Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
the ukrainians to pick and choose these popular venues and seven of them killed and one of them was the deputy chief worker in the region. and when these strikes come, they were following up one after another, and as we have seen other times targeting with the first responders, and half of them were mentioned in this particular case, and i wanted to shift to the war itself that we have been tracking the offensive and it is slow-going, and we have been reports to western officials, and seeing the reports as sobering as far as progress goes, but are ukrainians making any progress here? yeah, they are. it is an asymmetric war, and the absolute fundamental and most important thing that they want to do is to drive the russians off of their territory and that is the prerequisite for peace, and they are failing for all of the reasons that jim laid out