>> in the statement today, the academy expressed their deep gratitude to chris rock for maintaining his composure. will smit says, quote, i accept and respect the academy's decision. >> brian todd, thank you very much. i'll be back in a half an hour on cnn plus with my new show. erin burnett "outfront" starts right now. "outfront" next, breaking news. exclusive new video into "outfront" of ukraine train station as the deadly attack unfolded. the journalist who filmed that video and survived the attack is my guest. >> plus, a cnn exclusive toon. for the first time, we'll take you to chernobyl's highly contaminated wed forest where russian troops were digging trenches and could have been exposed to significant radiation. >> and the ukrainian fighter who has been giving us regular updates from the front lines is my guest. he's just about to leave to fight in the donbas region.

let's go "outfront." >> and good evening. i'm erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, the breaking news. a dark day. the president of ukraine vowing to hold accountable those behind the deadly missile strike that tore through a train station. the video is graphic, as thousands of people who were trying to escape the area, civilians leaving in a panic here when the blast hit. the governor of donetsk spoke to us today. he told us 52 people were killed in the attack. five of them children. he says the russians are attacking these civilians because they're losing the war. >> translator: it is obvious that the russians are carefully tracking movements of the people and as mentioned earlier, to accomplish their own goals, they realize that they're not able to

act successfully on the battlefield, and that is why they're using the other tactic that is working for them, that's disseminating panic. >> tonight, we have exclusive video of that attack, the panic aftermath, from ukrainian journalist alexi merkolov who was there. he captured the moments before, the moment of, and the moments after the strike. in this video, which was taken at 10:07 a.m., which he took, you can see the line of people. young, old, all at the train station. as you're looking at this, please notice and remember the green tent where they are serving coffee. okay. now, 10:26 a.m., alexi, a journalist, is outside the station, he's filming ukrainians waiting for their train to try to escape the donetsk region. at that moment, the sound of the

explosion is heard. 10:34 a.m., he films this, along with hundreds of ukrainians making their way inside the train station, crammed shoulder to shoulder, you see those dead bodies inside. the fear on everyone's face as they cram inside that train station. the people outside trying to come in, inside trying to go out. bodies are scattered across the ground next to luggage and burning vehicles outside the station. now, remember the green tent that i showed you just a moment ago. let me show it to you again. there it is, right before the attack, where people are waiting for the train. it's a coffee tent. now, let me show you what it looked like after. it's gone. collapsed. there are bodies everywhere. ? of the people you saw at the coffee tent earlier all waiting for the train, having coffee, are dead. including children. on the remains of the rocket that killed so many, you can see the words, for the children, scrawled on the side in russian.

now, that is how it literally translates, for the children. to the russians who see those images, though, it doesn't mean it was aiming for children. many observers tell cnn as a russian slogan, it can also mean in revenge for the children, and a ruz expert points out russians have used those exact same words and russian characters repeatedly over the past eight years to accuse ukrainians of killing russian children in the donbas region. i asked the governor of donetsk why he believes those words were written on the rocket. >> translator: there could be different interpretation and especially obviously it could have been used and interpreted differently by the enemy themselves, especially since the inscription is in russian. all we can say is that the ukrainian government surely takes care of their children. and just for you to note that as

of now, we have 52 people who died and 5 of them are children. >> killed by a russian rocket. we have teams across ukraine tonight, as well as in georgia. and we begin with phil black who is "outfront" live in lviv. and phil, what is the latest in ukraine tonight? >> well, erin, ukrainian officials are still working to help vast numbers of people flee the east of the country because there is where russian forces are expected to launch an imminent major offensive. today's attack proves the urgency of helping people get out while they still can. because it also shows the potential risk is already very great. this report contains very graphic images. but we think it's important to show. take a look. >> for many who fear what is coming in eastern ukraine, this station has been a gateway to safety. crowds of people have packed its

platforms in recent days, desperate to increase their distance from a region russia says it will soon conquer with overwhelming force. witnesses say thousands came again on friday morning. they sought safety. they couldn't escape the war. these are the moments after a ballistic missile exploded at the station. after debris and shrapnel tore through the crowd. so many dead bodies, a person cries. only children, just children. when the screaming eventually stopped, the broken bodies of the innocent remained. we have to hide much of this scene. most of those lying bleeding and still are women and children. survivors fled. we managed to contact some by phone while they sheltered together in a public building. still scared and shaken.

