in a convoy with russian forces and vehicles with u.n. logos. no such relief for the people left behind. the attacks have been relentless and there s no pause. sara sidner joins me now from kyiv. united nations listed the official death toll less than 3,000 but that sounds far short than the reality. reporter: i think it is. if anything tells you how short it is when you look at the vi owe that we have obtained. cnn got video of just outside of mariupol and it shows rows and rows and rows of grave sites. freshly dug grave sites and the people said they don t expect to stop burying people. many unidentified. no tears. no remembrances. no final good-byes. just dust to dust. burial is over. translator: we bury 50 people a day. today we have done two lots of 18 bodies and another 10. 46 in total. reporter: grave diggers can barely keep up the pace at the cemetery. once marked with a sign the bodies have yet to be identified by family. translator: people come and find the
confirming that an airport runway in odesa airport was destroyed in a missile strike saturday. and he s vowing to rebuild it, but amid the new attacks, a surprise visit from some of america s top elected officials. house speaker nancy pelosi leading a congressional delegation to kyiv to meet with president zelenskyy. she made it clear the u.s. is ready to support ukraine for the long haul hall. we are visiting you to say thank you for your fight for freedom. we are on the frontier of freedom, and your fight is a fight for everyone. our commitment is to be there for you until the fight is done. for more, let s go to cnn s matt rivers and scott mclain both in ukraine standing by. matt, you first. speaker pelosi s visit was unannounced but significant. no question. and it comes one week after the last u.s. delegation came to kyiv. that was secretary of state anthony blinken and secretary of defense lloyd austin. and we got a congressional delegation led by none other than
authorities are reporting a significant increase on russian shelling. the governor of mykolaiv says russians hit the city on friday with cluster munitions. at least five people were reported killed. more than a dozen wounded. ukraine president says the russians are rounding up and terrorizing civilian populations across the south. in the occupied district of the regions, russian military continue to terrorize civilian resident of the country. they are looking for anyone who is ever been associated with ukrainian army or government agency. the occupiers think this will somehow make it easier for them to control the territory. they are wrong. maybe somewhere in russia, cruelty is respected. but in ukraine, cruelty is despised. and punished. the russian military continues to resupply and rearm in the east. with a new offensive expected within days. ukrainian military officials claim recent russian awe tempts to secure for territory have been repelled. u.s. says the guided mi
tonight, their stories from their loved ones who survived. and a cnn exclusive sees shocking text messages from two republicans who went from defending the big lie to warning trump s white house that it could, quote, back fire badly. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m in tonight for erin burnett i m poppy harlow and tonight russia ramping up the brutal assault in the east, three regions now under constant bombing according to officials including kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine, you can see the hole in the roof of one apartment building there, and the attacks which are said to be getting more intense, now targeting crucial services, damaging one city s water supply system and two food warehouses. in kharkiv, at least 10 people so far have been killed in this attack and that includes a seven month old child. putin also retaliateling by launching offensive after a key russian warship was destroyed and just outside the capitol of kyiv, this is all that
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