now. hey, don. >> jake, i've been learning from your coverage. i saw your piece about the military funeral. i wanted to do one when i was there, but it's tough. it's hard to coordinate because they don't use the -- i thought it was breathtaking and i loved your reporting. what struck you about it? >> two things. first of all, thank you, don. two things. one is how similar the traditions are. i mean, they weren't playing t"playing taps" but it sound similar. prayers sound similar no matter what church or synagogue or mosque you go to, the kind of chanting, and just the pageantry of it all. but also it was interesting. i thought you heard the city official telling me that they shortened the military proceedings, the funeral, because they didn't want to demoralize troops, which was very telling, the idea that they were already only 42 days in

this worried about demoralizing troops. your coverage has been fascinating. you look forward to seeing you on "cnn tonight" and on "the lead." be safe and get rest. >> thank you. >> this is "don lemon tonight." listen, you probably have never in a million years thought you would recognize these names or you would be talking about them. mariupol, bucha. they've become synonymous with almost unspeakable atrocities, and as bucha buries its dead and the world is horrified by the brutality we have seen there, newly released drone video shows one of russia's atrocities in bucha, and i have to warn you, okay, it is very disturbing, but we have to see it. this is a cyclist. he's highlighted right there on the right rounding the corner when suddenly are you russian t

the left side fires in the direction of the cyclist. a second video posted to twitter and geolocated by cnn to the same street shows the result of that -- a body sprawled alongside the bike, others lying among burned-out cars and debris. the realities of war. a senior u.s. defense official telling cnn the intelligence committee will be able to identify russian units responsible for the atrocities in bucha, calling them pre-meditated. mariupol is getting worse and worse in the southeast. frankly, it's hard to imagine . that residents have had no light or communication with the outside world , no no one, no heat or water for weeks. the mayor of mariupol saying 40% of the city's infrastructure not recoverable. and this is chilling. mariupol officials say russian

forces have started operating mobile crematorium to dispose of the bodies. it is being told in multiple places. and it tells you why the mayor is comparing his city to a nazi concentration camp, calling it, and i quote here, a new auschwitz. horrifying language. but this is a city that was once the home to more than 400,000 people. we have no idea what's happened to many of those people. the u.s. responding to the atrocities by vladimir putin's forces by slapping new sanctions on his daughters and on two of russia's largest banks. president joe biden saying the sanctions will wipe out 15 years of russia's economic gains, but warning the fight is far from over. >> today, kyiv still stands, and that government still presides.

this fight is far from over. [ applause ] here's the point. this work can continue for a long time, but the united states will continue to stand with ukraine, the ukrainian people in the fight for freedom. >> we have some breaking news to tell you about tonight. former president obama speaking out on putin's invasion of ukraine saying it is a reminder not to take democracy or the rule of law for granted. >> i think it is also fair to say that it is a bracing reminder for democracies that have gotten -- that had gotten flabby and confused and feckless around the stakes of things that

we tended to take for granted. >> our democracy? >> yes, rule of law. freedom of press and conscience, independent jaeudiciaries, maki elections in ways that are fair and free. >> fred pleitgen is kyiv. forces are fully withdrawn from the area surrounding skpooef ukrainian officials are saying major fighting is under way in the eastern part of the country. what's the latest? >> reporter: don, that's how we can see the focus of the russians that vladimir putin is certainly shifting. the ukrainians believed that kyiv was the main prize as they put it for the russian army. they got beat pretty badly here around the kyiv area and also further up in chernihiv. they have withdrawn forces. quite interesting because i was