this woman says she looked up when she thought she heard a plane, then it exploded and everyone went down. this man says he heard the blast and threw his body over his daughter. the remains of the missile that terrified and hurt so many crashed down near the station. hand painted russian words mark its side. declaring the weapons avenging purpose. it says "for the children." the author and their intent are unknown. the result is yet another moment of horror in a war with endless capacity for taking and destroying innocent lives. so once again, world leaders are accusing russia of committing atrocity in ukraine, and once again, russia is denying all responsibility. the u.s. assessment is this was a short range ballistic missile, fired from a russian position

inside ukraine. the ukrainian military says that missile was packed with cluster munitions, small bomblets which spread and explode over a wide area. and which are banned by more than 100 countries. erin. >> phil black, thank you. "outfront" now, alexi merkolov, he was at the train station during the attack and is a journalist. alexi, i have some of the video that you were filming during the attack, moments afterwards. i want to show everyone to understand what you experienced, what happened there. it is very graphic, so people understand. but here is some of what you saw. you also filmed people pushing to get back inside the train

station. you hear a woman yelling, i am wounded, help me. anyone. you also saw footsteps of blood inside the train station. this is impossible to comprehend watching, but you saw it. you were there. tell me more about what you saw after that explosion. >> translator: first of all, i would like to say it's important to understand there were kind of a couple of different sites, different spots of that horrific morning. one was on the street where people were queueing up to board the train and to be evacuated after that, and the other one was the waiting area in the train station itself where people were divided and organized into several groups. and because all of these people, they come from the area that has been in the combat action for

eight years already, they know what to do as soon as there is an explosion. so the moment the explosion went bang and everybody was on the floor. >> i know you were about 70 to 80 feet away from where the rocket hit, and at the time, you were talking to an older woman, filming her. she was asking for information before the blast. here is the moment. you heard that bang. you stopped filming. when did you realize the horror of what had happened? >> translator: when that horrible thing happened, what i could feel right away was this just air blast, this really powerful wave. something, although the explosion itself didn't seem to be that hard.

the wave was unbelievable. it's as if something just hit you on your head. and your legs couldn't keep you any longer. you couldn't stand on them. and you understand that something terrible happened but you're not aware what it is. and you're afraid to look up, but you know you have to do something. >> before the blast, alexi, you were there talking to people trying to evacuate. it was just a day at the train station. everyone obviously under stress and duress but going there peacefully. civilians going to board a train and to leave. you captured so many images of that, people crowded inside, people waiting. it's very calm. people are waiting for the train. people are lined up outside. people are talking. people are having coffee. people are leaving. and then moments later, after that explosion, this horrific scene of dead bodies strewn

around. fires. how do you process this? can you believe what you saw? >> translator: well, frankly, when something like this happens, you kind of just start to disregard all this horrific details around. something kind of turns on inside of you, and you start acting. and in general, i would like to note that our people are kind, and what i have noticed and even with myself, i was holding in one hand my phone, with another one i was trying to guide and direct people where to go because the panic was created and people were in shock. they were afraid, they couldn't understand what was going on, those who were waiting on the streets, they thought it would be safer to go into the building. those who were in the building felt like they needed to leave the building and go onto the

streets because they were afraid of a second strike. but at the same time, everybody still tried to remain helpful and friendly towards each other, and again, like you have noticed, there was this great dissonance between so many young people who came there with their parents, and they were having coffee, and everything was so peaceful, and then all of a sudden, there is this just shock and horror. frankly, there is no way to process it, at least not right away. >> thank you very much for sharing it, and sharing this horror with us so the world can see and understand. >> "outfront" now, retired u.s. army brigadier general peter zuwack. the russians at a crowded train station full of civilians with a rocket they marked with the words, for the children. you heard the governor of

