build a war crimes case. to that point, this late item from america's ambassador at large for global criminal justice speaking at the u.n. she said the u.s. has credible information that a russian military unit executed ukrainians who were attempting to surrender near donetsk. images and reports from here suggest that such atrocities are not the result of rogue units or individuals but instead reveal, she says, a pattern of systematic abuse. also tonight, the return of american trevor reed held in russia since the summer of 2019. released today in a prisoner swap in turkey. his parents spoke to reporters just a short time ago. >> it's not going to hit us until we see him. >> we're excited. we know he's on the plane. i think it's going to really hit us when we get to put our arms around him and hug him. >> for its part today, the kremlin flexed its economic muscle, cutting off natural gas supplies to poland, as well as bulgaria. poland's prime minister calling it a direct attack, his words, on the country, vowing not to give into what he called russian bl blackmail. vladimir putin evoked more nuclear jitters showing nonspecific but certainly ominous sounding threat. >> translator: if someone tends to intervene into the ongoing events in ukraine from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to those strikes will be swift, lightning fast. we have all the tools for this. ones that no one can brag about and we won't brag. we will use them if needed. i want everyone to know this. >> his threat came shortly after explosions in three locations as deep as 200 miles inside russia. this is an ammunition depot on fire in the bolgorad region inside russia, close to the border. explosions in kirsk and a town to the east. an adviser to president zelenskyy said, quote, karma is a cruel thing. separately, in the russian-held city in kherson -- >> that blast reportedly near the city's main television broadcasting facility. there's a lot to get to tonight. ukrainian press quoting russian media saying russian channels went off the air shortly after. also tonight, a sad coda to the already tragic story of have aer will ya, the new mother who said she had found such joy in the birth of her daughter. today in odesa, a funeral ceremony was held for valeria, for her 3-month-old daughter keira, and keira's grandmother, who were killed along with five others just over this weekend. reporting for us is sam kiley, who spent the day in a location under nonstop bombardment. also cnn's chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins us. also, cnn's kaitlan collins and matthew chance on the very latest on the makings of the prison swap nfor trevor reed. first, sam kiley's report. >> reporter: on the front line with russia. it's an artillery front line. basement. let's get into the basement. local police are delivering aid to civilians unable to leave. there's no time to wait out the bombardment. there's no likely end to the shelling either. supplies need delivering and fast. she tells me there are three people next door including a granny of 92. upstairs a bedridden woman. she says that normally they stay in their flat and only use the basement when it's bad. thank you for not for getting us, she adds. the urgency of these sorts of deliveries cannot be exaggerated. just in this spot there's mostly old people. one gentleman is dying of cancer in front of his wife, she's saying she's living in a double h hell. almost every tree, every corner, every bit of this local neighborhood has got the signs of recent impacts and russians are just a kilometer, maybe three away. russian guns are so close you can hear the whole arc of their shells. from kyiv to marimariupol, from kharkiv to here, this is the russian way of war. pound civilians, flatten cities, and maybe occupy the ashes. alexander says, "we're in danger now, they're shelling us. so it could come at any moment and shrapnel could hurt us. we try to hide there in the bomb shelter." two months of war has driven these people underground and there's no end in sight. the fear, alexander confesses, he tries to keep inside, but it creeps out. there's one more delivery that the police have got to make, but every time we try to get out the front door of this building, there's another impact, there's another one now. they're saying that the hospital, which is nearby, is under heavy shelling. we were planning to go there. we can't get through, nor, indeed, at the moment, can we even get out of this bunker. the hospital was hit. images of the damage done that morning posted online by the local administration. they said one civilian killed, others injured and several floors badly damaged. the humanitarian effort goes on. this woman asks only for the basics of existence. water and candles for light. good job. you do this every day? >> yes. >> reporter: he tells me that most people left here now have nowhere else to go. they've lived here all their lives and don't want to abandon their homes. do you think russians are going to take over donetsk? "never," he says. >> "we will stand our ground to the last man. no one will leave here." that may be a dangerous claim. it's likely that ukrainians will destroy this bridge to hold up the invasion. and anyone still here would then be trapped in russian hands. >> sam kiley joins us now along with clarissa ward in kyiv. sam, throughout your piece you could hear near constant shelling. what are the types of