the last remaining ukrainian forces in besieged city of mariupol appear to make a final stand. rejecting russia demand to lay down weapons and ammunition and sur repd rendser or die. russian forces surrounded the port city for a month. ukrainian troops confined to small pocket of resistance. the city itself is in ruins after weeks of heavy fighting. many residents have fled. an estimated 100,000 remain trapped without running water, heat, without electricity, regular supplies of food. on sunday ukraine foreign minister painted a grim picture of what the coming weeks could hold. fighting in eastern ukraine and donbas. large scale offenses of russia in the part of ukraine. and also desperate attempts of the russian forces to as asaid to finish with mariupol at any cost. in his nightly address to the nation, ukraine president volodymyr zelenskyy warned that a russian offensive in eastern ukraine is coming soon. and says russia is intensifying assaults on ukraine s second lar
areas that were hit by these five missiles. at least missile strikes according to the mayor here, what those targets were. we re also told by the city officials that emergency crews are responding to the areas that were targeted in this latest attack. they are now on the scene. we have no word at this point on casualties. we don t know what was hit. we do not know if anybody has been killed. those details, we ll get them to you as soon as we know them. at this point what we can confirm is that there were five loud explosions which were heard i heard them, i counted them. one after the other. within the last 40, 45 minutes. and now we have plumes of smoke rising over a number of locations from the city. this is an area which has been spared the worst of the russian military assault for the most part. the last attack as i said being march 26th. there was another missile strike, russian air strike on a military facility not far from here and close to the polish border you abou
on the first of april. this was the first evidence of the crimes perpetrated here. the bodies of civilians left decomposing where they fell. for more than six weeks, the world s attention has focused on the horrors unfolding in ukraine. in particular, the town of bucha to the west of kyiv. we ve investigated three separate atrocities in bucha to give a sense of the widespread indiscriminate murder being carried out by the russian army. the first involves a man whose body was found at this mass grave next to the church, where investigators are beginning to uncover the scale of the slaughter in bucha during the nearly month-long russian occupation. volodymyr is just one of dozens of relatives looking for answers. the number of bodies buried here is unknown but it s thought there are 115. they were hurried intered here by locals. now each is being carefully recovered for a full forensic examination. we re with volodymyr, as he waits to find out if his brother is among the dead
attacks on the ukrainian capital, kyiv, saying so-called decision-making centers will be targeted if ukrainian forces continue to plan access sabotage and carry out strikes on russian territory. there are few other details from the russian ministry of defendant but it s been two weeks now since russian forces retreated from the north after failing to take the capital. the french military now saying a large-scale russian offensive in the donbas region could happen within days, possibly ten days. but a spokesperson says russian forces are yet to make any significant territorial gains in the east, at least so far. meanwhile, ukrainian fighters claimed to have used neptune anti-ship missiles to cause serious damage to the muss kova, flagship of the russian fleet in the black sea. but russian state media says a hire onboard detonated ammunition on the guided missile cruiser, and it was evacuated. cnn cannot verify either claim. and to the south, russia claims more than 1,000 ukr
good evening and welcome to a special defendant donald j. trump hour. i m andrew weissman. i m melissa murray. 34 criminal charges related to 2016 campaign scheme to purchase stormy daniels silence to not talk about an alleged sexual encounter she had with trump shortly after his youngest child was born. with the pressure of the trial looming, donald trump has spent the past three days escalating his attacks on new york judge who will preside over the upcoming criminal trial. these new attacks aren t limited to judge mar shand but also includes the judge s daughter who trump attacked by name on social media yesterday. all of this is part of a pattern. donald trump s attacks on the judge s family echo previous attacks he made against both the wife the law clerk of the judge in the civil fraud case against trump. now trump is under a gag order as he was in the new york civil case and d.c. january 6th criminal case. tonight, the district attorney s office has asked the co