biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple failed
ukraine is investigating more than 11,000 war crimes cases which, according to theprosecute perpetrators think twice. reporter: this can save lives of our ukrainian civilians on the south and eastern part of ukraine. because this perpetrators who are now fighting with see that we will find all of them. we will identify all of them. and we will start to prosecute all of them. cnn correspondents are covering the conflict from every angle. our fred pleitgen is in berlin, but first to cnn s nick paton walsh in the pivotal city of kharkiv where russia s pull back from the regions is revealing new atrocities. reporter: charred, mauled, northern kharkiv scars seem infinite. putin s troops breathing.
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