areas where russia's forces are engaged. >> the war in ukraine is our war. it is everyone's war because ukraine's victory is a strategic imperative for all of us. >> we can have all meetings, but that is not what will end the war. >> our response to coming oncom strikes will be swift and lightning fast. welcome to the show, everyone. it is thursday, april 28th, and we begin with russia stepping up its assault on eastern ukraine. the ukrainian military says russian forces have now, quote, exerting intense fire on multiple fronts with a focus on making a break through the kharkiv region. the area has become a staging ground for russia to make advances on the neighboring donetsk as well as luhansk regions. and this is the aftermath of a russian strike on a hospital in the luhansk region. we've been told one woman is dead and the hospital is operating despite suffering significant damage. if we take you to the south, an explosion rocked the occupied city of kherson on wednesday. have a look. russian state-run media report that it was caused by three missiles fired by ukrainian forces. we haven't had any confirmation of that from ukraine. a russian appointed official in the region now claims the return to ukrainian control is, quote, impossible. meantime russian president vladimir putin is making a stark and direct threat about foreign interference in ukraine. have a listen. >> translator: if someone intends to intervene in what is happening from the outside and creates unacceptable strategic threats for us, then they should know that our response to coming oig 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. >> the war crimes case against russia and vladimir putin's army is building. for instance, the united states says that it has credible information that russian soldiers executed ukrainians who were trying to surrender. according to the u.s., it happened near donetsk in the donbas region of eastern ukraine. at the united nations on wednesday, the u.s. ambassador at large for global criminal justice said the u.s. also has credible reports of civilians killed execution style, of torture and sexual violence against women and girls. >> let us be clear, those who perpetrated and ordered these crimes must be held to account and the evidence of this criminality is mounting daily. our simple message to russia's military and political leadership and to the rank and file is this -- the world is watching. and you will be held accountable. >> meanwhile, u.n. secretary-general guterres is this ukraine where he is set to meet today with president zelenskyy and also their foreign minister. and this is just two days after he sat down with vladimir putin in moscow. today's talks are supposed to focus on humanitarian support and the evacuation of civilias. >> president putin agreed with me in principle that we would have the support of the u.n. and the support of the international committee of the red cross that we will have the evacuation of those civilians into the territory controlled by the ukrainian government. and we have been working on the details. at the present moment, the war will not turn with those -- we will send when the russian federation decides to send it ad when there is after the ceasefire the possibility of a serious political agreement. we can have all meetings, but that is not what will end the war. >> the u.n. secretary-general speaking to anderson cooper there. and the u.n. members on the ground if ukn ukraine. and they want to ramp up the aid but it is often a very dangerous t task. >> reporter: on the frontline with russia. it is anfrontline. >> let's get into the basement. >> reporter: local police are delivering aid to civilians unable to leave. there is no time to wait out the bombardment, no likely end to the shelling either. supplies need delivering and fast. she tells me that there are three people next door including a granny of 92. upstairs. a woman. normally they stay in their flat and only use the basement when it is bad. thank you for not forgetting us, she adds. the urgency of these sorts of deliveries cannot be exaggerated. just in this flat there is mostly old people, one man is dying of cancer and his wife say that it is a double hell. almost every tree, every corner, every bit of this local neighborhood has got the signs of recent impact. russians are just a kilometer, maybe three away. russian guns are so close you can hear the arc of their shells. from kyiv to mariupol, 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 are 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 is no end in sight. ar and the fear he confesses he tries to keep inside. but it creeps out. there is 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 is another impact, another one now. they are saying that the hospital which is near by 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 here, images of the damage done that morning posted online by the local administration. officials said that one civilian was killed, others injured. and several floors were badly damaged. the humanitarian effort goes on. this woman asks only for the basics of existence. water and candles for light. you do this every day? >> yes. >> reporter: he tells me most people left here now have nowhere else to go. they have lived here all their lives and don't want to abandon their homes. do you think the russians will take some of the nets? never he says. we will stand our ground to the last man. no one will leave here. that may be a dangerous claim. it is 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, cnn, donetsk. getting aid to the people of ukraine is one thing. equipping the military is another. we spoke with a retired colonel who said that supply chain problems are hampering the fight. he says much of the military aid makes to cities like here where i am but doesn't get all the way to the front line. have a listen. >> it has everything to do with the fact that for the supply chains administered certainly