special envoy to fly to moskow. vehicles showed vehicles, now just the burns are there and new disturbing images from a town also near kyiv. it shows a number of bodies along a roadway including one person who appears to have bip on a bicycle. it's not clear whether the bodies are civilian or military. bucha is another town where the military retook from russian forces. it says the refinery was attacked by three russian airplanes around 6:00 a.m. local time and russia says it also struck military airfields using high precision air based missiles. that comes amid questions over the attack on a fuel depot in the russian city of belegrad. ukraine won't confirm or deny if it played any role in the attack. we have more now from cnn's fred pleitgen. >> reporter: it could be a brazen and bold counter attack by the ukrainians. this social media video seeming to show two attack helicopters penetrating russian territory and firing at an oil depot setting the facility ablaze. the russian military publicly acknowledging the inc

the question is when will moskow reach that point?peace talks between russia and ukraine actually unfold one possibility on the table is that ukraine becomes a neutral state. first explain to us what that exactly means, and is that a good idea? and would that really ensure peace in the region? >> well, the russians one of their demands is that ukraine be neutral. and president zelenskyy has said he's prepared to move away from ukraine's ambition to join nato. ukrainian negotiators last week said that they were prepared to accept neutrality. that would be non-bloc status of ukraine, no ukrainian forces, however ukraine has said for that kind of nuclear ukraine they would want firm security guarantees there would not be future invasion. and that's where it gets a little bit difficult because some ukrainians suggested what they're looking for is something like the article 5 guarantee in the nato treaty. that's an article where it says an attack against one would be considered an attack against all. at this point i'm not sure there are ma

moskow isn't too happy about the $800 million military aid package the u.s. just sent to ukraine. two sources tell cnn russia sent a diplomatic message warning of consequences should that support continue. here's why they're angry. this latest package includes more heavy-duty weaponry than the previous aid. including helicopters, small drones called switch blades or kamikaze killer drones that can target russian soldiers and armored vehicles and for the first time howitzers. ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy spoke exclusively with cnn's jake tapper. >> all the world, all the countries have to be worried because it can be not real information but it can be true because when they began to speak about one or another battles involved enemies or nuclear weapons or some chemical issues, chemical weapons they could do it. they can -- for them life of people is nothing. >> zelenskyy's warning follows a similar concern by america's cia director, but u.s. officials say they see no evidence so far the kremlin is preparing to use short ranged tactical nuclear weapons. let's begin our coverage wit

has responded with new punishments for moskow, a new round of sanctions announced. what makes these sanctions different? >> reporter: yes, so one of the headlines here is the u.s. is going after the families of senior russian officials including the two adult daughters of vladimir putin. now, we really don't know very much about them. putin has really kept them out of the public eye. they're both in their 30s, and the rationale from the u.s. for sanctioning them is that they may be holding onto some of their father's assetsch the u.s. is also sanctioning the wife and the daughter of the russian foreign minister sergei lavrov they're sanctioning a bunch of senior russian national security officials including the foreign president and and these sanctions also go after russia's two largest banks, alpha bank and spear bank americans can no longer have financial transactions with either of them >> interesting to see if that pressure pays off. >>> the russian invasion of ukraine has taken a toll on so many families and now some are speaking out and sharing their harrowing

and a 51-year-old former vp and his wife and daughter found dead in their moskow apartment monday.ays moskow police are investigating the deaths of the family as a murder-suicide tantamount to saying nothing suspicious here. spanish police are now guarding his luxury house north of barcelona. an official source close to the investigation says the bodies of his wife and daughter, which showed signs of violence, were found inside the home. and his body was found outside in the garden. the neighbors describe them as wealthy but often traveling. >> translator: he had nice cars. i thought they were romanian from what i understood, and besides you could see they were people with money. >> reporter: the investigative source says spanish police have sealed their probe into the deaths. no leaks that might prejudge their case. two different investigations, two very different jurisdictions. historically spain's judiciary significantly more transparent than russia's. russia's investigators releasing this ultrashort 4-second video of the crime scene inside the apartment. the family's employees

the ministry of defense in moskow claims the images from bucha are fake. but similar stories have emerged across this country. on sunday human rights watch said it had documented allegations of war crimes in areas not just around kyiv but also kharkiv and chernihiv. these carried during what the kremlin calls a special operation. again, a warning, the report includes disturbing and graphic images. >> reporter: as the russians continue to withdraw towards the border with belarus and ukrainians move into these territories i think two things are becoming increasingly clear. on the one hand a lot more russian military hardware was taken out than anybody would have thought, and on the other hand a lot more civilians came to harm as well. we witnessed some of that first-hand. here's what we saw. as russian forces retreat from the area north of kyiv in their wake scenes of utter destruction. whole blocks of houses flattened. ukrainian authorities saying they believe dead bodies are still lying under neath. but here the dead also lay in the open. ukrainian nationa

moskow set a goal of controlling the eastern region of donbas by early may. and ukrainian officials in the port city of odesa say russian missiles were fired on the city early this morning. a cnn team there reports a fuel depot there on fire. witnesses report multiple explosions at that site. others say they saw drones in region over the past two days. ukraine asking for heavy weapons as it prepares for renewed battle in the east. >> reporter: president zelenskyy says russian forces are leaving the north. in some cases he says they are pulling back voluntarily from other area. he says they've been expelled by ukrainian counter attacks. satellite images show there are positions russia claimed very early on in the invasion and held as it sought to surround kyiv and which have now been abandoned, notably the town and the airfield. an advisor to president azelenskyy says there are some in the capital which have been re-claimed from russian control. further north ukraine's flag flies over the power plant after russian forces suddenly depart that site and surroundi