targets the russians are hitting in this new round? >> reporter: well, i think more generally in this new round of conflict they're hitting, as we've seen in mariupol before what they declared was the second phase being launched, they're hitting civilian targets overwhelmingly, i think. certainly in sarava donetsk they were hitting the hospital and they were hitting -- and we saw the evidence of this all over that town, banks, street corners, trees were felled, coffee shops, people's homes. all of them being hit with these indiscriminate shells which are now being fired from artillery pieces that are really very close indeed to that town. and we expect that pattern to be repeated, if they can get away with it, elsewhere. i have to say also that the ukrainians have been firing back with multiple rocket launching systems, particularly in the town a little to the north of where i was, anderson. they were being hammered back with multiple rocket launches and ukrainians are rushing reinforcements to those front lines. >> clarissa, vladimir putin saying there would be a lightning response if anyone else got involved in the fighting here. it echos what lavrov said. kind of rattling the nuclear saber. one of our guests last night said, well, what else do they have to do other than make these kind of threats? there is -- there's nowhere else for them to go other than make these threats. >> yeah, it was definitely really ominous, anderson, some of the language that president putin said. we have all the tools, including ones that no one can brag about, but i'm not going to talk about what tools those are. so, it's unclear, is this sort of sci-ops? you mentioned the foreign minister, sergey lavrov said yesterday, again raising the specter of that. is there the possibility that there could be a russian strike on a nato target even? i would say we don't have reason to believe that concretely at this stage, but this is all coming on the heels of the defense secretary lloyd austin's words, which were very strong, saying that ukraine can win this war if they have the right support, and we want to give them the right support and, by the way, the new u.s. policy appears to be now to sort of slowly try to bleed russia dry throughout this war and so, it could be a response to that, but what exactly he meant by it is really anyone's guess. >> none of these statements come in a vacuum. they are often in direct response to something else that just happened. yesterday you had european countries, dozens of them meeting, the defense ministers meeting, a show of unity, and then you have lavrov saying, well -- talking about nuclear threats. >> and i think there's no question that they had not predicted this response, going back to the beginning of the war, it seemed that nato was fragmented about how they wanted to deal with this -- >> right. >> and it has been a robust response, it has been a united response. the u.s. is now sort of doubling down on that and it's clear that the russians are not happy about it. >> sam, we heard what sounded like an air raid siren before. is that still going on? is that heard often there? >> reporter: anderson, this is the sound of spring here in kramatorsk. almost constant air raid sirens. there have been occasional strikes of missiles, probably fired from aircraft, long-range missiles. and this is the sort of witching hour in this sort of hour or two before dawn when they most often strike, just as the sun is coming up, so -- we're expecting what are likely to be largely kind of psychological pressure, i think, being made, brought to bear here on ckramatorsk, i can hear a detonation that's just gone off. i suspect that's anti-aircraft fire. this is sort of the ongoing process as they, the russians, try to put the squeeze here, which is in the center of a salient of territories surrounded, really, potentially, on three sides by russia, but with a large gap that the russians would like to close and close the jaws around this city as part of their campaign, which they say is now focused on capturing what they call the donbas the east of the country, and the southern coastline, anderson. >> clarissa, sam was showing police delivering supplies to people who are sheltering at home. you were just in kharkiv with paramedics visiting people who were in need. i mean, it is extraordinary that under this bombardment, the regular problems of life continue. sam -- there was a man who has cancer who needed things, in sam's report. all of that -- all the drama of regular life continues, now just with war on top of it. >> no, and i think people forget this a lot. when we went to chernihiv, which is a couple hours north of here, after russian forces had been forced to withdraw, and they were finding lots of people who were dead in their homes. not the victims of war crimes, these were people who had heart attacks, who had pneumonia, who had no way to get to the hospital. who had no way of getting medication. so, there is a sense, when you can't really leave your home, and it really is leaving, that simple act of going out to get a water for your family, can lead to death. we saw also in children have in the -- in the graveyard that they had dug there, a family looking for their father, they couldn't find his grave, i said, how was he killed? they said, finally, he had to leave to go and get water, and as soon as he left, he was killed in the shelling. so, the basic needs, water, medicine, they