amp up efforts to interfere in u.s. elections going further than he already has, possibly including these sources say, direct attacks on voting systems. much more on this shortly. first, the shifting battlefield away from the villages and woods around kyiv on a flatter terrain in the donbas in the east, better suited say our military analysts to large scale war, and also amenabl amenable. a senior ukrainian official says the russian offensive has already begun. these are new satellite photos of an eight-mile russian convoy heading towards the region. a senior american defense official says the column includes command and control, a support battalion and other infantry support elements. in the most kharkiv is being shelled in the words of ukraine's interior minister practically all day long. here's some of what cnn saw there today. >> reporter: you can see all around us just the sheer devastation right here is the crater from where a bomb was dropped just two days ago. north of here about 25 miles away is inside russia. that's where the russian positions are shelling. that's where they're throwing devastation and death into places like this in kharkiv into civilian areas. most of the people who have been able to evacuate have already left the city. those that remain have told us it's because they believe that nowhere in ukraine is safe. they wouldn't speak on camera because they're worried what will happen when and if the russians finally arrive, and that is what u.s. and ukrainian intelligence officials believe is about to happen. they believe that russian troops are amassing. that was just a mortar strike as we were talking. it's about the third or fourth that we've heard. it's coming from that direction over there. we're continuing to hear strikes. >> ukraine's top military commander says the defense of mariupol continues with heavy fighting inside the city, which still houses about 100,000 civilians. he says his forces are holding stable, belying the assessment this weekend for an american defense think tank indicating that russian forces have essentially cut the city in two. in any event, the bombardment continues even as new images come to light showing the damage already done. this is drone video of the city theater that was being used as a bomb shelter where several hundred civil yans were killed. mariupol's dead now number in the tens of thousands, and russia's new commander of the operation unlikely to stop the attacks on civilians, highly unlikely. this man right there known as the butcher of syria, but as pentagon spokesman john kirby said today, brutal russian tactics are nothing new. (. >> there's a track record here before ukraine of russian brutality, and you've seen it on display every single day of the last 46 days. the brutality that the russians are capable of. we're seeing it today as you and i are talking here. you can see it today. so i think sadly we can all expect that those same brutal tactics, that same disregard for civilian life and civilian infrastructure will probably continue as they now focus in a more geographically confined area in the donbas. >> as only cnn can, we have correspondents everywhere this st story is unfolding. cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward is in kyiv, cnn's nic robertson in bru brussels. cnn's katie bow little lis on the russian interference story, cnn kaitlan collins at the white house for us and in london matthew chance on the teacher facing prison time. clarissa, what's the mood in the ukrainian capital tonight now that a senior official says the russian offensive in the east has begun? >> well, essentially, john, all eyes ron the east, and everybod is bracing themselves for what this massive operation is going to look like. you mentioned those satellite images that have come in from maxar that appear to show this eight-mile long convoy pushing down east of the city of kharkiv bearing to the south. the theory is that basically as those forces push south, other russian forces, which are in the south will push north and essentially try to cut off a huge slice of this country. there has been heavy, heavy fighting in the town of iz yum. there has been intensified shelling in donetsk, in liugans. 66 inss of shelling in just one day. 11 civilians killed and among them a child of just 7 years old. so people now essentially holding their breath. ukrainian forces preparing themselves. there was another attack on a ukrainian railway station in the east. ukrainian authorities are not revealing the name of that station. nobody was killed, unlike the deadly and horrific attack on the railway station on friday that left some 57 people dead. this really primarily targeting, it appears, power lines, tracks, and several locomotives. but it gives you a sense that russian forces are essentially trying to strike at ukraine's ability to resupply, to bring in more weaponry because one of the complexities for the ukrainian forces as they get into this renewed -- this larger offensive in the east, is that unlike the battles that were taking place to the north of kyiv, we are in the east you are very far away from places like poland and other nato countries that have been supplying weaponry to the ukrainian forces. so it becomes that much more challenging to resupply troops in the eastern parts of the country, john. >> so clarissa, while i have you, what are you learning about the temporary bridge that has opened in irpin, that of course right next to kyiv i remember you were reporting there