hello, and a warm welcome to our viewers joining us in the united states and all around the world. i'm max foster in london. we're following breaking news coverage on russia's war in ukraine. just ahead. >> translator: russia is preparing another offensive hoping to break our national alliance. >> we should have no elusions that they'll break their tactics and make them less brutal. >> if the evidence points to him being a war criminal, we will pursue that. >> the russian military thinks

that is helpful in terrorizing the population. >> i don't think we can differentiate between stages of hell that ukraine is now going through. >> reporter: this is cnn breaking news. tuesday, april 12th, 11 a.m. in ukraine. departure of russian troops in the north is revealing new atrocities. ukraine says russia is laying the groundwork for the next phase of the war. as this map shows, they have left areas around kyiv. they left mines. military analysts say they want to take control of the entire donbas region. new video shows a long column of russian military vehicles near russia's border with ukraine all

of them pointing towards donbas. on monday they appeared to have gone on the offensive saying they destroyed a weapons depot. volodymyr zelenskyy said tens of thousands are dead in the besieged city of mariupol following weeks of bombardments. cnn can't verify that. mr. zelenskyy said more heavy weapons could help end the siege on the city. ukrainian officials say they are still defending the city. on monday there were unconfirmed reports of a chemical attack in the city. cnn can't independently verify that claim but both ukraine and the u.s. say the threat of chemical attacks needs to be taken seriously.

>> before today there was credible efforts the russians were going to use chemical weapons to incapacitate the ukrainian efforts in mariupol. we shared that information with our ukrainian partners. we are going to be in direct conversations with them to try and determine what exactly has transpired here and as soon as we gain additional fidelity, we'll be in a better position to say what this was or what this may have been. >> meanwhile, there's no let up in shelling in kharkiv which is ukraine's second largest city by population. you can see the heavy presence of russian forces there in red m. >> reporter: you can see all around us just the sheer devastation. right here is the crater from where a bomb was dropped just two days ago. north of here, about 25 miles

away, is inside russia. that's where the russian positions are shelling. that's where they're throwing devastation and deft into places like this in kharkiv, into civilian areas. most of the people who have been able to evacuate have already left the city. those that remain have told us it's because they believe that nowhere in ukraine is safe. they wouldn't speak on camera because they're worried what will happen when and if the russians finally arrive, and that is what u.s. and ukrainian intelligence officials believe is about to happen. they believe russian troops are amassing. that was just a mortar strike as we were talking. it's about the third or fourth that we've heard. it's coming from that direction over there. we're continuing to hear strikes. >> ukrainian authorities say the strikes have destroyed more than 2,000 homes across kharkiv and the region of kharkiv and that

land mines remain a threat. there are new crops on agricultural land. ukrainian authorities say they've completed a temporary route for humanitarian aid. this is for the suburb of irpin. cnn's frederick pleitgen shows us the devastation and lingering issues. >> reporter: the tour is a sad routine for the body collectors in the outskirts of kyiv. finding corpses has become easterly normal here. a house destroyed by an artillery strike. a body burned beyond recognition. a mangled car wreck. two bodies burned beyond recognition. a house that was occupied by

russian troops and found a lady dead in the bedroom. a brutal occupation and then a fierce fight by the ukrainians to drive them out. a fight an 81-year-old witnessed up close in her village. >> translator: there were explosions. explosions from all sides. it was scary. i am in my house. i cross myself and lie down and then i hear how it thundered and all the windows in the house were broken. the ukrainians tell us the russian troops didn't bother collecting most of their own dead. more than a week after vladimir putin's army was pushed out of here, they show us the body of what they say was a russian soldier still laying in the woods. that's not all they've left behind. this demining unit said they've found hundreds of tons of unexploded order nantz in just the remaining days.

