witnessing tonight. and shanghai s brutal makeshift covid quarantine facilities, with no access to showers, lights on 24/7. two people forced into these shelter also tell their stories. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, the breaking news. putin unleashing new hell on innocent ukrainians, targeting one of only two working hospitals in donbas, this showing the damage with shattered glass and debris cluttering the floors. in the room you see here, you ll see again the windows blown out, the camera person pans to the next room and an entire wall is gone. the top ukrainian official tells cnn the russians knew that hospital was a working hospital, it was not vacant. but this is putin s playbook. a former top defense official telling me that when the united states shared coordinates of hospitals in syria with the russians, with the express purpose of ensuring their safety, the russians turned around and used those coordinates to bomb the hospitals. this hospital
but an adviser to president zelenskyy just said this, quote, sooner or later debts will have to be paid back. that is why disarming the belgorod vor on nez depots is a absolutely natural process. karma is a cruel thing. russia is escalating its economic attacks beyond ukraine into the west. it shut off gas supplies to poland and bulgaria. they ve shut those off because the nations refuse to pay for the gas in rubles. this is significant. both countries rely on russian energy, they are nato members, and both have aided in the ukrainian defense. in the meantime ukraine now admitting it is taking significant losses in the east as the russians are intensifying attacks there in this new strategic bombardment of the area. and in the south a second missile strike overnight on a strategic bridge near odesa, this is actually video from the first strike. new images coming in moments ago showing the damage there, this is a rail and road bridge and it s the only link between the
elated, spoke to cnn s brianna keilar. as soon as trevor was released, we were on the phone with trevor when the president called. so and he, again, totally gracious and wonderful and kind and said he looked forward to seeing us in the white house again. so and tell us how trevor is feeling. tell us what he said about this. he sounds kind of subdued. i think he s a little overwhelmed. he seemed to be in shock a little bit. they had moved him to another prison. they moved him to a moscow prison this week. we didn t know that. went to the same prison that i think paul wheewhelan was held for a long time. they flew him from there to turkey and then trevor quickly told us that the american plane pulled up next to the russian plane and they walked both prisoners across at the same time like you see in the movies. in turkey? in turkey. and then they were leaving turkey and in the air when he called us and told us this. so they re en route back to we believe to t
it s the top of the hour on cnn newsroom. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn camerota, trevor reed has been released by russia in a prison swap. reed, a former marine is reportedly on a plane to the u.s. as we speak. russian state tv broadcast the exchange of reed for a convicted drug smuggler. you can see it here on your screen. this took place on a tarmac in turkey. the 30-year-old former marine has been held in russia since 2019. this afternoon, reed s parents spoke to reporters from their home in texas. finally after waiting all this time i m going to be able to hug my kid, put my arms around him. the biggest issue is his health. if you ve seen any of the videos today of him getting out of the fsb van to get into the fsb jet he looks terrible to us. as his parents, we know he does not look well. he s very thin. he was walking strange. they had to help him get into the airplane. he didn t look good. on the battlefield, parts of eastern ukraine continue to
good morning. i m bianna golodryga in new york. and i m jim sciutto reporting from lviv in western ukraine. a very busy morning here. any moment now the u.s. secretary-general will sit down with russian president vladimir putin in moscow while right now in germany, u.s. defense secretary lloyd austin is meeting with his nato counterparts. he says that russia s atrocities in ukraine are, quote, indefensible, but he believes that ukraine can win this war. ukraine clearly believes that it can win. and so does everyone here. we have much more to do. ukraine needs our help to win today, and they will still need our help when the war is over. this morning, ukraine says russian troops have intensified their assault in the south and in the east. officials say a bridge near the city of odesa is damaged following a missile strike. and overnight, one person is dead after a guided missile rocked zaporizhzhia. that s the same city that was a destination for people trying to escape m