so, cnn is learning that the united nations is planning to get involved after the discovery of a mass burial site in ukraine. the u.n. says its human rights investigators will go to a site in the city of izyum as soon as possible. a u.n. source tells cnn that war crimes investigators may soon follow. the white house called the discovery horrifying and repugnant. ukraine now says some of the bodies that were discovered show signs of torture. translator: there is clear evidence of torture, humiliating treatment of people. moreover, there is evidence that russian soldiers, whose positions were not far from this place, shout out at the buried just for fun. russia has repeated of izyum, and butcha.
this will be a significant moment. and of course the queen s grandchildren are the representation of the monarchy is trying to forwardp their place in modern britain. we ll keep covering this throughout the weekend. thank you so much. cnn is learning the united nations will get involved following the discovery of a mass burial site in ukraine. the u.n. says its human rights investigators will go to the site in the city of izium as soon as possible. a u.n. source tells cnn war crimes investigators may follow later. the white house called the discovery horrifying and repugnant while ukraine now says some of the bodies recovered show signs of torture. on friday president volodymyr zelenskyy made another case for declaring russia a state sponsor of terrorism. translator: we need to act. it is necessary to act so that bucha, mariupol and izium do not happen again. russia must be recognized as a state sponsor of terrorism,
the places where they can get in that are sufficiently secure that say the police and war crimes investigators can go and start their job are really just at the very beginning of this extraordinary fast moving eastern offensive. it has continued. it began last week. those early successes, now the subject of investigations and research but as you move further eastwards to key towns, you realize that actually even in the places where the ukrainian flag has been raised and hard to get to them, there is still fighting going on. we managed to get to the ukrainian flag raised there 24 hours before. have a look at what we came across. a first artillery strike, too close for comfort, then a second. much closer.
we spent the day in a village outside of kharkiv, the second largest city in the country. we were there with war crimes investigators who were investigating what happened to that village in early march when they say russian planes flew over the village in the middle of the night, dropping seven bombs, destroying over 20 structures, killing three civilians as well as one military personnel. investigators believe the original target was supposed to have been a local school where they believe that some ukrainian border guard were hiding. the russians ended up striking pretty much everything else, including the home of 65-year-old ala. she told me she s lost everything, including her 31-year-old son. take a listen to what she had to say.
the scene here in bucha and as well as the ukrainian war crimes investigators, they will be investigators, they will be investigators sent by the dutch government shortly on behalf of the international criminal court in the hague and they will arrive here with some of the very latest forensic technology to investigate allegations of war crimes. it is technology to investigate allegations of war crimes. it is the sufferin: allegations of war crimes. it is the suffering of allegations of war crimes. it is the suffering of civilians allegations of war crimes. it is the suffering of civilians that - allegations of war crimes. it is the suffering of civilians that has - allegations of war crimes. it is the suffering of civilians that has been most difficult to watch, frankly. i know there are reports of people trapped in mariupol, some evacuated, what is the latest in that? it trapped in mariupol, some evacuated, what is the latest in that? what is the latest in that? it does look like