the collapsed bridge at the start of the war, there's now a temporary bridge in its place? >> reporter: so this is kind of an iconic moment, i think, in a sense because that bridge became a symbol for the horror that was unfolding in the suburbs around kyiv, and you saw this tide of humanity as people were desperately trying to escape the shelling, the bombardment, and get across to the relative safety of central kyiv, and they were cut off for so long. the ukrainians had blown up that bridge in order to prevent russian forces from gaining access to the city's center. now today they have built a temporary bridge that will essentially allow aid workers and construction efforts to begin in earnest as they sort of start this herculean task of trying to rebuild these areas. the mayor of irpin has also announced that there will be a curfew throughout the day and night during this week, not because there is any danger at all, but because they want to allow those rescue workers, those construction workers unfettered and free access to move around and begin this work to try to repair some of the infrastructure so that people can start to go home and start to think about putting their lives back together, john. >> there is so much work to do. so nic, for the first time suns t since the russian invasion began, a european leader met face-to-face with vladimir putin today. what happened in this meeting between the austrian chancellor and putin? >> reporter: well, the austrian chancellor went into this meeting having only two days ago been in kyiv with government officials there going to bucha, seeing what he said was the aftermath of war crimes and standing there and saying it was important to hold those responsible for these war crimes to account. so when he went to meet president putin, his message was that he wanted to tell president putin the truth about what president putin's troops are doing on the ground. so at no point in the future will president putin ever, ever be able to turn around and say to a war crimes tribunal or to whomever, he'll never be able to say no one told me what my troops are doing because of course at the moment he's directing his troops to continue the war in ukraine. now, the austrian chancellor said the meeting was unfriendly. it was direct. it was open. it was tough. he doesn't think that he changed president putin's mind at all, but he said he was able to tell president putin, you know, i've looked in the eyes of people in ukraine and seen the unimaginable suffering as a result of russia's war with aggression. so it was really telling putin in a very tough and harsh way that he's responsible, his troops are responsible for these war crimes, and the austrian chancellor bearing witness to it. and he also warned putin as well that as long as ukrainians are being killed, then the international community is going to put tougher and tighter and tighter sanctions on russia . at a minimum, he was hoping to be able to get agreements on humanitarian corridors hoping to persuade putin to put a cease fire in place to hold the war. he said that putin just pushed back and said that it was a war of necessity for russia, that narrative that we've heard coming from the kremlin so many times that they're the ones that feel threatened. the chancellor felt that he had to go there and take that opportunity for humanitarian rea reasons, but putin's put on notice. the international community through the austrian chancellor has told putin to his face what his troops are doing. there can be no excuses, no misunderstanding whatsoever, john. >> nic robertson, clarissa ward, thank you o'both so much. more now on this new intelligence assessment on vladimir putin's willingness to, again, interfere in u.s. elections perhaps more directly and more destructively this time. cnn's katie bow little lis joins us now. according to intelligence officials, how much further might vladimir putin now be willing to go? >> john, the concern for u.s. intelligence officials is that as putin comes under increasing pressure from the west in part led by united states and on the battlefield in ukraine, that he may be more likely to take more aggressive action against the united states to include potentially ramping up his already ongoing efforts to meddle in american politics. now, sources familiar with the intelligence community's latest assessments tell us that there's a range of ways that putin could try to do this, but one of the possibilities is that he could potentially attempt to target american voting infrastructure directly, something that up until now he's been apparently unwilling to do. the thinking here, john, is that a putin cornered is a putin that is more likely to lash out against the united states, and sort of targeting american elections is one way that he might be able to do that, john. >> and so an attack on actual voting systems, that would be an escalation even over what he's done in the past. i mean, how much concern specifically is there about that canine of a cyberattack? >> yeah, look, u.s. officials are certainly taking this as if it is a real -- or treating this as if it is a very real threat. the u.s. officials we spoke to did emphasize that the intelligence community hasn't seen any specific threat that they're tracking here. they don't have any direct intelligence or evidence that putin has issued any kind of a warning here -- or sorry, any kind of an order here, i should say. the way to think about these assessments, john, is that they are