forces. and these new images show the aftermath of shelling in the area, at least 27 houses from one village were hit. keep in mind, those are houses, not military targets. russian curse words there describing what they re seeing in the sky. overnight, explosions rocking the city of kherson. russian officials claim it is impossible for ukraine to regain control there the u.n. secretary-general says it will be up to putin to end the war. he toured damage in ukraine this morning ahead of a meeting with president zelenskyy. i imagine my family in one of those houses. that is now destroyed and black. i see my granddaughters running away in panic, part of family eventually killed. this is one of the reasons president zelenskyy wanted guterres to visit ukraine before meeting with vladimir putin earlier this week. in the next hour, president biden is set to speak from the white house on u.s. support for ukraine. we ll bring that to you live. yeah, we expect new steps there.
this time in the donetsk region. the u.s. has credible information that a russian military unit executed ukrainians who were trying to surrender. russia is intensifying its bombardment in the eastern part of the country. at least 27 homes from one village were hit. for word yet on casualties. the russian-occupied city of kherson was rocked overnight. russia has installed a new government saying it will be impossible for ukrainians to return to control. the head of the united nations will be meeting with ukraine s president today after of course he met with putin just yesterday, as nato s secretary general offers a new warning that this war could last years. let s get started with cnn s scott mclean who s live in lviv, ukraine. scott, what s the very latest you re watching there on the ground? reporter: hey, kate. yeah, obviously this statement from the u.s. official to the u.n. yesterday is quite remarkable, accusing the russians of executing ukrainian troops who were tryin
are warning that the city is vulnerable to epidemics given the appalling unsan itary conditions. tell us more about that. reporter: the mayor calls the conditions right now medieval. perhaps up to 100,000 people still there, no power, no water, you have had people there for more than two months. add to that the lack of food, the rising temperatures, and also thousands potentially of uncollected bodies. and the city council says this is a recipe for disease outbreak. diseases like cholera, e. coli, dysentery, things like that. each take war out of the equation, and the major says that people will die, plain and simple. the u.n. secretary-general, as i mentioned earlier, was in kyiv today. he s making it his mission to broker some kind of a deal to get people out from under that sprawling steel plant in mariupol. he left moscow with at least an agreement in principle for vladamir putin to work with the u.n., to work with the red cross and ukraine, to come to some kind of an a
welcome to the programme. the un secretary general flew to moscow today for talks with vladimir putin not exactly face to face. no one gets closer than the end of the table. not even those travelling under the good offices of the united nations.mr gutterez said there were frank discussions and currently not much cause for optimism. the russian foreign minister described the current state of the peace talks as dismal . but the secretary general said he was hopeful that the un might play a greater role in getting people out of the beseiged areas, like mariupol, while getting food, medicine and other basic goods into ukraine. russia s invasion of ukraine is a violation of its territorial integrity and against the charter of the united nations. but it is my deep conviction that the sooner we end this war the better. in ramstein, germany, the united states was hosting a meeting of a0 defence minister who discussed how they would speed up the supply of heavy weapons to give ukrain
far-right rival marine le pen. it s also been 20 years since the last time a french president was re-elected in france. now, leaders including u.s. president joe biden, the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, and european leaders and the russian president vladimir putin have congratulated mr. macron on his victory. now, the french leader admits that he has work to do, but he promised the next five years will not be a continuation of his first term, and he pledged to work for all of france. here s what he said after the victory was announced. translator: and i know that for a number of my come pay trats who chose the far-right, the anger and the discord which brought them to vote for her project also merits a response. it will also be my responsibility and the responsibility of those who surround me. and he knows he has a tough uphill battle to meet ought promise to reunite the country. some protesters were angry about the results and they turned out in paris and they