outside of mariupol, ukrainian officials point to nassau satellite images that show ground in one area has recently been disturbed. they also say claims from one source indicate that the site has been used to dispose of bodies. cnn is working to independently verify those claims. meantime, russia has unveiled a new goal in the conflict, a new strategy. a commander saying taking control of southern ukraine and even donbas region to establish a land block of crimea. there is new credit yo that shows utter destruction in the small village of moschun, north of kyiv. house after house flattened. the ukrainians played a major role in pushing back from the city. 100,000 people are trapped in mariupol including soldiers and sillians. ukraine s deputy prime minister announced this morning, a humanitarian corridor is now open to evacuate, women, children and the elderly. this morning, we are hearing reports of more shelling in the kharkiv region. we re going to bring you up to date w
vice president dombroski who was in d.c. for talks. he told us we need to stop russia s aggression in ukraine because putin will go as far as we let him go. if we don t stop it now, this war will spread. that wasn t the attitude early on. that was only being said by some of the baltic nations that neighbor russia. and now it seems that european union officials understand that ukraine is not moscow s only intent to seize. and, kim, i want to stay with you because vladimir putin and volodymyr zelenskyy are expected to hold talks with turkey s leader recip tayyip erdogan, that s supposedly happening in the next 48 hour, potentially paving the way for peace talks in istanbul. is it your impression that at this point vladimir putin wants peace? it is hard to see anything constructive coming out of this. and ukrainian officials will tell you, they are engaging in peace talks just to show that
you re showing right now, the distance between odesa and mariupol doesn t jump out but it s about 500 close to 500 miles. mykolaiv is a city of 500,000 in terms of population. odesa has 9 00,000. so, you re talking about repeated battles as we ve seen so far where the civilians of various cities are going to be challenged with artillery strikes and russians murdering them. but i don t think we re going to see the russian capability of obtaining their new objective. kim, you asked a senior european official this week about that intent to essentially build the land bridge across southern ukraine. what was your impression of how western allies see that goal? well, you know, at the start of this war, there was fear that the white house would have to be pushing europe along. so i was really surprised at the sort of baltic answer i got from european commission executive