journalist. and elon musk sends twitter stock into a frenzy regarding his multi-billion takeover of the company. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom, with dkim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been taken from the russian forces and that the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. translator: today we can report on 200 downed military aircraft. russia has not lost so many aircraft in any war in decades, and russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claim it is successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas, that it destroyed 70 armed vehicles, including tanks. about 30 tanks were left stranded after make bing the crossing. the pentagon says secretary lloyd austin again appealed for a cease-fire and to keep the lines of communication open
but the tap got turned off. and we ve seen the extreme drought creep back in. 60% now is the latest drought manager. that is significant and quite an advancement of the extreme drought category. in terms of the coastal fire that we ve been discussing the past couple days, 200 acres, 25% containment and bone dry across that region. we re only 14% of normal for one of the reporting stations near long beach. this is all under the backdrop of the entire u.s. which stands at 91% under drought conditions, and it s hit new mexico hard as well. in fact, we are craneeping clos and closer to the largest state drought. we are 30,000 acres of scorched earth shy of breaking that