these weapons are extremely dangerous for civilians who might actually touch them, the commander says. there are about 50 such elements in one bomb he says. this is a high explosive fragmentation bomb designed to kill people, just to kill people. they blow up the cluster bomb let on the spot and move the heavier bombs to a different location for a massive controlled explosion. the body collecting, the mine sweeping and the clearing of a wreckage are just starting in this area and yet this pile of demolished vehicles both military and civilians towers in the key suburb of irpin. if you had to picture their attempt to take kyiv, it would look like this. destruction and absolutely nothing to show for it.

russia's military was hue military by the ukrainians and caused a lot of harm in the process and they've devastated scores of families. at irpin cemetery the newly widowed weep at funerals for the fallen. alla's husband fought alongside their 21-year-old son and he died in his son's arms. and tatiana, her husband promised her he would come back in a couple of hours but was killed defending her neighborhood. >> i'm very proud. he's a hero. we have many who have not fled. sasha died 200 meters from our house where we live. laying the dead to rest, another sad task. they've become all too efficient at performing in this area. close by the next funeral is

already underway. fred pleitgen, irpin, ukraine. >> the director of the our asia democracy initiative say ukrainian political analysts and founder of free crimea project. thank you both for joining us. peter, first a question for you and what we're seeing in terms of a buildup from the russians towards the east of the country. what do you expect we're going to see there when this action actually starts and full throttle as many experts are warning it's about to do? >> well, indeed, max. it's going to be full throttle. there's a very important day in the russian call len de la rose coming up, may 9th. sacred day for vladimir putin. a day when they march up and down red square. he knows he has to pony up some goods for his subject after this enormous amount of blood that

has been spilled on the part of the russian troops and the treasure that has been spent on this war. it's going to be a much more traditional battle with a lot of tanks, artillery fire, aviation, but when we say traditional, we mean traditional by russian standards. russians don't play by the rules. we're already hearing reports chemical weapons may have been used in mariupol to try to knock out of the remaining bit of resistance there. we've seen them in action in syria and chechynya. they play dirty. >> terraz, we haven't had those reports confirmed, the use of chemical weapons in mariupol, but the response you're generally getting from the west is that we need to be ready for

that to happen even if it didn't happen on that occasion. what did you make of those reports? >> yes, max. my mother-in-law escaped from mariupol just a week ago. wide far away from the hometown of mariupol and what she said was going on in there, it was completely nightmare. the russian tactics were so brutal attacking residential houses, killing people, range women and doing every possible war crime. so from this perspective the russians can do anything like this because for russians, like peter said, the sacred day is so

important, vladimir putin is so important that he will do everything possible to knock out ukrainian forces. ukrainian marines about 1,000 per hundred and still in mariupol and because this location is so secure it's like a strong hold. for russians, like they said, pursuing this territory. he stated on russia state tv that they may use chemical weapons to kill ukrainian military. >> peter, we're just hearing, you know, more testimony about rapes. rape as a weapon of war. we've had multiple news organizations getting firsthand testimony. even in the last 12 hours the kremlin has denied that's the case. over time there will be evidence of this presumably. i mean, what do you make of the kremlin's constant denials about

any sort of abuses? >> well, we're seeing this is the situation where a kgb man is running a country and is running a -- effectively running the military. it is all tried and true, and never acknowledge any wrong. this is the playbook. this is what the kgb officers are trained to do, to deny, deny, deny. we are seeing the russian army are the dirtiest army, they play by no rules whatsoever. the ukrainian general has already reported up to 6,000 war crimes have been committed in ukraine. ukrainians are collecting all the evidence. they have set up their own commissions. as you know, the american president has called for the creation of some sort of truth commission. we will eventually get the true

picture of russian atrocity. >> so sorry to hear about your family there in mariupol. how did they survive so long there? how were they living? >> they were spending all their time -- a month. a month. they spent a month in shelter. lucky enough they have some small stream of fresh water. they survived but many people from surrounding areas, they came to their bomb shelter to get the fresh water and because of russian bombing, several people have been killed, including neighbors. neighbors of my mother-in-law, she said they just came out to find out some bread and some food and they both have been killed by russian bombs. and the pictures which she describes to me were so horrible. kids killed by russian bombs because the kids, the families, they're all trying to escape the

