rivers back from a tour of chernobyl where he talked today world s top nuclear watch dog group about how close we came to a second nuclear disaster there during russia s brief occupation of chernobyl, also with us tonight, international correspondent clarissa ward seeing the battle of kharkiv, up front, first, nick payton walsh with the southern front. reporter: these southern fields conjure a pieces long past, a world away from ukraine s hell, quickly ruptured by russia s new offensive, sending waves of evacuees fleeing the growing unthinkable world of russian occupation. families for whom the shelling over the last two hours was finally too much. one of the villages further down here, the russians are actually close to them, it s impossible to stay, a woman was injured
unhelpful. and so, again, hard to say what s motivating mr. lavrov, but again, i think that kind of talk should be avoided. joining our coverage tonight, cnn s nick paton walsh reporting on russia s new offensive in the south. matt rivers just back from a tour of chernobyl, where he talked to the world s top nuclear watchdog group about how close we came to a second nuclear disaster there during russia s brief occupation of chernobyl. also with us tonight, cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward seeing the battle in kharkiv. up first, nick paton walsh with the southern front. reporter: these southern fields conjure a pieces long past, a world away from ukraine s hell. it s quickly ruptured by russia s new offensive. sending waves of evacuees fleeing the growing unthinkable