analysis. they are the result of the intelligence community having spent years watching, trying to understand the russian president. and this is part of their attempt to try to predict the way he will respond in an unpredictable situation. >> yeah, and make sure the protections are in place. katie bo lillis, thank you very much for your reporting. military analyst retired general james spader mark on the russian general now in charge of the invasion and the ugly reputation he already has, and later what clarissa ward discovered in villages liberated by ukrainian forces but utterly devastated by what the russian invaders inflicted on them. orme, so you can have momore succes tomorrow. ♪ o one thing leads to anothe, yeah, yeah ♪ bipolar depression. it made me feel trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. call your doctor about sudden behavior changes or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. now i'm back where i belong. ask your doctor if latuda is right for you. pay as little as zero dollars for your first prescription. at booking.com, finding perfect isn't rocket science. kitchen? 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>> reporter: russia of course really loomed over this entire conversation that president biden and prime minister modi had. the white house is really trying to get india off this fence that it's been on when it comes to invasion because, john, as you know, they've abstained from several votes at the united nations condemning russia's invasion. they've continued to snap up cheap russian oil, so that has kind of been this delicate balance at the white house is trying to strike when talking to them about this. and we know publicly that they have used really delicate language saying things like it's not in india's interests to continue buying russian oil as the u.s. and the west has tried to isolate russia since this invasion started. privately, we know behind the scenes there has been some frustration with the fact that india has continued to act in this way. it has not condemned the invasion, though the white house noted today they have sent humanitarian aid. i really think it really summed up the entire visit today of the top indian officials who did come to the united states. they met with secretary blinken, they met with the defense secretary austin as well, andon, they were saying what they believe should happen is that nations, especially those that have leverage, should continue to press putin to end this war. of course while standing right next to the indian officials who have not condemned this invasion yet. >> yeah, sending a message. i mentioned the new commander of russian forces. how is the administration responding to the news of his po appointment? >> they say they don't really think it will change the trajectory of things. there is understandably a level of concern given he was in charge of russia's military operations when we saw happening in syria, they bombed indiscriminately in civilian areas including in hospitals. they destroyed places like aleppo and so basically what you hear from white house officials and what jen psaki told us today during the briefing is they expect to continue to see more of the same, more of the same atrocities that russia has been committing so far. they said that they don't think a change in personnel is going to change the fact that there has been this strategic blunder by russia in this invasion so far. clearly, it has not gone the way they planned, but that doesn't make it any less brutal, and it doesn't change what you're seeing on the ground. the concern there is that is only going to continue. as jen psaki told me today they think it is going to last for a long time, john. >> kaitlan collins at the white house, thank you very much. more now on this new commander, the growing offensive in the east and the shape russian forces may now be in after their defeat in kyiv. joining us retired major general james spider mark. you heard the pentagon on this russian commander. they expect more of the same when it comes to bombing campaigns and brutality towards civilians. if the russian strategy is to secure or control the donbas area, what city or area do you see as the next major point of the conflict? we lost spider right there. we're going to try to get spider back in just a moment. just ahead, the story of a russian teacher whose crime was t to tell her students the truth about the war. details when we return. when it comes to cybersecurity, the biggest threats don't always strike the biggest targets. so help safeguard your small business with comcast business securityedge™. it's advanced security that continuously scans for threats and helps protect every connected device. on the largest, fastest, reliable network with speeds up to 10 gigs to the most small businesses. so you can be ready for what's next. get started with internet and voice for $64.99 a month. and ask how to add securityedge™. or, ask how to get up to an $800 prepaid card. we've reconnected with cnn military analyst and retired major general james "spider" marks. i was asking you about the new russian offense in the east. what city or area do you see as the major point of conflict here? >> well, thank you, john, for having me. i apologize for the disconnect. mariupol clearly is what the russians need to get their hands on in terms of their having a narrative or something they can go back and say we've accomplished our task. the donbas is being contested, but right outside the