donetsk saying russia did that because they failed on the battlefield so far so they're trying now to create mass panic. does that sound right to you? >> i think that's part of it. i think there is a terror campaign now that is making this even more punitive. especially feel sorrow for the citizens who are caught in a major battle in the battles of 2014 during the first invasion when the ukrainian forces actually took back in bitter fighting the city. so they have seen it. i don't know exactly, but you fired a ballistic missile with some accuracy, has been fired into a mass of ukrainian citizens. a number of them probably ethnic russians as well, by the way, trying to leave. timing was sadly perfect. and whatever the munition, high

explosive cluster, it created devastation, and they'll be able to measure the crater and figure out that plus satellite imagery will ultimately find where it came from. if it was a russian local commander, it was horrific judgment and malice. if it were a governmental regime thing, an order coming down to do these type of things, then it just added to the list of growing list of war crimes. and when i was in moscow in my day, and you're reading and hearing it now, the russians would talk. all the media would be about the suffering of the ethnic russians in donbas and eastern ukraine. so that jives, if you will, with the discussion about for the children, because that's all the russian population are hearing about in their own media. about the poor russians up there. >> so you know, the u.s. general

says that russia will not be table re-enforce their forces in the eastern part of ukraine with any great speed because of the massive logistical problems. you were the u.s. defense attache in there when putin annexed crimea. you have spent plenty of time in belgrade, which has been the staging operation for so much of the russian entry from the eastern part of ukraine. you know the russian troops. you know the supply routes. will russia be able to resupply and launch a successful massive attack at this point? >> it's going to be hard, but those in the summer of -- in the spring sd summer of 2014, an encampment started to be built along the ukraine border and belgrade, and we saw it was a major marshaling area for russian troops and equipment, both in the cities and around and in the region.

both ground troops and mostly helicopters. so that's there. it's a major rail head. a major rail hub, and roads going into that. so it's much easier from the heartland, and this is western russia, to bring more forces up, artillery shells and all that, heavy lift on trains. it's much harder, erin, to do it through belarus and down towards kyiv. so i believe they are amassing. they need some type of success, major success before the 9 may victory day celebration event in russia, which is just five weeks. and i worry about a bludgeon -- the logistics, they have used a lot. they have expended a lot, but that's going to be the area they bring it down. and we could see a world war i, world war ii bludgeon type offensive to try to overwhelm the ukrainian defenders in the

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plant that blew up in 1986, the worst nuclear accident ever. russian troops invaded this area on the very first day of their war against ukraine and took chernobyl without much of a fight. now that the russians have left, ukraine's interior minister took us to chernobyl and what we found was troubling. the russians imprisoned the security staff inside the plant's own bomb shelter, the interior minister told us. no natural light, no fresh air, no communications. >> so the russians kept 169 ukrainians prisoner here the entire time they held this place. and then when the russians left, they looted and ransacked the place. among the prisoners, police officers, national guard members, and soldiers. ukraine's interior minister tells me the russians have now taken them to russia and they don't know how they're doing. when i arrived here, i was

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of the most contaminated areas in the world. especially the soil. the ukrainian government released this drone footage apparently showing that the russians dug combat positions there. the operator of ukraine's nuclear plants says those russian soldiers could have been exposed to significant amounts of radiation. we went to the edge of the red forest zone and found a russian military food ration on the ground. when we hold the meter close, the radiation skyrockets to around 50 times above natural levels. ukraine says russia's conduct in this war is a threat to nuclear safety in europe. the chernobyl nuclear power plant hasn't been in operation for years, but this confinement needs to be monitored 24/7 and also their spent nuclear fuel in this compound as well. and it's not only in chernobyl. russian troops also fired rockets at europe's largest nuclear power plant near zap

ait's yeah and are now occupying it. ukraine's energy minister says the international community must step in. >> i think it's dramatically impacting. that's really the act of nuclear tea tearism, what they're doing. >> the russian army used this road as one of its main routes to attack ukraine's capital. the interior minister says his country needs more weapons to defend this border. today, the border between totalitarianism and democracy passes behind our backs, he says. the border between freedom and oppression. we are ready to fight for it. the ukrainians fear they may have to fight here again soon. as russian president vladimir putin replenishes his forces, continuing to put this nation and nuclear safety in europe at risk. and erin, energy minister told me he thinks it's just absolutely crazy that they would have dug trenches and fighting positions inside the red forest.

