the u.s. i m max foster in london. just ahead on cnn newsroom. it was absolutely stunning to hear this level of detail. one step closer to the truth of what happened to her. expected to be one of the largest packages. you re expecting them to be a tremendous amount of ammo in there. we have been providing our ukrainian partners with precisely what they need to defend their country, to defend their sovereignty. santos did set up a gofundme account and raised as much as $3,000 for this life-saving surgery. i know you didn t know you raised money for yourself. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bu and. prosecutors say a massachusetts man killed and dismembered his wife because he wanted to end their marriage. on the day of her disappearance, they say he searched the internet for can you be charged with murder without a body and can you throw away body parts. brian walshe made his first court appearance on wednesday. prosecutors say he
in kyiv insist the battle is not over yet. we have a live report from ukraine and i ll talk to the ukrainian ambassador to the united states about the state of the war. also tonight, president biden faces a growing crisis right now. with a special counsel now in place to investigate his handling of classified records. we re learning more about documents that were found as the white house fails to explain its delay in revealing key details. and new scenes of devastation in the southeast. the death toll rising after dozens of tornados including a powerful twister that pounded selma, alabama. we re getting official updates on this disaster and the rescue and recovery operations that are now underway. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. and we begin this hour in ukraine. and the stunning video just into cnn. a huge explosion in the eastern town of soledar at a building apparently occupie
re-engineering every port city in the world. so, it s just further science and yet another red flag. indeed it is. we ll take you now to berlin, live images as u.s. secretary of defense lloyd austin is meeting with new german defense minister, who officially took office today. earlier spoke by phone with french counterpart, according to the german defense ministry on friday. he ll be part of the key meeting with nato s ukraine defense contact group. the ramstein air base. that meeting will focus on more military aid for ukraine. should we just have a listen? [ speaking foreign language ] speaking german there. we ll bring you the british the english translation.
major developments as russia attempts to notch the first significant battlefield win in months. ukraine forces vowing the fight is not over. in the small eastern town of soledar. which is emerged as a flash point in the war, now approaching the one-year mark. fighting has raged for weeks in this desolate landscape where 10,000 people used to live. russia s defense ministry on friday claimed victory saying that the town had been liberated. kraerpss were quick to deny. the captain, a ukrainian special forces soldier who was around soledar on thursday told cnn that the town had little strategic value. so it is safe to say that the ukrainians have a tow hold in the town but just barely? it would be fair to say that we are still holding. i would say some minor parts of
russian independent media, president zelenskyy saying he is willing to compromise, promising russia that ukraine will remain neutral and not try to join nato, but insisting russian forces must first withdraw entirely from ukraine. zelenskyy in his first interview with those independent russian journalists also criticizing the west. he says for lacking the courage to fully arm ukraine, and in a moment i ll be speaking to one of those russian journalists who is already under fire from the kremlin, all of this as president biden is still trying to walk back his unscripted remarks in poland saying putin must go. for god sake, this man cannot remain in power. reporter: mr. president, were you calling for a regime change? no. and joining me now from ukraine, nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel near the russian border in the city of kharkiv. richard, what indications are you seeing that russia is shifting its operation east as it claimed from the defense