continuing with our world lead today, one of the many challenges facing ukraine s government and military is identifying and handling the bodies of russian soldiers who have been killed and the russian military has left behind. sara sidner takes a look at how they re using technology both to help with this difficult task and help advance their aims in the propaganda war with moscow. we need to warn you, of course, some of the images in this report you may find disturbing. inside this refrigerated train car, a gruesome sight. the bodies of russian soldiers packed and stacked for storage. look, this is looted. every russian soldier who is stored here as a dead body has
that 21st century technology. do you believe this is a good idea? john says it might not go over well with some. you have the legal or moral aspect to it, and is it a good decision to accomplish what you re trying to do. i think john has the right idea on this one, but like discriminate bombing, actually galvanizes the population to be more committed to their cause. i think it s too early to tell, but as a former soldier, i really wouldn t want my family members being targteted. i can see how this would have a chance of backfiring. what about retaliation? yeah, i don t know what russia will do to retaliate in this case. i mean, you know, russia is going to do indiscriminate bombing as they ve done throughout the conflict, and as we saw, hitting targets in lviv today. i don t really see russia retaliating in any specific way because they don t really seem
and all of this unfolds at a time where we are seeing escalated attacks in kyiv, just outside of russian forces saying they targeted a military location there, we re seeing the attacks rising up again in the east as well. all of this coming after the sinking of the russian warship in the black sea, and jim and bianna, i can tell you as we talked to residents in this area, there is a great deal of apprehension and concern that this is the kind of attacks that are going to be seen or worried about, they see it as possible retaliation for the sinking of that warship in the black sea. i have to ask you there, as you showed us that impact point, that s right by a church? is that right? it is. you can see just look over here, on the side, i can t tell you the church was specifically targeted, everything around in this morning s explosions is looks to be completely random, so i don t want to give the
down to crimea. that eastern sector they have been looking for. you know, the more setbacks we see to the russian military, the latest just that sunken battleship there, outside of odesa, one has to wonder what the response will be from moscow, and there is increased concern it may be by the use of chemical or tactical nuclear weapons. just yesterday, former prime minister dmitry medvedev warned that russia may deploy nuclear weapons if finland and sweden join nato. and u.s. cia director also is questioning whether this in fact may be true. listen to what he said yesterday. given the potential desperation of president putin and the russian leadership, given the setbacks that they have faced so far militarily, none of this can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to tactical nuclear weapons, low yield nuclear
reporter: the town of avdiivka is no stranger to war. eight years this has been the front line of ukraine s battle with russian-backed separatists. people here are used to shelling. they have never experienced anything like this. a missile can be heard overhead, an emotional man approaches us. they smashed the old part of town, he says. as we talk, the artillery intensifies. i told him it is better to go home now because there is a lot of shelling. he said there is more shelling where he lives. as russia prepares a major