laura jarrett is off this morning. laura jarrett is in lviv, ukraine. begin here in new york where it was an ordinary morning commute that tushds rned sudden into a war zone. you can see passengers rushing the door in a panic after a gunman set off a smoke grenade in a crowded subway

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laura jarrett is off this morning. laura jarrett is in lviv, ukraine. we begin here in new york where it was an ordinary morning commute that tushds rned sudden into a war zone. you can see passengers rushing the door in a panic after a gunman set off a smoke grenade in a crowded subway car and started shooting randomly. police say he fired 33 times striking 10 people. >> there were shots fired. she said i'm pregnant with a baby. >> his leg was all covered with blood. i asked him. is this your blood? are you bleeding? he didn't say anything then i realized the floor entirely was covered with blood. then i got it that somebody is shooting. >> nearby hospitals. >> this morning a manhunt underway. police are calling a person of interest. that very van was found among the belongings. cnn's jason carroll is live on the scene in brooklyn. jason, it has been a chaotic 20 hours or so. tell us what the latest is. >> reporter: well, it's fair to say at this point they are actively looking at a man identified as a person of interest. frank james. 62 years old. inv

i'm laura jarrett here in new york. christine romans has the day off. brianna keilar continues our live coverage in ukraine. what's the latest there? >> reporter: laura, ukraine's president is now warning that the atrocities in borodianka will be worse than found in nearby bucha. crews in borodianka are digging through rubble. they are searching for bodies. how many they do not know. 26 bodies were found in the wreckage of just two large houses there and a source telling cnn german -- telling cnn that german intelligence claims to have intercepted radio transmissions of russian troops talking about indiscriminately killing civilians, that they are on tape talking about this. in the meantime ukraine's foreign minister says the battle for donbas is underway as fighting is shifting to the eastern part of the country. the u.s. has committed tens of thousands more weapons to ukraine. this includes anti-armor systems and suicide drones. let's talk more about the big picture here with cnn's phil black. phil, i think we look at some of what we're seeing in borod

i'm laura jarrett here in new york. christine romans has the day off.est there? >> reporter: laura, ukraine's president is now warning that the atrocities in borodianka will be worse than found in nearby bucha. crews in borodianka are digging through rubble. they are

i'm christine romans. >> i'm laura jarrett.er: this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning to viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, april 1st. i'm john berman in lviv in western ukraine. brianna keilar is in washington. we do have breaking news. reports of a ukrainian strike inside russia. we want to show you some new video. it shows a fire at a fuel depot near the ukrainian border in

i'm laura jarrett. christine has the morning off.ws out of ukraine this morning. new russian attacks on train stations in central and western ukraine. the head of the country's rail system says five stations were hit. there are casualties. at least one of those stations near lviv. we will have more in a live report from there in just a moment. >>> also we are following a short time ago two biden cabinet secretaries talking about their visit to ukraine's capital

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i'm laura jarrett. nice to be back with you. >> nice to have you back. i'm christine romans. brianna keilar is with us in lviv, ukraine. good morning, brianna. >> good morning, laura and christine. russia is 50 days into the russian invasion. it was met with fierce resistance by ukraine. now the battle is entering a critical new stage as vladimir putin has revised his strategy. russia could be relaunching a large scale offensive to conquer the donbas region in the next few days. new threats by the kremlin warning if ukrainian attacks on russian territory continue, russian armed forces will strike decision-making centers, including kyiv. also new this morning, conflicting reports on what happens when one of russia's most important navy warships, these were taken before ukraine said its missile hit this ship. hours later russia said it was an on board fire. cnn has been unable to verify the claims. in the men time the u.s. is ramping up commitments to help ukraine sending an additional $800 million and rushing ahead of time. cnn's matt rivers is here to talk about this. this shi

i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. brianna keilar is in ukraine. breaking news this morning. brianna? >> laura and christine, beginning with breaking news. the western part of ukraine is under attack. officials say air defense officials say they shot down missiles in borodakiv. the situation in mariupol is worsening with no light, heat, medicine or water as heavy airstrikes pound the city. even as russia sticks to the story that the troops are not targeting civilian homes or infrastructure, things we know to be untrue. this security footage shows the moment that an ambulance parked outside of a children's hospital in mikolaiv was hit by an artillery shell on monday. it is images like these, horrible images like these along with sickening pictures emerging out of bucha that left president vold mer zelenskyy outraged when he addressed the u.n. security cou council. today president biden will speak to the council. what are we expecting? >> so, brianna, let's talk about the fighter jet attacks overnight. what we've seen is that these are being shot down

i'm laura jarrett in for christi paul. a lot to get to this morning, but we begin with a russian attack on a key port city in ukraine. and new images reflecting the brutality of this russian invasion. you can see explosions hitting the black sea port o

