the issues with crimea are settled. according to polish and bulgarian authorities, russia is cutting off natural gas supplies to their countries after they refused to pay in rubles. the pipeline we were able to show you in green on this map. but the move could signal trouble, of course, for european economies, more broadly which are still heavily reliant on russian energy. let s bring in claire sebastian in london for more on this. claire, let me start this hour with the disturbing images, yet more disturbing images out of bucha that are used as evidence for prosecuting war crimes. what did they say about this and other mass graves found in mariupol here? reporter: isa, president putin continues to deny that russia was responsible for any of the killings in bucha.
important. he was elected president. he didn t get up well, on top of denials, russian president vladimir putin now claims talk of bucha derailed peace talks with ukraine. have a listen. translator: unfortunately, after reaching agreements and after our clearly demonstrated intentions to create conditions for favorable conditions for the continuation of negotiations, we encountered a provocation in the village of bucha for which the russian army has nothing to do. well, mr. putin s comments came during a meeting with u.n. secretary-general antonio guterres tuesday. at that meeting the russian president agreed in principle to involve the u.n. as well as red cross for evacuations from the besieged city of mariupol. he said russia won t sign a peace deal with ukraine until
economies. indeed. and keep an eye on that, claire. if there are more developments, do let us know. meanwhile, a spate of attacks in moldova raise fear of russia s, a plume of smoke outside odessa. authorities say they hit a critical bridge in the odessa region. we are hearing from ukrainian officials another missile hit the sale rail and road bridge hours ago. the damage essentially cuts the far southwest corner of ukraine which borders moldova off from the rest of the country. on the same day, radio towers were damaged by explosions, a russian-backed break away region in moldova. as well as a rocket attack prompted moldova s president call an emergency meeting of the security council. ukraine s president said they are trying to sow tensions between his country and mull
bodies of several dead civilians. and it was filmed on march 13th. and this video from march 12th shows russian soldiers around a military vehicle parked outside a house down the street from the same killed civilians. cnn has been able to geolocate as well as authenticate both those videos. despite evidence like this, russia continues to insist videos are being faked and that the bodies were staged. here s what an international criminal court prosecutor had to say about that. have a listen. he said it was much greater honor for him being president. i find that a little hard to believe. you know how politicians lie, so but he s called old man. he rose every day to speak of the evils of slavery. they got so sick they changed the rules to keep him from doing that. but that rule was really
the kremlin has said that the images that we ve seen emerging over the past few weeks since ukraine re-took that town are fake. this is the line they continue to take. meanwhile, the drone images that are obtained exclusively by cnn really provide the first evidence that we ve seen of russian military vehicles operating on the same street where those bodies were found by ukrainian forces. so this will bolster the case, not only for ukrainian prosecutors, but the international criminal court as well which is reviewing this evidence. but i think it s clear that bucha was a turning point in this war. president putin saying it himself in that comment that it essentially had derailed peace talks up until he calls the provocation in bucha. ukraine and russia was reaching some kind of breakthrough that they might have some kind of basis for continuing future talks. he says after that ukraine simply gave up. that is, of course, not the side