are causing, you know, huge amounts of death, as well, and we won't know for such a long time. and that's what's so hard watching these scenes unfold. i thought about it, as well, in kharkiv, when those missiles went off as the paramedics were there and i thought, how many people have been killed in this apartment building even? >> yeah. >> standing by the window and we don't know about it, because no one's going to knock on the door and they're alone. >> in bucha, we saw a man with a sack of potatoes shot to death by russias because he was trying to bring potatoes home to feed people, killed on a bike going to work. clarissa, thank you very much. sam, be careful. coming up next from the white house to the kremlin, what went on behind the scenes to win trevor reed's release from captivity, and why freeing the two other americans held by russia could be that simple. and then the resident of bucha that documented the horrors of russian occupation and the ukrainian pros cowecutoo is trying to win justice for those people. ♪ ♪ (camera shutters) the all-new lx 600. ready for any arena. ♪ ♪ my patients, i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? 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they said, well, we can't say, but be ready. yes, it's a perfect mother's day. better -- well, not better, but almost as good as the day he was born. >> joining us, cnn's kaitlan collins at the white house and in london, cnn's matthew chance who interviewed the russian who was traded for reed. what is the latest you're learning about how trevor reed's release came about today? >> reporter: i spoke to his parents earlier, joey and paula that you saw there talking to reporters. they said they believe really what helped get this across the finish line, get his release secured was a conversation they had here at the white house with president biden about a month ago. they had been out here in front of the white house, demonstrating, talking about how he was on his second hunger strike and they believe having that conversation really helped with the urgency of their message of bringing him home. when i spoke to president biden earlier today, he said this is something he raised with russians three months ago and they have been working on this ever since then, trying to secure this release, and so they believed this is something that is often -- it's very sensitive to talk about, the details are very delicate and the white house doesn't often want to disclose them, because, of course, there are still other americans detained in russia they'd like to get out. one thing we should note, anderson, the president said it was a really difficult decision here when it came to this release, and that's because of the russian that they released in exchange for trevor reed. that is konstantin yarosyaroshe. they said that was a difficult decision to make it, to send him back to russia in exchange for trevor reed, but obviously, anderson, it's a decision that president biden made. >> matthew, the prisoner swap was played on russian television. it really is something out of the cold war. both men passing each other by as they're exchanged. for russians, why was it important? who is this man, yaroshenko? >> yeah, i mean, look, they are playing this very big and they are seeing it as something of a win, as well, because just like in the united states, the case of trevor reed has gotten a lot of publicity. well, the russian government has made sure that the case of c konstantin yaroshenko, the russian national, who you can see there on the airport tarmac in turkey, sort of in that prisoner swep with trevor reed, he is also something of a cause celeb, as well. there's been a lot of concerns about the way he was detained, he was arrested in a d.e.a. sting operation in liberia, in africa. he always complained about how he was treated in custody, accusing the authorities in the united states of torture, though, of course, they have categorically denied that. they didn't get everything in they wanted. there are lots of other russians, particularly one, victor boot, an arms trafficker in u.s. custody, they want released, as well. but they did get this, but they are playing it as something of a diplomatic win. >> steef, how do prisoner swaps of this nature, i mean, how does it get negotiated? >> you know, this is largely done with the state department, because of course they have a special office that takes care of these hostage situations, and that is the appropriate way to look at this. this is hostage-taking on the part of the russians. not too different of what the north koreans do. they take hostages like this because, of course, there is no equivalency here. it's not as though there are some sort of rule of law in russia that, you know, investigates these things and then there's defense attorneys that fight for the rights of their client. that all happens in the united states and that's what mr. yaroshenko got, but it's not what any of the americans got over there. when putin wants somebody arrested, they get arrested. but the state department handles most of this with the help of other agencies, if they need intelligence support, if they need military support in terms of transportation. the u.s. government has a lot of assets to be able to pull these types of things off. >> there are at least two other americans who are being detained in russia, paul whelan and a wnba star, brittney