Conditions that are such that the occupier keeps changing them. reporter: the russians and their allies the separatists of the self-styled donetsk people s republic are showing off their newly won territory, or at least the ruins they fought to seize. this commander points to i amassive crater just outside the azovstal plant. he says the bodies of ukrainian soldiers are everywhere. we find more and more of them, he adds. amid the ruins of mariupol, once a thriving city of 400,000 people, the new authorities are changing the road signs into russian. ukrainian officials expect they will organize a parade on may 9th, when russia celebrates its victory in the second world war. whether the azovstal complex is quiet and empty by then or still being pulverized no one knows. what s certain are the scars that will remain. isa soares, cnn, lviv, ukraine.
That the occupier keeps changing them. reporter: the russians and the allies, the separatists and the people s republic are showing off their newly won territory. or at least the ruins they fought to seize. this commander points to massive crater just outside the azovstal plant. he says the borders of ukrainian soldiers are everywhere. we find more and more of them, he adds. amidst the ruins of mariupol, once a thriving city of 400,000 people, the new authorities are changing the road signs to russian. ukrainian officials suspect they will organize a parade on may 9th when russia celebrates its victory in the second world war. whether the azovstal complex is empty and quiet by then or still being pulverized, no one knows. what is certain are the scars that will remain. cnn, lviv, ukraine. joining me now from kyiv, the
Televisions what you ve been showing quite brilliantly in the last 20 minutes. what you re seeing is one of the main prop grandists for russian television, somebody who makes tucker carlsen look like walter kronkite was sent to mariupol and act like this is the salvation area that russia was saving mariupol and i think what you ll see by may 9th which is monday, victory day, is a kind of pseudo-world war ii narrative in which russia is saving the ukrainian brothers. even though they re destroying them and killing them and flattening them and just one city after another, the best they can. they re trying to create an image of salvation and so that s what you re seeing on russian tv and that s being drilled into the consciousness of the russian
Their allies, separatists of the donetsk peoples republic showing off their newly won territory or at least the ruins they thought to sees. this commander points to a massive crater just outside the asovstal plant, says the bodies of ukrainian soldiers are everywhere, we find more everywhere he adds. amid the ruins of mariupol, once a thriving city of 400,000 people, authorities are changing the road signs to russian. expecting to organize a parade on may 9th when russia celebrates its victory in the second world war. whether asovstal is kquiet then or still being pull vsh, pulverized, no one knows. so i understand you have news regarding ukrainian fighter inside that steel plant? reporter: yeah, good evening, anderson, very tragic news of a female fighter who has, for the