lines. the selfless mission to rescue his neighbors trapped by the relentless russian shelling in the east. then, an inside look at just how close the top republicans in the house and senate came to turning on donald trump after january 6th. the new york times report that house minority leader kevin mccarthy was even going to tell trump to resign. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with the world lead and new satellite images today reportedly showing mass graves near mariupol, ukraine, as vladimir putin brazenly blames his forces have, quote, liberated that port city. the images back up reports from ukrainian officials that russia carried truckloads of corpses and simply dumped them at this site. the line near the top of your screen, not the road but the one underneath that expands over time showing more graves being added to it. the u.s.-based company that captured the satellite images say the pictures are from mid-march through mid-april. they come as pu
ukrainian capital of kyiv. ed, what are ukrainian officials saying about these images and the possibility of mass graves here? reporter: well, they re saying that this is once again proof that we are watching the commitment of war crimes right before our eyes. these new satellite images show about 12 miles outside of mariupol what appears to be mass graves. ukrainian officials, an advisor to the mayor there in mariupol, says that they believe that russian trucks are driving civilian victims to this mass grave and simply dumping them on an embankment. all of this comes as vladimir putin is claiming that he has, quote, liberated the city of mariupol, that is the cynical language that putin has been using to justify this invasion in ukraine. but inside that steel plant, we know that there are still military forces and civilians inside. they are looking for a way to be able to get those civilians to safety and getting them safe passage to safer parts of ukraine. but you know, j
Of its special status. what that might mean for the sunshine state s largest private employer. plus it s a seat that could control of the u.s. senate but now the senate race in pennsylvania could define what it means to be a democrat. and the besieged city of mariupol appears to be on the brink of falling to the russians, a city that if captured would provide an essential link connecting crimea seized in 2014 to the donbas region. putin claims mariupol has been liberated, quote, unquote, but hundreds of innocent civilians remain trapped inside a steel plant with no evacuation route available. putin has ordered his troops not to let anything in or out of that plant. this as a new horror is uncovered just outside mariupol. satellite images show what ukrainian officials say is a mass grave that has been expanding over the last month. an advisor to mariupol s mayor says russians are taking truckloads of corpses and dumping them into the ditches. ed lavandera joins us from the