and present, can continue to get the tools they need to build a future of unlimited possibilities. this is cnn breaking news. hello, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i am john vause live in lviv, ukraine. russia s military retreat from areas in northern ukraine around the capital kyiv now revealing more horrors with each passing day. in borodianka, emergency workers digging through rubble of homes destroyed by russian forces and now found 26 bodies. ukraine s prosecutor general says scenes like this are examples of war crimes and ukraine s president compared it
things, weapons, weapons, weapons. and that he needs them urgently. the reason being, ukraine fears that russia is building up for a big new offensive in the east of ukraine. either, you help us now and i am speaking about days, not weeks or your help will come too late. and many people will die. reporter: just a few days ago, nato officials were talking about sending tanks, about sending armored vehicles but when the meeting of the foreign ministers wrapped up here, nato s secretary general stoltenberg wasn t specific when he was asked a question, so what will you be sending? and the u.s. secretary of state, antony blinken, also opaque as well but saying they were working with the ukrainians, and giving them what they think the ukrainians need. we are looking at, um, day in, day out, what we believe they most need, to include new
to the nearby city of bucha where ukrainian civilians were shot at close range and then buried in a mass grave. translator: after bucha, this is already obvious. and the work on dismantling the debris in borodianka has begun. it s much worse there. even more victims of the russian occupiers. meantime, russian forces stepping up their offensive in the donbas region in eastern ukraine. foreign minister says the battles still to come will be like world war ii. thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, planes, and artillery. and he warned of what would happen without more military shipments from the west. many people will die. many civilians will lose their homes. many villages will be destroyed. exactly because this help came too late. ukrainian authorities claim
distinct escalation of the kinds of weapon supplies. the czechs have given some soviet tanks. um, but it will be a very different grinding kind of infantry war that is not like what we saw around kyiv. it s more like what we ve seen since 2015, and the russians are pretty dug in. so, can the ukrainians drive russia entirely out of ukraine? very difficult question. some people want russia driven to its knees. well, can you drive russia to its knees? not if nato countries aren t willing to fight and they are obviously not willing to fight. so, i think this really is going to go on a while. but we re going to have a bit of a break for a couple weeks while the russians resupply, they move troops out of kyiv, they bring them to belarus and to russia. they resupply them, reorganize them, reequip them, ship them to
telling this story with laughter. i ask if they are worried the russians will return to seek revenge? they tell me they re not going anywhere. ed lavandera, cnn, ukraine. always listen to the grandmothers. if you would like to help the people of ukraine who are in need of shelter, food, water, please go to cnn.com/impact. there you can find a number of ways to help and you can approximate guaranteed these are the aid organizations that will make sure your donations reach those host mobt in need. that does it from ukraine for the time being. john vause, we will speak to you at the top of the hour. thanks so much. well still to come. does diplomacy still have a chance in ukraine, especially given the brutality we are seeing? we are going to talk to a journalist who pon a pulitzer prize for his reporting on russia when we come back. stay with us.