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To be civilians, lying in the streets, some of them with their hands tied behind their backs, others in mass graves. president zelenskyy, who visited bucha today, called these the acts of genocide. the kremlin is denying the reports, accusing ukrainians of staging these images, but they have provided zero evidence to back up that claim. ukraines prosecutor general says the bodies of 410 civilians have been removed from kyiv area towns that were recently retaken from those russian forces. about a...

Up and fortify them? >> well, youve heard us talk about this now over the last few days. its about getting them security assistance as much as we can as fast as we can, including from other nations, so were going to continue to do that, and i think you heard jake sullivan talk about this earlier today. just friday, we announced another 300 million in security assistance that were going to now go out and procure on an expedited contracting basis to get inside ukraine, and there could be additiona...

Again, stingers. we have flown in thousands of -- im sorry, well, multiple hundreds of stinger missiles into ukraine that theyre using very, very effectively. theyre short-range air defense but they know how to use them and theyre doing that quite well. thats going to continue going forward, so they are actually doing a good job protecting their skies. in fact, the air space over ukraine remains contested, and largely thats because the ukrainians have been able to be so nimble and so effective i...

This is in sync with the air campaign. but its another terrible sign of what the ukrainians are fighting against. now to add in syrians and the wagner group -- by the way, they werent very good in syria either. they dropped barrel bombs and poison gas on innocent civilians hiding in basements. so, russia is a brutal war machine thats failing. putins scared. hes desperate. hes got very few good options, but he is not backing off. we need to accelerate and upgrade support of the ukrainian military...

Combat power swallowed up in ukraine. now theyre bringing in mercenaries and calling up conscripts. nows the time to give the ukrainians what they need at an operational level of war, not battalion level, but 100,000 ukrainians need the tools and the mobility to attack the russians and not let them reposition the battlefield. >> pete strzok, i think something that the world has woken up to is something of an expertise of yours and that is putins levers of power include copious amounts of propaga...

Decision, and is now in hyperdrive, needs to ramp up the military technology. theres no question. i noticed admiral kirby said a coastal defense missile. theyre still wrapped up in this offensive versus defensive weapons, which, at this point, is nonsense. the ukrainians have to go on the counterattack during this phase of the war, and so they need m-1 tanks, an air defense system that works at mid and higher range against cruise missiles, you know, admiral kirby talked about, well, ukrainians a...

We saw things that, as you said, russia says the ukrainians may have staged. now "the new york times" has put out a timeline with satellite photography that indicates those bodies were there prior to the russian evacuation outside of bucha, and at some point, these are noncombatants. these are civilians. theyre in civilian clothing. theres nothing that could -- that they could be mistaken for being combatants or soldiers. and as long as we say, never again, and as long as we have nato and the eu...

Incredibly difficult to watch, but theyre necessary and theyre urgently important for all of us to see. bodies of human beings are seen lining the streets and yards in bucha. some of them were found dead with their hands tied behind their backs. dozens of people were also found in unmarked mass graves in bucha. one survivor told the "new york times" the russians shot everyone they saw. sky news is on the ground in bucha where russians and ukranian soldiers have begun the recovery efforts. >> rep...

Nationalities. >> in just the last hour, national security adviser jake sullivan said the images coming out of bucha are, quote, evidence of war crimes and that the u.s. and europe are now preparing a new round of sanctions. for its part, the russian government has claimed that the massacre in bucha is, quote, fake and staged by the ukrainians. but the russians have not provided an iota of evidence for this allegation. as the atrocities have sparked outrage around the world and here at home, pre...

Happen because if we witness, if we bear witness to these atrocities that we are seeing and the daily shelling and the targeting of residences and schools and hospitals, and we just say, hey, this is really bad, we condemn it in the strongest way we can, not sure were living up to our promise of a world order which is meant to secure us and to keep citizenry safe of invasion and this kind of death and war crimes. >> and that -- in this country, the highest levels, the national security advisor b...