able to speak to the mayor of chernihiv earlier today. it was the first time he was able to leave that city. and he confirmed there are no more russian forces up in that region near the belarusian border. however, more russians now moving down to that region -- to the east of the country near donbas, and there is indeed more fighting going on that's close to a town called esyum. the russians moving to a small town, an important one, where there's lava a lot of international experts that believe if the ukrainians can hold that town, they'll make it more difficult for the russians to advance in that area. the russians need to try and encircle ukrainian forces who are down there. but the bottom line, don, is that the fighting in this war is shifting and shifting further towards the east. the russians have already started some attacks, for instance, on kharkiv as well where the mayor there was saying about 27 rocket and artillery attacks were happening in the greater region of kharkiv, and

certainly the belief here is among the ukrainians, among the u.s. and its allies that that's going to escalate. the next days and weeks as the russians move some of those forces from the kyiv area down to the southeast of ukraine and of course the southwest of russia. >> fred, we're getting horrifying reports out of mariupol in southern ukraine where the city's mayor says that 40% of the infrastructure has been destroyed beyond recovery. i just mentioned what the mayor said of that town. he said -- he compared it to auschwitz. what more do we know? >> reporter: he compared it to auschwitz precisely because of the pictures that we're seeing on our screen right now with just those absolutely destroyed buildings. the reason he made that reference is because essentially the people in mariupol are locked in. it's under siege by the russians. people can't get out, and every day people are dying.

an so far the mayor of mariupol says 5,000 people have been killed in that town. that's a huge number. a lot of children also among those who were killed as well. one of the things that he also said is 40% of the structures there, as you said, have been destroyed beyond repair. however, 90% of the infrastructure in that town apparently has been damaged. so a lot of damage, but what's even worse is the people continue to suffer on a large scale. again, locked up in that town, surrounded by russian forces, no water, no heat, no electricity, and certainly also very little still left in the way of food that is a modern-day siege. that's certainly why you hear the strong words coming from the mayor of mariupol. he also was calling on further sanctions against russia. but the bottom line is the u.s. obviously says that aid needs to get into those towns and people need to get evacuated, don. >> fred pleitgen, thank you for reporting once again this evening. be safe. we'll see you soon.

now i want to bring in cnn military analyst and retired lieutenant generally mark hertling. hi, wow. i mean, it's just every day the reports get worse and worse and worse. the u.s. says russian forces have withdrawn from kyiv, but the head of nato says he's seen, quote, no indication putin has given up on controlling the whole country. what can we expect in the coming weeks? >> we're going to see an attempt in the east, don. that's what everyone is saying, that russia has refocused their efforts on the eastern fight in the donbas with the two provinces of donetsk and la hanks. i'm not sure they're going to have much success in the donbas as well. there's going to be some very hard fighting there. fred pleitgen has been doing

excellent work in terms of reporting the realities on the ground and naming the cities. when you take a look at the map you just popped up, the town he just talked about and further down, that's not on the map, and to the west of the ukrainian forces that have been fighting in the donbas region. so it is behind their position. and to give the effect of that, if the russians can get down further south in those two cities and start a fight to the north from mariupol, they will attempt to surround ukrainian forces that have been fighting in this region for the last eight years. it will be a difficult fight. one of the things that's not shown on your map, though, when you take a look at the city of ezyum, it's a population of 45,000 people. but it has roads to the north and south, to the east and west,

and the donetsk river, which is a wide river in this area, runs right through the town. so if you control that town, if you control the bridges and the roads, you can go in any direction. that's critically important from a military perspective when you're talking about the type of envelopment moves the russians are attempting to execute against ukrainian forces that are stationary in the donbas. >> ukraine is now claiming, general, that more than 18,000 russian soldiers have been killed. we can't confirm that number, but we've seen the battlefield littered with russian tanks and armored vehicles. does russia have a capability to launch another major offensive or do they have to go back and regroup? >> i'll say first that i think those numbers are light. i think russia has suffered more casualties than that. i mean, i think they're being a little bit conservative in those numbers, and that's an

