shipped off from mariupol to eastern russia some 5,000 miles away. ukrainian officials satellite images offer possible evidence of more mass graves right outside that port city. these images coming to light even as vladimir putin proclaims the city has been, quote, liberated by russian forces. ukraine s ministry of defense claims two more russian generals have been killed after a strike on the command post in kherson. cnn has not yet verified that claim and the kremlin has not yet commented. and ukrainian president zelenskyy says two top u.s. officials secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin will visit kyiv sunday. matt rivers joins me tonight from kyiv. president zelenskyy speaking about not only high level visitors from the u.s. but setting the expectation for them not to come empty-handed. what does he want? pamela, if there s one thing we know about president zelenskyy he does not pull any punches about sending very clear and direct messages
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome, everyone, to alex witt reports. we begin this hour with breaking news on the war in ukraine. although it is now 8 pm in kyiv, we are still waiting for word on whether a big meeting and ukraine has indeed taken place. president zelenskyy said he was meeting with u.s. secretary of state anthony blinken and defense secretary lloyd austin today. nbc news has not independently confirmed the visit. u.s. officials are not commenting on it, but they say they are committed to ukraine success in this war. i would point to the last two weeks, really the last ten days, where the united states has announced 1.6 billion dollars in additional security assistance that is having a significant effect on the ground. in terms of enabling ukraine to hold off and push back against russian forces. we have been announcing deliverables, which is a fancy word for things we are providing to the ukrainians to enable their fight, just about every
forces left behind. the town is now free, but other parts of the country are in a visit critical new phase. a general says russia wants full control of southern ukraine because that would give them a land bridge. in moldova, efforts were thwrated and new images show ground near mariupol has been disturbed. a source claiming this is a site of mass graves. cnn could not independently verify this, but there you see the images. the russian strike in odesa has killed five people, including a 3-month-old baby. at least 18 others injured according to a local official. in one village, hundreds of ukrainians say they were rounded by russian troops and held hostage in a school basement for weeks. ed lavandera visited that village and spoke to some of the survivors. war stopped time here. bombs and artillery scorched this village in northern ukraine. russian occupation ravaged the minds of its people. the story of what happened here is just emerging, revealing how the russian army hel
administration is making it easier for illegal immigrants to enter this country in droves. we will explain in just a moment. but first, let s turn to an update from new york city, where a woman was brutally murdered by an illegal immigrant in her own home. here now with the very latest is laura ingle. laura? hey, pete. as we learn more about the relationship with her alleged killer, there are new questions about his immigration status. seeing the photos now, 44-year-old held without bail after being charged with murder in the vicious killing of the 51-year-old stay-at-home mom inside her queens, new york, home last weekend. the handyman who police described as her on it off again lover was red charged or a spanish interpreter as sources say he is a mexican national, and in violation of u.s. immigration law. we believe he arrived here approximately 21 years ago and we believe he came from mexico. did he come illegally? we are not going to get into his immigration statu
they re supposed to be teaching. the students in question are not teenagers, their kindergartners, first-graders, kids who have no perspective on life and no power to fight back. so many parents saw these videos, in some cases on @libsoftiktok, and they were shocked. they had no idea anything like this was happening in the classroom. having some purple haired loser in a nose ring convince your six euros to get a sex change is not why most people send their children to school. so they complained, the parents did commit across the country, republican officeholders responded by promising to do something about this. they made out ranged noises, but then in very short order they moved on to talking about ukraine, which is what they really care about, not you. in the end, only one state really did anything about this, that would be the state of florida with governor ron desantis. several weeks ago, the florida legislature passed a law banning teachers from bragging about their own