fred pleitgen, cnn, borodianka, ukraine. >> the civilians are the targets.vidence of that every day. more than 1500 stocivilians hav died since the start of the invasion, but they always note the actual number of civilian deaths are expected to be, in their terms, considerably higher once those bodies are collected and the buildings you see turned to rubble are cleared. >> joining us now, robert english, the director of the international school of interrelations. he is also in the defense department. good to see you, in terms of having vladamir putin pull back once and for all. we just heard of new sanctions out of the u.s. today, and yet he continues to bombard ukraine. i'm curious, is it going to take cutting off oil and gas, and that obviously will have to come on the part of the europeans? >> i can't answer that with any assurance. the russian economy is groaning under the sanctions, and the new ones coming will make it worse, but so far putin has the resources to continue this war. more interesting, more important is that his army is beginning to hollow

borodianka was held by a very long time by the russians. to give you an idea of the scale of destruction. houses like these completely destroyed. if we look over here you can see that even large residential buildings have been flattened. this entire building was flattened. it was connected with this one before, but now there's absolutely nothing left of it. and the russians made sure to show they owned this town, painting the letter "v" on occupied buildings, even defacing borodianka's city administration. "v" is the letter the russians use to help identify their forces that invaded this part of ukraine. oksana and her husband just returned here and found russian soldiers had been staying in their house. she says they ransacked the place. alcohol is everywhere, she says. empty bottles in the hallway under things. they smoked a lot, put out cigarettes on the table. they also showed us the corpse of a man they found in their backyard. his hands and feet tied, severe bruises on his body, a shell casing still nearby. russia claims its forces do

this was borodianka before.ple 36 miles from the capital of kyiv. play grounds full of children. neighbors enjoying the local cafes. for the most part, a quiet and peaceful life. then the russians began bombing civilian targets such as residential apartment buildings for a full month. and now borodianka is a shell of its former self. craters replace apartment buildings. an empty play ground only filled with the remnants of war. rubble where apartment buildings once stood. a dentist's office with no patients left to treat. victims of putin's bombing campaign against ukrainian civilians. >> translator: the whole month we were sitting from one month from there and from here it was flying from there and from here. after occupying the towns since late february, the russians did not hold back as the ukrainian army forced them to retreat, making sure to leave their mark. >> reporter: this neighborhood in borodianka has been completely and utterly destroyed. from the unemployment office over there to the municipal build

crews in borodianka are digging through rubble. they are

the road from kyiv to borodianka is lined with villages heavily damaged after russia's occupation.troyed tanks and armored vehicles left behind but also indications of just how much firepower they unleashed on this area. the russians say this is a special operation, not a war, and that they don't harm civilians. but look how much ammunition they left behind simply in this one single firing position here. this is ammunition for heavy weapons with devastating effects on civilian areas. that devastation cuts through the towns and villages north of kyiv where the number of dead continues to rise. now that vladimir putin's armies have withdrawn, ukraine's leaders still believe many more bodies could be buried beneath the rubble. fred pleitgen, cnn, borodianka, ukraine. >> the director of the international security program at the lowy institute is with us. beyond the atrocities on the ground in ukraine, there are also reports which have been raised by the uambassador to th u.n. what more do we know about these camps, and does this add to the evidence that these atrocities we're now seein

what you witnessed. >> so borodianka is a small town. but it really had all the benefits of civilization. and people who survived there were telling that russian troops, they were really surprised. them oh, you have toilet in every house. we don't have that. they really destroyed everything. i don't think there is, there is one or two really buildings that are stayed intact. i was the most impressed with the kindergarten. it was all gone. so the atrocities there are just unspeakable. you cannot imagine, the homes that are destroyed and the other parts are standing. and people are walking around, trying to find their loved ones. under the buildings. because the destruction, they're terrible. the rescue teams did not find all the people that used to live there. and for many, many days, they will not be able to do that. and i have witnessed people who are sitting just around waiting until maybe they will discover a body and it will be a body of their loved ones. people came and people are surviving right now. >> you've also visited bucha tw

painting v on the buildings and even defacing the borodianka facility. oksana and her husband just returned here and found rush schaab soldiers had been staying in their house. she said they ran sacked the place. alcohol is everywhere she says. they smoked a lot, put out cigarettes on the table. they also showed us the corpse of a man they found in their backyard. hands and feet tied, bruises on his body, shell casing nearby. russia claims its forces don't target civilians calling reports of atrocities fake and provocations, but these body collectors are the ones who have to remove the carnage russia's military leaves in its wake. in a span of less than an hour they found a person gunned down while riding a bicycle, a body burned beyond recognition and a man still stuck in his car gunned down with bullet holes in his head and chest. he was believed to be transporting medical supplies now strewn near this road. the most awful thing is those are not soldiers laying there, just people, innocent people. for no reason, i ask. yes, for no reason. killed and to