unbelievable amount. 18,500 is what the ukrainian defense minister said. when you talk about regenerating a force from those forces that have fought in kyiv and kharkiv that have been pulled out, the reason those cities and north of those cities are empty now is because they took what's called the remnants of those units back and attempting to regroup with them. i personal don't think they have the combat fewer reinsert them into the donbas and use them for fighting forces. i also don't think they have the morale or the training to go through a difficult regeneration process. when you're talking about regeneration, you're not just replacing personnel that have been lost, the fighting forces, which is a huge percentage of the russian force that's been lost north of kyiv. you're also talking about regenerating the equipment. combat equipment takes a beating in this kind of combat. so even those elements, the

tanks and the bmps and the artillery pieces that have survived are going to be in terrible shape. and that would have been for a good army. russia is not a good army. they don't have the saturday nights as-- sergeants or the advisers that will show how to repair those vehicles and get them back on the road. so you're going to have a force that has been mauled, attempting to reinforce some of those elements that are the russian forces out in the donbas region. so yeah, they're going to continue the fight with what they have, the units that have not been mauled, but in my view it's going to be very difficult, first of all, to generate the combat power. secondly, they still don't have the leadership. they have not -- you can't turn that on a dime. i mean, they came into this fight with bad junior leaders, bad senior leaders, very little logistics, horrible command and control. so you're going to see, i think, more of the same as russia

attempts to execute these very complex nevadament movements in the donbas. >> general, thank you so much. appreciate y appreciate that. thanks for your help while i was there. i relied on the general a lot for instruction and for guidance and he was very helpful. cnn getting a new look at the tragedy in the ukrainian town of bore john ca, our christiane amanpour went there and witnessed the horrors of russia's war on ukraine civilians firsthand.

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towns around kyiv showing the world the horrific scope of the barbarianism of russia's war on ukraine. christiane amanpour traveled to borodyanka where the grim telling of the dead is only the beginning. >> welcome to sasha's restaurant, it says, only sha cease -- it is no more. a dining table and chairs a jacket blowing in the wind still intact. the only visible reminders of the families who lived here.

the crows caw above this city of borodyanka, perhaps they sense the death here. it is clear that the heavy destruction is mostly along the main street. it appears the russian armored columns simply opened up with heavy machine guns and artillery as they rumbled through town. brick by brick, today the digging starts, trying to find civilians or their bodies buried beneath the rubble when even their basement shelters were turned into graveyards. on this corner, they're looking for at least four missing from this block alone, says victoria rubin, who's with the rescue team. we have never seen anything like this, it is very difficult for us, she says, and not only for us, but for the residents of borodyanka. it is a great tragedy because of an ill-disciplined force with a license to kill. so this is vladimir putin's idea

of liberating a fraternal brotherly nation. so either he's doing this because he loves ukrainians, or, as many believe, because he's motivated by a rising hatred, an angry at their westward loving democracy, at their resistance, and at their refusal to come under russian control. as an afterthought, a bullet to the head of ukraine's cultural hero, the great poet at a ras raschevko. the ukrainian flag flies proudly in the square. for good measure, these ukrainian soldiers are pulling out a captured russian tank that was dug in. they say they'll use this and anything else the invaders have left behind to fight them in the villages, in the towns, in the fields, and all the way back to the russian border. christiane amanpour, cnn, borodyanka.

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oligarch secretly tried to acquire and run pro-putin media outlets across europe, plus the biden administration sanctioning two of russian president vladimir putin's daughters. joining me now is brooke harrington, offshore banking expert and professor of sociology at dartmouth. happy to have you. >> thank you. >> the this oligarch is accused of evading sanctions. the fbi says he continues to run a pro-putin propaganda network and he describes it as a holy war. how significant are these charges? >> very. i mean, he's a good case of what these sanctions are intended to stop in the first place. so a lot of media focus has been on the seizures of yachts, but these oligarchs function like inthe world ambassadors. cutting off their ability to

influence and infiltrate western institutions in politics and media and the economy and on education. >> how else are they trying to skirt sanctions? you said it's not just about yachts. >> there are many ways. most of them involve the use of offshore accounts. it seems like he did that, which has shell companies. but they also put assets into the names of their proxies who are generally either close family members or childhood friends. so we knew from the paradise papers and the panama papers that putin himself has done this. via his childhood friend, the classical cellist, who was mysteriously discovered to have $2 billion worth of offshore assets, which is not unusual for a classical musician. >> wow. i just want to read part of your piece. this is for the "atlantic."

