good evening. we begin tonight with a single frame of video from the war in ukraine. the stunning reality and brutality of this war. this is the image. what you are looking at is the precise split second before a russian missile explodes next to a team of aid workers, including an american tending to a wounded civilian earlier this month. it may be hard to see, but we ve circled it. the missile is circled as flying parallel to the ground. it s an antitank missile, which means that someone had eyes on the target, which is the vehicle driven by the aid workers to the left of where the missile s about to go. the vehicle they are standing right next to. one of the men killed is pete reed, a marine corps veteran. in january, he went to work in ukraine with the aid organization global average. global outreach doctors, it s called. and on the second this month, he was killed. tonight, we also have stunning information about a systematic program run by the russian government to take
global outreach doctors, it s called. and on the second this month, he was killed. tonight, we also have stunning information about a systematic program run by the russian government to take ukrainian children and re-educate and indoctrinate them in russia in. some of the kids are believed to have been given weapons training, and others have been sent to live with foster families or even put up for adoption in russia. there s a new report documenting a network of camps, 43 of them in all, across the and occupied korea, where thousands of ukrainian children had so far been taken against international law. so there s a lot to do tonight. we can with the story behind the missile attack on the aid workers and we warn you, some of the video you ll see is hard to watch. cnn s matthew chanced of the reporting. what more can you tell us about this attack? reporter: an absolutely terrible attack, of course, and colleagues of pete reed are saying that they believe he was the victim of a target
matthew, appreciate the report. thank you. now to that new report, which is uncovered the extent to which moscow is conducting an extensive campaign to take ukrainian children to russia, and sometimes even give the military training to forcibly adopt them. according to the reports authors, that counts to war crimes under international law, possibly even evidence of genocide. the report was produced by the humanitarian research lab as part of a state department supported program for gathering evidence of russian war crimes. it identifies 43 facilities that are part of a network stretching from the black seat to siberia. their primary purpose appears to be political re-education. nathaniel raymond is the humanitarian research lab executive director and oversaw the report. nathaniel, i saw you called us an amber alert for ukraine s children. can you just explain what you mean? well, anderson, what i mean is that, well, we know thou that the 6000 children have been through the system.