she wasn't able to see her baby for a week. >> this is the cost of zero covid. reporting live for us. thank you so much. you're watching cnn newsroom. still to come, russia's bombardment forced a father from his home with a 91 baby. but that did not stop him from singing. his inspiring story is next. ♪

♪ ♪ ♪ yesterday the world was ♪ ♪ such an easy game to play ♪ >> his son born two weeks before the war started. earlier he spoke to my colleague, jim acosta, about raising a son in a war zone. >> i will tell him that he started his life in the historic time when the entire country got together against this evil, this devil because this is not even a war. it is a massacre. it is genocide. they came to erase our nation and everyone is fighting.

everyone is fighting in this country for our country, for our land and for human values and for freedom. i am sure that what's happening now will change the entire history of the country, of europe, and of the world. >> alex says he started singing to his first son 25 years ago during a time of peace. the grammy awards on sunday featured a special guest, volodymyr zelenskyy, appeared in a pretaped message. the president appeared to the international community helps sharing the truth of what's happening in ukraine. >> our musicians wearing body armor instead of tuxedos, the music will breakthrough. we defend our freedom to live. we are fighting russia.

we brings horrible silence with its bombs, the dead silence. feel the silence. feel it today to tell our story. >> the i think singer john legend performed his new song called "free," celebrating the power of music in dark times especially war. i thank you for spending your day with us, i am kri kristie lu stout is live in hong kong. our coverage is live in ukraine after this break.

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