donbas is mariupol, which is a port city. they've devastated that. that needs to be taken in terms of their overall focus. and what we see with the new commander, dvornikov is that he has overall been in control -- operations -- >> spider seems plagued for us tonight. we'll come back to him if we can. as reported earlier, the leader of austria left his meeting with vladimir putin in moscow today, saying he was not, quote, particularly optimistic. austria's chancellor also indicated he gave putin the facts about the war and that he told putin his view of the conflict was not shared by anybody. perspective now on the pushback vladimir putin has received today from cnn's fareed zakaria. given how infrequently vladimir putin is confronted face-to-face, how do you think he'll react to the austrian chancellor's pretty blunt message today? >> putin is very comfortable with confrontation. i have had the opportunity to mea m meet him a number of times, interview him. he's very comfortable with a very straight, direct conversation. he has some -- you know, i think there's a certain kind of internal confidence that he radiates in some ways. so i'm not -- i'm not sure that that was as unexpected as it might have been, but, john, i think one of the things we all have to recognize is many people who have met him many, many more times than i have all feel this is a different putin. that 22 years in power, you know, a decade of rising oil prices, two years of covid isolation where people had to quarantine for two weeks before they could even have a five-minute meeting with him, this may be a different person, more arrogant, more prickly, more isolated so, so in that se it may be unusual. >> when an idea of a face-to-face meeting between putin and the ukrainian president zelenskyy was brought up to putin today, he apparently had no response. what do you think it would take for putin to agree to a face-to-face meeting with zelenskyy? >> it's a kind of shattering of his dream really because putin's theory of ukraine, which i think one has to remember this kind of megalo mein ya, people often believe the propaganda they're spouting. they need that to be able to convincingly embrace it. in his view, ukrainians basically want to be little brothers to russia's big brother. they look up to and respect russia. they do not really respect zelenskyy, who in his view is the product of a kind of american sponsored or nato sponsored series of machinations that began in a coup in 2014. so for him, recognizing volodymyr zelenskyy, you know, volodymyr being the ukrainian version of vladimir, is very difficult. it is to recognize that this is the leader of a proud nation that wants to be separate from russia, distinct. so it's not as easy as people make it out to be to just sit down with him. his plan a was zelenskyy was going to be deposed and perhaps tried and imprisoned, and instead, what we're talking about is an actual negotiation. >> the austrian chancellor did not express much optimism that this meeting would change paunt's course of action. he said it might take meeting putin like this 100 times to achieve peace. do you think he's right, and if engaging putin like this has little to no impact on him, do you think it's even worth it? >> look, it's always worth trying to reach out and talk, but i think he's fundamentally wrong in the sense that what will change putin's mind is defeat on the battlefield. i have come to the view that even the sanctions, at the end of the day, they are not going to have the impact that people imagine because, remember, vladimir putin is making, if you think of it in russian oil and gas and coal revenues, he's making about $350 billion this year. that's up 30% from last year because the price -- because the war in ukraine has raised the price of oil. we're giving ukraine, just to put it in perspective, about $13 billion worth of support while we're giving $350 billion of oil revenues, oil, gas, and coal revenues to russia. what is going to change pauutin calculation is defeat on the battlefield. i think what is happening in eastern ukraine now is going to be the absolutely decisive force here, if the russian army, which is already battered and bruised in trying to take more of this territory is unable to do it, if it actually loses territory, loses some of the territory holds, then putin starts to worry maybe i need to negotiate to at least preserve what i have. i think that this is a calculation really about power, hard power and control. the number of times you meet with them is not going to change that. all that said, i'm always in favor of, you know, diplomacy off ramps, keep the conversation going. don't make any foolish concessions, but the language putin recognizes so clearly -- this should be abundantly clear at this point -- is force hard power, hard military power. >> a sobering reality, fareed zakaria, thank you very much. coming up, liberated ukraine, clarissa ward talks to those who survived more than a month of russian occupation. which makes waking up at 5 a.m. to milk the cows a little easier. 