griner, what more do we know about the e efforts to release them, to secure their releases? >> well, the white house says that the release of trevor reed shows that president biden is committed to bringing other detained americans home, but of course, you can see the frustration coming from their loved ones today that they weren't included in this, that they weren't also brought home and they say they are very grateful for trevor reed's family, they are very glad that they get to enjoy this and he does get to come home after this, but you heard from paul wh whelan's brother who is saying, i'm so glad for them, but deeply upset for us. he was raising concerns about now that this exchanged happened, does it lessen what the united states has to offer f in exchange for his brother? and paul released a statement saying he was left behind. it's such a difficult situation for them to negotiate and it takes a long time for these negotiations to go on behind the scenes, and so, i do think it's a concern, it's obviously concern with brittney griner, something we talked about, that the russians are holding her for leverage. that it is a bargaining chip for them. so, i think that's a main concern you hear from loved ones all the time and certainly one that trevor reed's family had before his release today. >> matthew, you talked about yaroshenko, that he hadn't be apprehended in liberia. what was he convicted of? what did he tell you, because you interviewed him. >> yeah, so, he was convicted of conspiracy to smuggle drugs, to smuggle cocaine. it was a d.e.a. sting operation that was, in which he was sort of drawn into in which there was this plot to smuggle drugs from venezuela to liberia and then onwards to ghana, and he was the pilot in that transportation conspiracy. he never actually smuggled any drugs, but he was arrested when he agreed to do it and extradited to the united states and put in prison for, sentenced to 20 years. and in russia, that was seen as a massive miscarriage of justice. that was seen as, you know, the united states acting outside their jurisdiction and taking a russian citizen back to the united states, when he hadn't committed a crime on u.s. soil. and it was because of that that the russian foreign ministry and russian officials have been pushing so hard for so many years to get him released. just on that issue of whether this sort of erodes the -- the bargaining power that the united states has when it comes to other americans in russian custody, i tell you, the flip side of that argument is that, well, i mean, i think the fact that there's such a bad relationship between russia and the united states at the moment, yet this negotiation still went through, shows that the two countries are able to compartmentalize that kind of negotiation, to take place even though in other areas, there are very big tensions. >> interesting. yeah. matthew chance, steve hall, kaitlan collins, thank you so much. coming up, our visit to bucha. the local prosecutor on a mission for justice after the mass executions, the killings of innocent civilians in his hometown. also, we meet the man who documented the reality on one street in bucha while the russians were occupying it and the widow of a man murdered on his bicycle. that's next. ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! flonase all good. to be clear, we have never been accused of being flashy, sexy or lit. may i? 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>> translator: local residents were killed on the street by the russian military. they were shot, killed even just going out to the street around their business or going to pick up humanitarian aid. >> this man is bucha's prosecutor. he's now collecting evidence of war crimes. >> translator: people were killed at this point. there was a woman killed here. there were bodies here and there where the road is turning left. there were people riding bicycles who were killed by the russian military. >> russia denies it all. they say the more than 300 bodies found in bucha after russian troops withdrew were staged. as for these satellite images taken in mid-march, when russia was occupying bucha, which show bodies in the exact same locations they were later found on the street, russia says they, too, are fake. but the evidence already overwhelming continues to grow. prosecutors have been gathering evidence for weeks and have now revealed to us that they have photographs and videos taken over the course of several days as the killings occurred here. they say the images were captured by a person in this house on their cell phone camera. it was through these windows he saw the slaughter. this is one of his first pictures taken on march 5th. two bodies reportedly killed that day were visible outside his window. on march 6th, when this picture was taken, a third body is visible on the street. this video, taken on march 7th, shows at least two more bodies. ruslan says these images and the data on the camera they were taken with provides important proof of exactly who was killed and when. >> translator: it will prove that it was a particular phone the pictures were taken with and also the time and the location that they were taken. the russian federation will not be able to continue saying this was set up with fakes. >> we tracked down the man who risked his life to take these photos and video. we agreed not to show his face. were you scared to take pictures? if