even hours away, according to french military officials. the kremlin clearly stating the mission in donbas is to conquer it. kyiv could be also targeted they say. there are contradicting reports this morning about a critically important russian warship in the black sea that suffered heavy damage. ukrainians claim they hit the ship with a missile attack. they have released new images reporting to show a special forces group. armored cars and trucks were destroyed. . consider the source. it aired on russian state tv claim to go show 1,000 ukrainian marines surrendering in mariupol. cnn cannot verify the claim. ahead of russia s anticipated attack, president biden just unveiled an 800 million dollar security package. it includes javelins and military helicopters. this morning, the u.s. is talking about sending a high-ranking official to ukraine. we re told president biden and vice president harris are unlikely choices but possibly the choice is secretary of state or secretar
false narrative about the 2020 election results which the committee believes played a big role in bringing so many people to the capitol on january 6th and then you have the members of the counsel s office who were pushing back against that pressure campaign that was put on former vice president pence. this is all part of that big, wide net that the committee is casting to get as much information as possible to, you the final report we believe some time this fall. victor and alisyn? thank you for the update. thank you for staying with us. i m victor blackwell. and i m alisyn. the frontline is intensifying in the east. senior u.s. defense officials are seeing those russian troops who retreated from northern ukraine starting to show up in the donbas region. this is the latest indication the forces are about to launch a major assault in the east involving thousands of troops. increasing numbers of armored vehicles pouring into this area. this is where the terrain is more o
we can expect to hear some more demands from the us at this time when tensions are quite high with its ally israel for more aid, more desperately needed aid to be allowed into gaza, where you have this threat looming of a man made famine because of the very severe shortages of food. now, on top of that, mr blinken will be discussing, i m sure, the ongoing talks in qatar with mediators acting as go betweens for israel and hamas, trying to secure a new ceasefire deal in exchange for the release of some of the remaining israeli hostages who are held in the gaza strip. on top of that, we do expect mr blinken to talk to the israelis about their plans, their declared plans for an offensive in rafah in the very south of the gaza strip, on the border with egypt. they say that they have to act there against remaining hamas battalions in the area if they are to win their war, to achieve their war, aim of dismantling hamas in the gaza strip. but, of course, that area is where you have s
in gaza to the release of hostages held by hamas. washington has previously vetoed three ceasefire resolutions but has grown increasingly critical of israel s military campaign. our reporter will vernon has the story. this is antony blinken s sixth trip to the middle east since the war in gaza began. the secretary of state met egyptian officials on thursday, holding crucial negotiations to bring an end to the fighting. mr blinken said very good progress was made in the talks. the i a . s progress was made in the talks. the a -s are progress was made in the talks. tue: gaps are narrowing, progress was made in the talks. tt;é: gaps are narrowing, we progress was made in the talks. tte: gaps are narrowing, we still progress was made in the talks. tt9 gaps are narrowing, we still have work to do but i believe the progress is good, it is real, i can t put a timeframe on it but we are getting close to a point i believe what we will have agreements. fin believe what we will have
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