comprehend. with the level of water, we are going to be finding bodies for week, and many of them swept hundreds of yards and a quarter mile plus from where they were lost. water is a big problem with the area, and power, and even when we get over the rain, it is going to be really hot in the next week, and so we are still in an emergency phase reporter: and evan mcmorris san santoran is with us. and what is the devastation that you are seeing? well, just to give you an idea, fred, this is the first time it is safe for the governor to go around the various sites, and here at the knox county complex that hosts games and
new this morning, president biden announced the u.s. will send ukraine the most powerful and advanced rocket systems to date. this comes as ukraine has suffered important losses in the east. we want to go to cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance, live in the bordansk region. you said what you re seeing is disturbing. reporter: it is horrific. we can t show you the pictures in full this morning, but it is an exhumation of bodies in a village outside of kyiv, in a place which was occupied by the russians. the russians left a couple of months ago and even now villagers are coming back to their homes, finding bodies in the backyard, the police have
was his rationale for conducting this invasion. a bold-faced lie. now he s telling another lie that the ukrainians are staging what we re seeing on cameras here as they re taking one body after another out of the ground. finding bodies just laying on the side of the road, all of them assassinated in cold blood. the evidence is overwhelming. most people in the world certainly if they ever believe putin about anything, he lost all of that credibility except for his loyal supporters at home. neil: if you flip it around, if you re vladimir putin and now you ve been charged with genocide on top of war crimes, you know you ve been isolated economically and you ve been sanctioned and everything else. your currency is surviving but your country barely is, he might feel he has nothing to lose now and could get desperate. dangerously so.
tonight that it is even worse than the horrors we see in bucha. what are you learning? reporter: the reason for that, don, is the destruction compared to bucha is so much greater than what we have seen in these area where is the russian troops have withdrawn from. we have this spring of apartment buildings that have been destroyed, some reduced to rubble. these buildings have totally collapsed. the concern is that this could only have happened, this level of destruction could have only happened by an air strike or ballistic missile. as these search teams go out, they re looking for bodies and they are finding bodies. right now, in just two homes, the debris of two homes, they pulled 26 bodies of people from under that debris. officials there in this region say that basically there are now still hundreds of residents who are listed as missing. what is interesting is ukrainian officials say they know the names of the russian officers
are you a christian author with a book that you re ready to share with the world? get published now, call for your free publisher kit today! welcome back to state of the union. amid signs russia may be shifting its strategy in ukraine p peace talks continued. ukraine would drop its role and commit to neutrality. joining us, secretary-general stoltenberg. thank you so much, sir, for joinings me. start with the news out of bucha in ukraine, a suburb of kyiv and i want viewers to be warned that the images we ll show are disturbing. journalists report finding bodies of civilians strewn throughout the town. some of whom appear to have been deliberately executed by