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At the beginning of april, russia withdrew its forces from northern ukraine, announcing it would focus efforts on conquering the eastern donbas region. ukraine claimed russian troops were responsible for war crimes in suburbs, including bucha. this week, there is intense fighting near the city of severodonetsk. president zelenskyy says russia is now in control of a fifth of ukraines territory, and up to 100 soldiers are dying each day. many of those who fled ukraine in the early stages of the wa...

And we are ready to do it. >> every euro, every cent, what you receive from russians or what you send from russia has blood. >> joining us now is julia men dell, former press secretary to ukrainian president zelenskyy. julia, thank you for being with us. you wrote a powerful "washington post" op-ed about the fear of more atrocities. what are you hearing about other areas in ukraine? >> thank you for having me. first of all, 1,200 of war crimes have been registered already from kyiv region. and b...

See that this school in mariupol, and that things can be much worse. also, we know from our [ inaudible ] that bucha was not actually the worst settlement in terms of more invasion and internal affairs. just another town, which is in kyiv region. and it was very difficult to get there. today we are getting the first images, because we see that members of parliament and some advisers from the office of the president managed to reach there. everything is mined there, and its difficult, because the...

Ordered the crimes, will be held accountable. >> your u.n. ambassador, linda thomas greenfield described these atrocities and compared it by extension to the holocaust. talked about what the council of mariupol had described. people forcibly, tens of thousands instantaneous from their homes, taken to russia and put in camps. isnt that the very definition of genocide? >> we have to get all of the information, all of the evidence. we have to, as i said, document everything thats happened, fully un...

The way in and armored vehicles then we saw along the road just former camps littered with trash everywhere. getting into the town, the destruction was massive. nine story apartment buildings completely leveled. the main treat just has been shelled heavily, completely destroyed. they feel that the russians have definitely withdrawn. there are ukrainian troops. people are coming out of their basements for the first time in five weeks. we heard harrowing stories and we met one woman who flagged us...

Hearing some explosions actually. it sounds pretty far away. were not sure what those are right now. so no, theyre not totally gone to be crystal clear. it doesnt sound like that. well figure out what that is and get back to you. but i spent the day at a town, a suburb about an hour northwest of kyiv. that the russians have occupied for the last five weeks and this is the first day really weve gotten a look inside. and it is -- the destruction is on the level of bucha and were hearing that bucha...