today we saw with the 500-day milestone, cain ukraine cain put out a statement saying they confirmed the deaths of 494 children. that s almost one child for every day of the full-scale invasion. and the ukrainians would clearly maintain they are the ones with the moral high ground defending their could be country. it s the russian who have been targeting civilian operations and built up areas just in recent days and weeks. we had a strike on a pizzeria just a few days ago. a cruise missile hit a residential building. this has become a feature quite tragically of the war. you referenced that milestone
ago, picked an oil refinery in some storage units, not a residential building. this is the first time a civilian target has been hit here in odessa. people are very nervous and afraid of what may come next. that s a cruise missile hit at about 2:30 in the afternoon, on saturday. people were inside that 16 story apartment building. they were having, lunch tv, preparing for the eastern sunday celebrations. orthodox easter holiday here today. when that missile hit and went clear through the building. it killed eight people, among the dead are three month old, a little baby girl, her mother and her grandmother. we spoke today to a number of people, including a woman who lives in a neighboring building. she lives there with a 23 year old daughter. she says they were happy to stay in odessa, that it felt safe up until yesterday.
machine, info wars, are now filing for bank runsy because accountability. it is on the beat because we think it matters. that is a lot of news, including news in america. and we are going to bring you that to you this hour but we begin with the news abroad. ukraine says they are now facing formally, a new phase of putin s war focusing on the east. new offensive coming as those peace talks are clearly fading. russia hitting targets in lviv, that s in the west part of the country. near the polish boarder, officials say sechl seven people already dead. indeed, these are the first casualties in this city that have been formally confirmed since the invasion began what is now 54 days ago. nbc news reporters were on the ground when a cruise missile hit. smoke. stand by. three cruise missile caliber.
the holocaust. 140,000 deaths there. it s a tragic place. now instead of seeing that as being a place that was kept as a holy ground, a cruise missile hit into it. i m outraged by this. look, the one thing that i want to say is this. the story that we heard in your reporting previously is a humanitarian disaster. ukraine has its humanitarian problems. but the other story that we re not hearing and i would like to ask you to take a look at your maps. we don t have any territory in ukraine under russian control. we have invading forces coming in and rockets falling on us. ukrainian people are doing a fantastic job of defending their country. civilian military the civilian people are the territorial brigades, civilians
we are in a heavly controlled government compound here. this is an elite section of tripoli with the government offices and government buildings and government controlled antiaircraft batteries as well. john: just to refresh our viewers whatwho may not have seen the earlier reports, these cruise missile attacks started in earnest, we are told the first cruise missile hit at 3:00 p.m. eastern time and it is now 8:36 eastern time. you hadn t really heard cruise missile attacks in tripoli until just now? reporter: no, we haven t heard anything. we are also hearing small arm s fire and you have to realize. i am going to squat down here. john: i think that is a good idea. it is an unusual situation . you not only antiaircraft firing but civilians or