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this is a town called borodianka, north of kyiv. as you will see in his report tonight in addition to the sheer destruction of civilian areas he found graphic evidence of atrocities. so bucha was not alone nor is borodianka according to ukraine's president zelenskyy who addressed the u.n. security council today. >> translator: the massacre in our city of bucha is only one, unfortunately, only one of many examples of what the occupiers have been doing on our land for the past 41 days, and there are many more cities similar places where the world would have yet to learn the full truth. mariupol, kharkiv, chernihiv, and dozens other ukrainian community, each of them is similar to bucha. >> president zelenskyy spoke to spain's parliament invoking hitler and mussolini's bombing in 1937. europe's darkest hours updated for the 21st century. as is this from the kyiv area. a little boy, 6 years old in his own backyard. behind him is the makeshift gravesite where his mother was buried. she died, reports say of stress and starvation. the littl

president zelenskyy says borodianka is more disastrous than bucha even. can you tell us what it's like there? >> translator: the situation is borodianka is very complicated. >> can you tell us what you're dealing with there? >> translator: the multistory buildings in borodianka were damaged and some of them were destroyed through artillery fire from tanks and personal vehicles from rifle fire and mortar. so the city suffered air bombardment where russian airplanes used unguided bombs to destroy entire streets. and some buildings completely collapsed if they had a direct hit from such bombs. so the day before yesterday they unnerved 16 bodies. and yesterday they managed to extract another eight bodies. all those bodies are in mortuaries and we need to identify the killed citizens. . >> how many, mayor, do you worry are missing under the rubble and do you have any hope of rescuing anybody alive? >> i'm afraid there is no possibility to extract any people alive because of the bombardment basically destroyed the buildings. it's unlikely that anyone would stil

>> reporter: what we know about borodianka, there's nothing left. we don't know how many people lie beneath the rubble in those destroyed buildings. the expectation is the russians are about to launch massive attacks. this is expected to be, according to the ukrainians and other analysts, a very different sort of fight here. much greater density of russian forces in a smaller area generally. it's more concentrated. it's going to be something more like world war ii. the fear is communities, villages, homes will be destroyed, wiped out. it is important civilians get out now while they can. it's not an easy thing to achieve. we got proof of that this morning. a missile strike on a train station in kramatorsk in the east. we're hearing reports of dozens of casualties as a result of that strike. >> dozens of casualties. thank you for that, phil. we appreciate it. let's talk now with peter zwiak. sir, what are you expecting from this? it sounds already like russian forces are sort of testing the ukrainian lines. >> brianna, thanks for having me. i would f

. >> we talk about these towns, bucha, borodianka, irpin. what are these towns like?e? >> people have their small homes and gardens. very picturesque. so it's just for people, if you don't want to live in the big city of kyiv, and you want to take a 30-minute commute inside, you see that. there are toups where people, for ukraine's terms like middle class, per se. they are actually pretty nice. to see them in complete rubble is just unthinkable. . >> talk to me about that. i will put the pictures up now, some of the destruction we have seen in bucha and borodianka. graves with dozens of people inside them. again, given these are all areas where you have been or areas like them, what is it like for you to see them like this? >> heartbreaking. you think are any of the people your friends, people you love and care for, unaccounted for, are they in these buildings? the first thing you think is how precarious it is. at the beginning of the war, people thought it would be towns outside kyiv that would be the safest. people were going into the suburbs thinking they would be

in the war that russia has unleashed against ukraine, few places have suffered more than borodianka. occupied by vladimir putin's troops since late february, recently taken back by ukraine's army. this city was held by the russians for a very long time. just to give you an idea of the scale of destruction, you have houses like these that were completely destroyed. but if we look over here, you can see that even large residential buildings have been flattened. this entire building was flattened. it was connected with this one before, but now there's absolutely nothing left of it. and the russians made sure to show they owned this town, painting the letter "v" on occupied buildings, even defacing their city administration. v is the letter the russians use to help identify their forces that invaded this part of ukraine. oksana and her husband just returned here and found russian soldiers had been staying in their house. she says they ransacked the place. alcohol is everywhere, she says, empty bottles in the hallway under things. they smoked a lot, put out cigarettes on the table. they a

