sweden also expected to announce its intention to join the alliance. the kremlin reacting this morning, by calling finland s joining nato a threat to russia. on the battlefield in ukraine, ukrainian armed forces have acknowledged russian advances in some areas of the east. their scale, however, difficult to measure. plus, ukraine is now offering exchange of russian prisoners of war for the safe evacuation of injured ukrainian soldiers from the surrounded azovstal steel plant in mariupol that has become their last holdout. for the first time, russian civilian has reportedly been killed on russian soil by cross border shelling from ukraine. of course, many ukrainian civilians, many thousands killed by russian shelling so far in this war. nic robertson is in helsinki, finland, and sara sidner in kyiv. nic, let s begin with the impending expansion of nato, particularly finland s joining and expected that sweden will follow. finland, a neighbor of russia, resisted this step for
video of atrocities, including this surveillance video obtained by cnn which shows russian soldiers shooting two unarmed civilians as they walked away from an encounter on the outskirts of kyiv. prosecutors say they are investigating this as a war crime. nic robertson is in finland this morning. s sara, tell us more. this camera stayed on, showing this all the way through from beginning to end. it is incredibly disturbing to watch but what it reveals are russian soldiers shooting two men as they walk away. this is a stark example of a potential war crime perspetrate by russian forces, an example the world has not yet seen, russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back. cnn obtained the surveillance video taken from this dealership video. russians tried and failed to shell their way to the capitol. the fight along this road was clearly fierce. but what happened outside this business was not a battle between soldiers or even soldiers and armed civilians. it was a cowa
good morning. i m erica hill. and i m jim sciutto. this morning vladimir putin s guide to divide nato is not going as planned. there will be a major expansion of the alliance expanding the border by hundreds of miles and now neighbor be sweden following suit. the slaleaders put the blame squarely on russia. meantime, on the ground russia continues to escalate its attack on ukraine. the ukrainian armed forces have bei acknowledged some areas of advances. and a russian civilian has been killed on ukrainian soil as we are now continuing to see new