by the u.s. government, they stop at the border. they stop at the polish border. you cannot ensure distribution of items to the units that need them in order of priority if you don't oversee that supply chain. look, i get it, the u.s. government is trying to fix this. i don't mean to keep throwing darts and we are trying to fix it working with the u.s. government. but it is a problem. >> so i spoke with the deputy mayor of lviv about this very problem and here is what he said. >> lviv has indeed become a kind of a humanitarian hub. indeed it is in the crossroads of transportation routes going west to east and vice versa. and you also have to understand that lviv as the local and regional authorities, we have nothing to do with military supplies. this is completely part of our military and armed forces to organize that. as far as the humanitarian aid is concerned, over this two months, we have received as the city more than 4,000 tons of humanitarian aid. this is about 200 truckses. 90% of that was immediately shipped to the east to where it is really needed. the mayor is in constant communication with the mayors of mariupol, kharkiv. we do not keep anything except maybe a small reserve in case of emergency. >> you are talking huhumanitari. but several people say that the supplies are not getting through, they stopping at lviv. is that the case? are you stockpiling here and if so, why? >> we are surely not stockpiling anything. moreover, as the local authorities of the cities are also concerned about the necessary supplies, our local territorial defensive brigades have -- >> is that because you think that something is going to happen, that i will see an increase in attacks? >> it is because we are part of the overall war effort together with other cities and the ukrainian central authorities. we just want to make sure that they have everything before they have been sent to the east where the fight is the most important, the so-called battle on unbass will unrail. >> we heard from lloyd austin saying that we're getting weapons within a period of 24 to 48 hours. once they arrive in lviv, how quickly are they being shipped out? because this is really important. >> i think that we shouldn't overestimate the role of the ukrainian authorities in making sure that the supplies are getting to the front. the americans said themselves including president biden that it takes less than 48 hours from the decision before the weapons are actually on the ground. so -- and you also should understand that those russian efforts to disrupt the supplies are not really effective. partly because of the lack of proper intelligence, but mostly because we have multiple choices, many transportation routes, more than six border crossing points, rail and road which connects the border to other agency of ukraine. >> and you didn't tell me how quickly they are getting sent out. >> i'm sure that they get as soon as they are at the polish/ukrainian border shipped from all over the world including from the u.s. i'm sure that they can get to the front within 24 hours. >> thank you very much for clarifying that. and we have seen of course here in lviv attacks on your railways. has that in any way affected -- shattered a sense of security, let's say? >> there have been bombardments in western ukraine before over these past two months. i'm sure that there will be more att attacks. it is part of the reason why ukrainian are begging for increased capabilities and the no-fly zone because we understand that russia's capacity to continue to shell ukraine will stay there. unfortunately, we did not receive that. on the other hand, i'm sure this is not going to have a major effect. these six rail junctions, they have been already repaired of emergency services, firefighters and other professional personnel are working very effectively. take for example the recent shelling of the bridge in the south in ukraine. within 24 hours, all the work was done and the traffic has been reinstalled. >> was that near odesa? >> yes, connecting odessa to the region. so we make sure that all professionals that are staying here on the ground are working effectively and doing their job as quickly as possible. >> the deputy mayor of lviv there. and a reunion years in the making start order a tarmac in turkey. u.s. marine veteran trevor reed is headed home to the u.s. following his release from russia in a prisoner swap between the two countries. u.s. officials say that reed's declining health was a driving factor in the deal which took months to secure. no one is more excited than reed's parents, you can imagine. >> it is not going to hit us until we see him. >> we know he's on the plane, but i think that we'll really -- it will really hit us when we get to put our arms around him and hug him. >> also reunited with his family is russian national constantine who had been held in the u.s. for more than ten years on drug trafficking charges which he denies. cnn's kaitlan collins explains how the exchange happened. >> reporter: the white house says it was months and months of work behind the scenes that eventually brought trevor reed home, released from russia in this exchange for another russian, a convict who is out of prison in the united states. and his parents say that seeing trevor reed on that tarmac in turkey as the swap was happening, they recognized their son but said that he looked terrible, said that is not the condition that they expected to see him in. though of course when they spoke to him, it took until the second phone call where he sounded like it was sinking in what was finally happening, this release from russia. and when president biden was asked about the fact that this is coming in the middle of this russian invasion of ukraine, the worst tension between the united states and russia that has been there in decades, he said this is something that he lobbied for three months ago saying that is something that he talked to russian officials about. of course