and the work on dismantling the debris in borodianka began. it's much worse there. >> ukraine's foreign minister says negotiations will continue with russia to try and prevent more buchas. but more atrocities from that city now coming to light as well as the stories of the victims. and phil black's report now contains graphic images and disturbing details. >> reporter: iryna filkina in a happier time. it's likely this video shows her after the invasion in early march, just moments before her death. she is seen cycling through bucha, heading t ing toward a l number of russian vehicles. as she approaches the corner, she dismounts. one of the vehicles fires. she moves around the corner out of sight, and it fires again and again, at least five more times. then a large muzzle flash from a second concealed vehicle. moments later, smoke rises from near that corner. a different video geo located by cnn to the same corner shows a dead woman on the ground next to a bike. other images of that body clearly show her hand and her distinctive nails. the woma

the president of ukraine, volodymyr zelenskyy, saying tonight the situation in borodianka is, quote, much worse than in bucha. >> translator: after bucha, this is already obvious, and the work on dismantling the debris in borodianka has begun. it's much worse there, even more victims of the russian occupiers. >> that as we are learning about russian soldiers caught talking and killing civilians in ukraine -- about killing civilians in ukraine. german civil service says it's intercepted radio communications of russian soldiers talking about shooting ukrainian civilians. that's according to a source. german media report the intercepts report chatter of killings in bucha. meanwhile, heavy fighting rages in the east, and ukraine's top diplomat warns the battle for donbass will rival world war ii and begs for more weapons. >> my agenda is very simple. it has only three items on it. it's weapons, weapons, and weapons. >> weapons, more weapons. the pictures of the sudden destruction of the war in ukraine. i want you to see more pictures, here at home. a day for the history books. judge keta

borodianka was one of those places hit extremely hard. what you're about to see is very graphic and disturbing. in the war that russia has unleashed against ukraine, few places have suffered more than borodianka. occupied by putin's troops since late february, recently taken back by ukraine's army. it was held by the russians for a very long time. to give you an idea about the scale of the destruction, you had houses like these completely destroyed. if we look over here, you can see even large residential buildings have been flattened. this entire building was flattened. it was connected with this one before but now there's absolutely nothing left of it. and the russians made sure to show they owned this town. painting the letter v on occupied buildings, even defacing borodianka's administration. v is the letter the russians used to help identify their forces that invaded this part of ukraine. this woman and her husband just returned here and saw russian soldiers had been staying in their house. she says they ransacked the place. alcohol

and the work on dismantling the debris in borodianka has begun. it's much worse there. even more victims of the russian occupiers. >>> meantime, russian forces stepping up their offensive in the donbas region in eastern ukraine. foreign minister says the battles still to come will be like world war ii. thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, and artillery. and he warned of what would happen without more military shipments from the west. >> many people will die. many civilians will lose their homes. many villages will be destroyed. exactly because this help came too late. >> ukrainian authorities claim russian shelling has destroyed all the hospitals and medical facilities in the luhansk region and a russian strike on a railway link has left hundreds of evacuees stranded. american defense secretary lloyd austin now saying publicly for the first time the u.s. is providing intelligence to ukrainian forces to conduct operations in the donbas region. further north, kharkiv's regional governor says russian troops shelled a bread factory, killing one person, wounding 14

in borodianka, first responders are still looking for possible survivors, according to officials. more than 200 people are missing and presumed dead. anna is searching for her mother. >> we were sending them a route from borodianka to kyiv, how they can escape. >> reporter: it's not clear tonight if her mother got out alive. in nearby makariv, ukrainian officials made a hellish discovery -- 132 "tormented" bodies found after the russian forces withdrew. nearly half of the city has been destroyed. and in bucha, where the world first saw the horror russia is capable of, authorities are exhuming mass graves, 67 bodies from this site alone. the president of the eu commission on the scene, stunned at what she saw. >> here in bucha we saw our humanity being shattered. >> reporter: some residents returned to their broken city, imploring the world not to forget what happened there. >> the only thing they know is people dead, people with their hands tied, people tortured, murdered, and this just breaks my heart. but i'm sure -- i'm optimist, so i'm sure we'll rebuild this city and make it

and it also adds to the images that we have seen from bucha and borodianka. and while russia is saying, okay, it's our military operation. we are almost done, and then we will be back home. we are saying, no, the hurt that has been done to my nation, to my country, this is the meaning. this is the genocide. this is cannot be forgotten, forgiven. this is the crime against humanity. this is what united nation vowed to prosecute till the end and countries in united nations vowed this, as well. so, the world accepting that what happening in ukraine is genocide means that it will not be, you know, put under the cover. it's something that people will remember, and say that we'll prosecute till the end until every single dpilt pguilty pers brought to justice. >> given that, moving forward now, does this mean ukraine will reassess exporting and selling weapons to countries like myanmar? in september last year, justice for myanmar noted the spupply o weapons which included air surveillance radar, aircraft engines, light tanks, was in their report not only fortifying t

