inside ukraine itself, on this, day 81 of the war? the uk s ministry of defence estimates that russia is likely to have lost one third of its ground combat forces, when compared to pre invasion levels on the border. live now to lviv and our correspondent there, joe inwood. joe, what s the latest where you are? nick was talking about attacks from the sky and yesterday we had that here in lviv, no sooner had the celebrations for ukraine s eurovision win had gone down that the air raid sirens came out, we understand six cruise missiles flew over, two were shot down. we don t know if there were casualties but understand the facility was completely destroyed. significant as ukraine s losses are and there are many, this assessment from the british ministry of defence paints the russian bosses as far more significant. one third of all ground
today the social democratic party has concluded that sweden should join nato. sweden the nato closest partners. all allies agree nato door is open. the united states strongly support a nato application by sweden or finland. as ukrainian artillery moves to reenforce the eastern front in ukraine, russian forces are said to be suffering significant losses as they try to advance. the cnn analysis shows russian losses may amount to a third of its ground combat forces in ukraine. more evidence of ukraine s military persistence. we located video posted to social media showing ukrainian forces blowing up a bridge in the east keeping the russians from advancing. and today, in a historic move, finland confirms it will aply for nato membership despite
order because when most people don t understand something and money is involved, or in this case crypto currency is involved, and no regulation, bad guys do bad things. russia s full of people who can do bad things. if you wouldn t mind me a question to my friend general mccaffrey. please. ari, i have a question. what would be the efficacy at this point, general, of us doing war exercises in the baltic? would that pull some of the russian forces away from the center of the ukraine? is that a wise thing to do? not just the baltics, you go to a strategic threat to putin. he has 60% of his ground combat forces in ukraine. 44 million people mired down
accurate they were just old. this is in response to the attack that the u.s. blames on iran. a key senate ally of the president is calling for a retaliatory military strike. barbara starr live at the pentagon this morning. the secretary of state says the united states is considering a full range of options. reporter: a full range of options at this point, but sources are telling us don t look for ground combat forces. don t look for military strikes any time soon. the secretary of state laying out more of his thinking on this. you have to put it in the context of 40 years of behavior inside the islamic republic of iran. this is consistent with how they ve reacted previously. we ve seen four other commercial ships which challenged the international norms of freedom of navigation. the united states is considering a full range of options.
united states is in full compliance with its obligations, there are no new u.s. missiles in europe but there are new russian missiles. treaty that s respected by only one side cannot be effective and will not keep us safe. so we will reenergized our armed control efforts but the onus is on russia. this is further highlight bid russian contempt and dismissal of their 2003 with ukraine that allowed both russian and ukrainian ships free passage through the strait, an agreement violated last weekend. regarding ground combat forces that we had going back to national defense strategy, close combat lethality to ensure to