to ukraine and president volodymyr zelenskyy says russian terrorists will be held accountable after a series of new strikes and at least three ukrainian cities including the capital of kyiv. those attacks triggering major power and water shortages. cn cnn s nic robertson is on the ground. niy, what s the latest. reporter: the city about 100 miles west of where we are right now, electricity generating plants hit by russian missiles. two power plants in kyiv. three workers at one of those plants killed in that strike. dnipro to the south and east of here, another major city in ukraine. power plants taken out there. russia really does seem to be building up a war of attrition on ukraine s power generating capacity. you know, we often think in terms of war as war of attrition. you have grinding each other s troops down in the front lines. russia is losing on the front lines so it s switching up a gear and increasing a pressure
politics. at this hour president biden looks to change the midterm trajectory. three weeks exactly from election day and the president promises new federal efforts to protect abortion rights but he needs democrats in charge of congress to succeed. plus, the trump tapes. cnn exclusively obtains recordings from a new audio book over the course of 20 interviews, the former president brags about his nuclear button, says he respects vladimir putin and more. and democracy is always on the ballot but this year is very different. three republicans who might win house seats were at trump s january 6th rally and a red state republican senator who tried to help trump hold power takes heat at a campaign debate. any moment now we will hear directly from the president of the united states. his goal today, to shake up the final three weeks of the midterm campaign by focusing on abortion rights. the president s remark, we are told, will include a new promise to open next year with legislation that wo
exclusive now, donald trump and his inner circle in their own words. bob woodward is releasing audio of more than eight hours of his interviews with the former president, plus audio of conversations with several top west wing aides of the it s part of a new audio book called the trump tapes published next week. cnn exclusively obtained a copy based on 20 interviews woodward did with trump dating from 2016 through 2020. many included in his book rage. you ll remember when it was released we learned stunning revelations about how early trump knew the dangers of covid despite saying differently publicly including how contagious it was and how deadly it was. in the new audio book a small sampling of what you will hear. mr. woodward, the president. hi, bob. my whole life has been deals. i ve done great. far greater than people understand. i respect putin. i think putin likes me. i think i like him. it s law and order, bob, law and order.
with ukraine. he s trying to scare his adversaries and change the plan on the battlefield because he understands he s losing this roy. the ukrainians have gained ground in the kharkiv in the northeast and the russians are barely holding on around kerr s kherson in the south. putin is throwing everything out there he can possibly do to try to evade a ukraine victory. i was struck by our own reporting at cnn. putin is actually micro man anding what s happening on the ground. i mean speaking to the generals in the field itself and giving directions to them, which is highly unusual with the modern world we live in and the modern militaries we have. give us a concrete sense. what is exactly happening on the ground in terms of losses for
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