and revisited? it has never been done totally correct in the sense that we had to do it initially as an act, and acts have to be reinstated over and over again. i think that s why congress has designed actual laws that will make it sustainable. reporter: linsey, all eyes will be on senators kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. both democrats refuse to support getting rid of the filibuster, a potential workaround for their party to pass voting rights legislation on its own. linsey. many remaining hopeful, though, alex, thank you. now to the escalating tensions between russia and the west. today secretary of state blinken reaffirming u.s. support for ukraine s sovereignty in the face of increasing russian threats. kiev under cyberattack. government sites hit with malware as video purports to show even more russian forces heading to the border. here s abc s white house correspondent maryalice parks. reporter: tonight, newly released video showing ukrainian troops training on their ea
acts of sabotage against russian forces. these echoes claims made by the ukraine defense ministry. and a number of sites were shut down this morning. this laptop screen shows the threatening message posted by the hackers. it warns ukrainians that they re personal information has been hack and to be afraid. cnn correspondent sam kiley joins us now from ukraine. so sam, tell us what you know about the attack. reporter: well the hackers, according to the government here, hit about 70 websites. i have to say it is low level. they ve said that there was an infiltration they believe through one of the suppliers or a number of suppliers that provide the website facilities for these government sites. it was disrupted but it wasn t catastrophic. there has been, as far as government here is concerned, no hacking of personal details, no hacking into ministry of defense
cyberattack on the defense ministry which a lot of people thought was a precursor for it. i also see here, and you can tell me if i m wrong, didn t vladimir putin say genocide is happening in the donbas region aren t those the type of things we expect before invasion. you are really getting to the mixed signals. that cyberattack is how invasions start with russia. imagine you are ukrainian getting ready to go out of here. try to go to the bank and your card doesn t work. it is tremendous stress on these people now for weeks here. they are worried about impending invasion. they are still trying to carry on this. economy, this society has not collapsed. people are not fleeing. but it certainly is scary. steve: it is indeed. thank you very much. if you think it s scary there where yesterday hackers hit a couple of banks and last week they did the foreign ministry and other government sites. wait until the united states cracks down and puts sanctions