abroad could start arriving this weekend. after the president used emergency powers to try to solve this formula crisis. amid the conflicted messaging, the white house is in the midst of a staff shakeup. john kirby is now headed to the white house joining the national security council. the latest from ukraine where the donbas region in the east is, quote, completely destroyed and resembling hell according to president zelenskyy. this as ukraine is about to get nearly $60 billion more in aid from the u.s. and from g7 nations. in oklahoma, the most restrictive abortion law in the nation approved by the legislature on thursday. banning the procedure from the moment of fertilization. the first of the growing challenges facing the white house. joining me now is senior white house correspondent. kyle: kelly o donnell in seoul, jonathan lemire, and former white house press secretary robert gibbs. we have former undersecretary of state richard s this engle. kelly, why thi
time of salvation and resurrection is looking like this, sheer destruction thcht village near kyiv is bearing the hall mark of russian forces. the town is free, but the same cannot be said of other areas of the country. in mariupol, evacuation areas were thwarted by the ukrainian villagers after russian forces said they were headed for russian-occupied territories. and now, we are seeing that there is a site of mass graves outside of mariupol, and cnn cannot independently verify this. in odesa, a russian strike killed 18 people or i should say injured 18 people, and killed five including a 18-month-old baby who had yet to celebrate his first easter with his parents. a russian general says that russia wants full control of southern ukraine, because it would give russia a land bridge to moldova, stirring up fears of another soviet republic, and now, scott is joining us from sou southern kyiv, and what do we know now of mariupol? it is remaining dire, jim. there is a humanitar
have you, i want to ask about the u.n. saying the war in ukraine is exacerbating a hunger problem. what, if anything, do you think can be done to solve this issue while the war continues? garrett, i have worked hard on that. it s in the subcommittee i chair. we are adding $5 billion in global hunger relief. it has been added to the bill that was just passed by the senate. that is a stopgap. ukraine feeds 400 million people every year. russia is blockading grain exports from the critical port of odesa, for the longer term, for ukraine s vitality, for the ability to get wheat and sunflower oil and corn to populations that depend on it from egypt to lebanon to south sudan to ethiopia, we have to find a path forward, a humanitarian path towards getting ukraine s grain exports back out on the world market through the black sea.
think? first of all, there is some question about whether that s official statement or that is just off of the back of his hand. but nonetheless, we have to be concerned not only about the notion of the land bridge, but notion and the determination of the russians to take all of that area up to that land bridge which would include the critical port of odesa. if they were able to take odesa, you have essentially made ukraine a landlocked nation, and nation that currently depends upon that port for so much of its trade. and to that point, there is particular alarm over his comment, general, that putin has his eye on moldova, and if russia were to take that step, and if they were capable of taking that step, if that were part of the conversation, how should nato handle that? well, again, how they should and how they will have two
as russia moves forward. in the east, in the north or along the border with belarus and in the south in particular we are seeing intense activity. russian forces taking control of their first ukrainian city. that city in the middle of the southern border there. you see it kherson. the mayor of kherson confirming russian forces do have control saying that he has asked those russian force information a meeting at city hall not to shoot civilians and to give the people of kherson time to get, as he put it, bodies off of the street. we also hear that russian forces are moving via the black sea towards the critical port of odesa. that is a 300-mile straight shoot north then to kyiv. and it would appear that the russian aim here is to create this land bridge across the south and then press forward to kyiv, encircle it from the