For illness after the attack. Their injuries are nonlife threatening. He says authorities are investigating further to figure out what this is. The pentagon monitoring this development, were told in an urgent investigation by the uk is already under way. Then breaking moments ago, new video shows fierce fighting in mariupol. Plumes of smoke from shelling seen in residential areas on the hills above a shipping yard near the citys port. Even though Russian Forces have retreated from the kyiv area there is still danger in northern ukraine. President zelenskyy describing the region as one of the most contaminated by mines in the world. He says retreating Russian Troops deliberately targeted civils, an an he says is a war crime. Translator the invaders left mines everywhere. They mined peoples property. Mined cars, doors. They deliberately did everything to ensure the return to these areas after deoccupation was as dangerous as possible due to the actions of the russian army, our territory
Brianna? yeah, that really is the theme that you re seeing separated from men who cannot leave and separated from the older generation who does not want to leave, does not want to leave their lives. kyung, thank you so much for that story. we appreciate it. overnight an appeal hearing in moscow to determine what is next for u.s. marine veteran trevor reed who has been jailed in russia since 2019 and has recently been on a hunger strike. cnn s kylie atwood live at the state department with the latest for us. kylie, what are u.s. officials saying about the hearing and efforts to get reed home? yeah. well this was an appeal to get the court to set aside the prison sentence of nine years in prison that trevor reed was given in 2020. but of course we re learning this morning from the u.s. ambassador to russia, john sullivan, that decision was kicked to a lower court. essentially there is no further answer for trevor reed and his parents today. there s no change to that nine
Before. cnn s natasha bertrand joins us live with her new reporting on this. this would be in response to the u.s. support of ukraine, obviously, natasha. reporter: exactly, john. in addition to that, u.s. officials believe that putin s risk tolerance here has just gotten a lot higher in general, as evidenced by his invasion of ukraine, which many, of course, in the west thought would be folly and panned out that way. and because of that, because he has been failing in ukraine, because the west has been supporting the ukrainians and because russia is really isolated right now from the global community, u.s. officials worry that putin could lash out here, including by attacking the u.s. elections. of course, the midterms are coming up and they could be a significant target for the russians. now, what we re told is that u.s. officials are very worried that perhaps russia could go further than ever before in its cyberattacks on the u.s. election by directly attacking voter infrastructur
The macron supporters, 63%. this is not just a u.s. problem. inflation is a problem that is rippling across the entire globe and being seen in france. that is one of the reasons le pen is competitive with macron is truly crazy. people paying more, people have less money to spend, they feel it. it matters to their preferences. great to jie this morning. thank you very much. nice to see you. new day continues right now. announcer: this is cnn breaking news. good morning to viewers in the united states and around the world, it is tuesday, april 12th. i m brianna keilar in lviv, ukraine, with john berman in new york. president volodymyr zelenskyy calls it a new stage of terror against ukraine as fears grow about russia potentially resorting to chemical or biological warfare. ukrainian military unit in the battered southern city of mariupol is accusing russian troops of already using a chemical weapon there. cnn cannot independently verify
He has conducted influence operations. but actually going to those lengths and trying to change voter systems, voter tallies that is something that u.s. officials are very concerned about. now it s important to note there s no direct intelligence we are told as of right now that putin made a decision to interfere in the elections and, in fact, one u.s. official told us that while we do not have any direct intel that russia is looking to target state, local or election systems more directly than before, we are certainly anticipating the possibility, john. clearly they re preparing for any potential scenario here. a cyber operation targeting u.s. elections would be a fairly cheap, simple way for the russians to retaliate against the west. yeah. the fear is what else does he have to lose? what more does he have to lose? he could risk anything at this point. natasha bertrand, thank you so much for your reporting on this. some ukrainian refugees who fled to poland are now boarding buses