a story about the power of kindness and on relenting courage in a time of war and it has been targeted for removal from school library shelves. the velshi banned book club convenes this morning with r. j. palacio author of the powerful graphic novel white bird. velshi starts now. good morning. i am ali velshi. it is saturday may 14th, day 80 of the invasion of ukraine and the war that is not going as putin planned or as anyone expected. the consequences of the war of choice on the neighbor, both intended and unintended, are now out in the open and on display for the world to see. there is a global economic toll and ramifications for the world food supply, ukraine being one of the largest producers of green in the world. we will dive into this later on in the show. other consequences are more direct and visual with ukraine being altered. entire cities, towns, villages, big and small, ruined and erased from the landscape. tens of thousands of people have been killed in th
near their homes. the ambassador to the organization of security and cooperation in europe reports that russian shull shippers have forced thousands of ukrainian civilians into these camps in russia through a filtration process. this involves beatings torture, and sexual violence and harassment. ukrainians who do not pass the filtration process are shot and killed, according to this official. the un is investigating dozens of reports of sexual violence by russian occupying troops including allegations by other officials where they were claiming that mothers were raped and for their children and children of the mothers. they are going on to the counteroffensive driving them out of the major city of kharkiv. the retreating russians are being repositioned to the fighting in the donbas. that is according to ukrainian and western officials. a ukrainian ukraine and russia are fully engaged in artillery warfare in
it, the less effective he s going to be. i have another follow up for you deputy cipher. according to the u.s. ambassador for the organization of security and cooperation in europe, they say that the u.s. has highly credible intelligence reports that russia will try to annex the separatist occupied regions of donetsk and luhansk sometime in mid may and that there are plans to create a similarly so called people s republic in kherson to be annexed as well. i mean well, i want to know what you think about the credibility of that report and if that is the new goal from russia? yeah, in fact, you know, prior to the invasion, they had talked about, you know, annexing those groups in donbas, those places in donbas, too. but, you know, frankly, their goal was also to take kyiv, and you know, some of it has to do with what the defense does and the ukrainians do. that may very well be their goal. do they have the capability to do that? i think they, you know, shot a
diplomatic breakthrough, and as the threat of war looms, more countries are warning their citizens to leave ukraine immediately. new pictures show british observers from the organization of security and cooperation in europe pulling out. the u.s. is evacuating all but essential staff from kyiv. secretary of state antony blinken says a core team will remain in ukraine. our krcorrespondents are covering the fore. jas jas jasmine wright has more details and we have reaction from ukraine to the latest developments. it s probably one of the highest-stakes president biden has had since he s been in office. what transpired in the call and what happens next? reporter: the president wakes up ahead of a very critical week. we have seen both he and his administration officials really engage in this full-court press
it the beginning of the latest invasion. now the president is expected to lay out new sanctions against russia. the u.s. joins multiple western nations in condemning putin s aggression and that includes germany which halted it approval of the nord stream 2 pipeline which will have huge implications for germany s economy and russia s. we have cnn s erin bur net in lviv, crukraine, an nic roberts in moscow, cnn white house correspondent john harwood is in washington, cnn chief international correspondent clarissa ward in kyiv, ukraine. retired brigadier general peter zac and michael for the organization of security and cooperation in europe, and he is in lviv. let s begin with cnn s john harwood. what do we expect the president to say? what we expect is the president to lay out some sanctions going well beyond what the administration announced last night, which was sanctions