you write about the effect of sanctions. and you say, what is an ol oligarch? for many, the answer is nothing. the sanctions threaten oligarchs with a kind of annihilation similar to the phenomenon that social eologists describe as social death. some people are skeptical about this working, but you think it just might? why is that? >> well, for one thing, we know that putin himself has decided to give this his personal attention. not just this. he's gone on television complaining about the sanctions. you know the old saying a hit dog will holler. he's evidently a hit dog, and so are many of the oligarchs considered his right-hand men. within days of the sanctions being announced, they were out on social media making public statements saying, jeez, maybe this invasion of ukraine isn't

such a great idea after all. which sounds mild to westerners, but for an oligarch to cross putin in that way is -- it's not unprecedented, but the last guy who tried it ended up with ten years in prison and losing billions in his personal wealth. >> right on. two of pupt's adult daughters have now been sanctioned by the u.s. but you say this move targets putin's personal wealth. explain how. >> well, as i mentioned in the case of sergei maldugan, people like putin and other oligarchs, like mafia bosses, they're smart, they know the law may come for them at some point and they don't want their assets to be seized. rather than hold their assets in their own names, they hold them in the names of people they can trust. in putin's case, that would probably include his daughters. so i assume the sanctions

directed at them, just like the sanctions addressed toward the children of sergey lavrov and other oligarchs are intended to be a direct hit of those men's personal wealth. >> there's a psychological factor with these sanctions too. how does sanctioning his own daughters affect him? >> so putin is a man who has presented himself as a strong man. i think you've spoken to the historian who's written a book about this. to be a strong man, especially one who's maintained an iron grip on the country like putin has, you have to project an image of complete invulnerability and an iron grip on all of your lieutenants. so what the sanctions have done in general is split putin's lieutenants from him. for example, by baiting the oligarchs into making public statements against the invasion of ukraine. but now that they're targeting

his daughters, that's an even more personal attack on his strongman status because here's a guy who presents himself as the father and protector of the nation, and he's being publicly shown in this humiliating position off not even protecting his own daughters. >> the u.s. has sanctioned 140 oligarchs and their family members and over 400 russian government officials. is there still a need for even more sanctions? >> i think so. and i think that the reason is that they're working. they're working, as i mentioned, at chipping away at putin's image of being a strongman. that's not just entertainment for us in the west. that's a message to people in russia who could actually bring him down. it's basically the governments of the united states, the u.k., switzerland, the eu, and smaller

tax havens like monaco that's protected a guy who's basically the wizard of oz. behind that curtain he's just a fragile, vulnerable old man, and that's intended to put the idea in the heads of russians who could really do something about it, hey, this guy is not invincible. >> professor, thank you so much. we appreciate you joining us. be well. >> thank you. poland's president saying it is hard to deny russian forces are committing genocide. he believes putin's goal is to extinguish the ukrainian nation and he's horrified his country could be next. cnn's exclusive interview is next.

