and the u.s. justice department issues a scathing report of the louisville police, finding a pattern of excessive force and racist conduct within the department. we ll bring you the disturbing results of the federal investigation launched after the killing of breonna taylor. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, russian mercenaries claim they have gained new ground in bakhmut, now a flashpoint in vladamir putin s war against ukraine. president volodymyr zelenskyy tells me his forces are vowing, vowing to stand strong, even as they acknowledge theeadvancing city. but first, to the war zone. melissa bell has the latest on the battle for bakhmut. reporter: bakhmut, now a place of horror and death. before the war, bakhmut was about life. its sculpted hedges and rose gardens regularly instagramed. a picture of peace. and one of the oldest cities in the donbas. its genteel facades buil
last night when we were here, it was difficult to see the full extent of the damage. but this morning, you can the rocket has completely ripped into the back of the shopping centre here. you can see it s completely folded. and, going back to the past, the company trying to prove that sailboats are a greener way to transport cargo. welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. security forces in sri lanka have been ordered to shoot anyone seen looting or damaging public property in the latest attempt to stop anti government protests. since last month, the country has been rocked by demonstrations over soaring prices, power cuts and a lack of medicines. at least 8 people have died in the violence and 200 have been injured, as our correspondent rajini vaidya nathan reports from colombo. a capital under curfew. troops told to shoot at sight at anyone who damages public property or threatens lives. the skeletons of a bustling city scorched by an economic crisis.
and develop and therefore avoid the need for a mandatory lockdown? its almost a mirror image of the conversation we were having earlier, coming into the weekend of the 13th of march, the government had not reacted quickly enough because the disease was further advanced than the government believed and we believe. there was no appetite to take it any further. of course, in theory it would have been possible to deliver the stay at home message is an advisory rather than mandatory message but there was some evidence emerging, again some other anecdotal, that having advised people to stay away from crowded indoor spaces like pubs and so on that they wouldn t. i don t know whether it was a focus group, i seem to remember one of the number ten team saying is what we re hearing that if you meant us to stay away from the pubs you would close the pubs. so it seemed necessary to impose mandatory lockdown given how quickly the disease was moving in order to minimise that risk. lard orde
to hell. how would you describe what s been lost? translator: it s as if my heart has been pulled out and thrown away, and i m trying to pick up the pieces and put it together again. i don t know how else to describe it. everything is lost. reporter: and soon, most likely, in russian hands. it was, wolf, a town of some 70,000 people. now most of them have gone. while they re beginning to come to terms with the loss of their city, the fighting goes on. we have seen one of ukraine s top generals making his third visit in less than a week to bakhmut suggest for the optics at least, ukraine is keen to show that it continues to fight street by street for some sort of not quite victory but holding out. this is no longer a city they re fighting over. it s been turned to rubble. what the ukrainians are fighting for, wolf, is time. continuing to degrade the
lies. ~ . h, can never be a way forward built on lies. ~ . ., lies. meanwhile, in the south and east, the fighting lies. meanwhile, in the south and east, the fighting goes lies. meanwhile, in the south and east, the fighting goes on. - lies. meanwhile, in the south and. east, the fighting goes on. ukraine now taking the rare step in giving a number of how many troops have died. it says up to 13,000, but this can t be verified by the bbc. the truth is, we don t know how many people have died during this conflict. what is certain is that this war continues to cost the lives and caused tragedy. meanwhile, russia s repeated efforts to target ukraine s energy grid means daily life is also being affected, far away from the front line. across ukraine, the cold is starting to bite. at this bakery, they suddenly have a blackout. forced to do business in the dark. the situation in ukraine is very difficult, she says, they work with or without light, difficult, she says, they work with orwit