yes, i was in borodianka, i was in bucha several times. tomorrow i will to go bucha again.m the mass grave. actually, what we see, now, we see a lot of war crimes, actually, it is not only war crimes. now we can say about a lot of crimes against humanity. and you mentioned, we have 4,000 cases of war crimes. now, we are not proud but we have 5,800 such cases. and with every day, we started more and more such proceedings. >> 5,800. wow! the ukrainian prosecutor general's office, your office put out a statement saying 183 children have been killed. 342 children injured since the invasion. you've said as a lawyer, you want to be professional. you don't want to be emotional. i have to say, that must be very difficult when you hear these stories and see these photographs that are so horr horrifying, we can't share them on tv. >> it is extremely difficult. you spoke about figures. they are not correct. we can't count correct, for example the we don't understand what has happened in mariupol just now. and how many kids are dead inside mariupol. that is why, of course, a lot of ukr

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? >> reporter: well, it now seems that in towns like bucha, borodianka and irpin, where there have been these revelations of atrocities committed by russian soldiers, that has had an impact on the beh

but this was borodianka after the tanks came through.e were families with children, with dogs, with cats. we heard shots. there were nonstop shots. >> reporter: she and her mother slept on plastic chairs. at first there was electricity and gas. later she said both would be shut off. and there were lighter moments. natalia said she would sneak up to her mother's apartment only to use the bathroom. >> one of the biggest fears in my life at that moment if i start doing my toilet procedures if i just put down my trousers and they would kill me. i just was afraid to die without my pants on. >> reporter: sometimes from the flat, she could see tanks coming down the street. she recalled the women and children mostly stayed below ground as the men ventured out for food. when they did, they would report back on the dead bodies they saw. >> one of our managers came and said that he had seen a dead body, and he recognized him. this was his neighbor and his friend 200 meters from there the street that is shown in all the magazines, in all the news ab

. >> reporter: hidden behind a row of homes in the town of borodianka, ukrainian police exhume the bodiesussian soldiers. they're documenting evidence of war crimes. this mother stands over her son's body left in a makeshift grave. on the other side of the graves, we notice ivan staring quietly at the grave of another victim. one of your friends is buried here? ivan says his friend was killed by russian shrapnel as she tried to escape the city. the cross bearing katia's name was made by his grandfather, who dug this shallow grave because they couldn't store the bodies at the hospital. >> translator: i can't take this well when i see this. i cry but i'm not showing this. i feel weak, weak because i cannot do anything. >> reporter: ivan is 16 years old. in two months of war, he has witnessed the innocence of childhood die before his eyes. watching ivan makes you wonder how a teenaged mind copes with the horror in front of him. his family says to understand, we must see what they experienced. ivan's family never left this backyard shed for more than 30 days while russian troops occupied the

will be a part of making it not an easy fight for them, and you know, when we went to bucha and borodiankam, and i have talked to the women who were raped, to the women who were assaulted, i was thinking that we need to arm as many people as possible. so it wouldn't be happening to other people again. you know, for russian, we are not fighting our army right now. they are avoiding the direct fight. they are fighting the civilians so the goal will be, so there will be less civilians here and more armed people who are saying, no, you're coming to our land and we are greeting you with a bullet. you are coming to our land and we are greeting you with our resistance and you are coming to our land and we will be protecting ourselves and the ones we love. >> kira, you have incredible sense. i started following you on twitter 52 days ago. how have you seen the war evolve? and i want to follow up, how are you continuing with your strength and wherewithal? >> in the beginning the war was very emotional and it was callous. you were thinking, okay, what i can do -- what the people around me can do to

. >>> the international criminal court declared ukraine a crime scene after visiting bucha and borodianka. >>> all right. i want to bring in matt rivers here in lviv. let's talk about this ship that sunk. we swwoke up yesterday with ukrainians rejoicing. you had russia saying it was still afloat. this morning it really has sunk. >> absolutely. as a singular event goes this is one of the most impactful events we have seen throughout this campaign so far. what happened overnight, and we got word from the russian ministry of defense, it sunk as incident was being towed to port. they were trying to get it to the port for repairs but it had so much damage that it couldn't hold up to the towing and it sunk. the ukrainians continue to say they launched several cruise missiles, neptune missiles brought into service last year. they say that is what caused it to sink. the united states said what the ukrainians are saying is credible. they have medium confidence, according to one of our sources that is in fact, what happened. but they said they made no solid verification on of what the ukraine yanns

