from becoming governor of pennsylvania, just a general election away from overseeing the presidential vote there in 2024. senator lindsey graham telling cnn voters don t want to think about the last election. senator john thune said his past words aren t ideal. pat tu mee, who says he did not vote for mastriano, didn t say much more than that. what do you think about mastriano winning? are you concerned at all about his candidacy? so, i don t know doug mastriano at all. i ve never met him. i don t think i ve even had a conversation with him. so, i will suspend judgment until i get a chance to get to know him a little bit. reporter: he s said the election is stolen. does that concern you? i m aware he has said things that i would disagree with. but, like i said, until i actually meet the guy, get to know him a little bit, i m going to suspend judgment. we ll talk more about the implications of his candidacy for the state for 2024 and also for whoever wins the senate
you blame the russian soldiers and putin. what did you think of russians before this? since 2014, i felt they were bastards but i didn t want to believe in that. 2014 was the year russia invaded and annexed crimea. 2022, the rest of ukraine came under attack. why do you think the russians hit this hotel? i can t explain this, there were no military, no mercenaries, no terrorists, no ukrainian nazis. there was no one like that here. will russians ever be allowed to come back here and stay at this seaside resort? i can only allow them to come back if they re taken prisoner and forced to rebuild. and jake, you will hear this time and time again. this place, odesa, there were many people who were very close to russia and had very friendly ties, from tourism companies that made tons of money on russian tourists, to the mayor himself, who was a part of a russian party, if you will, a pro-russian party. but more and more, as this place keeps getting hit, that sentiment has changed a
cliffhanger in pennsylvania. the trump endorsed tv doctor, mehmet oz, is neck and neck with david mccormick. we ll break down the former president s election night wins and losses as he s now pressuring dr. oz to declare victory before the last votes are counted. and another chilling twist in the buffalo shooting massacre. we re now learning that the suspected gunman revealed his racist attack plans online some 30 minutes before the deadly rampage. and that s prompting a new state investigation. there s a lot to discuss when the mayor of buffalo joins us live this hour. we want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, ukrainian forces are within miles of their enemy s backyard, after making significant new gains in the kharkiv region near the russian border. cnn s nick paton walsh is on the front line. every inch of respite from russian shelling here comes at grotesque cost. what
a victory from them would be trying to isolate ukraine from the rest of the world. if they can isolate ukraine than the economic burden and the requirement from continued supply of emission from the west is something that ukraine couldn t sustain on its own. in terms of the battlefield momentum, it is all on ukraine s side. the question is whether the battlefield collapse comes before winter or early summer next year.- early summer next year. there is a long. early summer next year. there is a long. cold early summer next year. there is a long, cold hard early summer next year. there is a long, cold hard winter- early summer next year. there is a long, cold hard winter to i is a long, cold hard winter to come. critical infrastructure is being hit, there is a lot of ukrainians now have to prepare for. ., ., ., for. you mention that resilience, for. you mention that resilience, that - for. you mention that resilience, that is - for. you mention that resilience, that is a l for. y
military doctrine, you know of annihilating this a billion infrastructure to gain battlefield momentum. but, the ukrainians have also been hitting back. over the last week, they have launched about 19 artillery and missile strikes on russian weapons, depots, and russian barracks. the ukrainians say that they have killed dozens of russian troops over this last period. but it is very tough for the ukrainian soldiers as well, reverend. i had the opportunity to speak to one soldier who was fighting in the loop hands. now he is fighting in the don t ask, and he paid the typical picture of what is going on the ground there. let s take a listen to what he had to say. the situation was very complicated. we were forced to withdraw from the location because of a much worse perspective.