ukraine, the president of ukraine says he s preparing to welcome a high level u.s. delegation. president volodymyr zelenskyy says secretary of state antony blinken and lloyd austin will visit kyiv today. i shall be meeting with the state secretary mr. blinken and the defense secretary, and we will be waiting for the time when the security situation allows for the president to come and talk to us. president zelenskyy says he ll welcome blinken and austin with a request for specific weapons and assistance. and he says leaders, quote, should not come here with empty hands. we need to point out the u.s. has not confirmed this visit by secretaries blinken and austin. meantime, the most intense fighting remains in the eastern and southern parts of ukraine where uk intelligence sources say ukrainian forces have successfully repelled numerous russian assaults in the donbas region. russian officials confirm last week that their goal is full control of the eastern donbas region,
amber heard about text messages he sent to friends. after you said, let s drown her before we burn her, mr. depp, you said i will [ bleep ] her burnt corpse afterwards to make sure she s dead. that s what you said you would do after you burned her and after you drowned her. did i read that right? you certainly did, yes. more on ten s cross-examination straight ahead. but first, i start in lviv. thank you for joining us. there are new satellite images, new evidence of what appears to be mass graves just outside mariupol. what do you know about that? reporter: don, good evening to you. we are hearing more harrowing details of acts of absolute savagery taking place across ukraine, the sort of acts that one would have thought was consigned to the history books. but what we know, compiled and analyzed by technologies is that mass burial site containing about 200 new graves has been identified in a village. this is the satellite images at the top of the screen, that long l
ukraine. thanks so much, anderson. i m jim sciutto live from lviv along with laura coates in the u.s. so, when you liberate a war-torn city, you are freeing it from its oppressors. that is not what vladimir putin has done in the southeastern city of mariupol, as he twistedly, outrageously is claiming tonight. not only are his forces still surrounding and trapping hundreds of ukrainian civilians and soldiers who have been sheltering in the steel plant, he has now ordered his forces to blockade the area so tight so as not even to let a fly get through. pay attention to how he uses that word fly. he s done it before, dismissing his opponents as insects to be swatted away or force. fact is russian forces are slaughtering people, not liberating them. there is brand-new evidence tonight of more potential russian war crimes. new satellite images from just outside mariupol in ma nush, they appear to show more than 200 new graves, rows and rows, in fact, of mass graves. one ukrainia
the azov style complex is surrounded by russian troops. it is constantly being shelled. but rather than storm the facility, russian president vladimir putin has ordered a blockade that in his words a fly can t even get through. hundreds of men, women and children are believed sheltered inside with no way out. their only protection an unknown number of ukrainian fighters vowing to stand their ground. now not far away, the grim discovery of more suspected graves. mariupol officials estimate 20,000 city residents have died so far, many of those bodies now believed to have been dumped in those long trenches you see there at the top of your screen. despite president putin s boast of, quote, liberating mariupol, ukraine denies the city has fallen and it s bizarre if that s what liberation looks like. the u.s. president joe biden says he has doubts about the kremlin s claim. it s questionable whether he does control mariupol. one thing for sure we know about mariupol. he should al
not being allowed to surrender. hundreds of ukrainian soldiers and civilians are inside now surrounded by a russian blockade. here you see pro-russian forces parading down a mariupol street as the kremlin reveals for the first time its goal seize full control of southern and eastern ukraine to provide a land bridge to crimea. this morning here on cnn, mariupol s mayor said the civilian losses in his city are horrific. translator: we have around 20,000 dead, civilian deaths in mariupol. and these were people who were buried by enemy shelling, by enemy bombardment. buried under the rubble and at the moment, we are witnessing the enemy trying to hide the evidence of their crimes using the instrument of mass graves. cnn s nic robertson joins us in brussels. what else do we know about this call between putin and the president of the european council? yeah, blunt and direct is how charles michel is categorizing the call with putin. it was 90 minutes long. the reason the eur