time of salvation and resurrection is looking like this, sheer destruction thcht village near kyiv is bearing the hall mark of russian forces. the town is free, but the same cannot be said of other areas of the country. in mariupol, evacuation areas were thwarted by the ukrainian villagers after russian forces said they were headed for russian-occupied territories. and now, we are seeing that there is a site of mass graves outside of mariupol, and cnn cannot independently verify this. in odesa, a russian strike killed 18 people or i should say injured 18 people, and killed five including a 18-month-old baby who had yet to celebrate his first easter with his parents. a russian general says that russia wants full control of southern ukraine, because it would give russia a land bridge to moldova, stirring up fears of another soviet republic, and now, scott is joining us from sou southern kyiv, and what do we know now of mariupol? it is remaining dire, jim. there is a humanitar
anytime soon. russian troops have surrounded the complex waiting for ukrainian soldiers to surrender as food supplies dwindle. for the rest of mariupol, a human tarrian corridor opened leading west to ukrainian held zaporizhzhia though the mayor s office says russians tricked people for boarding buses bound for a town in russian occupied territory. cnn could not immediately verify the progress of evacuation efforts in the city. in a press conference in a kyiv underground station president zelenskyy proposed a trade with russia in exchange for ukrainian civilians trapped in mariupol. translator: we offer civilized people. we suggest humanitarian solution to the situation. we offer exchange of civilians. we offer exchange of the wounded. reporter: zelenskyy says he s willing to meet withputep but
now, and i want to see the sun because they switch the lights on and off here. when they rebuild our houses, we can live in peace. translator: we all really want to return home. we want to return home alive. we all want to see our parents and families. reporter: there is little hope those wishes will come true anytime soon. russian troops have surrounded the complex, waiting for ukrinian soldiers to surrender, as food supplies dwindle. for the rest of mariupol, a humanitarian corridor opened leading west through russian-held territory to ukrainian-held zaporizhzhia. though, the mariupol mayor s office says that russians tricked people into boarding buses bound for a town in russian-occupied territory. cnn could not immediately verify the progress of evacuation efforts in the city. in a press conference in a kyiv underground station, president zelenskyy proposed a trade with russia, in exchange for ukr ukrainian civilians trapped in
though the mariupol mayor s office says that russians tricked people into boarding buses bound for dokuchaevsk, a town in russian-occupied territory. cnn could not immediately verify the progress of evacuation efforts in the city. in a press conference in a kyiv underground station president zelenskyy proposed a trade with russia in exchange for ukrainian civilians trapped in mariupol. translator: we offer as civilized people, we suggest humanitarian solution to the conflagration. we offer exchange of civilians. we present an exchange of the wounded. reporter: zelenskyy said he s willing to meet with putin but promised peace talks would be abandoned if ukrainians in mariupol are killed. scott mcclain, cnn, lviv, ukraine. well, that news conference that scott just mentioned was, well, full of surprises including, of course, the location. president zelenskyy spoke to the
they were told that they were headed to a city that was in russian-occupied territory. this seems to be pattern, jim, of russians pushing people in that direction, pushing people toward russia whether they want to go there or not. this is the answer about the attempted murders. i am not afraid of that. my gods are fafraid of that, an i am not afraid of the attempted murders and just to be realism here. so that there was president zelenskyy speaking at a press conference in a kyiv tube station, and kyiv underground station meeting with the reporterssh and he was responding to a question about his own personal security, and whether he s afraid. he said that he doesn t have the right to feel afraid considering what his own country is going through, and the fact that ukrainians are dying and putting their own lives on the line.