unsustainable all right, matt rivers reporting tonight from the u.s. border with mexico the thanks, matt. there are extraordinary images coming in tonight for the battle. ukraine says these images show the russians being chased by ukrainian fighters. ukraine now potentially gaining crucial new ground. marcus moore with images tonight reporting from inside ukraine. . tonight dramatic new video showing ukrainian forces in close contact with the russians. ukrainians claim this unverified footage shows the firing in various positions. in the video you see ukrainian what appears to be a russian grenade thrown at them. the ewe craneians fir and then toss a green gren aid inside. tonight let ukrainians claim they have advanced more than aae
one of those legitimate reasons would have been to apply for asylum at the border and many were hoping here that with the expiration of title 42 that they could have gone to the border to do that more easily. of course that didn t happen with the federal judge in louisiana continuing to allow that policy to be in place. and that has been very disappointing for people here, many of whom would have gone to the border to try and apply for acai lull. and we spoke to the director of the facility who told us thatlu. and we spoke to the director of the facility who told us that things can t continue like this, he is building another facility across the street that can house horn d more than double than he has right now, and he already knows that there won t be enough room to handle all the people still in the area. and that was matt rivers reporting there. and a political career off to a whirlwind start, south
from where i m standing in the center of town. and the ukrainian soldiers that we have spoken to have said that if they weren t able to put up the resistance that they did in that town, there would have been fighting in the streets of kyiv. we re going to explore that topic more on the show tomorrow. jake. matt rivers reporting from kyiv. thank you so much for that report. a spokesman for unicef says the conditions in the embattled city of mariupol are apocalyptic and ghastly. before and after satellite photos show extensive damage at the azovstal steel complex after weeks of bombing. mariupol mayor said civilian evacuations from the city and from the plant have been, quote, very difficult. and entirely dependent on cooperation from the russians, who have, of course, not been particularly cooperative. cnn s scott mclean joins us live from lviv, ukraine. what do we know about the progress of these critical evacuations? jake, we re getting bits and pieces of information today, and
matt rivers reporting from georgia s capital. reporter: a two-fold event, on the one hand a day of national remembrance, people coming out to remember the events that happened here in 1989 outside the parliament building here. that was when soviet troops opened fire on protesters that were here trying to advocate for georgian independence from the then soviet union. but this day obviously taking on added importance this year because of what we re seeing now russian troops doing in ukraine. this is something that people here in georgia are paying very close attention to. and a lot of the people here when i say two-fold event, it s because this is a protest in part against the current national government. critics are saying that the national government is not taking a strong enough stance, choosing to be on the side of ukraine, basically accusing the national government here of playing both sides of the fence, on the one hand not criticizing russia and putin openly enough for what th
he also dismissed any kremlin talk of deescalation in ukraine as words without deeds. well, putin s war in ukraine is putting increased pressure on political allies, especially in europe. hungarian prime minister viktor orban is a longtime putin supporter and with polls now open, the right-wing leader is facing his toughest re-election bid in more than a decade. orban is simply a putin wannabe. here is cnn s matt rivers reporting in from budapest. reporter: viktor orban, by most measures, is the eu leader closest to vladimir putin recently. just three weeks before the war began, orban took a trip to moscow. welcomed by putin across a very long table. national elections in hungary on sunday will test whether orban s 12-year run as prime minister will go another four years, and his relationship with putin is suddenly at the center of hungarian politics.