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i'm laura jarrett. christine romans has the morning off.begin of course in ukraine with russian attacks intensifying in the east. ukraine's armed forces admitted a short time ago they have now lost several towns and villages as heavy fighting rages on. three fronts in the region. ukraine says russian troops are being reinforced from bases inside russia. something putin's forces could not do during their failed

i'm laura jarrett. nice to be back with you. >> nice to have you back. i'm christine romans.anna keilar is with us in lviv, ukraine. good morning, brianna. >> good morning, laura and christine. russia is 50 days into the russian invasion. it was met with fierce resistance by ukraine. now the battle is entering a critical new

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cnn's laura jarrett joins me now.n collins say she would be in support of judge jackson. romney, murkowski were a wild card. murkowski is the most interesting because she perhaps has the most to lose. she's up for re-election. she knows this is a risky vote but doing it any ways. these are votes of conscious instead of political choices. murkowski says her support of judge jackson rests on her qualification, which no one questions. she also says she's concerned about the corrosive politicization of the supreme court process which i also think anybody who has watched these hearings in recent years also wouldn't question. she said she decided only after a phone call with her this weekend. so sort of a last-minute game-time decision there. and she understands that, you know, some may view this as sort of a risky, political choice but it's a choice that she's willing to make. >> she went out and said it with words. mitt romney i felt like alluded to all of it in his statement. >> he did. but his was a little more sort of

i'm laura jarrett. christine romans has the morning off. we begin of course in ukraine with russian attacks intensifying in the east. ukraine's armed forces admitted a short time ago they have now lost several towns and villages as heavy fighting rages on. three fronts in the region. ukraine says russian troops are being reinforced from bases inside russia. something putin's forces could not do during their failed assault on far away kyiv. russia, however, is failing in the air. the uk now says ukraine has retained control of the majority of its air space. russia unable to conquer ukraine's air force or its air defenses despite having more planes in the sky. there is also new evidence emerging from bucha showing russian forces were indeed operating in the exact locations where the bodies of civilians were found after russia's retreat. isa soares is on the ground in ukraine for us. isa, good morning. russia has repeatedly denied that its troops had anything do with all the atrocities that we saw, but of course the pictures don't lie. >> pict

i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. breaking news. >>> good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, april 27th, i'm john berman with brianna keilar. breaking news, word just in of an expanding war, possibly inside russia. and economically for the first time in a new way over the border into nato countries. >>> first, russian state media reports explosions in three separate regions inside russia, this is a picture of one of them. let me show you where these regions are on the map. over on the big map you can see where they are over the border into russia. i can push in here, you can see at least one of the sites several hundred miles inside the border, included is an ammunition dump near belgorod. the russians have claimed ukrainian attacks before to somehow try to portray themselves as victims, however, if there is any truth in this it could represent an expanding reach of ukrainian power. now, on the other hand, russia is escalating its economic attacks into the west,

. >> and i'm laura jarrett. brianna keilar is in lviv, ukraine, for us. brianna, good morning. what's the latest there? >> reporter: good morning to you. we are actually under air raid alert here in the lviv region. it was just -- we just heard sirens here moments ago and this is the case -- i'm actually looking at a map right now of all of ukraine and almost every region is under an air raid alert, which is something that is pretty unusual here for recent days. in the meantime, and perhaps connected, a major setback for russia this morning, a huge blow to the country's military and to its morale. the sinking of a key russian war ship, the moskva which ukraine claims they hit with neptune missiles, cnn can't independently confirm what caused the daniel to the ship but, remember, this is the same ship that attacked snake island, was part that have attack on day one of this invasion that spawned that famous saying cursed out by ukrainian soldiers on the island who said russian warship go f yourself, now commemorated on a stamp with that phrase as well. in an interview ukraine's n

i'm laura jarrett in for christi paul. a lot to get to this morning, but we begin with a russian attack on a key port city in ukraine. and new images reflecting the brutality of this russian invasion. you can see explosions hitting the black sea port of odesa. the russian ministry of defense today confirmed a strike on an oil refinery and fuel storage facility, as a cnn team witnessed the aftermath of that strike. >> meantime, we're told ukrainian forces are retaking areas around the capital of kyiv. and we're getting a closer look at the horrific aftermath of russia's invasion. and we want to warn you, these images are graphic, and they may be disturbing to some. this is coming from the town of bucha, northwest of kyiv. images show the bodies of at least 20 men, civilians, laying in the street, left behind. some had their hands tied behind their backs. bu bucha's mayor says they were shot dead by russian forces. a member of ukraine's parliament is reacting to these images. listen. >> i have seen these bodies with my own e