not only for us but for the residents of borodianka. the ill disciplined force with the license to kill. >> so this is vladimir putin's idea of liberating a fraternal brotherly nation. either he is doing this because he loves ukrainians or because he is motivated by a rising hatred and anger at their westward loving democracy, their resistance, and their refusal to come under russian control. and as an afterthought, a bullet to the head of ukraine's cultural hero. the great poet. not even statues are immune. amid all this destruction, the summary executions, the ukrainian flag flies proudly in the central square. for good measure, these ukrainian soldiers are pulling out a 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. in order to achieve that, jake, which is what they say they want to do and will do, many of the military analysts, whether in nato or around the world or the unite

. >> reporter: she stayed in bucha tracking their progress through borodianka just down the road. >>n 30 minutes later that there were tanks. >> reporter: your kids got through makariv like minutes before there were tanks there? >> yeah. >> at the time, natalia still thought the russians would never attack civilians but this was borodianka after the tanks came through. back in the basement -- >> we started getting to know each other. so, there were families with children, with dogs, with cats. we heard shots. they were nonstop shots. >> reporter: she and her mother slept on plastic chairs. at first, there was electricity and gas, though later she said both would be shut off. and there were lighter moments. natalia said she would sneak up to her mother's apartment only to use the bathroom. >> one of the biggest fears in my life in that moment was if i start doing my toilet procedures, if i just put down my trousers and they will -- would kill me. i just was afraid to die without my pants on. >> reporter: sometimes from the flat, she could see tanks coming down the street. she recalled

took him along the already standard tourist political route for all western leaders, better than borodiankas head and called for an international investigation into the killings of civilians. and by the way, also for and at the same time to end the war, of course, but nevertheless the fact that ukraine is losing. and the fact that it is a losing country, as it were, hints at the new cover of the time magazine there, the president of ukraine zelensky is depicted in black and white. for some reason, as if everything was already over for him, he arrived in ukraine after visiting moscow, it was precisely this after moscow that infuriated the nervous president of ukraine zelensky mistra kuleba very soon they will have to receive the secretary general, let's see in what mood. the secretary general in ukraine visits cities to north of the capital city of kiev, which was severely damaged during the russian invasion, he visits places that were subject to russian attacks and occupation, before meeting with president zelensky zelensky when we see this monstrous spectacle. this makes me feel the need f

destruction left in their wake. 0ur correspondent mark lowen has visited the towns of bucha and borodiankang to document evidence of war crimes committed by russian troops. his report contains upsetting details. ten more. the numbers, the mass graves, the contempt for life. some so badly charred, they're just the pieces for ukraine to pick up. the man and the inhuman. what happened here in bucha and elsewhere are not just sins, says ukraine, but war crimes. french investigators and other international teams are helping prepare a lawsuit against russia. ukraine's prosecutor general says they've already opened more than 6,000 cases. a lot of people speak about genocide of ukrainian people, and actually, they have all grounds to speak about genocide. vladimir putin himself, he is president of aggressor. do you believe you will ever see him judged in an international war crimes court? it is very important, actually. it's very important to the whole world to stop dictators. the challenge for prosecutors will be to establish a line of command from the grave to the top of the russian state, to sh

in this video circulating online, every building in borodianka appears heavily damages. the governor says the town is almost destroyed. in nearby bucha, this man says he was forced to live in the basement of his apartment building as russian soldiers moved into the apartments upstairs. he tells abc's james longman the russians made all the men go outside and check their pars everyone under age 50. he says his friends were murdered in front of him. >> you're 53, so you made it by three years. >> reporter: in mykolaiv in the south, ukrainian officials released video showing tside a . en went into gruesome detail about the alleged war crimes when he spoke to the u.n. security council yesterday. hours later, zelenskyy with a searing indictment of the u.n. itself, demanding the u.n. remove russia from the security council, saying otherwise, there will be only one institution left in the world to guarantee the security of states, namely, weapons. back here in washington, we've learned the u.s. military will now send another $100 million in javelin anti-tank missiles to the ukr

the town of borodianka outside kyiv was one of the places hardest hit.kraine's public broadcaster says around 13,000 people lived there before the invasion. it's now been almost completely destroyed. ukraine's prosecutor general said the devastation could be even worse than in bucha where images of dead bodies have shocked the world. russia's defense ministry said on thursday its forces had destroyed several petroleum storage bases. they were in the southern city of mykolaiv, zaporizhzhia in the southeast, and elsewhere. the western city of lviv is harboring around 200,000 evacuees. the mayor spoke to nhk on thursday. he said the city had accepted around 3,000 evacuees from the donetsk region on that day alone. >> we completely rebuild our school, theater, and thousand, thousand citizens host refugees in home. food, clothes, medical supplies very, very difficult item. >> he said more temporary houses are being prepared for around a thousand people. western leaders accuse russia of killing civilians across the country in what amounts to war crimes. meanwh

