Russia attempts to solidify control in eastern Ukraine

Friday is day 86 since Russia invaded Ukraine. On Thursday, the UN human rights office said that it had confirmed 8,000 civilians killed or injured in Ukraine. They also said that the real number is likely to be considerably higher. Most of the fighting that’s going on right now in Ukraine is in the Donbas region in the east. Host Carol Hills speaks with Alexander Khrebet, an editor with the Weekly Mirror, a Ukrainian online news publication based in Kyiv. 

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