Russia's Vladimir Putin claimed Mariupol is a "success" and is saying that the Russians are "liberating" the besieged port city. He also said that if the remaining defenders were to lay down their arms, Russia "guarantees their lives and decent treatment in accordance with the relevant international legal acts." To date, Ukrainian officials estimate that Russian attacks have cost up to 20,000 lives in Mariupol. President Zelensky said today that Russia is not engaged in war in Mariupol so much as a “terrorist operation.” David Remnick, editor of the New Yorker, who has spent much of his career covering Russia and authored the Pulitzer Prize winning "Lenin's Tomb" talks with Anderson.

Clarissa Ward joins Anderson to talk about the grim situation many around one frontline city in Ukraine are facing. 

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