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that's why president biden visited a few weeks back. poland's taken in more than 2 million refugees and its president is vowing to do all he can to help ukrainians. while he says putin needs to be stopped, he's also mind that feel poland was a visctim of soviet aggression if the past. dana bash interviews andrzej duda. >> you have soviet-era tanks here in polandched you have soviet-era airplanes, mig 29s. why haven't you worked with nato to get those to ukraine? >> translator: madam, i'm smiling because weapons, weapons, and more weapons, this is what ukrainians need. we have to be clear, the free world, the north atlantic alliance asked that poles did not expect our neighbors would be so decisive and so courageous, exceptionally courageous, and that they will

defend their country in this way. more than 1 million ukrainians before the outbreak of the war were in poland. they had been living here and working here. of course they visited their families in ukraine, but they came back. here is where they made money in poland. the vast majority of those men went to ukraine to fight. >> can nato do more to help you help them? >> translator: i cannot say everything, madam, here, in this open interview because, well, there are also secrets, nato secrets. there are also secrets between poland and the u.s. however, please believe me, i talked to president joe biden about this. we consulted and the u.s. administration of the white house, and we're in close wacht contact with the administration all the time, so there is help for ukraine being provided from the united states. it is also coming from other places. this was also provided from

allies. >> president biden was here last month. you said, quote, potential american relations are flourishing. but in 2020 you probably remember when joe biden was a candidate, he lumped poland in with belarus and hungary warning about, quote, the rise of totalitarian regimes in the world. you did wait about a month to congratulate joe biden on his win in 2020. but is all of that tension behind you now? >> translator: madam, i am the president of poland, a the country in the heart of europe, and a country which is very proud of this. at the same time, our country experienced suffering, war, and occupation many times in its history. our country has bad experiences with our neighbor, with russia. the united states is our great ally. the united states is the large guarantor of our security, the

biggest nato country. that's why i mentioned the words of joe biden, about article 5 and collective defense. it is my duty as the president of poland to do everything i can in order to guarantee the best possible relations with the united states and also with the president of the united states, and i'm delighted, i'm delighted that the president came to poland. i'm delighted that he gave his speech in a very important place to us, at the royal castle in warsaw. this is the symbol of the destruction of poland during the second world war. warsaw was in ruins, bombarded by the germans with the permission of stalin. we remember what it means to be destroyed and have families killed. the friendship of the united states, this military alliance of key importance to us. the fact that today we have on our territory the soldiers of the 82nd american airborne division, extremely experienced

in combat, this is an elite unit. this is hugely important to us from the perspective of our security. and i'm really delighted that my cooperation i have today with the president of the united states is so vivid, so good, so fruitful. >> you personal, sounds like you have a good relationship with president biden. on that, how do you assess his leadership during this crisis? >> translator: i'm delighted that the position of the united states and the united kingdom is so clear cut. among others, after the meeting with joe biden and my telephone conversation with prime minister boris johnson, i'm going to london tomorrow in order to personally talk to prime minister johnson about all these issues because i have a feeling to a certain extent we are this triangle which supports ukraine in the strongest way, i think. >> in recent years, poland has been in trouble with the eu for back sliding on democracy. the educational branch, media, civil rights. how do you respond to critics

around europe and also in the u.s. who say your party was pulling poland away from democracy and towards authoritarianism? >> translator: madam, different voices are heard at different opportunities in poland. of course we have the opposition, which hardly is going to criticize things because this is the nature of opposition. opposition always criticizes. also in the u.s. the presidential elections were challenged, different decisions are challenged. so please answer me the question, do you believe that if really certain principles were undermined in poland, if civil rights, certain freedoms were undermined such as media freedom, the freedom of speech, other civil liberties, do you believe that with 70% turnout at elections i would have been elected two years ago for the

second time as the president of po poland? the fact that i was elected to the second time in a row, we had 70% turnout and people voted for me. that was more than 50% of the citizens. this is proof that things were going in the right direction in poland. >> let me ask you this way. does russia's invasion of ukraine, a democracy right next door, does it put more of a focus on the importance of democracy here and all the rights that democracies should entail? >> translator: of course. the fact that it is extremely important that democracy lasts. what happens? it's best visible if you look at russia. what's happening there, there is no democracy, simply said. fortunately we have democracy across all the countries of

