that is a ukrainian mother realizing her worst fears when she discovers the body of her young son who had been dumped in a shallow well near kyiv. another body also found at the well which was located on the route of the russian retreat near the capital of kyiv. let s begin our coverage now with cnn s matt rivers with me here in lviv. let s talk about this warship. what do we know? we get information from three different sources essentially. russian, ukrainians and americans weighed in. the russians are saying, as you said off the top, they call this a fire on board the ship. it s significant that russian state media stais talking about this. they don t want to be talking about this but realized they don t have a choice. they say there was a fire on board, not doubt. they don t say what the cause of the fire was but say essentially the ship is out of commission, at least for the time being. the cause, from what the ukrainians are saying is the ukrainian armed forces themsel
with a missile. involved in the infamous attack on snake island when the sailors there said some nasty things to that ship. the kremlin is denying the missile strike. i m told this morning the ukrainian military shared its assessment with the u.s. military. russian state tv in southeastern ukraine where russian state media claims more than 1,000 ukrainian marines surrendered to russian forces in mariupol. ukraine is denying this report and cnn cannot identify the authenticity of this just yet. john kirby said russia has not yet taken control of mariupol. it s being contested and that s one of the reasons why we re signing out yet another package of $800 million of security assistance to go to ukraine to better defend themselves. at some points, it only takes a matter of, less than a week from the time the president authorizes a drawn out package for us to get at least the first shipment or so into ukraine. and we re going to be working at great speed here to try to do e
This is cnn breaking news. hello, everyone. i m kate bolduan live in new york. reporter: i m brianna keilar live in lviv, ukraine. we begin with breaking news. a significant blow to ukrrussia. ukraine claims it sank key russian warship, the kremlin denies it but badly damaged. it regroups for another offensive in eastern ukraine. the french military says russia is preparing for a large scale assault here in the coming days with the goal of conquering the donbas region and as the war enters 50th day, the brutal reality of putin s invasion is captured in this heart wrenching video.