city. they were killed in private cars. killed just on the road. some people captured by russians and chechnyian fighters. like president zelenskyy said, yesterday we would see hundreds, hundreds or probably thousands of ukrainians killed in mariupol. nobody knows how many civilians have been killed in there, but these pictures, you know, these people who escaped from mariupol, they need assistance from medics, from doctors especially, psychiatrists because this makes some people, they go mad. >> max, let me just add that whatever we've seen in bucha, obviously that's -- any accusations of genocide, that will have to be investigated. two days after bucha a major

russian outlet reported a piece according to -- all ukrainians have been declared enemies of russia and have to be cleansed. i'm quoting verbatim from that document. we already have the practical and the theoretical. what we are seeing is very much, i think, genocidal. once again, it has to be proved, but we already have plenty of evidence. >> the americans saying the evidence isn't there yet but as you say, it's so important to gather that evidence right now as the russians pull out of those areas. peter and terraz, thank you very much for joining us. thoughts with both of your families. president vladimir putin is meeting with his bello russian counterpart. russia's chancellor -- sorry, meanwhile austria's chancellor said his meeting with vladimir

putin was very open, direct and tough. he is the first european leader to meet face to face with putin since the war addressed. he says he addressed the war crimes in bucha but said mr. putin blamed the ukrainians for those crimes. japan is freezing assets of nearly 400 russian citizens including russia's two daughters and ukraine's president is calling for an embargo on russian oil as the european union weighs additional sanctions. volodymyr zelenskyy said it will be met by moscow with laughter. claire sebastian joins us. what does he mean by being treated with laughter? >> right.

putin completely disconnects the whole idea of sanctions from any discussion of the a special military operation. he believes the only way to hit them is where it hurts, oil and gas. oil is even bigger. they make three times for oil than gas. while it's easy to disconnect from russian oil, it would hit russia the hardest. this would be very impactful. the foreign affairs ministers met yesterday. they're meeting again today. you see them arriving this hour. they are supposedly talking about a package of sanctions that could include oil. as of right now they seem to be divided. some say we can do this, we can do what we can. others like hungary said, it's impossible for us. we just can't do it. >> in terms of how they might respond, there's going to be

some compromise. they can't come out of that meeting without some sort of result because there is a direct correlation between the money the russians are making from the oil. they are paying for the war. >> yeah. we paid 35 billion euros to russia since the start of the conflict. that's 1 billion euros a day. they are financing this war. you're right. they're under pressure to do something. there are compromises on the table. something short of leaving is being discussed. what we're seeing with what's ramping up in the east, they're

under pressure to do something. >> back with you when we get some results from the meetings. claire, thank you very much indeed. white house officials say there is a candid discussion on monday. india's neutrality has caused increasing concern in washington. mr. biden didn't specifically ask the indian leader to take a side. at a separate event antony blinken pressed india and other countries to use their leverage with russia to end the war. take a listen. >> india has to make its own decisions about how it approaches this challenge. we as a general proposition are consulting with all of our allies and partners on the consequences of putin's war, the atrocities being committed against the ukraine. in our judgment it is important that those with leverage press putin to end the war.

>> we're following the story from new delhi. how's all of this being covered in the indian media then? it is very stark the way that modi hasn't come out against the war, against russia specifically. >> reporter: right, max. that has been india's stand from the very beginning of the war. there's been no change in stand and i don't anticipate one in the coming days. that's essentially something the u.s. understands and something an tow any blinken mentioned during a press conference. he shade we do understand. they do understand the implications of putting the pressure on india to go ahead and withdraw and seize oil imports from russia.

it was put to them during the press conference, are you aware of the possible sacks tsanction that can be put in sflas here's what he had to say. >> if we are talking about energy sanctions, i suggest you look at europe. i suspect looking at the figures, probably our total purchases per month would be less than what europe has in a day. >> reporter: max, india shares the historic ties with russia. for now, america understands that no sanctions can be imposed on india since there is no ban on importing oil from russia.

india should cut oil imports with russia but as of now they know europe's importing a lot more. max? >> thank you very much for joining us, indeed, in new delhi. tracking a new round of weather in the u.s. a barrage of hail and showers. pedram javaheri has the weather. another multi-day severe weather outbreak ahead of us. we'll follow this and d the latt weather coming up next. yes, please! neuriva. think biggeger.