destruction left in their wake, 0ur correspondent, mark lowen, has visited the towns of bucha and borodianka to document evidence of war crimes committed by russian troops. his report contains upsetting details. ten more — the numbers, the mass graves, the contempt for life. some so badly charred, they're just the pieces for ukraine to pick up. the man and the inhuman. what happened here in bucha and elsewhere are notjust sins, says ukraine, but war crimes. french investigators and other international teams are helping prepare a lawsuit against russia. ukraine's prosecutor general says they've already opened more than 6,000 cases. a lot of people speak about genocide of ukrainian people, and actually, they have all grounds to speak about genocide. vladimir putin himself, he is president of aggressor. do you believe you will ever see him judged in an international war crimes court? it is very important, actually. it's very important to the whole world to stop dictators. the challenge for prosecutors will be to establish a line of command, from the grave to the top of the russian state, to sho

and there will be bucha, then borodianka, then gastormer, then irpin, then small big cities, two goalshem, which kostya, spoke about, to bring down any anti-war anti-war anti-m ukrainian anti-american movements that appear in europe which are those people who in they demand to europe don't drag our countries into confrontation diplomatic level at household level. that's the more these people will appear, who will rush at the russians for being russian, the more successful it will look. this is an american uh strategy, but ukrainians start to get american information yelling at europe, which they throw at people. and the most interesting thing is that the main thing is that it suddenly turns out that they are moving there, and they are doing everything , as it were, because you have not seen the czech republic. i saw a fool who said, they told me that in france, travel is free. well, let's let's see which transition was blocked by a paid one, although many volunteers claim to be brothers, they say that it is enough to show a ukrainian passport. and you can go anywhere, but it was not th

and the destruction is unbelievable in borodianka. it's a town of about 12,000 before the war. it was on that northwest axis between here and belarus. heavily shelled at the beginning of the war. and really people there have been living underground for the last five weeks. we saw heavy destruction. we did not see any bodies on the ground, which is of course really what was making a lot of headlines in bucha. we did meet a woman, hallie, though, named taisa. she's 80 years old. she told us her son was shot in the back by russian troops while he was walking away if & then she showed us where she had to bury him in her back yard, hallie. and there are so many stories like that, graves in back yards. there are still civilians who are living there, of course very nervous coming out. we were really kind of some of the first people they have seen since the ukrainian troops moved back in. but there is no humanitarian aid. but really a town like this, hallie is going to take years and years to rebuild. >> what was it like in those moments, molly, as you're coming across some of these pe

ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky has said the destruction in the town of borodianka, close to kyivered in nearby bucha, where bodies were found in the streets. meanwhile, moscow has dismissed allegations of war crimes as a "monstrous forgery." for now, moscow seems to be focusing its attention on eastern ukraine, specifically the donbas region. the bbc has witnessed hundreds of thousands of civilians fleeing that area, where separatists have been fighting for eight years. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale, reports now from lysycha nsk. 21st—century combat on ukraine's eastern front can look and sound more like something from the first world war. but they've been fighting russian—backed separatists this way for the past eight years. western officials say this is where ukraine has some of its best—trained and most battle—hardened troops. they're certainly not all young. from his dugout, 52—year—old anatoly says he can already see russian troops just 500 metres away. translation: if they try to take this position, i'll kill them. - if i don't kill them, they'll kill me. those

. >> reporter: crimes there are much more scary than borodianka. >> reporter: they killed numerous civilians and left behind utter destruction. >> there are no words to explain what i feel not as president of the european council but as father, as human being. these are atrocities. these are war crimes. it must be punished. it will be punished. >> european council president releasing that report by jim sciutto. 5 million people have fled this country in addition to 7 million displaced in ukraine. more people actually returned to ukraine than those who actually crossed into poland for the first time since the war began. >>> our next guest has seen this up close and personal. al aliceever stop and in terms of the coming weeks. >> unfortunately our expectations are the situation is going to get worse. we've seen the mass exodus is going to get worse. the needs are going to be greater. >> my im3regs is shelterbox provides relief and as this drags on and goes into months, are you transitioning into a longer time? >> we are. we're focusing on people who might be in a collective sense. we're provid