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breaking news. several russian strikes reported in the southern ukrainian city of odesa. people who live there are on high alert as russian forces ramp up attacks in the east. they fear they could be part of the targets for a full russian assault on the east. ed lavendera is "outfront" in odesa where as anyone who

watches the show knows he has been reporting for many days. ed, what are you learning about the latest attack? >> well, it's been one of the most active days we have seen since we have been here in odesa in southern ukraine. it started early friday morning with three missile strikes on the edge of the northeast edge of odesa. and then about midday, we heard another round of attacks as well. ukrainian military officials say that several people were killed in the early morning strike in the northeast edge. they're short on specifics, just simply saying what was hit is an infrastructure facility, but the russian military is claiming that it fired and struck a military training facility for foreign fighters. we made our way as close as we could possibly get to that area earlier today. we were blocked by several military checkpoints, but resident in the area say they were very skeptical of the claims russia is making about foreign fighters being trained

there. that this is a military facility that has been there dating back to the 1970s and the soviet era. the strike later in the day, there were no injuries reported, and then just a few hours ago, we heard another round of explosions as well. and all of this, erin, is leading to an extended curfew that will go into place saturday night all day sunday into monday morning. this is a significant move. we have just really seen overnight curfews until now, but odesa officials are saying because of the air strike on the train station in eastern ukraine, they feel that for that particular day, that there need to be a region-wide curfew for almost 36 hours or so. erin. >> all right, thank you so much, ed lavendera. >> ed is talking about what's happening on the ground, i want to bring in a ukrainian filmmaker, also now a soldier that we spoke to last week.

and he's been giving me regular updates from the front line. tonight, he's with his family in a town near kyiv. and just a few hours, he and his unit will be sent to fight in the donbas region. and vlad, i'm glad to see you. but you are going to be heading to an area where the fighting is intensifying. obviously, that missile strike today on the train station. the ukrainian foreign minister said what may be about to happen in the donbas could be like world war ii. and you're going there. in hours, with your band, the people you have been fighting alongside since the war broke out. what kinds of emotions are you feeling tonight? >> hello. it's nice to hear you again, and we talk about emotions. it's complicated. but we have it's not very pleasant because we have lost our battalion, and one of our commanders was killed on this

new position just today. and it's made us on one hand much more angry. on the other hand, it's a big loss to us. he was a great man. but anyway, you know like i think waiting is the most complicated part of the war. when you're waiting, it's the scariest part, and it's more tough part. and that's why war consists of waiting mostly. but when you're there, there is no place for thoughts. now, i feel a little worried. a little bit -- a little tension, but i know tomorrow it will be different when i will be together with my group. >> so you did just mention the commander of your battalion was killed today. already there on the front line where you're going, and i want to show a picture of him. he's on the right in the picture i'm going to show there, boss you shared that picture with me just a few days ago. there you all were just a few days ago liberating towns. there he is, and today he died.

fighting. but what goes through your mind when you hear that? and you know, you're going there. >> it's not the first time. you know, every day now for the last month almost every day, i know about somebody who is killed and who i met just like a couple weeks ago, and sometimes it's people like a photographer, a great guy and father of four kids who was just killed by russians. like why? what is the purpose? and it's just like, i'm in this state of mind when you try and just try to put these thoughts somewhere back and you just don't think about it, like just don't think about it. by watching this video of those massacres they made, i just choose to not think about it. that's all. that's all. it's too hard if i will spend

