people who are in distress here relative to these topics, it is huge. we do our best to take care of those folks in-house as well. and through our local partners it s so important. we are a year into this, as we said. do you worry about a lack of empathy from the outside world, that attention might be turned away? michael holmes, the generosity in sport we have seen so far from the international community here has been, frankly, humbling. i know there are competing catastrophes we are looking at. i want to acknowledge what the people of turkey and syria are going through right now as a result of their. but i will say that there has been a continuity of support relative to the ukraine crisis that he s moving and impressive. so, i hope that continues and the situation continues to unfold. matthew stearns, international medical corps. bank so much for the work that you and your colleagues are doing there in ukraine. it s valuable. thank you so much, michael. i m happ
americans only finding out about this now? plus republican congressman jarj santos even more scrutiny tonight over a mysterious $700,000 contribution to his campaign concerns about how, where it was spent and where did it go. in a story you ll see first outfront russians speaking out against putin s war, one calling it a terrible mess, complete chaos. all of this on camera to cnn. you ll see it first here. let s go out front. and good evening. i m erin burnett. out front tonight on the defensive. more classified documents and a special counsel. president biden says he does want to tell the american people everything he knows. let me i m going to get a chance to speak on all of this, god willing, soon. he says he wants to speak but right now the white house isphasying a barrage of questions over the classified documents and so far the administration is speaking very little. but, again, i m just not going to go beyond what the president said. i m just not going to go
sophia s, a highly symbolic part of kyiv, at the very heart of the foundation of not just ukrainian, but what was to become russia later on, that cathedral that he is speaking in front of, highly symbolic to both kyiv and of course vladimir putin himself. this is a speech about telling his country to hold firm and to make sure that this year is decisive, in favor of a victory, max. okay, melissa there in kyiv, thank you. nick roberson also looking at this extraordinary moment. you were in moscow, weren t you, when war broke out. no one could imagine that he would still be in power, speaking out in the open a year later. if you go back two days, before now, a year ago, most people in russia didn t believe that an invasion was going to happen. they thought that ukrainians were a brother nation. they didn t believe their leadership was going to do this. obviously they did, and i think people are still coming to terms
this terrible mess to happen, a war with a brother nation. reporter: all of this after vladimir putin standing amid russian soldiers attempted to rally the nation in his new year s address. there s nothing stronger than love for our near and dear he says, loyalty to our friends and comrades in arms and devotion to our fatherland. now putin has demoted the man in charge of the land and replacing him with russia s top general whose close to putin and russia s defense minister, often accompanying them to military exercises and briefing putin on the war in ukraine. the move comes as analysts say russia seems to be gearing up for a massive spring offensive after mobilizing more than 300,000 people late last year. but also with its top brass under fire as the only gains russia is making around the town
talks about brotherly love for the nation of ukraine, we have a common history, our languages are similar, why does he take that approach, to try to bring them closer? he that approach, to try to bring them closer? that approach, to try to bring them closer? ., , ., , them closer? he does, he does. he keeps them closer? he does, he does. he keeps talking them closer? he does, he does. he keeps talking about - them closer? he does, he does. he keeps talking about ukraine | he keeps talking about ukraine being a brother nation. we have the narrative about ukraine as far right, trying to suppress russian ethnic rights et cetera et cetera and then we have the ukrainian narrative about russia which sees russia as an imperialist. what we have is a complete disconnection of the two narratives. they are talking at each other and not with one another. is talking at each other and not with one another. with one another. is that riuht? with one another. is that right? absolutely - with one