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bestselling author, michael lewis, and whether we will need a brand-new pandemic playbook as the 11th hour gets underway on this friday night. good evening once again, i m stephanie ruhle. as ukraine enters day 52 and its war against russia, moscow has launched two strikes on kyiv and other parts of the country. it is prompting now to increase attacks on the capitol. this may be retaliation for the sinking of a key russian warship, which u.s. officials have confirmed were indeed hit by e to ukrainian missiles. there are also new reports of potential war crimes. police in the area around kyiv say the bodies of more than 900 civilians have been discovered, most of them fatally shot, executed. president zelenskyy now asking the u.s. to declare russia a state sponsor of terrorism. as the fighting intensifies, ukrainian leaders say the world needs to prepare for putin to resort to nuclear weapons. not only me, i think with all of the world, all of the countries have to b ....
tonight, their stories from their loved ones who survived. and a cnn exclusive sees shocking text messages from two republicans who went from defending the big lie to warning trump s white house that it could, quote, back fire badly. let s go outfront. good evening, everyone, i m in tonight for erin burnett i m poppy harlow and tonight russia ramping up the brutal assault in the east, three regions now under constant bombing according to officials including kharkiv, the second largest city in ukraine, you can see the hole in the roof of one apartment building there, and the attacks which are said to be getting more intense, now targeting crucial services, damaging one city s water supply system and two food warehouses. in kharkiv, at least 10 people so far have been killed in this attack and that includes a seven month old child. putin also retaliateling by launching offensive after a key russian warship was destroyed and just outside the capitol of kyiv, this is al ....
are now command and control components as well as aviation assets along that border. and many of the troops who took part in the northern failed offensive above and around kyiv have now taken positions in order to participate in this offensive. it is a three-pronged attack, reportedly. coming down from the north to the east, up to the south, as they soften the ground, we suffer ourselves these towns, these front lines in the donbas region are being shelled day in, day out. we visited one, where many people are desperate to evacuate, but told us they simply don t have the means to do it. the town is no stranger to war. eight years this has been the front line of ukraine s battle with russian-backed separatists. people here are used to shelling, they have never experienced anything like this. a missile can be heard overhead, an emotional man approaches us. they smashed the old part of town, he says. as we talk, the artillery intensifies. i told him it is better to go home ....
air raid sirens are sounding across ukraine. cnn teams report heavy shelling in the donetsk region in the east, as ukrainian officials say nearly all areas there are now under attack. russian forces are claiming significant advances in the besieged port city of mariupol. as the last two ukrainian military units in the city try to fend them off. and senior u.s. defense official telling cnn the city is in, quote, a dire position right now. that s despite putting up stronger than expected resistance in recent weeks. the washington post says russia sent a formal diplomatic note warning the u.s. to stop supplying arms to ukraine, saying that some weapons shipments are adding fuel to the conflict. all of this as russia faces renewed scrutiny, top prosecutor at the international criminal court has declared ukraine a, quote, crime scene, after visiting the devastated towns of bucha and borodyanka. let s begin this morning with cnn senior political correspondent, we re heari ....
suspect apprehended after a more than 24-hour man hunt. someone with a very long wrap sheet who has posted dozens of videos online spewing deranged tirades, how police found him, and where this investigation is likely to go from here. but first a visceral reminder of the brutality of the war here in ukraine. a mother in anguish, as she finds the body of her son dumped in a well near kyiv. she is wailing, my little son, as she falls to her knees. she says she will not leave. her world completely changed forever like so many thousands others in this country, as the russians continue their invasion and brutality. new satellite imagery shows russian forces continuing to redeploy and move into eastern ukraine. that is where the stage is being set for a major offensive in the donbas region. this comes as president biden has called ukraine s president zelenskyy he did so today to pledge another $800 million in military aid for ukraine. and this just in, other new satelli ....