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just a few hours away from the latest inflation report from the u.s. government. economists report prices surge by 8.4% versus last march. if that's accurate, it would be the highest inflation in the u.s. since january 1982. new survey by the federal bank of new york expect prices to stay high over the next year. more households report being financially worse off than a year ago. respondents say they're more pessimistic than their future finances. the cost of a barrel of u.s.

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meteorologist pedram java share ri announced incredible scenes. >> it is. it speaks to the severity of what we have next to us. that's golf ball sized hale. we have reports of some approaching baseball size hail. the vast majority of these storm reports coming in as far as the large hail reports centered across this region of arkansas. that's where we saw the baseball size hail storms in may flower, arkansas. tornado across this community as well. this is the sort of setup that spawned these storms and pretty expansive coverage of severe weather tuesday afternoon. especially as we get to 1, 2, 3 in the afternoon, daytime heating, destabilizes the atmosphere.

that's the threat here. once we transition, the area expands. the area of coverage gets close to 100 million americans. as far south as jackson, mississippi. pretty broad coverage of severe weather. decent chance for significant tornadoes as well. when you take a look at parts of louisiana, we know some of what's happened here is going to be beneficial. the state has 83% of it experiencing drought. much of that in the southern tier of the state. heavy rainfall across the region is going to provide some drought relief. notice the stark contrast of what's happening on the other side of the united states where it's cold enough to support wintry weather. it has never snowed in the month of april in portland, oregon.

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welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm max foster. the u.n. is warning humanitarian response to the horrific violence in ukraine must be gender sensitive. an official with u.n. women says increased reports of rape and sexual violence against women and children must be

independently confirmed. the u.n. also says nearly 2/3 of ukrainian children have been displaced since the war began. unicef adds 1.6 million inside the country may not have enough food. that kind of grief and despair surely being felt inside ukraine. the deputy minister said more than 4300 people were evacuated. now meanwhile the u.n. says the number of people fleeing the country has risen to more than 4.5 million. cnn's selma abdelaziz is following all of this live from the polish border. selma. >> reporter: yes. so i'm at a train station here, max. i'm sure you can hear the sounds of women and children. i can't show them to you, but we're basically in a room here in the train station, a safe

haven that's been put up for these women and children fleeing ukraine. what i can do though is speak to one of the volunteers who's been here for three weeks. denise. give me a sense of why the space is so important for the families here. >> this space is dedicated solely to mothers and children and it provides a safe place for them to come, to unwind, to relax after a long journey. it gives a great place for the kids to just destress. they can play with the toys. we have stuffed animals. we have leggos. we have all sorts of toys for them to play with. >> and i see you have a station set up. let me know what you're offering here to these families. >> so what we have are drinks. we try to give them water, fruit juices, any kind of drinks. we offer the parents coffee, tea, hot chocolate for the kids. we also have baby food. we really try to think of everything. so we have baby food for the

moms. we have pampers, toothbrushes, toothpaste, even for the kiddies we have their own sets and, you know, they're welcome to take anything. we have every size of pampers. we have every age of baby food for them to take. >> and i'm sure at this point you've seen hundreds of families coming through. tell me, what are their needs when they arrive? what is the emotional state oftentimes that they are in? how do you cope and how do you offer that kind of support? >> well, we do the best that we can. again, just by staying here. we see that sometimes the kids arrive, you know, after a long journey. they are a little stressed and by being able to play ball in our back room, being able to run up and down, they forget about what's going on with the war and they can just be little kids. >> reporter: thank you so much. thank you for your help. the need here is, of course, enormous, max. we're giving the families their

