hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, says more than one million people have been evacuated from ukraine to russia since the invasion began. ukraine has previously accused russia of taking people across the border against their will. ukraine has also said russia has stolen thundreds of thousands of tonnes of ukrainian grain. according to the agricultural ministry. and the mother of a british humanitarian volunteer, who s thought to have been captured by russian forces in ukraine, has pleaded for him to be released. tim muffett reports. dylan healy and paul urey in ukraine to provide humanitarian assistance but now captured by the russian military, according to a british aid organisation. it is thought they were stopped at a checkpoint as they tried to help a mother and her children leave a village near zaporizhzhia. at her home near preston, paul urey s mother explained why, against her wishes, her s
counting the casualties after a deadly suicide attack during friday prayers in kabul. and a big fight in the big apple. katie taylor and amanda serrano square up, ahead of the most important women s boxing clash in history. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the russian foreign minister, sergei lavrov, says more thani million people have been evacuated from ukraine to russia since the invasion began. ukraine has previously accused russia of taking people across the border against their will. ukraine has also said russia has stolen hundreds of thousands of tonnes of ukrainian grain. according to the agricultural ministry, 1.5 million tonnes of grain is stored in russian occupied territory. they warn the invasion is a serious threat to international food supply. and the mother of a british humanitarian volunteer, the blockade of ukraine s black sea coast has meant ukraine s monthly grain exports in april dropped to an eighth of the prewar monthl
to ukraine. and u.s. diplomats begin returning to ukraine. we ll discuss the significance of that may have step, when state department spokesman ned price joins us later this morning. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, april 27th. joe. a lot a lot going on, mika, right. a lot going on. your former party is fascinating. fascinating is a term you can use for it. but, as i was saying, a lot going on today. today is holocaust remembrance day. and it seems to me, for most of our lives, most of our adult lives, whenever there was holocaust remembrance day, we were looking at black and white photos, trying to figure out how madness spread across germany and the rest of the continent the way it did that would lead to such grave tragedies. how one man would be responsible for each evil and influence so many others. these pictures are actually historic reminders and unfortunately bring warning still to us today. unfortunately, more relevant than ever,
ukrainians are, quote, not thinking about comfort, they re thinking about mere survival. his city fell back in early march. so far u.s. defense officials watching the battlefield see no major russian territorial gains in the donbas region to ukraine s east. we are, though, seeing destruction like this in major cities as russia steps up shelling across the east. and ukrainian soldiers are fortifying luhansk, the military governor there tells cnn 80% of his region s territory is under the control of russian forces and he says they re not stopping. the whole of luhansk territory is being shelled. there is no safe town. we understand that the russian government is going to push ahead and going to destroy everything on its path. let s get the latest now on the ground from cnn s matt rivers who is live for us in lviv. what s the latest? reporter: they say they will destroy everything in their path but that s whatever ukrainian forces, i guess, allow them to do based on their