coronavirus. welcome to the show, everyone. russia is increasingly targeting key infrastructure as it ramps up the assault of the east of the country. you are looking to extensive damage to a railway hub that was a vital supply line for ukrainian troops. that is near the donesk region, russian forces are making incremental advances in the area. and meantime, another mass grave was discovered in the kyiv suburb of bucha. russia s focus now on the eastern donbas region, ukrainian president, zelenskyy said moscow s goal is to kill eve everyone. translator: only if ukraine stands will they live. the city, which is one of the most developed in the region is simply a russian concentration camp in the middle of ruins. well the situation is growing ever more dire for mariupol s last defenders holed up in a steel plant. a ukrainian commander inside told us of relentless russian attacks and scores of people injured. scott mcclain has the story for you. reporter: these are russi
over the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming and the rockets red glare the bombs bursting in air gave proof through the night that our flag was still there oh say does that star-spangled banner yet wave over the land of the free and the home of the brave rachel: good morning, it is 6:00 am eastern time, you just heard the star-spangled banner, i am here with will and peach, good morning. a beautiful morning. today you re finally going to see where i went last week before tell a day go. i was in louisiana at the big oil platform 90 miles off the coast of louisiana. look at this. that is me being lowered into a pool with a seatbelt on, flipped upside down, knocked out a window, undo my seatbelt, swim out of the window, super navy seal. i had a panic attack just before but i did it. i thought sean, will, and peach will all be proud of me. something like this could happen on the way out to the oil rig. rachel: you have to do that, in or
atlanta all our other top stories, including tense stories as top trump allies tangle with house minority leader kevin mccarthy over licked audio and lies. welcome to the show. russia is increasing shelling in ukraine and the luha luhans k region is bearing the brunt of the attacks. you re look ago the aftermath of a one of the only remaining functional 40789s. functioning hospitals, it is still operating despite significant damage. had is among the hardest hit towns as russia intensifies its offensive in the east of the country. meantime british foreign secretary making appeals to provide kyiv with tanks and even war planes. this as russian president vladimir putin makes a stark and direct threat have a listen. translator: if someone intends to intervene from the outside and creates threats to us they should know our response with oncoming strikes will be swift, lightning fast, we have all of the tools for this, ones no one can brag about and we won t brag, we will use the
them into custody. if true, this would be a violation of a core principles of the laws of war. isa soares is live on the ground in lviv, ukraine this morning. these revelations come as the offensive on the ground continues to heat up. what more can you tell us? reporter: good morning to you, laura. let me start on the battlefield because you are right, we are hearing of intense shelling right across the east of ukraine. we have heard from a ukrainian general who have told us in the last few hours the russian forces continue to exert intense fire across three regions. he said that the russian forces are focusing in one area in particular, and that is in what he seems to be a staging ground as they try to go into donetsk and luhansk. that is where the offensive is taking place. if i focus your attention on luhansk, we have new video coming in where a hospital really taking a hit, severe hit. and this is a main hospital that we have seen operating in that area. we know that
market. atrocities committed against civilians in the key suburb of bucha at the chart of investigations into russian war crimes. the ukrainian prosecutor leading the country s probe has exclusively shared photos with cnn s anderson cooper, and the warning they are graphic indeed. and they were taken in early march and show bodies strewn in the street. there are evidence in the investigation into war crimes. cnn s anderson cooper will have a full report on this later today so do stay tuned for that. cnn has exclusively obtained drone footage highlighted in the middle of your screen is a russian military vehicle sitting at an intersection in bucha. and right up the street are the bodies of several dead civilians. and it was filmed on march 13th. and this video from march 12th shows russian soldiers around a military vehicle parked outside a house down the street from the same killed civilians. cnn has been able to geolocate as well as authenticate both those videos. despite