privacy, but fighting men, men of fighting age rather not allowed to leave ukraine. that means many kids have been separated from their dads, forced out of their homes, they come here and their journey is only just beginning. >> the figure, 2/3 separated is staggering. if you would like to help any of the people in ukraine who may need this shelter, food, water, go to cnn.com/impact, you'll find several ways to help. just ahead -- >> getting a late evening now request to go get a covid test. >> my neighbors and i line up ready for health workers to scan our qr codes which link our i.d. late or night. >> the only western organization on ground in shanghai. we'll show you what it's like during a government run covid lockdown in a city of 25 million people.

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reinstating the indoor mask mandate starting next monday. philadelphia is the first major city to bring back the requirement. monday's cases were more than 50% higher than ten days ago. meanwhile, the centers for disease control is expected to decide in the next few days whether to extend mask mandates for public transportation including air travel. new infections are up in 26 states compared to last week. up to two weeks of lockdown to try to contain the coronavirus in shanghai, there are signs of life beginning to emerge from some neighborhoods. restrictions being eased in areas with lower case counts. some are still frustrated and angry over the government's

tough control measures which they say have led to food and medicine shortages. cnn's david culver is living through the lockdown with shanghai's 25 million residents. here's his report. >> reporter: you'd never expect to see people in shanghai, china's most affluent and cosmopolitan city, screaming for food. we are starving. we are starving, they yell but after weeks long covid lockdown with no promise to end, desperation. one community volunteer reporting the home of an elderly woman. neighbors heard the 90-year-old woman shouting help for 90 days pleading for food. her fridge empty. volunteers were finally able to get her a meal. china's central government now in charge of managing shanghai's covid outbreak. in a month's time the daily case count went from double digits to 26,000. a shanghai city leader choked up at a news conference apologizing

to shanghai's more than 25 million residents for failing to meet expectations and promising improvements. those of us living here kept to our homes. cnn, the only u.s. tv network with a team living through the lockdown. in my community, we're only allowed out when summoned by workers and when dark out a flashlight. >> getting a late evening now request to go get a covid test. >> my neighbors and i line up ready for health workers to scan our qr codes which link the results to our i.d. night or day, the testing is constant. >> someone in the community tested positive so they'll test each one of us again. we can line up for government distributions or for approved deliveries. usually the most exciting part of the day. >> vacuum sealed pork and several boxes of traditional chinese medicine. a bunch more facemasks. a box that has a bunch of fresh

fruit. on top some frozen meat and two antigen kits. food deliveries this plentiful are rare. not enough delivery drivers to get through the lockdown barriers. communities like mine resorting to group buys. we come together in chat groups and try to source food directly in bulk. neighbors helping neighbors is a common theme across the city. we found a safe drop spot to trade. cheese for oranges. our community volunteers help us source foot. they are exhausted and hungry. from above you see this metropolis, quiet, easterly empty but on the ground there are tragedies shared daily online. this man reporting his father, who says he's unable to get admitted to the hospital in the strained system. his dad later died he says. in this video a neighbor

capturing a woman wailing claiming that her loved one died because of the lockdown. this shows a worker in a hazmat suit brutally killing a pet corgi. the owner was in government quarantine. all of this as a result of china's zero covid policy. a directive from the top. president xi jinping on friday praising china's zero covid approach. state media echoing a glowing narrative showing an orderly narrative with an abundant food supply and more than 100 make shift hospitals with capacity to treat more than 160,000 people infected. patients taken to the government quarantine centers showing a very different reality and people using isolation facilities still under construction. some seen frantically running distribution sites, scrambling

for food and blankets. the uncertainty leaving this man broken doing the unthinkable. questioning their leadership aloud asking where is the communist party. david culver, cnn, shanghai. coming up, cnn visits a u.s. school where children are getting a sobering lesson on war and peace in ukraine. what young ukrainian americans think of vladimir putin and the russian people. unlike ordinary memory supplements, neuriva plus f fuels six key indicators of brain performance. more brain performance? yes, please! neuriva. think bigger.

