let s go out front. good evening, everyone, i m kate baldwin in for erin burnett. this new drone video revealing the starting scale of putin s war. this is all that is left of a village north of the capital kiev, home after home leveled. the roofs blown off other buildings. this village was vital to stopping putin s march towards the capitol and why he pulled back and redoubled his efforts to the east. it is in the eastern part of the country russians are attacking with increasing intensity tonight. these images show apartments on fire, businesses gutted. tonight the pentagon warns putin is not letting up. what we dough k know is they putting more enablers in there, in the last 24 hours. what we do know is they are conducting operations in the donbas. certainly, they continue to bombard mariupol. now, one of putin s large commanders say russia s am ambitions go far beyond the east. that would give them a massive land to stretch russia s border to the black sea. there ar
mariupol from refugees who just escaped. our correspondents are covering all that and more, from key locations in the war zone. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. this hour, the full extent of vladimir putin s war plan is clear and even more alarming. russia, now apparently looking to seize control of a very wide swath of ukraine across the south as well as the east, both regions hit with fresh attacks including shelling in the city of mariupol where putin has made a disputed claim of victory. cnn s matt rivers has the latest on the dire conditions there and the desperate efforts to get out. reporter: the train was designated just for evacuees, if all went to plan, would arrive here to lviv, packed with hundreds fleeing more. instead, just a handful of families finally found safety, including paulina and her daughter who fled mariupol. they are furious there are not more who g
with a third missing more than a month of teaching, according to a new report. housing charity shelter blamed what it described as total inaction from the government for the numbers of young people in traumatic living arrangements. the government says it increased local housing allowance significantly during the pandemic, and is delivering more affordable homes. here s our social affairs correspondent, michael buchanan. it s barely 6:30am, and isaiah is heading to his childminder. ..while his brother coby begins the journey to school. single mum lily is heading to work as a nurse, hence the early start. we used to walk to school every single day from our old house. but that all changed when they were made homeless in september, after the landlord sold the property. now the commute can take up to 45 minutes. if i could get us housed near his school, that s my main goal. this is where they re currently living, all three sharing a one bed flat. it s temporary accommodation.
bakhmut in ukraine. and the reason this matters, jake, is because the fight for bakhmut, as has become the case with much of the war in ukraine, has become a war of attrition that military and intelligence officials increasingly say is really likely to turn on access to artillery ammunition, which side is able to sustain its supply of artillery ammunition the longest. one senior western intelligence official that i spoke to earlier today said in bakhmut alone, the two sides are spending up to multiple thousands of rounds of ammunition a day, which is just staggering. so what north korea is doing here is really helping wagner, and by extension the russian side, perpetuate this fight in bakhmut that our sources say has left this part of ukraine looking like they re done. will the weapons and ammunition from north korea make a difference in ukraine? not necessarily from a broader strategic perspective. the fight in bakhmut specifically is not seen, even if russia is able to
the fact that the decision on tanks must be taken. standoff on military aid, u.s. and nato allies push germany to provide key tanks to ukraine. we re live in london on the diplomatic stalemate. and blow to republicans as the justice department signaled it won t hand over documents they demanded. how it impacts the biden and trump investigations. plus anti-abortion activists rally in washington, d.c. for the march for life demonstration. protestors say even though roe was overturned, there work isn t done. despite intense negotiations among the west s most senior defense officials, determine any still won t agree to send its coveted leopard 2 battle tanks to ukraine and they won t even allow other countries who have them to supply them about on paper it appears ideally suited for ukraine plus thousands are already deployed to more than a dozen nearby european countries, so getting some into ukraine would be relatively easy. poland for example is eager to give some of