this is the largest and most complex event in london s history. and millions will be watching all around the world, so authorities are really working hard to ensure everything goes as planned. linsey. london bracing itself. james, thank you. david muir, robin roberts and the entire team will have full coverage of the funeral tomorrow beginning at 5:15 a.m. eastern. we turn now to the war in ukraine and the war crimes investigations now under way after the gruesome discoveries in the northeast part of the country. president zelenskyy describes these images as torture chambers where he says prisoners were held and interrogated by the russian invaders and investigators are working to identify the bodies of hundreds of people found in mass graves. tom soufi burridge with a first-hand account. reporter: tonight, shocking new discoveries in newly-liberated areas of eastern ukraine. this nightmarish scene underground, one of ten torture chambers used by the russians, according to the lo
a warning, some of these images are disturbing. reporter: this morning the brutal reality of russia s war emerging again. a mass grave with at least 25 bodies found in izyum, one of hundreds of towns and villages liberated in ukraine s northeast region of kharkiv. some crosses marked with only numbers. investigators say there s hundreds more as residents who survived describe the torture they endured in the basement of this police station. they made me hold two wires attached to an electric generator. the faster you spin it, the higher the voltage. they kept spinning. at another police station, blood on the floor and evidence burned. 30,000 war crimes investigations already under way, 20,000 involving civilian victims. it s not a war, president zelenskyy has said, it s a genocide. russia is leaving death everywhere. the missiles keep coming,
aircraft, helicopters, shelling, everything. a first artillery strike too close for comfort. then a second. much closer. that was in the key town earlier yesterday. it gives you a sense of the fact the russian forces are still there and still fighting to get control back to those towns. in other villages further west, we have been seeing some of the terrible exhumations of the civilians that ukrainian prosecutors now say are the subject of war crimes investigations. melissa bell in kharkiv, thank you for that update. in russia, a sign that frustration with vladimir putin and his unprovoked invasion is growing. deputies from 18 municipal districts in moscow and st. petersburg have signed a petition demanding putin s resignation, calling his actions
genocide. one week later, a russian airstrike hit a theater in merritt that was being used as a shelter for civilians. painted on the ground in giants russian letters was the word children. hundreds were killed in that attack. on april 1, the world saw the first horrifying images of the massacre. evidence of russian forces executing several men. their bodies found lying on the streets. a mass grave with the untold number of people buried there. the atrocities sparked demand for war crimes investigations and harsher sanctions on russia. a number of civilian casualties is still unknown, the united nations estimates more than 10 million ukrainians have been forced from their homes since the war began. on wednesday, a strong show of western support. as a marked 81 years of
evidence of forces executing several men. their bodies found lying in the streets. a mass grave with an untold number of people buried there, the atrocities sparked demands of war crimes investigations and much harsher sanctions on russia and while the number of civilian casualties is still unknown, the united nations now estimates more than 10 million people have been forced to flee ukraine since the war began. all of this in just the last six months. joining me right now to discuss more is william taylor, the former ambassador to ukraine and retired general david petraeus who of course is the former cia director and central command. thank you for being here on this day. i want to break this into three parts, ukraine, russia and the nato alliance. where is ukraine six months in? and what are you watching for in the next six months? well, ukraine i think has seized this stra tegic