now this release was secured about a month after president biden last met with trevor reed's family here at the white house. they had been demonstrating in front of the white house on a rainy day trying to bring attention to their son's second hunger strike after he said that he was denied health care while in prison. and now doctors want to know if he has tuberculosis, do a head to toe evaluation on him given that he has been locked up for several years. and when it comes to the broader context of this and what it means for this invasion going forward, the white house says it doesn't change their perspective, they are going to continue to try to send more weaponry into ukraine, something that president biden is expected to ask congress for more funding on as soon as this week. though it does show one thing, which is that the diplomatic channels are still functioning. date l kaitlan collins, cnn, the white house. cnn spoke with former new mexico governor bill richardson who went to moscow before the invasion of ukraine to secure trevor reed's release and he feels that the u.s. got the better deal in the exchange of prisoners. have a listen. >> the u.s. generally is against prisoner swaps. but you don't get these exchanges for free. so the russians wanted yaroshenko and i think that we got the better deal. an american marine coming 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themselves for an onslaught of covid cases. officials calling the matter urgent and grim, ordering nearly 20 million people to get tested three times this week alone. cnn is in the capital city. it doesn't seem to affect daily life. these take a brief test at lunchtime and then back to work. but beijing's preparation is in part due to shanghai's officials disastrous response to the outbreak there. officials in the capital determined to avoid the embarrassment of botching president xi jinping's zero covid strategy, especially in a city where he lives. >> you are seeing at least on the surface a more orderly kind of organized effort. and we've been overstocking super markets which are still open. >> reporter: open for now. residents know how quickly it can all change. some beijing communities already in lockdown, people sealed in. a taste of what life is like for most in shanghai. nearly one month of hard lockdown and many shanghai residents are at a breaking point. feelings of being caged in amplified when the city recently began installing fences like these to keep people from leaving their apartment buildings. and on the streets, more and more barricades going up. medical resources stretched. these hospital workers refusing to help a desperate mother. cnn also living through the lockdown. outside my door, only a paper seal. a covid guard sits on watch in my compound. the city exhausted by the extreme containment efforts. here in the white hazmat suit is the new uniform of authority, enforcers, so much so that this compound even using it as a scarecrow to keep people in check. since 2020, chinese authorities have relentlessly turned to harsh lockdown. people in more than two dozen cities are living in full or partial lockdowns. some border cities have been in months long lockdowns with outsiders barely paying attention. in shanghai, demand for guarantee space is rising. exhibition centers, gyms, classrooms, entire office buildings all taken over to isolate 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ukraine. the british defense secretary says russian president vladimir putin may try to consolidate what he has taken in ukraine and dig in like a, quote, cancerous growth within the country. this as the ukrainian ministry says russian forces are exerting intense fire on multiple fronts across the eastern regions. ukrainian forces say the russians are trying to make a breakthrough in the kharkiv region, it has become a staging ground for russian troops as they attempt to advance through donetsk and luhansk. wednesday this fuel plant was hit. russian forces have been repeatedly targeting ukrainian fuel stocks and energy infrastructure there. as the war drags on, horrifying stories of atrocities at the hands of russian supporters keep emerging. among them, a 16-year-old who says that she was raped by a russian soldier. she recounted the account to nick paton walsh. and the details are harrowing. >> reporter: it is from these gentle shrugs of villages and xt panses of the region that some of the ugliest crimes are being dragged in to the light. this is dasha, she is 16 and was six months pregnant when just over a month ago russian forces came to her village here. her family were in the basement sheltering from bombs. the cold and the russians shooting in the air. at dusk, they brought the children out to the kitchen to eat where there were two soldiers, one drunk. [ speaking foreign language ] >> reporter: his sober colleague and told the drunk attacker to stop, to no avail and left. [ speaking foreign language ] by then night had fafafafaen in cold house. she heard the russians say her attacker's name was blue, he was from donetsk and had a criminal past. he tried to attack her again she said until russian snipers came to help her. but still some of the russian soldiers in that unit even were disgusted by what happened and tried to move her and part of her family away to safety. and then began a process in which russian soldiers seemed to try to get her to go back on the claim she had made. two days later, she was taken to a russian paratrooper commander who she said began shouting at her like her attacker had. [ speaking foreign language ] it seems they did bleacelieve h but the fate of her rapist remains unclear. while we can't independently verify her harrowing story, ukrainians have investigated the case and confirmed the family which they said was a war crime. but like so much, the question why is the one without a humane palatable answer. [ speaking foreign language ] there are lives here that you can see russia has