good morning to our viewers here in the u.s. and around the world, it is memorial day, monday, may 30th. i m brianna keilar with john avalon. john berman is off. on this day set aside to honor fallen members of the u.s. military the town of uvalde, texas, is preparing the first of many good-byes to the children and the teachers murdered last week inside of an elementary school there. this afternoon there will be visitation and rosary for 10-year-old amerie jo garza, her father told cnn that amerie died trying to call police and save her classmates. uvalde s funeral homes so overwhelmed that it will take weeks to bury all 21 victims. the president and first lady visited uvalde sunday to meet with the grieving families and comfort the grief-stricken community. president biden promised action on gun reform after the crowd pleaded with him to do something. the justice department is now planning to investigate how the police responded to this shooting. let s go now to cnn s ad
presidentjoe biden speaks to the leaders of france, germany and the united kingdom about the crisis. belarusian president alexander lukashenko brokers a deal with prigozhin to de escalate the situation. wagner fighters then vacate military headquarters in rostov on don. it s agreed prigozhin can live in belarus. our correspondent in kyiv, mayenijones, says ukraine is aiming to take maximum advantage of the russian military wagner dispute. yes, i think we ve said this several times, that this is as much a communications war as it is a physical one, and kyiv certainly this morning wanting to send the message that no matter what happens in the aftermath of this rebellion by wagner in russia, they re prepared to the head of the joint armed forces here in ukraine, sending a statement saying that although they haven t seen any evidence of enemy troops to the north of the country, or equipment, they are still strengthening their defences in the north.
back, however, the battle is not over. i think kharkiv is still in danger, i think he has to be careful. this is all about the communications war and this president with his charisma has done a pretty good job of project that go. president zelenskyy winning the information war but you say that the russians are making gains, the ukrainians say they re making some push back not only kharkiv but in the south. you come to the south in kherson this is the last area by crimea here in mykolalv offensive operation noose kherson it shows that the ukraine military is willing to continue to open up other fronts and the fact that in this area here they were able to likely move weapons that came in from the west quickly from kyiv down to the south and create a mini offensive here. it s going to cause russia to put troops there and has to respond to it. the key is protecting odesa, that is the key. they have to make sure that that stands and for all practical purposes this is where they will try
may not sound very serious. but if russia gets into the kind of protracted fight against the insurgency that the progress was talking about, if russia gets into a battle with 150,000 troops against 45 million ukrainians the real issue is going to be who s motivated? who is mobilizing? who has moment them with them? in that case, winning the social media war, winning the communications war, that is going to really make a big difference. putin is terrible at. that because he lives in a closed society. and he doesn t allow dissent. zelenskyy is great of a. that is what he s trying to. do so, i think that putin picked the wrong country. and he s picked the wrong president to pick on. the white house press secretary, said this sunday, that the president is certainly going to bring up what he is