there were chaotic scenes as people fled the train once the doors opened at the next station. law enforcement officials tell cnn they believe the shooter's gun jammed during that attack. police want to speak with the man you see here, 62-year-old frank james. he is being described as a person of interest and not a suspect. james is believed to have rented a u-haul van, possibly linked to the shooting. it's been towed away for further investigation, and we will have much more on this story in just a moment. but first, we want to bring you the latest on russia's war in ukraine. for the first time, u.s. president joe biden accusing russia of committing genocide in ukraine. joe biden made those comments while talking about inflation and increasing gasoline prices, and then doubled down on the accusation while speaking with reporters. >> i called it genocide. the evidence is mounting. more evidence is coming out of literally the horrible things that the russians have done in ukraine. and we're going to only learn more and more about the devastation. and we'll let the lawyers decide internationally whether or not it qualifies. but it sure seems that way to me. >> those comments by joe biden were welcomed by the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy who called them the true words of a true leader. the u.s. is expected to deliver hundreds of millions of dollars in new security assistance to ukraine soon as a new russian offensive is expected in eastern ukraine. and the presidents of poland and baltic states are on their way to kyiv to meet with zelenskyy. on tuesday, the u.s. secretary of state antony blinken said the u.s. could not confirm the use of chemical weapons in ukraine in particular in the port city of mariupol, but he warned it is a tactic that the russians could use. >> i think i pointed to the possibility that these kinds of weapons would be used, and it's something that we're very, very focused on. >> meantime, new satellite images have revealed military equipment deployed on russian soil not far from ukraine's border. military convoys have also been seen moving through eastern ukraine near the donbas. we're also hearing now from the russian president vladimir putin during a news conference tuesday, he said peace negotiations with ukraine are, quote, at a dead-end. he also said the war will go on until moscow achieves its originals goals. the bodies of six civilians with gunshot wounds were found in the basement of a home outside the capital of kyiv. the discovery was announced by the ukrainian prosecutor who then earlier had spoken with fred pleitgen. a warning to our viewers, fred's report contains some graphic images. >> reporter: even as russian troops mass in eastern ukraine for what the u.s. believes will be a huge offensive, authorities in kyiv continue digging up bodies. painstaking work that goes hand in hand with investigating russia's attack on kyiv and possible crimes committed by vladimir putin's invading troops. prosecutor general iryna benedictova is leading the charge. she spoke to me at the edge of a mass grave in the suburb of kyiv. >> for us the motivation is justice. and of course we understand that all the ukrainian want fast justice. true and fast justice. that's why we do everything to document all evidence, all facts of war crimes that we have here in ukraine. >> reporter: french forensic investigators are now also on the scene, not because ukraine lacks expertise, but because kyiv wants to be as transparent as possible in the face of russian disinformation efforts. >> we want to do our job absolutely open with standards of international humanitarian. it's very high standards. that's why we have our international colleagues. we understand they can see everything. they can see real situation here, real graves, real dead bodies. >> reporter: after ukrainian forces managed to expel russian troops from around kyiv and some other areas they'd occupied in ukraine, authorities have discovered scores of dead bodies. today another six found in just one basement outside kyiv. the prosecutor tells me they are collecting evidence in thousands of cases. >> now we started more than 6,000 cases. it's cases it's crimes, war crimes, crimes against humanity, aggression crimes, and we started on the first day. so started a case about genocide. >> reporter: all this as russia still claims its forces that have invaded ukraine have not harmed any civilians. on a visit to a space port with belarusian strong man alexandr lukashenko, russian president vladimir putin again claimed his forces are fighting against would be ukrainian nazis in what he calls a, quote, special operation. the goals are absolutely clear and they are noble, he said. i said it from the beginning and want to draw your attention to that. there are some in the u.s. at the top level who have spoken about a possible war crimes trial against vladimir putin. that something you think could ever be possible and something that you're working towards to provide evidence for? >> of course i think that everyone understand who is responsible for this war. that's why we do everything to fix, to document evidence, but we're here in ukraine and actually understand who is responsible for all of this. >> reporter: the investigators' work is complicated by the fact that the war is still going on, and they can't reach many devastated areas like the encircled city of mariupol where ukraine's president says tens of thousands have been killed. but irina venedictova said no matter how long it takes, she will press on. >> it's extremely important because if we will be successful