con congresswoman ilhan omar off the house foreign affairs committee. the lead starts right now. my leadership and voice will not be diminished, if i am not on this committee for one term. my voice will get louder and stronger. republicans key committee, b comments that omar has meat critical of israel. some using anti-semitic tropes. comments for which he has apologized or ones she retracted. the minnesota democrat and only muslim refugee in congress asks today, how might this look to the rest of the world? plus, a despicable act. a young new jersey politician shot to death just steps from her own home. was she targeted or was she a victim of random violence? but first, russia ramping up strikes against ukraine, with warnings of a larger offensive on the horizon. cnn is in one town hit more than 70 times in just one day. welcome to the lead, i m jake tapper. russia s renewed offensive against ukraine may already be beginning. that s the assessment of volodymyr ze
he pleaded. this after russia warned if nato further arms ukraine with battle tanks and long-range missiles, it will lead to a whole new level of war. it s been nearly a year since the russian invasion t. united states perspective has shifted during that time. remember the unwillingness to be a participant in a three-way deal that would have had the united states backfill poland s fleet of fighter planes after they give mig 25 fighters to ukraine? the biden administration said no. they were willing to acknowledge providing stinger anti ar craft missiles. with a passage of time has been a softening of the biden administration s reluctance to go all in. today ukrainian are in oklahoma being trained on the system that the u.s. is supplying. as part of a new and massive $2.5 billion aid package. reports suggest a u.s. willingness to green light efforts to target crimea, annexed illegally by russia in 2014. what accounts for this change? has the western perspective changed from ge
reporter: the ukrainians make any preparations militarily covertly. we know that now from when we were here at the beginning, or before the beginning of the war, this time last year. they were very, very subtle and hidden in terms of how they were preparing, but president zelenskyy certainly been preparing the international community for support at this stage, increasing his cries that there is an anticipation of a russian offensive, because he says he needs, and he does militarily speaking, need the defensive capabilities, the anti-air craft missiles, but also, the longer range, more offensive missiles, and ultimately fighter jets. the more he says he needs them, the more, he says, likely he ll get them. jake? all right, sam kiley, thank you so much. joining us to discuss, dan sullivan of alaska, he served in afghanistan and on the senate armed services committee. senator, thank you for joining us. good to be on the show, jake. do you agree that the new russian offensive might
he pleaded. this after russia warned if nato further arms ukraine with battle tanks and long-range missiles, it will lead to a whole new level of war. it s been nearly a year since the russian invasion t. united states perspective has shifted during that time. remember the unwillingness to be a participant in a three-way deal that would have had the united states backfill poland s fleet of fighter planes after they give mig 25 fighters to ukraine? the biden administration said no. they were willing to acknowledge providing stinger anti ar craft missiles. with a passage of time has been a softening of the biden administration s reluctance to go all in. today ukrainian are in oklahoma being trained on the system that the u.s. is supplying. as part of a new and massive $2.5 billion aid package. reports suggest a u.s. willingness to green light
pledging to deliver a thousand take missiles and anti- stingray craft missiles those weapons have been used to slow the russian advances we have seen a putin s work here in ukraine. now, a curfew has just been put into effect here in lviv or just a week ago the students were out today they are inside nervous, very scared others wondering should they flee? arthel. arthel: it cannot even imagine trying to get provisions if they were able to get enough before they hunkered down? that is a great point, arthel purchased yesterday which will grocery store here. remember for days and weeks were reporting how there s no panic in this country the shelves were full at all of the stores pretty much different story here today. we went yesterday, there s no bottled water on the shelves. most of the canned goods were gone pray things like toilet paper all the essentials you think if you are going to hunker down, though supplies were all missing there so people baking bread. there was some fruit an