this is cnn breaking news. hello. i am john vause live in lviv, ukraine. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. russia s list of atrocities against ukrainie ukrainian civi a new low friday. a major rail hub in the east with thousands of men, women, and children were wait for a train to escape the conflict. that s when authorities say it was hit by two russian missiles. ukraine s president has vowed to pursue the attack as a war crime. here he is. translator: we expect a firm global response to this war crime. like the massacre in bucha, like many other russian war crimes,
the russians. they are saying they might have tried to target the rail hub itself. the minute they found out they hit civilians, the claims for responsibility have stopped. the bottom line here, nicolle, people are saying we ve grieve later. this is going to take a lot of time to grieve and resolve. every time this happens, it strengthens the resolve of the ukrainians to win this battle. they do hope that as the world sees these things, if they get past the russian false statements and get past that, they will get the help. the one thing that stands out that zelenskyy said to the u.n. this week, this will end. you will do the right thing. it may be too late. how many more have to die to your point before the world does everything they need to do. ali, because of your reporting, i think the world saw
of applying these units. some of these units are almost completely devastated. it is unclear at this time if they will ever be reformed. it happened at a crowded train station today. the pentagon says that they will investigate. it s a major rail hub in a strategic location of kramatorsk in ukraine. the goal now is for russian forces to occupy the donbas region. an overwhelming number of russian airstrikes near the border. russian forces have launched over 1500 ballistic missiles. along the strikes with helicopters, a big reason that they have been begging for this air defense system.
both ground troops and mostly helicopters. so that s there. it s a major rail head. a major rail hub, and roads going into that. so it s much easier from the heartland, and this is western russia, to bring more forces up, artillery shells and all that, heavy lift on trains. it s much harder, erin, to do it through belarus and down towards kyiv. so i believe they are amassing. they need some type of success, major success before the 9 may victory day celebration event in russia, which is just five weeks. and i worry about a bludgeon the logistics, they have used a lot. they have expended a lot, but that s going to be the area they bring it down. and we could see a world war i, world war ii bludgeon type offensive to try to overwhelm the ukrainian defenders in the