as prosecutors, i assure that we can stop such aggressions in the future. >> reporter: fred pleitgen, cnn, bucha, ukraine. well, tuesday marked day 48 since the russian invasion began, a point not lost on the ukrainian president. in a speech posted online, zelenskyy made reference to moscow's plan to encircle and capture the capital kyiv in just 48 hours. listen to this. >> translator: in 48 hours, which stretched for 48 days, the russian army has reached a level of irreparable losses higher than that of the soviet union in ten years of war in afghanistan. higher than that of russia in the two wars in chechnya. >> meantime, zelenskyy has proposed a prisoner swap with russia offering to hand over this captured ally, the russian president to vladimir putin in exchange for ukrainian prisoners of war. this pro moscow ukrainian politician and oligarch was detained by the country's security service in what zelenskyy called a special operation. prior to the operation, medvedchuk was under house arrest. some observers speculated he or one of his allies may be the kremlin's preference to lead a public government if ukraine actually was taken over by the russians. this man could have been the one to succeed zelenskyy. well, more now on the manhunt in new york city for the gunman who opened fire on a crowded brooklyn subway car tuesday. police say ten people were shot and 13 others injured in the scramble to get off that train. everyone survived, though, thankfully. police have identified the man you see here as a person of interest because he's believed to have rented a u-haul van whose keys were found at the scene. he has not been named as a suspect, though. meantime, a survivor who says he was sitting next to the shooter is hospitalized with a gunshot wound. he spoke with cnn earlier from his hospital bed and described what happened. >> i see black smoke, and that's when i got hit. i didn't think it was serious until i got off the train. i pulled my pants down, and the size of a quarter is gushing out blood. i lost so much blood. >> where did the bullet hit? >> well, if you see right here. i'm wearing a cane, but i'll demonstrate on my other leg. right here. the bullet went through the back of the knee and it came out over here. it's the size of a quarter over here. >> juliette kayyem is a cnn national security analyst, and she joins me now from cambridge, massachusetts. always good to have you with us. >> thank you for having me tonight. >> so juliette, a manhunt is under way for 62-year-old frank james who police call a person of interest, not a suspect. despite his photograph fitting the exact description of the brooklyn subway shooting suspect, police are asking for help from the public. so what does all this tell you? >> it does seem complicated. so let me try to explain it as sort of the police talk that most americans saw happening today. there is a reason why they did not call mr. james a suspect is they might have reason to believe that there might be others involved, possibly a third party, or a third person, but also that they want to protect the prosecution, which is going to follow. so if they call him a suspect already, that case might fall apart. then they find someone different. they're going muddy up what should be a clear-cut case. so it seemed really confusing that we have a person of interest and a suspect, and we don't know whether they're the same person that is very purposeful, to protect the prosecution. so long story short, within 20 hours of the incident, they've got a name. they've got a person of interest. they're on a manhunt. they've got the truck. this thing will end relatively soon. this is not going to be a long-term investigation. >> interesting. of course, what we know so far is after putting on a gas mask. >> yes. >> and throwing gas canisters or smoke canisters inside the train, the subway shooter then fired 33 times, hitting 10 people. thankfully, his gun jammed. security cameras at the station were not functioning, but of course there is an abundance of smartphone video available to police to help them find the shooter. >> right. >> they have linked to frank james to the u-haul vehicle you mentioned that was rented under the credit card that was dropped near the scene of the shooting. what procedure will they need to follow to ensure that they do actually get the person, the shooter at the subway? >> so this is where extraordinary events can seem sort of normal. this is going to seem like a normal criminal investigation, especially if there is no allegations of a foreign terrorism tie which the nypd has been pretty clear. they're not doing this as terrorism, nor if they thought there was an ongoing threat. so this will be putting the pieces of the physical evidence together. it is clear that this -- that the police have a sense of who he is, because they have ruled out what we would call a terrorism investigation which would be one that was motivated for political purposes. this may be someone that was dealing with mental health issues or other issues related to why the police would rule out terrorism this quickly. so as i said, extraordinary events, scary events, events that terrorize. there is no question about that. it will look pretty familiar through just the criminal justice process, and then there will be a prosecution and then ultimately a determination if there is a conviction. this is a case that i think will not reach sort of epic proportions in terms of how we think about safety and security in this country, because it's unlikely to be politically motivated. and because of all the investments that new york has made in its safety and security, and most importantly, its response capacity, this really was situation that could have gone from horrible to catastrophic and actually resulted in no deaths. in my world, that's a success story. it really is. >> i absolutely agree. juliette kayyem, thank you so much for joining us and sharing your analysis with us. we appreciate it always. >> thank you. well, refugees are pouring out of ukraine, many bringing with them stories of fear and trauma. we will have the latest on the exodus and the humanitarian aid effort. back in just a moment. th diabet, fingersticks can be a real challenge. that's why i i use the freestyle libre 2 system. 