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(music throughout) with major social media apps banned in russia and censorship laws effectively criminalizing accurate reporting of the war, it's difficult to get a sense of just what russians really know about it or how they react when they see people speak out against it. something that is dangerous to do in vladimir putin's russia. matthew chance joins us now with a story of a teacher at a prestigious school who was turned into authorities for basically just telling the truth in her classroom. matthew, what more can you tell us about this -- when this teacher allegedly said and how everything transpired? >> reporter: yeah, hey, john. it's not just dangerous in russia to tell the truth or to contradict the official narrative, it's also illegal because there have been new laws passed in the country since the invasion began basically banning the spread of, well, they call it false information, but obviously it means information that is not in line with what official news media, what the government is saying. also you're not allowed to criticize the authorities there since the implementation of this law, and that's the law that this teacher arena jen is her name in the western russian city of penza has fallen foul of. she's an english teacher in a school there. she was asked by her students in a class, you know, why russia was not able to take part in upcoming european athletics championships, many of them are athletics scholars, and she told them the truth. basically she said it's because russia has become a pariah state. it's behaving like north korea. it's attacked ukraine, it's attacked mariupol, the city there. it's attempted to overthrow the sovereign state of ukraine and to topple volodymyr zelenskyy there, and she said if that continues, then these kinds of bans are going to last forever, which, you know, is the truth. i guess she figured that her students needed to hear what they're not going to hear from state media. the problem is that one of the students recorded the conversation and the police were brought in, and this was in the middle of march, and she was forced to resign. she'd been at the school for more than 20 years. she was forced to resign. today we spoke to her lawyer in russia, and he told us that she's now being prosecuted for intentionally spreading false information, and she could face, if she's found guilty, she faces up to ten years in prison for what she's done. so it's, you know, a really kind of telling glimpse of what the situation in russia is like at the moment as it is engaged in this brutal conflict inside ukraine, john. >> what a story. look, matthew, it's been so hard to try to figure out what the sentiment is actually like in russia right now when it comes to the war. i mean, what does this story tell you? >> reporter: yeah, it is really hard, and it's because of laws like that, because it's not just english teachers like arina jen that have been targeted. the main people who have been targeted of course are journalists, the independent media has been under attack in russia for several years now. but it's been sigh licensed in the past few weeks because of laws like this. organizations have been fought that have been long-standing and respected in the world of international media in russia have been completely closed down. the journalists have fled the country. the crkremlin is doing everythi it can to make sure that it controls the narrative, state media channels broadcasting propaganda 24/7. they do not want to hear anybody putting across a different version of events, and they're prepared to go to extreme measures to make sure that doesn't happen. >> matthew chance, thank you so much. so in a country where simply telling the truth is punishable by prison time as you heard, it might not surprise you that lying about the war in ukraine is officially sanctioned. that said, the sheer amount of propaganda russians are hearing about the war is staggering. more on that from brian stelter. >> reporter: here's what russia's upside down media world is like. they claim the train station missile strike in eastern ukraine was committed by ukraine, despite all evidence to the contrary. this post from the foreign affairs ministry parroted by pro-russian accounts on social media claims the kyiv regime wants more of its own civilians to die. >> russians who get their truth from the state media are living in an alternate reality. >> reporter: every day madeline roach watches the morning news on channel 1, a top state-run tv channel in russia. >> the russian army is portrayed as triumphant, as not sustaining any losses, any casualties and is certainly not committing any atrocities. meanwhile, according to the state media it's the ukrainian army committing atrocities, killing civilians, sustaining heavy losses, and losing territory to the russian forces. >> reporter: they deny, they deflect, and according to julia davis, creator of the russian media monitor, they portray the russian armed forces as libe liberators. >> they're presenting it like the ukrainians want them there, they want to be liberated. they have been oppressed by this so-called nazi government, and they welcome russia's inter intervention. >> reporter: independent news coverage disproves that, but there is almost none of that left in russia. >> essentially journalism has been banned in russia. >> reporter: anne applebaum notes that so many journalists have fled the country. >> the true story of what goes on in russia is now getting harder and harder to tell. >> reporter: russians ares through more dependent on state-owned tv cnn's nic robertson says. >> there's no surprise that so many people are just following along with the kremlin's lines. it's the easiest thing for them to do. they don't see an alternative. they feel powerless, and it's information that they've been fed year upon year upon year by putin and by the soviet leadership back in