russian vladimir putin has been meeting with his belorussian counterpart. mr. lukashenko has been an ally allowing russian troops to attack their neighbor via belarus. there is an appealed hearing for a u.s. marine veteran held in moscow. in 2020 trevor reed was cvikted of endangering the life and health of russian soldiers.

reed's family says he's in the hospital for tuberculosis. they're urging the biden administration to help bring him home. another u.s. marine veteran also remains impris sopd by russia in a separate case. private day care and preschool in the united states, many of the children and their parents were born in ukraine. because of the conflict they're being taught a lesson about war and peace. cnn's gary tuchman reports from ohio. >> it's called the ukrainian afternoon. >> good afternoon, everyone. >> good afternoon. >> today we are going to talk about war and peace. >> in the cleveland suburb of parma heights. >> do you have grandparents in ukraine? >> almost all of their parents were born in ukraine and many of these children were born there. this is a private preschool, day care as well as an after school

program. for children ages 6 months to 12 years. >> are we in a state of peace or are we in a state of war in this country? >> peace. >> peace. what about ukraine? >> war. >> the feeling here is although what is happening in ukraine is frightening, it's important for the children to learn about it and talk about it. >> what can you say about soldiers? how do you feel about them? >> they're brave. >> they're brave. right. >> soldiers help people. >> if someone comes to your house, start destroying it, taking your stuff, you know, would you be happy about that? >> no. >> do you think this is right? >> no. >> when another country like come into another country and taking stuff and bombing, do you think this is right? >> no. >> no. who came to ukraine? >> russia. >> teachers ask how the children are feeling about all of this. >> worried. >> worried.

>> scary. >> scared. what other words is war? how can we describe the war? >> sadness. >> sadness. >> my family is -- well, are very scared for my gram, my great grandma, my relatives that are also in war and it's very anxious. >> i hope ukrainian win because so much of people are good and saying stop to the other nation who is being bad. >> not all the russian people are bad, right? the russian people who, you know, just say no war. please stop it. they're asking the president. >> yes. >> because of the russian people. because of the president. he's greedy and trying to take over the country. >> what is your dream? just what would you dream about right now if you are thinking about ukraine? >> another president. >> another president in russia.

okay. >> every single parent have peace and that war had never happened. >> reporter: roman and he helena dutka are owners. >> do you think your students are prouder to be ukrainian american than before the war? >> yes. i think they are proud about their roots, that they are ukrainians and about ukrainians standing strong. >> standing together. >> reporter: before we said good-bye with the students, i had a talk with them. what would you do if you had super power? >> save the good people. >> save the good people? >> yeah. >> that's what you would do as super woman? >> yeah. yeah. like make the house fly into the air. >> make the house fly into the air? >> yeah. >> fly to safety? >> yeah. >> the law enfoughter of childr.

the children are learning about charitable giving. the owners took the donations, flew to poland and those supplies are now in ukraine, but more supplies and donations are coming in, that's why this truck container is here. the donations are inside. as it fills up, the owners will take it out, take a plane to poland and deliver it to ukraine. this is gary tuchman, cnn, parma heights, ohio. our breaking news coverage of russia's fight continues. you're watching cnn.

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this is cnn breaking news. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm christine romans in new york. laura jarrett has the morning off again. brianna keilar is in ukraine. good morning, brianna. >> good morning, christine. the threat remains this morning long after russian troops retreated from the outskirts of kyiv amid debris and corpses. they deliberately planted thousands of mines, something he calls a war crime. ukraine's prosecutor general telling cnn general her office is building more than 5800 cases of war crimes committed during russia's invasion. there are also unconfirmed reports of a chemical attack in the southern port city o