they had seen you taking pictures, you could have been killed. >> translator: of course there was fear, but i had to prove that it was them, that they killed people who were civilians. i had to do something. >> do you remember the first person killed on your street? >> translator: the first one to get killed was a man on the buy cycle to the left of my house. on march 6th, there were more dead people. there were seven people dead on the street on march 6th. seven dead people. i couldn't capture all the bolds from the window. there was a wall in the way. >> what do you want to see happen to those russians, to everybody in the chain of command? >> translator: they must be punished. there was a young guy who was bringing potatoes in a bag maybe for his family. the stores were closed, there was no power, no heating, no water. he wanted to help and he was killed. what do they deserve, only punishment. >> but punishing the guilty won't be easy. there were a number of different russian units, i understand, who were stationed here at one time or another. you need to try to identify which unit it was, what the chain of command was? 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>> let's be clear. president putin agreed with me in principle that we would have, with the support of the u.n. and the support of the international committee of the red cross, that we would have evacuation of those civilians into the territory controlled by the ukrainian government. and we have been working on the details, at the present moment, they are being discussed in moscow between the ministry of defense and our people. we are also in contact with the government of ukraine to see if we can have a situation in which nobody can blame the other side for things not happening. >> when -- some people look at the u.n. and are frustrated that on the security council russia has a veto and can stop anything from the security council really ruling on what is happening here. what do you say to those who say that the u.n. can't be effective because of that? >> well, the u.n. is not only the security council. the general assembly was clear in its positions and we have 1,400 u.n. staff in ukraine and they have already distributed different forms of humanitarian aid to more than 3 million ukrainians. and one of the reasons of my visit is exactly to organize things in order to scale up our action and to be able to do much more for the ukrainians that are in such dramatic circumstances. >> as for now, though, your sites are trying to focus on what you think may be achievable just in terms of getting civilians out of desperate situations, as opposed to a multinational meeting to try to end the war? >> i mean, the war will not end with meetings. the war will end when the russian federation decides to end it and when there is a possibility of a serious political agreement. we can have all meetings but that is not what will end the wars. >> what role is the u.n. playing in terms of war crimes investigations on the ground? because yesterday, vladimir putin, after your meeting, continued to say things which were not true, saying that the bodies that were found in bucha was a provocation, and that's a reason why negotiations failed, because of these false images of dead people, when it's clear russian troops killed civilians in bucha. >> well, since the very first moment the news in bucha appeared, i said, we need an independent investigation. and we need to have accountability. and i must say, i am very hopeful that the international criminal court prosecutor is here, that they are investigating. that is the right way to do things. there is also a group of three members of the committee of inquiry of human rights council. there are monitors and the office of human rights high commissioner and i hope that the truth will be fully established and that responsibilities can be there and accountability can be effective. >> finally, general milley in the united states yesterday said that the international order is under threat, the global order that has held the world together since world war ii is under threat, based on what is happening here, if russia is allowed to be victorious. do you agree with that, that international security is at threat here? >> international order, for me, is essentially the charter and international law. there was a violation of the chartier and international law. it is very important to establish the principles of the charter and to make international law something everybody is forced to abide by. >> just one more question. when you talk to vladimir putin, do you use the word war? do you use the word invasion? >> look, i say exactly the same things in moscow that i say in kyiv and that i say in new york. and that is how the united nations can be credible. if we go to each place and say whatever people like to hear in that place, we will completely lose credibility. >> it was lavrov that raised the specter of nuclear weapons being used. how big of a concern is that for you? >> it is a concern. but i'm sure that the world will avoid that risk. i mean, it would be absolutely unacceptable to think about it. >> mr. secretary-general, thank you. >> thank you very much. >> all the best. >> i appreciate it. as i said, he'll be meeting with president zelenskyy here in ukraine tomorrow. we'll continue to bring you updates from ukraine tonight. but coming up, incredible story of what is going on in shanghai, china. people forbidden to leave their homes due to a covid outbreak, lashing out against authorities, trying to break down barriers. or reporter david culver is in the country himself, stuck in his apartment, living through it all. his record, next. