outside of mariupol, ukrainian officials point to nassau satellite images that show ground in one area has recently been disturbed. they also say claims from one source indicate that the site has been used to dispose of bodies. cnn is working to independently verify those claims. meantime, russia has unveiled a new goal in the conflict, a new strategy. a commander saying taking control of southern ukraine and even donbas region to establish a land block of crimea. there is new credit yo that shows utter destruction in the small village of moschun, north of kyiv. house after house flattened. the ukrainians played a major role in pushing back from the city. 100,000 people are trapped in mariupol including soldiers and sillians. ukraine s deputy prime minister announced this morning, a humanitarian corridor is now open to evacuate, women, children and the elderly. this morning, we are hearing reports of more shelling in the kharkiv region. we re going to bring you up to date w
posi positions it took after the failed offensive two weeks ago. lot of attention being focused on and given to may 9th, of course. it s victory day for russia. the fear is there president putin may take mariupol as a trophy. what do you have to say to that if that does endeed happen? mariupol was, is and always will be mariupol doesn t exist anymore. it s another confirmation of the fact how professional ukrainian and mariupol defenders are.
court on wednesday. concrete barriers added a few hours ago. hillary clinton warned that the supreme court far right majority could go far beyond targeting abortion rights. this opinion is dark. it s incredibly dangerous and it is not just about a woman s right to choose. it s about much more than that. any american who says i m not a woman, this doesn t affect me. i m not black, that doesn t affect me. i m in the gay, that doesn t affect me, once you allow this kind of extreme power to take hold, you have no idea who they will come for, next. analysts say the next frontier in the abortion battle might be the growing use of pills by mail that can end unwanted pregnancies. supplieiers say they intend to keep sending them to the u.s. no matter what state laws say.
you re showing right now, the distance between odesa and mariupol doesn t jump out but it s about 500 close to 500 miles. mykolaiv is a city of 500,000 in terms of population. odesa has 9 00,000. so, you re talking about repeated battles as we ve seen so far where the civilians of various cities are going to be challenged with artillery strikes and russians murdering them. but i don t think we re going to see the russian capability of obtaining their new objective. kim, you asked a senior european official this week about that intent to essentially build the land bridge across southern ukraine. what was your impression of how western allies see that goal? well, you know, at the start of this war, there was fear that the white house would have to be pushing europe along. so i was really surprised at the sort of baltic answer i got from european commission executive
know, moscow, putin doesn t seem to care that the troops are tired. he s just going to send them in, wave after wave. so what i hear you saying is this is just going to go on and on. right? i mean you it doesn t sound like you see an end in sight at this point, as long as the ukrainians continue to put up this resistance. i think that s why you hear the secretary of state tony blinken and others saying this war could last through this whole year and beyond, because putin doesn t seem to have left himself a way out or to be admitting to himself that anything is going wrong. therefore, he s going to keep, you know, a war of attrition is better than giving up. then what do you think about the chancellor in austria said after meeting with putin where putin told him it s better in this instance earlier rather than later and he thinks he s