time on going through these feelings. >> so your parents, you have been out fighting, and you and i have spoken when you were going from place to place or staying in a farmhouse or as you and your unit were move. now you have this brief moment before you're going back to the front, and i know you were able to see some of your family. your parents had initially gone to their summer home, to hide from russians. but then they got cut off by russian troops until the area was liberated by troops like yours. now you're able to see them again. how does it feel to be reunited with them, to know they're okay? i know it's just a day, but it's a precious day. >> yeah, yeah. it's really nice. especially because my brother also came, because he's also taking part in the war. and we have a chance to meet in one day and just visit the parents in the same moment, which is really, really nice. and you know, the best part of

it is like i know that my parents will come back to a regular life, going to a job, make their garden. this is the best part of it. you know, because we're fighting like you can say we're fighting for freedom. yeah, that's true, but mostly, people here are fighting just for the possibility to go to work at 7:00 p.m., you know, 7:00 a.m. in the morning, and just have our regular exercise in the park and start losing weight from next monday. very simple things. i'm glad that my parents will have a possibility to have their garden done. like this year, and they also have, as they just started gardening. this is the most, the best part. also, it's nice because also my grandparents live here, and like, i'm glad they saw us and they feel easier. for them, it's really important. >> you recently showed a photo of a bombed out building, and an

entire section of the building had collapsed. you have seen building after building like this as you were fighting and then liberating those towns. what remained on one exposed wall of this building was a kitchen shelf and all the dishes were still in it. you wrote about this. i quote you, vlad. feel a little like that shelf. and then you said that's a symbol of my mental health. here you are, not even two months into this war. your life is completely turned upside down. i know you said when you look at the attack, you can't think about it. but how do you handle this mentally? >> you know, i have experience from first campaign in '14, and i remember, i was thinking about this dramatic experience and never accepted i had it until 2017, i was out of war already a year and a half traveling around

the world and some moment there were kids outside and they're throwing this, i don't know the word in english, little things that explode on the new year they have fireworks, and some moment as they throw it next to me, and i became like i felt like for a second i feel that i wanted to take this kid and just smash him into the road. and i was stopped there. and come home and bring this candle to my girlfriend for no reason, and this is when i realize i have a trouble. and i went to psychiatrist and spend like almost 18 hours working on that, and now i see how all this things come back, like i mean, like emotions. these emotions you can't control. just became angry with no reason. but now, i just am trying to -- i believe i can handle them, so i give them some space because i need them right now. i really need them.

now it's to survive, to be honest. and i just believe that i will be able to take them under my control as soon as it will be over is how i feel. but yeah, i look around and i see a lot of men who are -- a lot of work for ukrainian psychiatrists and the ukrainian society in the future. >> it's an entire multiple generations now, all going through what you're going through. vlad, i appreciate your taking the time out of this very precious time that you have with your family. we will be speaking soon. >> thank you for your attention and your work as well. thank you. >> all right. and next, russians now fleeing their country. not knowing if they'll ever return. >> i love my life there.

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do not fly russian airlines. that is the warning from the uk's transport secretary who says, quote, they can no longer be relied upon to fly safely. this as a growing number of russian citizens are fleeing russia to neighboring georgia as a protest to putin's invasion of ukraine. matt rivers is out front in georgia with more. >> down in a side street across from a church lies a bar called grail. a holy place of sorts for a cold lagger and a conversation. and the bar owner who is russian says he's had one particular conversation a lot more lately. >> hello, what are you doing here? i moves two days ago, three days ago. >> there's a lot more russians

coming in. and why are people leaving? >> why are people leaving? because they're scared. >> we met about a half dozen such people here, but one stood out. elisa left russia with her husband just a few days after the war began. >> you couldn't take it anymore after this invasion. >> yes, it was like an additional trigger. i just had to leave. >> the 33-year-old has long been a member of russia's opposition in favor of democracy. she says not putin. this is her being arrested in 2016 while she was working as an independent poll watching in her hometown in russia. she says pro-putin authorities accused her of vague elections violations and held her in detention until voting ended. but the invasion was the final straw. elissa could no longer live in russia. now in georgia, she wants everyone to know what side she's on. >> i'm just trying to take it in stride. signal as much as i can.

