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of choice. this as the first war crimes trial against a russian soldier begins. plus, amid the world s harshest covid lockdown, we get a glimpse of the emotional and mental toll it s having on families. and as parents in the u.s. struggle to find baby formula, we ll tell you how the white house is responding to the shortage. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces, including six more over the past 24 hours. he says the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. here he is. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones, and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the ci ....
good evening everyone, i m kate bolduan in for erin burnett, ukraine s president zelenskyy declaring tonight as russia faces another setback, new video shows a russian battalion decimated as it tries to cross a series of bridges in northeast ukraine. you can see the riverbank just littered with russian artillery. artillery and tanks. u.s. official says attacks like this are quote-unquote, frustrating, russian efforts to move troops into the donbas region. and according to the pentagon, ukraine has essentially stalled putin s war plans. they have prevented the russians from achieving virtually any of their strategic objectives thus far in the war. we re also getting new images outside kharkiv where ukrainian forces have pushed back russian troops from ukraine s second largest city. check points and buildings once occupied by putin s forces now back in ukrainian control. meanwhile, in the south, told difficult negotiations are still under way to get out some of the ....
Ukraine is suggesting there will be many more to come. just to warn you, many images in our report are graphic. reporter: still at war with russia, but already fighting for justice. ukraine s opened its first war crimes trial, a 21-year-old russian soldier, vadim shishimaru, accused of shooting an unarmed civilian on the fourth day of the war. so far ukraine s identified 11,239 alleged war crimes according to the country s prosecutor. they include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killing of many hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children in the more than two-month-long siege of kharkiv. we have now some evidences that commanders give the orders, shot civilians. but from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have their own responsibility for these atrocity. reporter: and that, says ....
Justice. ukraine s opened its first war crimes trial, a 21-year-old russian soldier, accused of shooting an unarmed on the fourth day of the war, so far, identified 439 alleged war crimes according to the country s prosecutor, include the massacre of 300 unarmed civilians in bucha and the killing of many hundreds of civilians, mainly women and children in the siege of kharkiv. we have now some evidences that commanders give the orders to shot civilians. but from other side, we understand that ordinary soldiers have the own responsibility for these atrocity. and that, says ir irena venedictova is a message that needs to be sent now so russians understand there will be no impunity even as the fighting in regions like luhansk ....
Defense ministry of committing cold-blooded murders. civilians summarily executed, found on the streets of bucha after russians withdrew. mass graves of civilians observed by cnn teams that visited the area. it is outrageous. most of the world sees the butchers of bucha now being awarded by president of russia that thinks this kind of conduct is what he wants is normal, he is normalizing it, it is completely contrary to international humanitarian law. reporter: in a letter, putin congratulates the 64th for great courage defending your father land. this was an ill disciplined mob that shot civilians. nobody needs to be trained in the military to avoid that type of contact. so this notion they are awarded the guard s designation is an embarrassment to the russian army. reporter: according to global security.org, the motor rifle ....