central europe starting from the baltic states, starting from estonia and also going up higher, finland, through latvia, lituania, poland, slovakia, hungary, romania, bulgaria, all these countries have elections everywhere. those elections are fair in all those countries. they are not challenged in any of those countries and the governments implement the will of the citizens when they are elected. this is the most natural element of democracy to me. as a result of elections, elections which are -- well, this is the essence of democracy, the most important institution. as a result of elections, represents are being elected to parliament, or the president is elected, and they implement their electoral commitments, the policy which was expected by the citizens who elected them. this is a natural action of the authorities. this is what i try to do. >> let me ask you about the

issue of anti-semitism in poland and how it relates to helping the ukrainian people now. poland has painful memories from world war ii. your country has its own history even before that, pro-groms against jews, banishing jews in 1968. do you think the generosity polls are showing to ukrainian refugees is somehow a way to make up for some of those wrongs? >> translator: we know what death means. we know what the extinction means. and pictures from bucha, i'm sure they made a shocking impression on the poles because they recall the most horrible things, what elderly poles remember from the second world war, what the nazis were doing against our neighbors, the jews, who had been living in our country to gether with us for

almost 1,000 years. that was the length of the jewish culture in poland. so these cultures were developing side by side, living together on this land. they were living next to each other. so our coexistence here with the jews here in the territory of poland is many centuries long. >> will you ever sleep well? will you sleep soundly while vladimir putin is in office? can you do that? >> translator: i don't sleep so late, madam, because i know what is happening behind the border. i know what is happening in ukraine. i know what is happening with the people i see, children. i was on a plane recently going to italy. we had children on board. we transferred them to a hospital. they were traumatized and ill chirp. their mothers were terrified.

i know what is happening with those people. can a leader of a neighboring country sleep well in such a situation? it is very difficult and indeed there is a high tension, there is a big stress that i'm under. but precisely because of this i believe i should be doing this, i should do everything i can in order to help in this situation. i should do whatever i can to make sure that ukraine defends itself. i should do everything i can to stop putin. this is also in the interest of my country, of poland and my compatriots. in the past it was under the soviet sphere of influence and soviet captivity because that is a fact. which ones are free to have a normal life. >> you said you won't sleep soundly until things are calm in ukraine, which is understandable. if vladimir putin is still in power and that happens, is that okay with you? >> translator: i hope that

nobody in the international community after what we have seen in ukraine will never again talk to vladimir putin. i hope that nobody is going to consider him as a decent and fair leader or politician simply. >> dana, fascinating interview. dana joins me from poland, capital of warsaw. good to see you, dana. president duda is worried poland could be next in putin's path. what else debt id he tell you a those concerns? >> he said that nobody has any doubt that poland is potentially threatened by russian aggression. i mean, the poles believe that before what the russians have done and are doing as we sbeek in u -- speak in ukraine. the big difference between ukraine and poland is that poland is a nato member country. you heard president duda tell me

that he fundamentally and fully believes president biden and other nato member countries when they say that if any -- the article 5, which means that if any nato country is attacked, all countries come to the defense that that will absolutely but invoked in the case of poland. one thing that we don't know, don, is what that means. does that mean a cyberattack? does that mean if god forbid there are chemical weapons or nuclear weapons used across the border and there's fallout that comes here in poland, will that justify article 5 in nato? it's unchartered territory. you pushed president duda on the state of democracy in his own country, civil rights being targeted. is this war a wake-up call for the importance of democracy? >> it seems to be in some ways.