>> the ukraine flag there. >> a public show of support matched across tubleesa, ukraine flags fly all over georgia, a former soviet republic also invaded by putin's armies in 2008. many here have deep sympathy for what ukrainians are going through. it's not just about pro-ukraine sentiment. it's also anti-putin. look at this coffee shop door. it says you're more than welcome here if you agree that putin is a war criminal and respect the sovereignty of peaceful nations. pretty clear how the owners of this store feel. another sign at a shop not far away says in part, putin is evil. if you do not agree with these statements, please do not come in. many russians in georgia feel the same way. some even taking part in recent protests where an effigy of putin was burned. but they're sometimes grouped in with putin and his supporters nonetheless. over coffee the day after we met, drinking out of cups emblazoned with ukraine's

colors, elisa said a cab driver told her recently she was one of the good ones because 90% of russians should be hanged. >> it's not nice knowing that you're the nazis now. >> back at the bar, every single russian told us that the vast majority of georgians have been kind and welcoming and that they're grateful to live in a freer place. because everyone we spoke to also said they'll be here for a while. >> i love my life there. but i'm not returning there anytime soon. >> and erin, she told us she's actually reluctant to speak russian here in georgia even though many georgians do speak russian. she says she usually starts communicating with people in english and then will actually ask permission to speak some russian, sometimes people say yes. sometimes people say no. according to the latest information from georgia's government, as of mid-march, more than 30,000 russians had crossed over from russia here to

georgia, but those numbers, erin, have almost certainly gone up. >> absolutely. matt rivers, thank you very much. next, ukrainian officials tell "outfront" 11 mayors have been abducted and another was brutally murdered along with her family. the mayor's friend speaks out next. >> plus being judge ketanji brown jackson celebrates her historic moment.

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she and her town mourn the loss of a brave leader. and, i am so sorry for your unimaginable loss. i know you were close with the mayor's family. you even taught her daughter english. what do you want the world to know about the mayor and that family? >> hello. first of all, i think that it's important to know that all those terrible pictures that the world can see, and all that dead bodies, they have their names. and one photo on the internet is the photo of my neighbors. they were -- they are family. this lady was the mayor of our village because all the time people voted for her.

and just she was responsible for many good things which happened to our village. and actually, when the war started, a lot of villagers left the city in order to escape from war. but her family decided to stay because they really wanted to help others. i mean, i think that they're really heroes of ukraine because they stayed in order to help others and support others. and they are great representatives of our nation. >> the mayor's surviving daughter, whose name is also alana, she sent you a message. >> yeah. >> after -- after she suffered this horrible loss. had -- had to see those just horrific pictures. and part of her message to you

was -- and -- and i am quoting from what you shared with us -- happened to my family, you saw for yourselves. this cursed russia, these beasts took everything away from me. my reason, my happy life, my parents and brother gave their lives for our village, for our country. they didn't surrender, didn't break down, didn't let down the honor in the name of our family. they are heroes. what else did alana tell you? >> she told me some terrible details that on the 23rd of march, soldiers, russian soldiers, came to their home and wanted to take only the mayor. obviously, her husband decided to go with her. actually, firstly, they promised to alana's daughter that they would bring them back, and he

was staying there and waiting. and alana thought that it wasn't good idea. she wanted him to escape but, again, he said my parents there. what could i do? so, he was at home. he was waiting for his parents, and in couple days, soldiers went back and took him. and actually, we didn't know what happened next. but then, the world was able to see these terrible picture of -- of these grave. >> alana, thank you very much for sharing their story, and for -- for -- for sharing with us the real humans, the life behind those -- those horrible images and that tragic end. thank you.

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we have come a long way toward perfecting our union. in my family, it took just one generation to go from segregation to the supreme court of the united states. >> incredible. well, jackson will replace justice stephen breyer when he retire this is summer. thanks for joining us. "ac 360" begins now. good evening. very little can prepare you for some of the images out of ukraine tonight. they show plainly and simply the murder of civilians as they are fleeing from their murderers. at least 50 people killed, many more wounded today at a train station in the eastern city. you see the bodies there. broken bones, pools of blood, men, women, children. the city and station are an evacuation hub for civilians escaping the donbas. women and children, th