the first time the international criminal court of plans to war russia for its actions in ukraine. it ll issue war and several people interrupting from the new york times. and writers. one war crimes cases prompted by russian attacks on the infrastructure like this one targeting train stations last year. there s also accusations of deliberately targeting residential banyan parking lot and kharkiv. they say it only hits military targets. the other case will reportedly focus on the abduction of ukrainian children. like these evacuees from war torn eastern ukraine shown and i mean summer camp. ukraine says unreasonable port from yale university, a documents thousands of kids who were taken to russia, indoctrinated, an adopted from former russian families. which is a war crime. the news continues, erin burnett out front starts next. before the banking system is safe. tonight, president biden moving to calm panicked. americans to banks collapsing in three days. now the spotl
deceive us. there s no truth anywhere. we ve been set like lambs to the slaughter, to our eminent data. we saw corpses, mutilated people without arms and legs, with their guts hanging out. what is your reaction to, or looking at this, seeing this in print, in a soldiers frankly incredibly precise and , while it really is a killing field over there. and that in particular, reports are ever ukrainian that forever ukrainian that scale there s 5 to 7 russian soldiers. ukrainians report that russian soldiers are stacking up like logs. a court of law on the battlefield. that wagner commanders are telling their troops if you don t advance will shoot you when you come back. it s really a moral what s happening there and it s a terrible situation in the ukrainians are fighting for their country, their sovereignty.
what some ukrainian troops are up against in the relentless battle for bakhmut. one deputy commander telling cnn that his units are literally jumping into russian trenches to regain ground. it is truly hand-to-hand combat. while russian forces are closing in on bakhmut center, keep in mind it s a battle that s been going on for months, that they said would be a couple. weeks a spokesman for ukraine s eastman commands that that wagner lemon units rcep staining losses. the recording more than 200 russian soldiers dead in 24 hours, hundreds more wounded. western officials say the wagner units are running on a manpower. and likely have lost access to president online conflict with russia s defense ministry. wagner reportedly turning to sports clubs and gyms and russia to try and get new recruits. the mounting losses are prompting a group of russian wives, mothers to call on putin to stop sending their loved ones to war. pleading them for to avoid lamps this. otter joining me now is secreta
they re fighting to, when they re winning. but what s happening to this generation of russian man is just a pro bowl. i m afraid it s only gonna get worse. at some, point the ukrainians are not challenge the counteroffensive, maybe in april or may. and it s gonna push the russians to appoint weather gonna have to conscript more and more of men from the country. this is happening as within russia. there s now some sort of civil war. obviously, i m not using formally. but the institute for the study of war says the russian defense minister, they say is, quote likely seizing the opportunity to deliberately expand both the elite and combat wagner forces in bakhmut. in an effort to weaken prigozhin, obviously the leader of the wagner group. and derail the at greater influence of the kremlin. basically saying the russian military is purposely trying to get wagner forces killed off,
esper. secretary, we appreciate your time. i want to ask about this video, these are russian women. they say their loved ones were forced to join assault groups after only four days of training. obviously, can t independently verify the claims. but as you, know it s very consistent with other videos that we share daily with our audience. does putin, secretary, have any shortage right now? what do you believe of potential recruits at this point? well, i would think. so reports from the uk ministry of defense said that he s committed up to 90% of his ground forces in ukraine. and we know you mentioned the wagner group, of their 50,000 soldiers 40,000 of them are convex. that they took from prisons. and the recruiting jab last year, they pulled in 300,000 fold soldiers. but don t equal amount we think