i'm laura jarrett in new york. >> i'm amara walker in atlanta. boris and christi are off. his morning in the midwest where the governor of kansas has declared a state of emergency after a string of powerful tornadoes. >> holy. >> look at that. >> oh my god. >> oh my gosh. >> oh my gosh. >> you can hear the oh my goshes there. at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. authorities say at least one touched down in the wichita area, damaging homes, cars

i'm laura jarrett in new york. >> i'm amara walker in atlanta. boris and christi are off. ura, great to be with you. >> always great to see you. >>> we begin this morning in the midwest where the governor of kansas has declared a state of emergency after a string of powerful tornadoes. >> holy. >> look at that. >> oh my god. >> oh my gosh. >> oh my gosh. >> you can hear the oh my goshes there. at least 14 tornadoes were reported across kansas and nebraska. authorities say at least one touched down in the wichita area, damaging homes, cars and at least 52 buildings. >> in andover, officials say most of the roads are closed but the fire chief says it will take longer to figure out the damage in his city. >> unfortunately we've been through this before. and it will be years that we'll be recovering from this. >> years. cnn meteorologist allison chinchar joins us now. allison, at least 40 million people are still under the threat of severe storms. how many days are we talking about before things get better here? >> it's a great question because it's going to be a multiday event

laura jarrett and christine romans are off today. changing tactics to take the beseenged city of mariupol. the russian government saying it is no longer necessary to storm the steel plant where the last remaining ukrainian troops are bunkered. putin is ordering a blockade instead. ukraine's president zelenskyy says his forces don't have enough heavy weapons to beat the russians there. four buses o

i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. brianna keilar is in lviv, ukraine. what's the latest?ld odymyr zelenskyy saying this may be just the beginning. the number of victims may be much higher in other cities around kyiv now liberated from russian control. and a warning now that much of this video is graphic and disturbing. in bucha alone, zelenskyy said more than 300 people were killed and counting. russia will try to cover up the violence committed in bucha and elsewhere. on cue russia claiming

i'm laura jarrett in for christi paul this weekend. >> good morning, laura, always great to be with youboris sanchez. we thank you so much for spending part of your saturday morning with us. >> always great to spend time with you, boris. appreciate you having me. we begin this morning with russia saying it struck a major oil refinery in central ukraine today. the move comes on the heels of new video showing what could be the first ukrainian air strike on russian territory since the start of the invasion. russia says a ukrainian helicopter struck a fuel depot in belgorod. ukraine, though, won't confirm or deny its forces carried out the attack. >> meantime, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy said russia is prepare to carry out more air strikes in eastern ukraine. zelenskyy says russian troops are gradualing withdrawing. listen. >> translator: the occupiers are withdrawing forces in the north of the country. the withdrawal is slow but noticeable. somewhere they are expelled with battles. somewhere, they leave positions on their own. >> meantime, pope francis says he may go to ukraine

laura jarrett and christine romans are off this morning. ukrainian forces holding the line in morning on at least two fronts but for how long? ukraine's troops have repelled numerous advances by russian forces in donbas even as russian shelling escalates. the u.s. says ukraine had years to prepare trenches for ambushes in the east. he's begging world leaders to work together to get them out. joining me now from lviv, cnn's john wass. good morning. russia's defense ministry says he's allowing a cease-fire. do we think russia will honor that? what's been the ukrainian response? >> the ukrainians don't think the russians will honor that, kristin. they are saying, no, they'll continue to fight. whether you call it a cease-fire, an ultimatum, the russians have been putting this ultimatum out there. there was one sunday, monday and one today. the fighters inside the steel facility are refusing to lay down their weapons, they're tying up thousands of troops. preventing mariupol from falling and they're stopping the russians from creating that land

