the nation as demonstrators demand stricter gun laws. cnn correspondents spanned out across the country to cover the push for gun reform. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we start in ukraine, where officials are claiming progress in the south, as russian shelling rains down on the east. ukraine has been pushing forward with this counteroffensive in the kherson region, and president volodymyr zelenskyy says another area has been cleared of russian troops. here he is. translator: the ukrainian military gradually liberates the territory of the kherson region. the day the village of tevriska was added to the list of those returned to our state. there are several areas in. russian artillery is playing a big role in the fighting in the east. the ukrainian governor says heavy weapons are dismantling buildings in entire neighborhoods in severodonetsk. russia now controls most of the city, but the governor says ukrainian troops are still fightin
The Western automakers that dominated Russia's car market left following Moscow's invasion of Ukraine, leaving a slumping production and sales in their wake, with domestic producers and Chinese firms picking up the pieces. One of the first Western carmakers to exit, France's Renault in May 2022 sold its majority stake in carmaker Avtovaz and its Moscow factory with annual capacity of 150,000 vehicles to the Russian state, each for one rouble, sources told Reuters at the time. The deal gave Renault a six-year buyback option on its Avtovaz stake.