chart, northern kharkiv s scars seem imminent. troops breathing artillery fire breathing down the neck of this city of a million for months. even still, it s a shock to see how close the russians got. on the other side of this road. we are told this is from the mining, a controlled blast. yet here, everything is fluid. ukraine stopped russia s advance here on the first day of the war, killing two soldiers by this armor. three civilians shot dead in this car then, and their bodies recovered only two days ago. you can see the colossal force used here. a tank turret literally that full distance thrown off the tank body. the village lies ahead. liberated days earlier. people are starting to go back, he said, but they are still
in our world lead, the kremlin says russia will cut off gas powered electricity exports to finland as of tomorrow. now, russia is claiming this is due to late payments, but the timing, we should note, comes just one day after finland publicly expressed support for joining nato. which russia, of course, opposes. in ukraine today, the first war crimes trial against a russian soldier began, a 21-year-old russian is charged with killing an unarmed 62-year-old civilian riding a bicycle. the trial in the capital city of kyiv comes as ukrainian forces have taken back control of several villages near kharkiv. new satellite images show three bridges demolished in the area. likely as a counteroffensive as ukrainian forces advance in the region. nick paton walsh is in kharkiv where ukrainian forces are making those gains.
city, ukraine says russia used hyper sonic missiles striking two hotels and a shopping mall there, at least one person was killed. several others were injured in the southern port city, and in northern kharkiv, children s clothes, car seats, toys, all littering the road after an attack on this civilian convoy of cars. that was fleeing the violence. i want to bring in our military analyst colonel cedricla lleyto. walk us through the significance here of the attacks on the port cities? the fact that odesa is getting this kind of a targeting setup from the russians where they re using hyper sonics is a real mismatch of weapon to target. you know, hyper sonic missiles are basically designed for stationary military targets. they re designed they can be used in both conventional as well as with a nuclear warhead,
saying the u.s. is not trying to punish them but trying to foe meant this dissent against the leadership and the decision that the kremlin has made over the last several weeks. thank you so much. appreciate it. our kcorrespondents are deploye throughout ukraine and also in russia and poland. cnn national security k correspondent joins me now from near kyiv. russian military strikes hit a school in northern kharkiv and damaged in a missile strike. what more information is there on that? reporter: these are the two latest examples that russians claim they are not hitting, targeting, going after civilian infrastructure, residences is just not true.
established inside ukraine. you see the fear in their eyes, the uncertainty of what s to come. and you know you ve got to provide hope. we ve heard stories of how a piece of fruit just brings hope when they re hiding in the basement of apartment buildings. we heard a story of a little boy that was handed a biscuit when they got rescued out of northern kharkiv and he nibbled his biscuit so slowly that our contact that was moving them out, helping the refugees leave, asked why isn t he eating the biscuit? and the mom said he hasn t eaten for three weeks. he doesn t know when he s going to have another meal. so he wants to take his time with this biscuit. and that just breaks your heart. and so we just are mobilizing as much aid as possible to get food