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ (music throughout) 50 new cases. lockdowns continue in shanghai with more than 10,000 new cases reported today. china's strict covid lockdowns affecting many. cnn's david caldwell who's in shanghai under lockdown himself has the details. >> reporter: the call before the storm. beijing residents are stocking up bracing for a potential onslaught of covid cases. 20 million people getting tested three times this week alone. cnn is in the capital city. >> it does not affect daily lives. these people taking a lunch test and back to work. >> reporter: the horror story from the financial hub a shock to many across china. >> you are seeing at least on the surface of orderly and kind of organized effort andover stocking super markets are still open. >> reporter: open for now. residents know how quickly it can all change. some beijing communities are in lockdown. people sealed in and a taste of what life is like for most of shanghai. >> reporter: nearly one month of hard lockdown and many residents are at a breaking point. >> feelings of being caged in and amplified when the city began installing fences like these to keep people leaving from apartment buildings and on the streets more and more barricades going up. these workers refused to help a desperate mother. cnn living through the lockdown, outside my door is only a paper seal. a covid guard sits on watch in my compound. much like the rest of the city exhausted by the extreme containment efforts. here is the white hazmat suit is as new uniform of authorities. since 2020, chinese authorities have turned to harsh lockdowns in hopes of containing covid. people in more than two dozen cities are living in full or partial lockdowns. some have been in months lockdowns with outsiders barely paying attention. exhibition centers and gyms and classrooms and entire office buildings, all taken over to isolate positive cases and close contacts. those trapped in their homes, banging pots to vent their anger, one woman heard screaming -- >> reporter: give me back my freedom. >> david is joining me now from shanghai. david, this is a nightmare, people screaming from their windows, "i want freedom." were you allowed to leave your apartment today? >> i got a few steps onto my terrance patio which is still apart of my property so i am allowed to be in there. you can only take a few steps when there is a mass covid test that they are doing at our door. they don't want us to leave our own property at this point. not much. that's the reality. >> but, i mean just to be clear, you don't have covid. the other people who are in their apartments, they don't have covid. this is just preventing you to go out and potentially meeting somebody who does, is that clear? >> this is what is so maddening of all of this. i see in my neighbor's group chats, we are all talking, we are tested every single day and for the vast majority it is negative, negative and they are consistent in keeping us in this lockdown scenario. we don't have covid, we are not close in contact with anyone here. it is a bizarre reality that they insist on keeping in place. >> some people lashing out from break down barriers understandably, people's emotions are afraid after a month of this. is that is happening a lot around the city or pretty isolated? >> i think it is indicative of mental health to be honest. it is happening frequently and it is very well here in china. what we are seeing not only online and people hesitant to post things but now they're putting a lot more out there eventhough sensors are trying to clamp down as much as possible. it is a struggle for them to keep up but then in person physically resisting and i can't tell you how many fights i have heard in my own community outside the door, you hear people going back and forth with community volunteers and shouting and screaming. it shows you where emotions are at this point and for my community and others, it has been longer than a month. we are now at day 44. >> and is there any timeline on this? how long are you stuck in your apartment for? >> so i was looking at one of the state's media article today saying shanghai is going to ease restrictions, calling it a major step? lifting in ending lockdowns. we are seeing many announcements. people are getting closer and closer today 14 and suddenly a new case pops up and the community says you are going to stay in lockdown for another two weeks. >> this is unbelievable and i am sorry for what you are going through and everybody else. i appreciate you doing the report. >> thank you. there is been reports of atrocities of everyday civilians been forced from here home and executing in the streets and in some cases raped. we have the story of a 16-year-old girl, next. rified b, an independent organization that sets strict quality and purity standards. nature made. the #1 pharmacist recommended vitamin and supplement brand. ♪ ♪ we believe there's an innovator in all of us. ♪ that's why we build technology that makes it possible for every business... and every person... to come to the table and do more incredible things.

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