the russians had indeed used chemical weapons that would be a callus esh clagz in this war and that moskow must pay the price for that, but that is an easy thing to say, a difficult thing to do. you may remember president obama warning the syrian regime the use of chemical weapons would be a red line that would trigger american military intervention the assad regime went ahead and used those chemical weapons and the u.s. did not in the end intervene militarily president biden, secretary of state blinken were in the obama administration at the time that president obama drew that red line, and they will be very wary of drawing lines that they do not plan to enforce. the pentagon says it is closely monitoring the situation and will keep an eye tlaut the day they're seeing more evidence of new russian troops, armorter tillry all headed to the east of ukraine where new fighting is expected >> every day there are new horrors revealed with the war. >>> soaring prices on everything we buy putting a strain across the country. in just a few hours the march consumer inflation report will be released

despite moskow's denial of involvement the air strike shows russia is deliberately trying to prevent civilians from leaving. >> they bombed the bridge which connects all the cities and others with ukraine. >> well, all of this is taking place as ukrainian military commanders warn russian forces regrouping near the eastern donbas are almost ready to launch an all out assault. cnn's christiane amanpour has more on the horrific aftermath in kramatorsk, and warning the images in her report are shocking and graphic, but they reveal the true level of brutality the ukrainians are blaming on the russian forces. >> reporter: you can hear the fear and the anguish. you can see the desperate efforts to rescue civilians after an attack on this train station in the eastern city of kramatorsk. a crowded platform hit by russian missile strikes as people try to escape heavy fighting. russian forces also struck the station building itself. the head of the railway told cnn now dozens are dead including children, and many people remain unaccounted for. i asked ukraine's chief of military intelligence fo

the fsb formally the kgb, the security apparatus in russia, bombed their own apartment buildings in moskow and other russian cities and killed 300 russian citizens and wounded 1,000 more, claimed the czechens had done it and then used that as a pretext to start the second czechen war. in other words they needed a reason the russian citizenry would not question. >> so they're worried they may do the same thing. blame ukrainians as a reason to continue their brutal assault and go further? >> yeah, it's a justification for renewed aggression. it makes me think it's a preparatory step, a rationale for possibly trying to take moldova. >> we will watch. we're getting new video of an apparent ukrainian offensive strike on the russian held city of kherson i want to show you. watch this. so this blast is in the vicinity of a tv broadcaster as reported by the respective news outlet. what would the ukrainians be trying to accomplish here? >> maybe showing that they can do that. i don't know. i'm not sure. i don't know enough about the situation to really analyze it. it was an impressive explosion. >>

with that and the bucha atrocities in mind president biden today amped up the economic pressure on moskow. >> first, the united states will impose full blocking sanctions on spear. bank, by far the largest institution in russia and alpha bank, its largest private bank. we're locking down any accounts, any funds those banks hold in the united states. they'll not be able to touch any of their money. they'll not be able to do any business here. and second, i'm going to sign an executive order going to ban any new u.s. investment in russia. more than 600 private sector companies. >> the president also says more kremlin family members would face sanctions with the new list including vladimir putin's two adult daughters as well as the wife and daughter of foreign minister sergey lavrov. as always there's a lot to cover with christiane amanpour in kyiv, and phil mattingly and also dana bash. we begin with christiane's report. >> reporter: welcome to sasha's restaurant, it says. only sasha's is no more, nor are any of the apartments in this block above. a dining table and chairs, a jacket blowing

he got to hospital before the russians worked out he used to fight pro-moskow separatists in eastern east were deliberately killed during the occupation. if i had not been wounded, i would have been shot, too, he says. also survived russia's occupation but at great cost. he was shocked by the russian numbers and firepower that rolled in to a tiny village northeast of the capital. so many tanks passed, he said, so much ammunition. every house had 20 soldiers occupying it including the house where he, his neighbors and family were sheltering. they stayed in the basement, the russians moved in above. one night he says four drunk soldiers pushed open the basement door and screamed, everyone out by the count of ten or all will be killed. basilli says women were screaming, children crying and as he was the last one through the door he was blasted from behind with a shotgun. he says nothing was left of the leg, all bones destroyed, just a puddle of blood in minutes. he says two days later some russian soldiers helped him get to hospital. he still thinks they're beasts, not people. the russi

you very much >>> move onto energy the united states and europe planning new sanctions to punish moskown ukraine adding to concerns about oil supply disruptions earlier this morning sources telling cnbc that the eu will propose banning russian coal crude at this hour you can see 103 or so at this hour dan served as energy secretary in the trump administration. he's now president of sempra infrastructure, a global energy transition company and there's a lot of articles being written right now while we're rushing to the transition and also rushing to replenish fossil fuels as well we're kind of rushing to both. is that something we can do? >> well, hi, joe it's great to be with you again. i think it is something we can do again as well as we're producing oil and gas in the united states as well as our allies around the world. it's a two fold challenge. it's one to reduce the dependency but also increase production so we can fill those gaps i think the government has taken initial steps to do some of that there's still more to be done in companies like ours to help the government achieve t