father know their children will never be the same. why do you feel it was important to be here at this moment? translator: so people can see for themselves, the whole world should see how the russian world comes and kills civilians for nothing. when you get older, what do you think you ll remember about this moment and this day? reporter: i ll remember everything. i ll remember every day, and i will tell my children and my grandchildren, i will remember this all my life. reporter: he s a teenager two refuses to look away from the raw reality of this war. one of the things that weighs most on this family is they look around the city that they live in. they hear of so many people not surviving. they see the damage, and they sit there and they wonder how were they some of the lucky ones to be able to escape the horror the russian forces brought to their hometown?
but what we know, compiled and analyzed by technologies is that mass burial site containing about 200 new graves has been identified in a village. this is the satellite images at the top of the screen, that long line there. now, these mass graves are about 20 times larger, this is so hard to ma fathom this, 70 times larger than the ones found in butcha. russian soldiers have been taking the bodies of people killed in mariupol and dumping them here. and they believe as many as 20,000 people have died in mariupol after weeks of intense bombardment, a city that s only a city by name. 98% or so has been completely destroyed, and the images charred to the bone. of course, a city like you said, that vladamir putin claims has been liberated, though there s still that last pocket of
this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from all around the world and in the united, i am michael holmes at the cnn sis center in atlanta. a sprawling steel factory in mariupol is all that remains of ukrainian forces defending the tra teenagic-port city. they are surrounded by russian troops, but have refused to surrender amid the nonstop shelling and gun battles. russian president vladimir putin has now ordered troops to impose a blockade that, quote, even a fly can t get through, rather than storm the facility. besides sheltering the ukrainian fighters, the kmeks has also been home to hundreds of men, women, and chirp children who are reportedly running out of food and water. the factory owner describes the
if you look at the war in bosnia, there is a prospect there will be people in leadership positions that will be brought to justice. but the concern is that those leadership positions tell an 18 or 20-year-old that what they re doing is appropriate. steve is dead on. this says a lot about how the russian military is operating. in a professional situation, an 18 or 20-year-old is going to say, the enemy is a horrible maybe person, but maybe a horrible animal, unless they re led by leadership to say in wartime, we don t characterize the adversary as animals. this tells you what the russian leadership is all about. it s a corrupt leadership that tells youth that it s appropriate to think of somebody as an ex-pendable animal. it s incredible, don. phil, steve, thank you very much. i want to turn now to the latest military in ukraine. good evening, colonel. let s start with mariupol, shall we? what options does ukraine have to keep that city?
ivan s family never left this backyard shed for more than 30 days while russian troops occupied this city. his father and grandfather showed us how they survived on nothing but homemade bread. they would basically take the raw grain and grind it down into flour or a version of flour and make their own bread in this oven. that s what they lived on for more than a month. reporter: five adults and four children hid in this underground bunker. this is where ivan heard weeks of artillery blasts and cries for help. the sounds of war that will haunt survivors forever. translator: i slept here. my sister and my mom slept here, and another family slept here, too. we tried to curl up and sleep here together. sometimes when things got really scary, our dads could stay with us. reporter: ivan s grandfather says russian soldiers told him