i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. brianna keilar is in lviv, ukraine. what's the latest? >> vold odymyr zelenskyy saying this may be just the beginning. the number of victims may be much higher in other cities around kyiv now liberated from russian control. and a warning now that much of this video is graphic and disturbing. in bucha alone, zelenskyy said more than 300 people were killed and counting. russia will try to cover up the violence committed in bucha and elsewhere. on cue russia claiming ukrainian's fake video in the street after russian troops left the area. objects from this march 18th satellite view exactly match the locations of bodies that are seen in the video. journalists from around the world are on the ground in bucha as witnesses to this horror. here's dan rivers. >> reporter: the gateway to bucha, there are the mangled remains of russian vehicles and the blown bridge which marks the extent of their advance and nearby the burnt bodies of soldiers killed here by a ukrainian counter. dated russian machinery was pitted against the latest western supplied

laura jarrett and christine romans are off today.ces have started what one ukrainian official calls the second phase of the war. the battle for donbas in the east. here's the ukrainian official addressing his people a short time ago. >> translator: russian forces have started the battle for donbas. a considerable amoun t

welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christineukraine. what are you seeing today? >> good morning to both of you. heavy shelling underway this morning in eastern ukraine. officials say that heavy fire is concentrated around kharkiv in the north east and liuhansk

laura jarrett and christine romans are off today. vladimir putin could be changing tactics to take the beseenged city of mariupol. the russian government saying it is no longer necessary to storm the steel plant where the last remaining ukrainian troops are bunkered. putin is ordering a blockade instead. ukraine's president zelenskyy says his forces don't have enough heavy weapons to beat the russians there. four buses of civilians managed to leave on wednesday. let's go live to ukraine with cnn's isa soares. isa, good morning. what more do we know about the standoff in mariupol? >> reporter: good morning to you, kristin. let me bring viewers up to date on what we've heard in the last hour or so. vladimir putin has congratulated his defense minister, these are his words, that mariupol has been liberated. so successful deliberation. let's take those words with a pinch of salt here. there is a last hope of resistance and that steel plant which is huge, a huge complex, by the way. we know from some of the ukrainian people there they hav

i'm laura jarrett. >> i'm christine romans. brianna keilar is in ukraine. king news this morning. brianna? >> laura and christine, beginning with breaking news. the western part of ukraine is under attack. officials say air defense officials say they shot down missiles

i'm laura jarrett in for christi paul this weekend. >> good morning, laura, always great to be with yourning with us. >> always great to spend time with you, boris. appreciate you having me. we begin this morning with

. >> i'm laura jarrett. have a great holiday he can weekend to everyone. "new day" >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is friday, april 15th, and i'm brianna keilar in lviv, ukraine with john berman in new york. a barrage of strikes hours after a russian warship sinks. a warship the ukrainians claim to have hit with a missile. the sinking of the moskva would be an enormous achievement for the russian military and devastating setback for the "war machine". they call it plausible and possible. overnight the russian military claimed it struck a military facility with a crews missile. russian forces are also rapidly building their presence in eastern ukraine. widespread shelling already being reported in the region. there are reports of active hostilities and shelling around izium and kharkiv, as russian troops continue their advance towards the donbas region, prompting a chilling warning from william burns, saying the potential for russia to use tactical or low yield weapons in ukraine cannot be take

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

i'm laura jarrett. >> "new day" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning to viewers in the u.s. and around the world. it is thursday april 14th. ukraine and the world are bracing for a large-scale russian attack on the donbas region. the kremlin making it clear that the goal is to conquer. they are expecting the offensive to begin within days. the russian military threatening to strike decision-making centers, including those in the capital. there is so much devastation and heartache in ukraine. this next video is a prime example. it is so hard to watch. a ukrainian mother near kyiv discovering the body of her missing son, dumped in a shallow well by retreating russian forces . we are told the woman was able to identify her son by his shoes. >> there are contradicting reports this morning about a russian warship in the black sea that had to be evacuated. we're not talking about any ship. we believe this is the flagship of the black sea fleet. it has been able to wreak havoc on ukraine. the kremlin said there was some kind of fire on the ship. ukrainians say t

. >> and i'm laura jarrett. brianna keilar is in lviv, ukraine, for us. brianna, good morning.s the latest there? >> reporter: good morning to you. we are actually under air raid alert here in the lviv region. it was just -- we just heard sirens here moments ago and this is the case -- i'm actually looking at a map right now of all of ukraine and almost every region is under an air raid alert, which is something that is pretty unusual here for recent days.

laura jarrett and christine romans are off this morning.the line in morning on at least two fronts but for how long? ukraine's troops have repelled numerous advances by russian forces in donbas even as russian shelling escalates. the u.s. says ukraine had years to prepare trenches for ambushes in the east.

