A funeral was held for Colonel Alexander Bespalov on Friday in the closed Russian city of Ozersk, according to a local announcement, which said he was killed during special operation .
buildup appears to continue. putin is now on his fifth u.s. president. he could stay in office until 2036. tonight, over 150,000 russian troops are on ukraine s border pair there are also russian warships loaded with russian marines and tanks. these featuring rocket launchers. the tubes that looked like pipe organs. all set to end these exercises on sunday. after that, it s anyone s guess. only putin knows what happens next. in a russian s tit-for-tat move tossing russian diplomats from the russian embassy in moscow and announcing today that it has expelled the deputy u.s. ambassador of russia as payback, another sign of worsening relations. the leader of belarus said he s open to to letting it russian park missiles after these drills and on sunday. i m here tonight in the city
[air raid sirens] this as ukraine s president accuses the russian forces of shelling innocent civilians. voice of translator: the country that commits war crimes against civilians cannot be a member of the u.n. security council. the country has been to be banned from the ports, airports and channels in the world. the u.n. says 650,000 people have fled the country, mostly women and children since military aged males are forbidden to leave. it has created some of the worst humanitarian crisis in europe this century. the russian defense ministry claims a land bridge is now complete, after the amphibious assault by russian marines. shelling continues in kharkiv to
jesse. jesse: trey, thank you so much for that report. russia continues closing in on ukraine s largest cities. and they now have several surrounded. but ukrainians aren t giving up the fight. let s go to the big board with special report anchor bret baier. bret: hey, jesse. looking at ukraine right now. this is where trey is. seeing those explosions at this hour just in the past few minutes word that the russians are saying that they have now taken the city of kherson in the south. that s a big deal. from crimea, they went two ways. the force went this way towards kherson and then mariupol and are surrounding mariupol but 300,000 people live in kherson, there were there was landing here by russian marines. they surrounded it and now they are in control, they say, of that city and that s the word on the ground as well. the other move has been from the donbas up here to car kyiv, this area has just been bombarded the
Sergeants Alexei and Anton Vorobyov, 29, were killed fighting side by side with the 150th Rifle Division on March 12, three weeks after Moscow s forces invaded Ukraine on February 24.