those days. >> the government is creating this sort of sealed bubble that doesn't allow for information that contradicts the government to enter. >> reporter: roachu is writing a daily report for news guard making a record of the false claims. she says others need to know what it's like. >> russians would have every reason to feel proud based on what they're seeing on the state tv. >> reporter: that was brian stelter reporting. recently liberated towns in ukraine and talks to survivors about what they witnessed and what they endured over more than a month of russian occupation. so subaru is growing our commitment to protect the e environment. in partnership with the national forest foundation, subaru anand our retailers are proud to help replant 1 million trees to help restore our forests. subaru. more than a car company. ok, let's talk about those changes to your financial plan. bill, mary? 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this is a school. in several classrooms there are signs that some of the russian soldiers felt ashamed of their actions, a message on a chal chalkboard. >> so it says forgive us, we didn't want this war. but forgiveness will be hard to come by here. at the local cemetery, valentina takes us to the graves of six men who authorities say were executed by russian forces on the day they arrived. it's so hard to get over this, she says. they murdered them. valentina says the russians held on to the bodies for nine days before dumping them at the end of the village with instructions to bury them quickly. we dug very fast so they wouldn't shoot us, she says, but there was shooting over there and heavy shelling. among the dead, her neighbors, brothers egor and oleg yavon. outside the family home, we meet their mother olga. for days she thought her sons were in hiding until a neighbor called her with the devastating news. the agony and the grief are still very raw. they were very good boys, she says. how i want to see them again. >> do you have any idea why the russians would kill your sons? >> who knows, there was a bridge that was blown up and somebody shot at a russian drone, she says. the russians were searching the village and rounded them up on the street, six boys. i don't know anything else. a few streets away, catarina is also looking for answers. her daughter victoria, a school teacher was taken by russian soldiers on march 25th. they said they found information on her phone about forces, she says. they told me she was working in a warm house and she would be home soon. but victoria never came home. we hoped that she would get in touch, katerina says. wo with somebody, somewhere. in this small community of 2,000, it seems no street has been spared. the invaders marked their newly seized territory with crude graffiti and battle markings. but brave residents carried out quiet acts of resistance. ke w we kept it. we kept it, she says, showing us a ukrainian flag given to us for his military service. we hid it. a bold risk in anticipation of this moment, when russian troops would be forced to retreat. and the villages would finally be free. >> so, clarissa, how will the residents in those villages rebuild it? and do they fear the russian forces could come back? >> well, john, i think for now, the main thing they're trying to do is take stock of the damage and start the herculean cleanup. literally every single home has been ransacked. everything's been stolen. you saw that school, the images. it's just been totally ravaged. but in the back of their minds, i think there's this lingering fear that maybe the nightmare isn't fully over. maybe russian forces could come back again. there's a complete breakdown in trust, understandably. and the i think the other feeling is one of profound sadness because when they look across the country, they understand that what they have been through may well be the experience of so many ukrainians in areas where we just can't get those stories. we don't have access to those areas. they don't have access to phones, to the internet. and also the real fear that we're going to see even more of these types of harrowing reports, as russia pushes forward with this offensive in the east, john. >> clarissa ward, thank you very much. up next, a late update on the court challenge to congresswoman marjorie taylor greene's candidacy, the effort to bar her from re-election and what the federal judge in the case signalled about her position. ♪ ♪ (camera shutters) the all-new lx 600. ready for any arena. ♪ ♪ bipolar depression. it made me feel trapped in a fog. this is art inspired by real stories of bipolar depression. i just couldn't find my way out of it. the lows of bipolar depression can take you to a dark place. latuda could make a real difference in your symptoms. latuda was proven to significantly reduce bipolar depression symptoms and in clinical studies, had no substantial impact on weight. this is where i want to be. call your doctor about sudden behavior changes or suicidal thoughts. antidepressants can increase these in children and young adults. elderly dementia patients have increased risk of death or stroke. report fever, confusion, stiff or uncontrollable muscle movements, which may be life threatening or permanent. these aren't all the serious side effects. now i'm back where i belong. ask your doctor if latuda is right for you. pay as little as zero dollars for your first prescription. where do you find the perfect developer? 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