joining me now is retired officer jillian snyder and attorney at law and "early start" anchor, laura jarrett. look, he called the tip line himself. what does that tell you? >> there's a lot of reasons he may have done that, honestly. maybe he felt there would be vigilanteism. 10 million eyes on him. maybe he was scared for his own safety and thought he would be safer in capture. . >> a short subway ride from where the crime took place. why is it you think he didn't try to flee? . >> miss photo was everywhere. this made international news, honestly. my brother-in-law called me from france to make sure we are okay. people know what happened. people recognize him. and i think he knew we were okay. . >> it sounds like you're saying the way law enforcement went about capturing him had a big impact in the way this all happened. >> they disseminated information in realtime. they put it out to the public. they wanted them to be involved and on the lookout. and i think the way the nypd and the fbi handled this is outstanding. . >> counselor, explain to me the charges that he faces. this is something

laura jarrett and christine romans are off today.ssian forces have started what one ukrainian official calls the second phase of the war. the battle for donbas in the east. here's the ukrainian official addressing his people a short time ago. >> translator: russian forces have started the battle for donbas. a considerable amount of the russian forces are concentrated and focused on that offensive. no matter how many russian service men they're bringing into that area, we will keep on fighting and defending and we will be doing this daily. >> at the same time ukrainian forces are struggling to hold out in the southeastern port city of mariupol after they rejected a russian deadline to surr surrender. this shows women and children sheltering inside a steel plant there. ukraine says russian forces are firing on the plant willingly despite knowing there are civilians inside. our coverage begins with cnn's ed lavandera with kyiv, ukraine. good morning, ed. what do we know about these recent movements of russian forces and what are ukraini

i'm laura jarrett. christine has the morning off. so glad that you are with me this morning. and we begin with breaking news. ukrainian forces repelling stepped up russian strikes in the country's south and the east. ukraine's military claims six russian attacks were pushed back over the last 24 hours. meantime russian troops have taken control of the kherson city council, armed men entered the building and took the keysed a replaced our guards with their own. and right now defense secretary lloyd austin is at the ham stein air base meeting with nato allies and the u.n. secretary-general is in moscow where he will meet with russian president vladimir putin. our coverage this morning begins on the ground if ukraine with isa soares live in lviv. what do we know about ukrainian forces pushing back against the russian offensive now? >> reporter: good morning to you, laura. let me give you a sense of what we have seen in the overnight hours, that russian offensive pushing further east as well as south. we've seen intense and nonstop shelling really from the russian side overnight.

i'm laura jarrett. christine has the morning off. and we begin with breaking news out of ukraine this morning. new russian attacks on train stations in central and western ukraine. the head of the country's rail system says five stations were hit. there are casualties. at least one of those stations near lviv. we will have more in a live report from there in just a moment. >>> also we are following a short time ago two biden cabinet secretaries talking about their visit to ukraine's capital. secretary of state antony blinken and lloyd austin, the first to visit since the war began. blinken looking to establish a diplomatic presence in ukraine. >> we will have american diplomats in ukraine next week. they will then start the process of looking at how we actually reopen the embassy itself in kyiv. i think that will take place over a couple of weeks would be my expectation. we're doing it carefully. we're doing it with the security of our personnel foremost in mind, but we're doing it. >> secretary austin talked about the thing ukraine

. >> i'm laura jarrett in for christi paul this morning.e begin with the latest developments in ukraine. russia says it struck a major oil refinery in central ukraine storing fuel for ukrainian troops. there could be the first ukrainian air strike. a strike by ukrainian continues caused a huge fire. they won't deny they carried out the attack. >> in the meantime volodymyr zelenskyy says they're prepared to carry out more air strikes. as russian troops are withdrawing from northern parts. listen. >> the occupiers are with drawing forces in the north of our country. the withdrawal is small, but noticeable. somewhere they are expelled with battles. somewhere they leave positions on their own. >> now as russian troops pull out of some areas, we take a closer look at some of the carnage left behind. some of the images are disturbing. >> you can see from the driver capturing footage that there are bodies littering the road, left lying in the street where they fell. it's unclear at this point whether these bodies are civilians or military official

i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >>> it is friday april 8th. i'm john berman in new york. brianna keilar is in lviv in western ukraine. we have breaking news in eastern ukraine. russian forces have had a missile attack on a train station here tin kramatorsk. 30 people killed, including children. 100 more injured. we're told you can see bodies lying on the ground with their suitcases right next to them. these people trying to get out of the war-torn region. the ukrainian officials say they knew what they were hitting. i want to show you images from just four days ago. look at this. you can see how packed this train station has been. imagine what it would be like in a missile strike now. ukrainian officials say russian forces are planning for air huge breakthrough attempt in that part of the country, in donbas in eastern ukraine. the preparations are nearing completion. residents being urged to get out. no doubt that's what the people at the train station that

