Burned beyond recognition. a house that was occupied by russian troops, an elderly lady dead in the bedroom. these bodies evidence of a brutal russian occupation and then a fierce fight by the underdog ukrainians to drive them out. a fight 81-year-old katerina witnessed up close in her village. there were explosions, explosions from all sides. it was scary, she tells me. i am in my house. i cross myself and lie down, and then i hear how it thundered and all the windows in the house were broken. the ukrainians tell us the russian troops didn t even bother collecting most of their own dead. more than a week after vladimir putin s army was pushed out of here, they showed us the body of what they say was a russian soldier still laying in the woods. and that s not all they ve left behind. this demining unit says they found hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance in just a matter of days, including
With u.s. state department spokesman ned price. there are reports this evening from ukrainian military and government officials that russia has apparently used chemical weapons against ukrainians in part of mariupol. cnn cannot verify these reports at this time. has the biden administration confirmed this? if it s true, what does it mean? well, like you, jake, we haven t been in a position to confirm these reports just yet. but here s what i can tell you. before today, there was credible information available to us that the russians may have been preparing to use agents, chemical agents, potentially tear gas mixed with other agents. it s part of the effort to weaken, to enkaps tate the ukrainian military and civilian elements that are entrenched in mariupol, using these agents as part of an effort to weaken those defenses. we shared that information with our ukrainian partners. we are going to be in direct conversations with them to try and determine what exactly has
Weapons. and what he heard from antony blinken is three answers, yes, yes, and yes. we are going to serve every day, including the united states and some 30 allies and partners providing security assistance to the ukrainians. there are deliveries being made every single day. and we re also providing new systems as a result of this constant coordination with our ukrainian partners. you may have noticed on friday, our slovakian allies were able to transfer an s-300 system. this is a long-range antiaircraft system that our ukrainian partners had been asking for. what s important here is our slovakian allies were able to transfer this because the united states was able to back fill their missile defense system. today we ve heard we re going to be in a position to provide our ukrainian partners with artillery. this is also directly in response to the requests they have made in recent days. so, we re in constant coordination and consultation with them to make sure that we are providing them
we see horrors of war, a lot of war crimes. actually it is not only war crimes. now we can say about a lot of crimes against humanity. over the weekend, we met with prosecutors and witnesses who are making their cases against russia. about 90 minutes outside lviv at this pink school, up the stairs, past the paw prints in this grade school classroom, there s a war crimes investigation underway. ukraine s prosecutor yenl s office has employed teams of investigators to punish russia in international courts. ukrainians who have fled their
there were explosions, explosions from all sides. it was scary, she tells me. i am in hmy house. i crossed myself and lay down. all the windows in the house were broken. the ukrainians tell us the russian troops didn t even bother collecting most of their own dead. they showed us the body of what they say was a russian soldier still laying in the woods. and that s not all they ve left behind. this demining unit says they found hundreds of tons of unexploded ordnance in just a matter of days, including cluster munitions like this bomblet even though the russians deny using them. these weapons are extremely dangerous for civilians who might accidentally touch them, the commander says. there are about 50 such elements in one bomb, he says. this is a high explosive fragmentation bomb to kill people, designed just to kill people.