a brutal attack inside of the district office of a u.s. congressman. a man with a metal baseball bat strikes a staffer and intern on her very first day. unconfirmed reports that an american has been killed on the ukrainian battlefield. the state department is now responding. and alarming report that has lawmakers taking action. all of this on cnn news central. we begin this morning with the house reports out of ukraine that claims of a u.s. citizen has died in bakhmut, and the state department is saying that it is looking into this. the besieged city in eastern ukraine has been seeing heavy fighting for months now, and now the wagner paramilitary group says a body has been found with u.s. military documents. and the state department says it is seeing additional information, and needs that in order to determine what happened here. we are hearing from the ukr ukrainian military saying that it has staved off a major russian attack. but the air defenses from the western w
and we spoke to them yesterday, and they said that the maximum out there today is about 1,000. we will continue to work with them, and be at we had crossings of 405 from 571 from the day before. so the number are going down, and we have to pay attention to the numbers, because we are a border city, and we have that responsibility to the community, but they are not coming to the border statings, but they are coming somewhere. and the mayors of four other border cities, and not border cities, but asking, and they say