russian officers who were in command of these military units responsible for the destruction in borodianka cnn has geolocated this video from around kyiv that appears to show ukrainian forces executing a wounded russian soldier. how are ukrainian officials responding to this? or are they even responding to it? >> reporter: well, they are. but they're not. they're very not committal. what we see on this video is soldiers with ukrainian officials that appears to be after a firefight. there are four russian soldiers who are on the pavement. three have head wounds. a fourth appears to have blood pooling around his body, and he's gasping for air. and then a voice is heard in russian saying he's still alive. he's still breathing. at that point, one of the ukrainian soldiers, who appears to be an ukrainian soldier, shoots the body three times, two quick rounds and a third. the ukrainian officials are saying we haven't seen this video, we don't know if it's true, we'll investigate to find out if it happened. if it is what happened, if it's true, they'll take the appropriate course of action. the u

a building in borodianka. somebody was about to sit down to dinner.ne's jacket in the back still hanging on the hook by the front door. a picture of sudden destruction in vladimir putin's war. we have new evidence of just how indiscriminate and brutal that

there's been so much focus the last few days on the more errors being discovered around bucha, boro borodiankathings that is a warning. ku can you give us an update on the situation in donbas. >> thank you for having me. we have intelligence sources from ukrainian and western intelligence that russia is going to attack donbas region in the east, kharkiv and also in the south of ukraine. right now the russians occupied the whole region bordering annexed crimea. and mykolaiv, which is boarding kherson in the south. and we know of course we cannot -- russians left all the airports to try to attack kyiv. the mayor asks people not to rush coming back. if they go through the villages that were occupied, they can have a danger going through the mines and the territory where all the atrocities took place. but the city is only renewing and coming back to life. he is afraid if everyone comes there will be a lack of fuel and food and all the capacities to help the people. right now they can focus on donbas and other parts of ukraine. >> we heard the foreign minister asking for weapons, weapons, and weapo

christiane amanpour, cnn, borodianka. >> joining me now here in lviv is manual fontaine. thank you for coming in. >> thank you. >> well, the number of children impacted by this war, it really is staggering. the numbers which are coming out, 60% of all children in this country have been either internally displaced or are refugees right now. how do you deal with that? and what do they need? what's the impact, both short-term and long-term? >> imagine almost 2/3 of the child population of ukraine on the move. what they need is immediate protection, feel safe. but they need to continue with their lives, being educated and finding a safe place where to be and be accommodated a the moment. this is what they need. >> in the short-term, there obviously has to be consequences for that, and also over the long period of time. the long their goes on, the worse things come out. >> absolutely in term of their psycho social well-being. children have been marked by this violence, displaced. they're uprooted from their families in many cases, but also in their education. when children are

bucha irpin, borodianka, the little cities outside kyiv they destroyed completely.nd people were executed on the streets. there were so many civilian casualties. but now it two weeks now it is getting better and better. a lot of local people. a lot of people from the capital, a lot of people like us. we go there and we help them to clean up, to make it look a little bit better. of course a lot of buildings are still completely destroyed. but all the damaged russian tanks are gone. the first priority was to remove all the dead bodies and accountability of civilian casualties. so the process of rebuilding is slowly and ongoing. every single day we see it's getting a little bit better and better and better. so it's a good thing to see. >> it is for sure. and i've been amazed in all my time here at the resourcefulness as they respond to this and then turn things around. i want to ask you, because you are someone with genuine combat assistance in afghanistan. what is your view of the fighting so far? what worked around kyiv for ukrainian forces, and do you think that wil

reporter: in the war that russia has unleashed against ukraine, few places have suffered more than borodianka. occupied by vladimir putin, russians for a very long time. and just to give you an idea about the scale of the destruction you have houses like these that were completely destroyed. but if you look over here, you can see even large residential buildings have been flattened. this entire building was flattened. it was connected with this one before, but now there is absolutely nothing left of it. and the russians made sure to show they owned this town, painting the letter v on occupied buildings, even defacing borodyanka's administration building. v is the letter they used to show forces invaded this part of ukraine. oksana and her husband just returned here and found russian soldiers had been staying in their house. she says they ransacked the place. "alcohol is everywhere," she says. "empty bottles in the hallways under things. they smoked a lot, put out sinks on the table." they also showed us the corpse of a man they found in the backyard, his hands and feet tied, severe bruises on