changed forever. but also those whose trauma sits beneath the surface and lives on. nick paton walsh, cnn, kherson region, ukraine. >> so many horrors. if you would like to help those in ukraine who may be in need of shelter, food and water, please go to cnn.com/impact. and there you will find several ways that you can help safely and as well as securely. now the news of trevor reed's release from russia is raising questions about the other americans still being held there. the biden administration says it will continue to work for brittney griner's release, and whelan was arrested on espionage charges and serving a 16 year sentence. xwr griner was retained in february on drug smuggling charges. nada, wonderful to see trevor reed finally making his way home. where are we on the efforts to release the other detainees, paul whelan and brittaney grine? >> certainly wonderful news for trevor reed and his family, that is echoed by the family of paul whelan. but they share their statement yesterday expressing that they felt mixed emotions upon hearing the news. his parents are said to have been devastated and completely crushed upon hearing the fact that trevor reed had been released and paul whelan not. and we heard directly from paul whelan, he shared a statement with his family and i can read you a little bit of what he said yesterday. why was i left behind? while i'm pleased trevor is home with his family, why hasn't more been done to secure my release in that is the question that he and his family are asking, what is being done to secure his release. the biden administration as you mentioned there has said that trevor's release is a testament to the priority that the biden administration is given to the cases of the u.s. citizens wrongfully detained in russia. and that is echoed by the u.s. state department. take a listen to what ned price had to say yesterday. >> we were in contact with paul whelan's family earlier today. we are in regular contact with brittney griner's network, her legal representation with the wnba and others. we're doing everything that we can to see a successful outcome for both of these cases, in the case of brittney griner, assume her and provide her what she needs in terms of consular access and a senior embassy official was able to visit her in detention. when it comes to paul whelan, we're calling on the russian government to release him, working to secure that outcome. our business today, our job today was not finished. we have a lot more work do and we'll continue do it. >> correspoaccording to the sta department, reed's release was secured after many months of discreet diplomacy and that is expected to continue for the cases of paul whelan and brittney griner. >> thanks very much, nada. heartbreaking barely begins to describe how mariupol residents feel about what is happening in their city. we'll talk to people who watched russian forces 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colleague, it is also personal. he has lost not just friends but his mother-in-law to shelling when they first tried to flee mariupol. you must be so angry. my emotions disappeared already there in mariupol, he says. that is why there is nothing but hate. alexi has worked at the steel plant for 26 years. he is one of 11,000 employees who have kept the iron furnaces turning here. a major player in the metals industry, producing 4 million tons of steel a year. its metal shining brightly in hudson yards and london. and now as russia pummels its plant and production jolts to a halt, the ceo of the company behind azovstal steel tells me at least 150 employees have been killed and thousands are still unaccounted for. >> out of the 11,000 employees of azovstal, only about 4.5 thousand people get out of mariu mariupol. >> reporter: this is our plant, he says, he works here says his little girl in a promotional video. built in 1933 under soviet rule, azovstal was partially demolished in the 1940s. now it faces the wrath of a president who says he is attacking the very foundation that his country helped build. holed up inside are thought to be around 1,000 civilians, hiding in shelters. women, children, and the elderly who haven't seen sunlight in more than 50 days. and then there is the injured in field hospitals like this one. russian forces continue to encircle the plant. and they are not budging. >> i don't think that it is the plant that he wants. i think that he is about symbolism. >> reporter: a win in the port city of mariupol would provide president putin with a land bridge to the crimean peninsula, which russia an lexed in 2014. if fully taken, one of ukraine's richest men and main shareholder of the group behind azovstal tells me via email under no circumstances will these plants operate under the russian occupation. alexi agrees. telling me, after what they did, never. a wall of steel defending to the bitter end, the place they have called home. our thanks for them taking the time to speak to me. we'll have much more ahead on our breaking news coverage at the top of the hour. for now, let's get back to max foster. cnn has learned rudy giuliani is expected to meet with the house committee investigating the january 6 capitol insurrection. that meeting sxebted sometime next month. giuliani was of course former president trump's attorney and one of the main players in trying to overthrow the 2020 election results spreading false information and conspiracy theories. the mayor of minneapolis says his city has its work cut out following the release of a damning report on policing. a state investigation began after a minneapolis police officer killed george floyd in may 2020 as omar jimenez reports, investigators found a pattern of discrimination against the city's black residents going back for years. >> reporter: a wide-ranging report looking at data going back to 2010. some of what it found, those that were pulled over in minneapolis, were 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