them, right? we told on the last hour, a teenager who had to hide in his basement for days to avoid russian shelling and living off of grain and the family had to bury the bodies of friends of neighbors in their own backyard. we re going to tell a story tomorrow about a mother and three children who fled bucha. they re safe, they re in spain now, i saw the happy faces of their children today, that s inspiring, but mother told me they d been reaching out to friends and family in bucha they learned their friends, family, teachers killed and now confronted having to tell her child that story , that s what happening in this war, real evidence of war crimes, we ll do our best the tell the stories but folks at home i ll just say we all got to keep whopping and listening. absolutely, jim, good morning, good evening as we are in the united states, morning as you are in ukraine, we ll see you tomorrow, get some rest. thank you very much. this is don lemon tonight, breaking news, a
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
Want to thank you for the coverage you re doing out there in particular and bringing these stories for everyone to hear and know they re attached to human beings and lives. thank you, laura, part of a big team here and we re doing our best to tell those stories, we ll keep telling those stories. i ll be here in ukraine tomorrow for cnn tonight along with laura reporting from washington, don lemon tonight starts now. don. you re absolutely right, big team doing incredible work, our correspondents, producers and camera folks on the grounds, folks there with us, jim, similar to what laura just said, two months since the invasion began and the images we re seeing like the alleged mass graves outside mariupol, overwhelming to look at. we can this is something we should not get used to. the world cannot get numb to this. this is a war told in deeply painful personal stories and there are literally millions of