when some people look at the u.n. and are frustrated that on the security council russia has a veto and can stop anything from the security council really ruling on what is happening here. what do you say to those who say that the u.n. can t be effective because of that? well, the u.n. is not only the security council. the general assembly was clear in its positions and we have 1,400 u.n. staff in ukraine and they have already distributed different forms of humanitarian aid to more than 3 million ukrainians. and one of the reasons of my visit is exactly to organize things in order to scale up our action and to be able to do much more for the ukrainians that are in such dramatic circumstances. as for now, though, your sites are trying to focus on what you think may be achievable just in terms of getting civilians out of desperate situations, as opposed to a
Thanks for coming in. horrific things that are happening. i want to talk about the ukrainian military is acknowledging they ve had they ve suffered several losses in the eastern towns and villages to the russians, but they re also hearing that ukrainian forces have repelled multiple russian attacks in the donbas. you say ukrainians will have the advantage by night. talk to us about that. where is this fight heading? that s often insurgent advantage is that they can t really stand up to a necessarily to a modern well-armed military. but at night they have much more mobility, and they can infiltrate the territory that was taken during the day and sabotage the enemy, they can ambush the enemy. they can make possession of that land very, very costly for the invader. and this is a long game, right? like even if russia took over all of ukraine then they have to control it. once you re in a city, once you ve taken a city say they
Criminality is mounting daily. our simple message to russia s military and political leadership and the rank and file is this. the world is watching, and you will be held accountable. reporter: and what we heard, don, from the ambassador matches with what i ve been hearing, what i ve heard earlier this week from the u.n. mission rep in ukraine who told me they have verified and they have recorded cases here of summary executions of forced disappearances and rape. and the accounts i heard from the u.n. rep were absolutely horrifying, just chilling, don. you ve been reporting on the thousands of ukrainians who have been hiding from the russians in the basement of a steel plant in mariupol. what s the latest on that? what do you know? reporter: well, the situation in mariupol just for our viewers to get a sense of what is happening remains incredibly dire. there hadn t been a humanitarian
Moldova. we will watch. we re getting new video of an apparent ukrainian offensive strike on the russian held city of kherson i want to show you. watch this. so this blast is in the vicinity of a tv broadcaster as reported by the respective news outlet. what would the ukrainians be trying to accomplish here? maybe showing that they can do that. i don t know. i m not sure. i don t know enough about the situation to really analyze it. it was an impressive explosion. other video i want to show you there, these images of the aftermath of a rugds strike hitting one of the only two working hospitals in luhansk region. a top ukrainian military official telling cnn the
Towns and slilages in the east as russia steps up its ground offensive. there s a lot to discuss tonight. colonel, hello. thanks for joining again. there s been intense fighting in the east and south, russia making gains but the ukrainians are holding off other attempted advances there am. where does this fight stand on the battlefield tonight? so, don, the biggest areas we re talking about here are right here in the east. so everything that s associated with the donbas region, the area basically south and east of kharkiv and then of course north of mariupol which we just talked about plus the area right around kherson right here, those are the areas we re going to look like. so let s take a quick look at the donbas area. the russians are moving down this way.