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began. but the actual real number are expected to be much higher, as much as 20,000 people killed in mariupol according to ukrainian officials. the founder of the humanitarian aid organization bird of light ukraine. she is with us from western ukraine not far from the border with romania. jana, thank you so much for taking the time to speak with us. i'm just wondering how you holding up right now? because this has been a difficult time for everyone, and you're dealing with people who have gone through some incredible hardships. so how are you coping? >> hello, everyone. how do i do? it's a difficult time, as you said. every day i wake up and i read the news, and i go on with my day. we deliver so much aid, food, medical supplies. and now that everything is on pretty much automatic flow, i wake up and ask myself every day, what else can i do, how else can i help. particularly yesterday, i learned about this group of kids who were elected from the battlefield next to their parents who were shot dead. and i now put my energy and forces into -- into trying to help these kids. and as tomorrow, i'm going to go to this orphanage. they were brought from all over the country, and they will be residing here in the west part of ukraine. so this is my focus right now, to be helping these kids in any way possible. i know that many of them are not able to speak they're so traumatized. and it's very difficult. but as i said, every day i do my best, but every day try to understand what else can i do, how else can i help, to women and men and kids who are firsthand suffering from this. >> how many children are you talking about here? what are their ages? and how long have they been without their parents? >> well, so there are three facilities that i'm going to be overlooking. and one of them i'm overlooking already. there are 300 kids that left the orphanages in donetsk and dnipro. they left those cities as those were under attack, and on the way to the west, it took them two and a half days. and on the way to the west there, the bus with their teachers and educators was shot. so they came here pretty much along with just a few teachers. and it's 300 kids. of different age groups. some of them are pretty tiny. so like up until 7. and then there is a big group of 7 plus. so it's all range of ages there. so we're talking about one group of 300 that are currently residing in summer camp that is not equipped for hosting that many kids, especially during colder time of the year. and then another group that i haven't visited yet, but i'm planning to go there on thursday. it's another group of 300 kids, and 150 of them are age from 1 to 7. >> wow. you came to ukraine at the end of last year. you came to reconnect with your dad. then the war started, and you decided to stay. you had no intention of starting a humanitarian aid group. you had no intention of heading out and repairing ambulances and giving orphan children a home. how did it happen? >> yes, i came back to ukraine to visit my dad whom i was not in touch with for 32 years. so in my 37th birthday, i decided to pay a visit and just knocked on the door and said hello, i'm zhanna, i'm your daughter. i would like to meet you. and that was a whole transformative experience for me to get to know him, to get to talk to him, to understand how much alike we are and it was the most beautiful time of my life, to be honest. it was the most difficult time of my life in terms of emotional roller coaster. but it was also the most beautiful time of connecting to myself and learning more about myself through connecting to him. and then all this was happening on the background of the war coming closer and closer, and all my friends and family were asking me to leave. and on the february 24th, i woke up in kyiv to the sounds of sirens and warnings from all over, and i saw people leaving the city. so i had few runs to the bunker where i understood how real it is. it's happening. and nobody could believe that this time 21st century a big city like kyiv will be invaded so brutally. so i got into a car and i started to go west. and it took me two days without sleeping, without stopping to get to the border. moldovan border. when i was about to cross, something inside of me told me that i cannot just leave it all behind, and perhaps there is something i can do. so i stayed, and i ended up in the city of chernivtsi, which i had never been to before. i didn't know anybody here. i started -- yes? >> i was going say you said you wanted to do something, and you've done something is incredible. what you did is you started up a charity from nothing. it's called bird of light ukraine, right? and you've done some incredible work. >> thank you so much. thank you. it all started as initiative. i just looked around, i talked to people, and i just started to collect, to buy food. i was going across the border to