people to escape. it is important to understand the lives still there, they re in the hands of just one person. reporter: today the russian military announce ad new goal. capturing mariupol and the entire ukrainian coastline as well as creating a land bridge between russian held areas in the east and crimea. there was already fierce fighting in the donbas region in the east. an official says russia has added 20 tactical troops to its forces there over the last week bringing the total to 85. president volodymyr zelenskyy says the moves will not deter ukrainian defenders. translator: none of these steps will help russia and the war against our state. they can only delay the inevitable. the time when the invaders will have to leave our territory. reporter: they released what it says is further evidence of war crimes by russia. intercepted communications by russian commanders ordering soldiers to murder ukrainian prisoners of war. reporter: the u.s. responds to russia s
arlette saenz also joins us along with cnn national security analyst andrea kendall taylor. let s go to you first, arlette. what are we expecting to hear from president biden in just moments? reporter: bianna, a short while ago, we saw ukraine prime minister denise sheal and said they met with president biden and national security advisers arlette, the president just walked in, so let s listen to him speak. sorry to keep you waiting a little bit. had the honor of spending some time with the ukrainian prime minister who s in town today and he is meeting with some of my cabinet members, including secretary of treasury and others. and we had a good discussion. i talked about what i m about to tell you about today, as well as thanking the american people for their support, understands it s significant and we talked about keeping everyone together in terms of europe, european union and others, in the effort to stop putin s brutality. but before i head out to the west coast
russia, ukrmariupol s mayor is urging them to get out now. russia continues its onslaught on a target in the east. the u.k. says the ukraine has been able to repel numerous russian advances. 5 million people have fled ukraine since the russian invasion began. let s go to matt who is live in ukraine. matt, what is the latest assessment you are hearing from there on this battle in the east? reporter: what we re hearing about the battle in the east in terms of the latest reporting really coming from this intelligence report from the british, they re talking about the ukrainians holding that line pretty strongly in the eastern part of the country. if the russians were hoping they would have an immediate breakout in the east, that is not what has happened so far. what we re getting from our own reporting is that u.s. defense officials believe something similar, but what we re seeing is more probing attacks from the russians. not the full-scale, all-out offensive, throwing everyt
tonight just moments ago. good evening. i m bret baier. we are coming to you tonight from live from the port of los angeles. ground zero in the u.s. for the long running supply chain crisis. we will talk live with the fedex founder and ceo fred smith in just a few minutes. but, again just minutes ago the cdc saying it has asked the justice department to proceed with an appeal of a judge s ruling ending the administration s mask mandate for public transportation. we re getting that from the wires at this moment. white house correspondent peter doocy starts us off tonight live from the north lawn. good evening, peter. it s just not on the wires, bret. we have got it on the cdc s website as well. they are saying that they think to protect cdc public health authority ongoing assessment last week asked doj to proceed with aappeal health freedom defense fund vs. the biden administration that is the case where florida went and challenged or in a florida federal court where the tra
that means 30% of the people in these bags have deliberate gunshot wounds to the head. we witnessed a continuous cycle. shuffling bodies from vehicles to storage to autopsy to storage and ultimately, preparation for burial. usually, it will be their second. most have been exhumed from temporary graves. families buy new clothes for those as a gesture of respect. but they often go unworn. they can only be laid inside the kochbl. the conditions of the bodies means dressing them is impossible. among those lying here, waiting to be collected, his family says he was killed when munitions struck his home in a small remote village. his wife victoria survived, only to endure a form of hell. intense fighting that she couldn t escape the house. victoria s brother igor says my sister had to step over her husband s body for two weeks. she had to go through it to get to food or water. the room is still covered in blood. she is very bad now. very bad. i don t know how she will live with thi