correspondent ali rogin has the latest on the devastating toll from the ongoing russian attacks. >> inir and on land, russian forces are regrouping in the east, leaving destruction in their path, shelling the northeastern city of kharkiv. on friday, officials say seven people were killed, including a seven-month-old baby, and 15-year-old boy, artem shevchenko. >> let me see him! my baby. my golden sunshine. we just spoke today. my dear, why should i live, if you are gone? >> overnight, the russian defense ministry said it also hit industrial targets in cities from which troops already withdrew. >> productn buildings of a tank factory in kyiv and heavy armour maintenance facilities in mykolaiv were destroyed with air-launched high-precision weapons. 16 enemy targets were struck by high-precision air-launched missiles during the night. ali: in the southeast, russia says it has driven all ukrainian forces out of the port city of mariupol, and only a small amount remain in a steel mill. in the eastern donbas region of luhansk, civilians dodged russian shelling in a town center. in his nigh

correspondent ali rogin has our report. ubway station platform in kyiv, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy held a rare, two-hour press conference. he announced a sunday visit by the secretaries of state and defense, antony blinken and lloyd austin. u.s. officials would not confirm it. zelenskyy said they should not come empty-handed. pres. zelenskyy: we are waiting not for just presents or cakes, we are expecting specific things and specific weapons. ali: zelenskyy said that in besieged mariupol, russia quickly reversed its decision not to storm a steel plant where fighters and civilians sheltered. pres. zelenskyy: when the president of the russian federation was talking, and he said there is a citadel there, that we will not be advancing. and, two hours later after that, the air strikes happened. ali: zelenskyy said ukraine is still fighting back. but russia insists they have control, falsely claiming they've “liberated” mariupol's residents. mr. konashenkov: the situation in mariupol is normal. city residents can free

producer and videographer abdel razaq el shami calls idlib home, and he worked with our own ali rogino bring us th report. ali: i thousand miles from ukraine, syrians in idlib province commemorated 11 years of war, perpetuated by a common enemy, vladimir putin. for much of the last decade, putin's punishing air campaign has propped up syrian president bashar al-assad, and his murderous campaign against his own people. >> of course there is one criminal, whether in russia, ukraine or syria, and that is putin. it was putin himself that targeted hospitals and schools, infrastructure and educational buildings in syria and in ukraine. ali: idlib's people are under constant threat of russian airstrikes. but their province is the only one still controlled by anti-assad rebels and islamist insurgents. after 11 years of war, sparked by peaceful protests against the arrest of teenage graffiti artists who were inspired by the arab spring. the demonstrations began in march 2011 and were met with vicious force. the crackdown grew into a full-on civil war, pitting levels, including military defecto

correspondent ali rogin has our report. after russia struck the kramatorsk train station, survivors are processing what happened. 17-year-old nastyatill bears blood from the attack. >> i remember a really loud noise and there was something landing, shells or rockets. everybody hit the ground. that's all, a nightmare, everhing starts to burn, everyone was panicking. ali: the strike killed at least 50 people with many more wounded still in the hospital. overnight, ukrainian president zelenskyy condemned moscow's strike and demanded accountability. pres. zelenskyy: we expect a firm, global response to this war crime. like the massacre in bucha, like many other russian war crimes, the missile strike on kramatorsk must be one of the charges at the tribunal. ali: residents of the kyiv suburb of bucha today returned to a city scarred by atrocity. >> we will never be able to rget this. what we have seen here, these pictures, will be carved into our minds for the rest of our lives. ali: despite the ongoing russian attacks, civilians

ali rogin has a look back at how recent presidents have dealt with that question, and what lessons thetration learned from them. ali: as ukraine's eastern donbas region prepares for a renewed russian offensive, the u.s. announced another transfer of weapons to ukraine from its own reserves, this time including heavy weapons. >> they will be facing russian forces that are familiar with the territory in that part of ukraine. ali: eight years ago, russia first invaded eastern ukraine, and the face of u.s. policy in ukraine was vice president joe biden. during the obama administration, biden made six visits to ukraine. but before the invasion, he was focused on anti-corruption reformdemocracy, and the so-called reset with russia. >> we're working, as you know, mr. president, to reset our relationship with russia. but i assure you and all ukrainian people that it will not come at ukraine's expense. ali: but then in 2014, putin invaded and annexed crimea, and started the brutal war in the donbas. the u.s. imposed targeted sanctions, pushed for a diplomatic solution, and provided nonlethal ai

military is targeting civilians but as russian troops pull back from those areas, correspondent ali rogineports they are scorching the earth behind them. >> in the wake of russia's withdrawal, a trail of death. in the town of bucha, hundreds of bodies la in mass graves. on the roads, what ukrainian officials say is evidence of war crimes. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy was explicit. >> indeed, this is genocide. >> secretary of state antony blinken would not go as far. do you see this as genocide? >> we will look hard and document everything we see. put it all together. >> as they return to towns deserted but destroyed by russia, ukraine forces received a warm welcome. >> we prayed. we asked god to give our warriors, our defenders health and god's protection. >> ukrainian and western officials say russia is shifting its forces and focus from the north and capital region to the south and east. >> we think this is redeployment . they are changing the tactics w. >> in the port city of odessa today, residents woke up to a russian attack on an oil facity. >> this is not a good morning

alie ourselves with those who believe in freedom and independence. and i think that the current administration is doing what it needs to be doing. >> i want to bring in josh roginist and cnn political analyst. josh, what do you think about what the former president said? >> well, brianna, to be clear, the blame for what's going on in ukraine lies on putin squarely and russia, not on any u.s. administration. at the same time, if we don't understand the mistakes of history, then we're doomed to repeat them. and we have to be honest about how we got into this situation. part of that were bad mistakes made by administrations on both sides including the obama administration. let's remember that in 2008 putin invaded georgia and 2009 the first thing the obama administration does was order a reset with russia. and in 2014 when putin annexed crimea and invaded ukraine what the obama administration did is they worked to pressure ukraine into making a deal that didn't remove russia from eastern ukraine. at the time those decisions seemed rational, but lessons that putin learned is if he pursues aggression that eventually the united states will back down and let him get s