i'm in for christi paul, and i'm laura jarrett. >>> we start with a russian attack on a key city in ukraine and new influences showing the brutality of the russian invasion. here you can see the black seaport of odesa. a russian department of defense confirm as strike on an oil refinery and fuel storage facility. a cnn team was there and witnessed the aftermath of the attack. >> also a closer look at the horrific scene left by russian troops as they withdrew from the town of bucha. a word of caution here. these images are really graphic and disturbing. pictures show bodies of at least 20 civilian men, these are human beings, laying in the street. some had their hands tied behind their backs. the town's mayor said they were shot in the back of the head execution-style by russian forces. a member of parliament said she was stunned by the brutality. >> i have seen these bodies with my own eyes. i have seen the destruction, and this is something that i have never seen before in my life. we will work on fixing the destructions, but we cannot possibly return people who were killed. i cannot even

. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >> good morning to viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, april 1st. i'm john berman in lviv in western ukraine. brianna keilar is in washington. we do have breaking news. reports of a ukrainian strike inside russia. we want to show you some new video. it shows a fire at a fuel depot near the ukrainian border in bell going rod. this was attacked by two ukrainian helicopters flying in at low altitude. cnn cannot confirm this claim. we were told there were no victims. but this would be a very significant development and an extraordinary counterattack by the ukrainians. russians have been attacking ukraine's fuel depos for weeks. >>> also this morning, new attacks in the donbas region in eastern ukraine. russia conditions to prioritize military operations in the separatist controlled area. >> translator: the situation in the southern direction and in the donbas remains extremely difficult.

i'm laura jarrett. nice to be back with you. >> and i'm christine romans.ur coverage begins with vladimir putin sending a not so subtle message to the west if not the entire world. five russian missiles fired at kyiv just afte

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 of mariupol. local and u.s. officials confirming the report is unconfirmed. president zelenskyy says the possibility should be taken seriously. we begin on the ground with this report from fred pleitgen near the capitol. >> reporter: the tour is a sad routine for the body collectors in the outskirts of kyiv. finding corpses has become eas eerily normal here. >> a body burned beyond recognition. a mangled car wreck. two bodies burned beyond recognition. a house that wasccupied by russian troops. an elderly woman dead in

. >> i'm laura jarrett. "new day" starts right now. >> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. >>> good morning to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is wednesday, april 6th. and i'm brianna keilar in kraeurpb with john berman in new york. we begin with breaking news. explosions heard overnight in western lviv, about 45 miles from her, 75 kilometers. barely 50 miles from the polish border, which of course is nato territory. two suspected russian cruise missiles were downed last night before they could do any damage. this is happening as ukraine is bracing for the next phase of russia's ruthless war. they are expected to regroup after a series of devastating setbacks and to shift his focus on the donbas region. his goal, taking it over. if it materializes, it could last months, if not years. president zelenskyy turning up the pressure on the west. he is demanding that the united nations do more to protect ukraine, showing the u.n. security council a graphic video of russia's atrocities an

i'm laura jarrett in new york. christine has the day off. brianna keilar is live in lviv, ukraine. ianna, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, laura. we're beginning with breaking news. overnight we've learned three cruise missiles were shot down near zaporizhzhia. our cnn team on the ground heard what sounded like antiaircraft and one loud explosion. this is as people are being told to get out. ukrainian officials also accusing the russian forces of using mobile cream ma tore yums to burn bodies to hide evidence of war crimes. cnn cannot verify these claims. coming from local officials. president biden vowing to rachet up the pain on president putin with new sanctions. zelenskyy praising the move while also saying it isn't enough. >> translator: if there is no really painful package of sanctions for russia, there is no supply of weapons to us, weapons which we have asked for, this will be considered by russia as permission, the green light to go forward to start a new bloody wave of attacks in donbas. >> we're also getting a bird's eye view of new drone video we're seeing here.

i'm in for christi paul, and i'm laura jarrett. >>> we start with a russian attack on a key city in ukraineof defense confirm as strike on an oil refinery and fuel storage facility. a cnn team was there and witnessed the aftermath of the attack. >> also a closer look at the horrific scene left by russian troops as they withdrew from the town of bucha. a word o