and we are just getting our first look at some of the carnage in borodianka. as many as 200 bodies could be buried in the rubble here. when you look at this, you have seen this type of thing before. >> this yeah. this is very familiar. this is what sayrajevo looked like. they deprived it of food, fuel, humanitarian aid. the purpose was to terrorize the population. one of the things the snipers did was target children. because they knew adults might be willing to risk their own lives. but if their children started dropping dead in the street from snipers, that they would leave. that's what they were had he trying to do. . >> and what's the long-term impact of something like this? you know, this type of carnage, this type of destruction? >> well, it's incredibly traumatic to the entire national psyche. i mean, anyone witnessing these things is going to be scarred for life. it creates a paranoia in society because you can never assume you will be safe, okay. the same thing happened in kosovo, the same massacre, revenge massacres by military forces that had taken

the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said the situation in borodianka, a kyiv suburb, is much scarier than horrors in bucha. cnn is getting an exclusive look at how russian troops invaded chernobyl's radioactive zone. russian soldiers may have been exposed to unhealthy levels of radiation during the month-long occupation. phil black joins me in lviv with more on the train station attack in kramatorsk. i want to read this from french president macron. he said, quote, ukrainian civilians are fleeing the worst. the weapons, push chairs, teddy bears and suitcases. now dozens are dead. hundreds wounded. this is abominable. so what happens now? >> with russia planning a new imminent assault in the east, the ukrainians have no choice. they must encourage to encourage vast numbers of people to get out while they still can. today's attack proves the urgency. it also proves the risk, how dangerous it is to put your family on a train and get them to safety. this report has some very graphic images. we think it is important to show. >> for many who fear what is coming, kramatorsk station

bucha, irpin, borodianka, it's cruelty, actually, atrocity crimes, war crimes against humanity. we see they do the war no by rules at all. >> international condemnation was quick to come as brutality of that attack on the train station became apparent. french president emmanuel macron called it an abomination, all the victims had in their hands were push carts, teddy bears and suitcases. antonio guterres tweeted there must be with gross violation of internal humanitarian and human rights law. >> children's lives cut short. mothers, children, women and men bombed indiscriminately. what we are seeing there are crime scenes, international war crimes, being committed against a sovereign people who are simply fighting for dremocracy and their country. >>> the fate of pakistan's imran khan has been dogged recently by claims of mismanagement. and part of it is part of a u.s. conspiracy to push him out, something the u.s. denies. >>> still to come on "cnn newsroom," millions have fled to poland to escape the fighting in ukraine. we'll have a live report at the border just ahead. >>> plu

he specifically talked about borodianka.hearing about potential atrocities in that area and other areas. >> president zelenskyy is right. bucha is just one city. i'm responsible for humanitarian corridors. i can tell you, i can confirm, there hasn't been a single day where we could open a humanitarian corridor fully for women and children to escape. and today, in mariupol, people are dying. there are atrocities going on just as we speak in mariupol. putin is killing people there. 100,000 people in mariupol are dying as we speak. >> are you expecting that what we have seen in bucha is just the beginning? will we see other scenes like this? >> translator: we will see such atrocities in many more places if putin is not stopped. putin is a war criminal. he must be stopped. his army chiefs are responsible for war crimes, and they must be found. and they must be stopped. they must be an international effort to get them -- to hold them accountable in an international criminal court. if we don't do this together, then ukraine will h

you see some of the pictures here we filmed in borodianka earlier today.a lot of destroyed russian tanks. there's essentially two narratives that i think are becoming crystal clear as this war drags on, and one of them is the fact the russians got beaten badly by the ukrainian military. you see some destroyed russian military vehicles right there, and in many cases got beaten very, very badly. and then the fact many civilians were harmed in all this. and that's something i think you're going to see a lot more of in the coming days. so russia certainly at least here around the kyiv area has lost at least the battles here. and in the meantime they've also caused a lot of harm to civilians as well, jake. >> and matt, you've walked through the remains of family homes after they were hit by russian air strikes. how does the kremlin explain attacks by civion civilianess t are so clearly obviously happening? >> what the kremlin does is a strategy we've seen it adopt whenever it's accused of maligned activity for the past several years. whether it's meddling in am

and after visiting the cities of bucha and borodianka, the top prosecutor declared ukraine a crime scenekhan said the world has seen horrific crimes many times before but failed to stop them from happening again. he hopes this time it's different. >> the indications are that there will be support not just for ukraine, but across the situations, this great realization that a common front needs to be built based upon legality because it affects ukraine, but it affects all parts of the world because of the rules-based system and the principles of public international law that have to be rendered much more meaningful not to judges in gowns or advocates in the courtroom, but to the men and women and children that you see on the streets and refugee camps that are completely innocent and that suffer horrendous crimes time and time and time again. and we tend to have not any short memories, but also an absence of shame that we then wait for hostility and we look at lessons learned. we wait for crimes in different parts of the world and say never again, and we see again time and time again that i