what it has done clearly is galvanized the country in a way and the leadership of the country in a way that not unlike other countries like america where there has been a cultural issues because of the war across the border there is a complete focus on security, national security in poland. and it's interesting with president duda, he is part of a party that is ruling here that has been accused, again, as you heard in the interview, even by then candidate joe biden of backsliding on democracy. this president, who's in his sixth year, coming up in the middle of his second and final term, he doesn't have a lot of power but one thing he does have is the veto pen, and he used it in a way that surprised a lot of people, to veto a piece of

legislation just the end of last year that would have banned a free media from coming here, an all news media, and it would have been a unique situation. and he decided to use that pen. so he has broken a bit with other members of his party, but i think that the answer to that question about whether or not what's going on with russia and ukraine will really fundamentally in the long term turn the democratic focus back around here in poland, that is yet to be seen. >> you know, millions have fled into poland to escape the war. does the president have a long-term plan to take care of all these refugees? >> reporter: he doesn't, don. he really doesn't. and it's because it has happened so fast. and you know, you were here in the region. you saw the -- all of the people, the millions of people who were leaving ukraine coming

across the border here to poland, 2.5 million people. so it has happened in a way that the poles have said, you know, come with open arms. there are signs all over in ukrainian that say here you will be safe because they understand that i think like 95% of the people coming here are women and children and they're leaving their husbands, their brothers, their fathers, who have to stay in ukraine to fight. the short-term answer is that they're staying in private houses. they are being helped. i was at a refugee center this morning. or i guess yesterday morning poland time. and you see that there is formula set out, that there are strollers set out. there was children who are doing remote learning still back in ukraine, and there are pencils and pens and crayons.

so those things are being provided. the question is if this war does last for a lot longer how are the ukrainians who are here going to be fully integrated in a much more permanent way into society here. and there is no answer to that yet by the government on a national level or even in cities like here in warsaw. >> yeah. and dana, you're right about the time. what is it, 4:52 there. when i was there i felt like i'd live two days in one. this is the time i was doing my show, and then i'd have to wake up and do the afternoons and what have you. but it was all for a very good cause. >> reporter: yeah. >> and great work. great interview, dana. get some rest. thank you so much. >> reporter: thanks. you too. thanks, don. fireworks on capitol hill as oil executives get grilled on skyrocketing gas prices. one lawmaker accusing them of ripping off the american people. my garden is my creative outlet.

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fireworks on capitol hill as lawmakers grill oil company ceos on why american drivers are not getting any relief from sk skyrocketing gas prices. the executives blame high prices on inflation, a shortage of workers, and constraints on supplies and equipment. but lawmakers are pointing fingers at the ceos, accusing them of putting profits ahead of the needs of american consumers, devoting $45 billion in share buybacks plus another 40 billion in dividends. >> that's a lot of money to shareholders, but it's coming at the expense of the american people who need you to dramatically increase production, not shareholder wealth. for the american people to have relief from high gas prices your companies need to do their part and increase production to meet

demand. >> while american families are struggling with high gas prices, you and your big oil corporations are making record profits, choosing to keep supply low. during this russian war you are ripping the american people off, and it must end. gas prices need to go down. and while the rest of america's trying to make this happen you all are trying to increase your record profits. >> and congressman ruiz also saying that gas prices in america cannot continue to be dependent on the whims of autocrats like putin, who can use oil as a weapon against us. it is the top of the hour. this is "don lemon tonight." a senior u.s. defense official now saying that the pentagon believes russian forces have completely withdrawn from areas near kyiv and chernihiv and are increasing their strikes in kharkiv and luhansk and eastern ukraine. and with the russian retreat in the kyiv region ukrainians are finding more scenes of

atrocities and complete destruction in borodianka and bucha. u.s. officials say they believe they'll be able to identify the russian units that carried out the atrocities. also tonight the red cross saying the humanitarian situation in mariupol is growing worse by the day. mariupol's mayor calling the city a new auschwitz. president biden saying major war crimes are being committed. >> civilians executed in cold blood. bodies dumped into mass graves. a sense of brutality and inhumanity left for all the world to see unapologetically. there's nothing less happening than major war crimes. responsible nations have to come together to hold these perpetrators accountable. >> straight to cnn's john vause, who is in lviv for us. john, hello to you. president volodymyr zelenskyy speaking out tonight on the horrors committed by russian troops. what is his message?