us as a community can t do nothing about it. rescuers are working around the clock in kentucky to locate any more survivors of the deadly flooding. this as families learn the worst about their loved ones. and president biden tested positive for the coronavirus again. he s back to isolating at the white house. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brun brunhuber. we begin in ukraine, whose forces have, in the worlds of a pro-russian official, rained on russia s navy day parade. moscow says a ukrainian drone hit the hit quarters of russia s black sea fleet in sebastopol this morning, five injured. the attack happened while russian forces were celebrating their navy day holiday. after the strike the official said the rest of the celebrations in sebastopol were canceled. meanwhile, ukraine is ordering civilians in the donetsk area to get out. president zelenskyy said hundreds of thousands of people are still in the region, which is in the cross hairs of th
start to drop around late fall, in the winter, conditions there are going to get even worse. and so that is why when you have so many people who are still living in that region who need to get out of the region, you ve got the president ordering that evacuation or issuing that evacuation order. in contrast to that, you look at what s happening in the south. you ve got the mayor there of mykolaiv who s telling residents there to actually shelter in place. he is saying that he has seen there in the southern part of the country, in mykolaiv, some of the heaviest shelling he s seen in quite some time. explosions, cluster bombs in the city, damage to residential buildings. again, the russians really stepping up their efforts in that part of the country. this as ukrainians are really keeping the pressure on in the places like in the south. now jason, turning to the deadly strike on that prison outsiding ukrainian p.o.w.s, what more are we learning about that?
civilians in the donetsk area to get out. president zelenskyy said hundreds of thousands of people are still in the region, which is in the cross hairs of the main russian offensive. he says the goal is to save lives. here he is. translator: there s already a governmental decision about obligatory evacuation from donetsk region. everything is being organized. beam support, full assistance, we only need a decision from the people who have yet not made it for themselves. please follow the evacuation. we will help you. we are not russia. we would do everything possible to save the maximum number of human lives and to maximally limit russian terror. in the south, no break from russian artillery in mykolaiv. shells and missiles rained down on the city over the past 24 hours, kill one, leaving six others injured.
mak mykolaiv has been taking russian fire almost every day over the past month, the death toll today seven people. live from kyiv, jason, those calls for the evacuation of donetsk, a huge undertaking. walk us through what s behind it and how it would work. reporter: yes, of course, it will be a huge undertaking. and as you know, they ve seen some fierce fighting there. but this evacuation order is really about what s to come. this is why the president is giving it now as he has mentioned. there are hundreds of thousands of people there. tens of thousands of children. so this evacuation order, especially going out to those who have children, trying to convince them to get out of the region. and the reason for that, when i say it s about what s to come, is because there s not going to be any gas there, there s not going to be any electricity there. and so when the temperatures