fronts in the east, even as fresh russian units come across the border. ukraine s military says this video shows them firing on russian armer in izium. russian forces have been trying to use that area as a staging ground into the donetsk region. russia has had some success in targeting ukrainian supply lines. this is the aftermath of an attack on an important railway hub. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says moscow s aim for the eastern regions is clear. translator: in donbas the occupiers are doing everything to destroy any life in this area. constant brutal bombings, constant russian strikes at infrastructure and residential areas show that russia wants to make this area uninhabited. in the south, the situation also growing ever more dire for mariupol s last defenders holed up in that steel plant along with hundreds of civilians. a planned operation to evacuate on friday did not take place. cnn correspondents are across the region. our randi kaye is in moldova.
shellered for weeks. today a small group got out. 25 people including six children were just evacuated according to russia s state news agency. cnn has not verified that. and for those who remain stranded, the ceo of the steel plant company paints a very dire picture. the city is being destroyed basically beautiful thriving city was turned into a concentration camp by the russians in less than two months. you could say it is genocide. i have a terrible story. one of our employees who had to leave the city and walk through the mine fields with his pregnant wife for more than 30 kilometers. actually, as he got into safety, his wife gave birth the next day. but fauortunately the child is okay. but they had to live through is terrible. vladimir putin seems to be flaunting the brutality. thursday his forces launched a missile strike that hit a kyiv apartment while the u.n. chief was in the city. also this week, russia chained together a series of strikes on rail and supply lin
according to ukrainian officials. nick paton walsh is in central ukraine. what s the status of these evacuations? reporter: we have russian state media and ukraine military officials on the ground saying something pretty similar. which is 20 people, six of them children, according to the ukrainians, injured, women and children, have managed to begin their evacuation out. now a ukrainian commander on the ground there has talked about how the evacuation was supposed to start at 6:00 a.m., they didn t get through till 6:25 p.m. what is unclear at this stage is which direction the evacuation is going. there are two, jim, one is towards ukrainian held territory to the east of where i m stand standing and the other is east into russia where tens of thousands of people from mariupol have been forcibly taken and put through filtration camps there. definite, awful choice for or not choice directions for those initial evacuees and a lengthy journey ahead. but possible glimpse of li
actress ashley judd. we lost our beautiful mother to the disease of mental illness. we are shattered. we are navigating profound grief and know as we loved her, she was loved by her public. we are in unknown territory. bill, the judds were going inducted into the country music hall of fame tomorrow and just announced an arena tour. it is kind of, the irony of that is obvious but it strikes the chord of her life in some ways and the whole judd s career because they are spectacular success. i mean spectacular success was also accompanied by all kinds of tribulations which are right out of a country music song. all the things they had to go through sounds like the music they sang and right up to tend of her life. she suffered from terrible depression and all kinds of health ailments including hepatitis. they scheduled a new tour and i don t know the pressure must have been awful on her. it s really a tragedy and it just mirrors really so much of what you know about country mus
in kansas, but half a world away in ukraine where russian soldiers are continuing to pound the donbas region aided by russian airstrikes. we ve seen better than a thousand airstrikes a day on the part of the russians, and that is well beyond what s going on in the donbas region. let s go to matt finn with the latest. matt. reporter: and, neil, a senior u.s. defense official says russia s latest offensive is going slower than planned. ukrainian forces are pushing back, they are fighting off russia s attempts to gain the donbas region and the south eastern portion of this country, that area it wants so badly. when russian forces retreat from a city or region, we are able to get a look at the atrocities and the catastrophic devastation left behind. so often residential neighborhoods and communities. take a look at this new video showing the extent of the damage in the town of irpin near kyiv. it was the scene of intense fighting last month. russian forces have since withdrawn.