I'm standing on a rooftop, looking out on Levyv, on day 40 of Russia's brutal invasion

of Ukraine and Jake Tapper. Welcome to this special broadcast of Belief. Live from Western

Ukraine as the war enters something of a new phase, where the world is being confronted

with new images and survivor testimony of the horrors. Vladimir Putin and his army are

inflicting on the people of this country. Ukrainian forces were able to liberate the town

of Bucha over the weekend, just outside the capital of Kiev to the west, just about 300 or so,

325 miles from where I'm standing. Closer than San Francisco is to Los Angeles, closer than

Corpus Christi is to Dallas. Bucha was once known as a bedroom community outside Kiev, but it may

now be known for something else, something terrible. CNN is here in Ukraine to bear witness

to the world of what Russian soldiers did and are doing to these innocent Ukrainian civilians,

and we want to caution viewers, these images that we're going to bring you, they're graphic,

they're disturbing, but we need to bring you these facts, because the Kremlin and its propaganda

outlets and allies are already claiming images, such as this one, are quote, fake. They are not fake.

Bodies littering the streets of Bucha. Some of them tossed out with the trash.

Some of them with their hands tied behind their backs. This is the scene in the city today,

as Russia falsely claims that its soldiers do not target civilians. CNN's Frederick

Plitkin with his own eyes saw these bodies filling a mass grave in Bucha on the grounds of a church.

The city's mayor estimates as many as 300 people were buried here. The bodies piled

on top of one another, mostly in black bags. Some limbs stick out from the soil.

Fred also met Vladimir today. Vladimir is a Ukrainian who has been searching for his younger brother

in Bucha. Vladimir is now convinced his brother is one of the bodies inside the mass grave,

although to be completely candid, he may never know. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelinsky

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