bucharest, and i would buy a bunch of food, just wholesale, not wholesale, sorry, retail, retail prices. i started to buy food, pamper, hygiene products, baby food which was in that moment very difficult to get here considering how many newcomers were coming, new refugees with little kids. so i started to come to bucharest buying it, coming back. and distributing it around the centers who are hosting refugees. and from there, the team grew. the support grew. friends and family helped me to collect money, and then we started a campaign. and then here we are. we have delivered tons of food at this point. tons of medical supplies. i made a trip to kyiv. i'm at a medical hospital that hosts about 165 wounded people in it. and that's where we are. bird of light. we just every day we're discovering how else can we help, how else can we support those in need, those who's lives changed forever. to be honest, i never thought i would be doing this kind of work, but i just felt this is a time for me to put together the resources, the source, the human resource, the friends and family and extended friends and family to just create something that will be helpful in this time. >> and that website is birdoflightukraine.com. it's a very easy website to find. if you would like to give some assistance. i'm sure you would greatly appreciate that you've received a lot already. zhanna, thank you so much for being with us. you are an inspiring story. and thank you for everything you're doing. stay safe. >> thank you so much. thank you. this just into cnn. done ukrainian prime minister announced there will be no humanitarian corridors today used to evacuate civilians from fighting. they said russia blocked the buses in the zaporizhzhia region, accusing russian forces of violating a ceasefire in luhansk. when we come back, the search in new york is ongoing for a gunman who opened fire during morning ing iiing rush h. an update in just a minute. ♪ life can be a lot to handle. ♪ this magic moment ♪ but heinz knows there's plenty of magic in all that chaos. ♪ so different and so 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attack, and they have not called him a suspect. one witness was in the train heading to work when smoke filled the car. >> during all this time i'm thinking it's fire crackers. and it's not until i raise my head up and i see there is a lot of blood on the floor that i realize fire crackers can't do this much damage. it has to be -- it has to be somebody with a gun. >> across the country and in new york, violence has increased during the pandemic. over the last two years, shootings in the city are up more than 72%. randi kaye reports this was the latest in a series of attacks in the city's subways. >> reporter: january this year, a mentally ill man shoved a woman on to the subway train track in times square. police say 40-year-old michelle alissa go was pushed on to the tracks of an oncoming train around 9:40 a.m. investigators say the attack was unprovoked. police identified a 61-year-old man as the attacker and charged him with second-degree murder. he later turned himself in. >> our battle is the subway system is fighting the perception of fear that cases like this could happen. >> reporter: stay away from the subway platform's edge said new york city's subway chief after yet another january incident. in that case, police say a 62-year-old man suffered injuries after being pushed on to the subway tracks at the fulton street subway station in lower manhattan. he was treated a at a hospital for a cut to his leg. >> i don't want to tell people they should stand on subway platforms and feel like they're in threat of their lives. but everybody should stand away from the edge of the platform. >> reporter: and look at this terrifying assault from february. watch as the suspect repeatedly hits a 57-year-old woman in the head with a hammer as she makes her way down the stairs to a queens subway station. police say she was struck as many as 13 times and left with a fractured skull in critical condition. investigators say the suspect stole her purse. also in february, soon after new york city's mayor unveiled a new safety initiative to combat subway crimes, there were at least six slashing or stabbings in the subway. police say those included two stacks at queens subway stations, a man stabbed in the back on a manhattan station, and another assault involving a hatchet. and as terrifying as those attacks are, experts say a rider's chance of attack is close to one in a million and transit is no less safe than the rest of the city. >> people are afraid to walk in the streets. crime is happening. the subway is a disaster. >> reporter: surveillance cameras captured this violent attack last month in the middle of the afternoon. on the a train at west 190th street, police say the suspect spit at the 22-year-old victim before attacking him and ripping his hair out. all the while making anti-gay remarks. some incidents are being classified as hate crimes. just last month, the manhattan d.a. filed two hate crime charges against an individual for allegedly assaulting a 29-year-old asian man at a new york city subway station. the suspect allegedly possessed multiple weapons, including a dagger, knife, machete, and razor, according to the criminal complaint. the suspect allegedly attacked the victim with a hammer, causing injuries to his head. >> we're going to make sure new york is still safe in our subway system, and they don't feel that way now. