with a private army called the wagner group which operates in ukraine because months after the war started, putin turned to prigozhin. the army wasn t doing th job. that is why prigozhin has been asked to step in. the wagner group has been fighting in the fiercest battles, including the one in bakhmut and is lost many men. and has lost many men. this is prigozhin laying flowers despite his grave earlier this year and around 10,000 wagner group fighters have died in ukraine since december and the majority of those men were russian convicts. here is prigozhin at a prison last september telling these men that their sentences will be quashed if they fight for the wagner group. many went to war and the death toll is spiralled, prigozhin s relationship with the defence ministry has deteriorated. he has posted furious rants on telegram and in early may,
moment. you know, behind us is the school. we re seeing community members, parents bringing their kids, laying flowers. we ve seen some of the family members of victims come here and lay flowers. so it s a somber day of course. we ll see more activity later tonight when there s a candlelight vigil. but this is a day that for parents here they were scared, they were afraid for this day. they didn t know how things were going to go because this community is still so divided, brianna. there are still so many questions about what happened here, the fact that there s not been any transparency. many of the families still asking for answers to the questions they have about exactly what happened here. and the other thing is family members had the opportunity recently to go inside that building and see where their kids died, took their last breaths. and from what i m told from these family members it was such a sad moment for them but they
reporter lawrence jones in nashville and has a guest with us, chaplain coordinator, andrew for the nashville police, guys. hey, good morning, family. you never know what you will see out here. i was just talking to the chaplain, one of the victim mom s laying flowers behind us on one of the crosses. we presume the cross of her child. chaplain, you had a tough job a couple of days ago. you had to notify three of the parents, three victims but what was that like? that is part of our regular job with the chaplain team. it is very difficult to make those notifications. but in the difficulty, we want to show people that god still loves them and help support them through that. so, sometimes we are able to say it and sometimes we just hug
cnn s ivan watson is with us in the northeastern city of kharkiv. ivan, the timing of this visit seems pretty important. it does, and it does not seem like it s a coincidence that you had the leader of china visiting moscow, and then the same day the japanese prime minister visiting russia s enemy, the capital ukraine, kishida laying flowers in bucha where there were discoveries of mass graves, of people executed with their hands tied behind their backs after the russian troops withdrew from that town on the outskirts of kyiv. japan signaling its commitment to ukraine. last month it pledged some $5.5 billion in assistance to the ukrainian government and has said that it speaks out strongly against russia s, as it puts it, aggression into ukraine. in the meantime, the ukrainians still watching this meeting in moscow closely. the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy has come out