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn. >> well, russian president vladimir putin defending his brutal war in ukraine, vowing to press on until it's mission accomplished. during a news conference where the belarusian president, mr. putin said talks with ukraine have reached adead-end. >> the military operation will continue until it's fully completed and the objectives that were set at the beginning of this operation are achieved. we are helping people. we're saving them from nazism in the first place. and on the other hand, we're protecting russia, taking measures to protect russia's security. and it's obvious that we had no choice. it was the right thing to do, and i have no doubt the objectives will be achieved. >> let's bring in cnn's clare sebastian live in london. let's be clear. they did have a choice. there is no denazification going on here. it's absolutely ridiculous. and why is he now saying peace talks are a dead-end? >> yeah, so that is something that actually both sides more or less agree on. the ukrainian side saying they are ongoing, but they are very difficult. the reason for this is something that they don't 100% agree on. putin says that ukrainian has essentially reneged on some elements that were agreed in the istanbul peace talks that were held last month. he said they had discussed security guarantees. but they wouldn't cover crimea or the donbas regions. that would be decided later once their statuses were agreed. he said ukraine has gone back on that. as for the ukrainian side, an adviser to the president, the lead negotiator said that the emotional background to these talks were very heavy, as he put it. that is clearly a reference to the atrocities that have come to light in recent weeks and the towns that were previously occupied by russia. he said that they are ongoing, but in smaller subgroups and online. so that is the sense. he also accused russia of applying pressure on the talks by talking about them publicly. we do get the sense that president putin was doing that yesterday. if you look at the situation militarily on the ground, it's clear that this is not laying the groundwork for talks. just the news out in the last hour that no humanitarian corridors would be open today clearly shows that the offensive is ramping up. and russia even gave the sense earlier in the week president putin meeting with the austrian chancellor, didn't even respond according to an austrian official to the austrian chancellor's suggestion that zelenskyy would be willing to meet face-to-face. so it is clear he is really not in the mood for negotiations at the moment. >> and it's also clear when he says they're here helping people, he is not. this is helping nobody. clare, thank you. clare sebastian live in london. we'll take a short break. when we come back, though, the british prime minister fined for breaking the covid lockdown rules. but the political costs could be much higher. the partygate, the fallout and the reaction in a moment. let's do it. we already hit the bank, the museum, the jewelry store. where to next? next, we save hundreds with xfinity mobile. huh? -mmm. you know, unlimited data. oh. nationwide 5g at no extra cost. 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>> well, rosemary, i'm sure boris johnson would like to draw a line under this scandal, but according to the metropolitan police, the investigation is still ongoing into these alleged parties and gatherings, which took place at downing street and other government offices during times when the country was either under lockdown or under strict covid regulations. so they could still be more fines to come. but really, the focus with prime minister boris johnson now is of course on managing that reputational damage. the prime minister went from denying that any parties, any gatherings took place at downing street and other government bill buildings. then over the christmas period it was revealed he took part in several gatherings it seems. we heard he took part in that birthday gathering that he has been fined over in june 2020 there was of course the christmas quiz, which took place at downing street. and of course those photos of the prime minister taking part in what appear to have been a social cheese and wine gathering outside in the gardens of downing street. he says these were strictly work gatherings, and that is the key. because you heard from the prime minister. he says that at the time, he wasn't aware that he was breaching those covid regulations. those regulations put in place by the prime minister's own government. he believed that it was simply a work gathering. he said that the birthday gathering which took place in the cabinet office lasted less than ten minutes. but the rules at the time stipulated that they couldn't be indoor gatherings of more than two people, unless reasonably necessary for work purposes. so clearly, the metropolitan police has found that the prime minister taking part in that gathering were in breach of those covid regulations. now the prime minister yesterday said that he wanted to move forward. he wants to focus on his policy priorities to draw a line under the scandal. he has of course paid the fine. but with local elections just around the corner, the government will be waiting to see how this translates at the ballot box. >> all right. nada bashir joining us live from london. many thanks. and coming up, the latest on shanghai's covid lockdown. parts of the city are having their restrictions eased, while a city health official expressed skepticism at efforts to contain the virus. whether we have a live report after this short break. stay with us. check the markets? 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