intensifying, with a new round of air attacks on the capitol, officials are disputing claims the russian private army is in control of bakhmut. let s go to nbc foreign correspondent, molly hunter, joining us from kyiv. molly, welcome. what are you hearing about the fighting in bakhmut? yeah, alex, of course, just for audience, i see a map up on screen, does that eastern city which is in seen the fiercest fighting between russian troops and ukrainian troops. of course, on the russian side, mostly led by the mercenary group, wagner group, which is headed by yevgeny prigozhin, the statement, alex, that you just referenced, came from prigozhin, anything that comes from prigozhin needs to be taken with a grain of salt. we re getting a very quick rebuttal from two pieces, two spokespeople, excuse me, of the military, the military spokesman emily said. this is not true, our units are still fighting in bakhmut. and just about half an hour ago, the deputy defense minister
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there are flood watches in place as we can seed a whole lot more rain today taking you into the middle of the week. then there s portions of oklahoma as well, more heavy rain, ground now saturated saturated in some of these areas. arkansas, 87 degrees, north dakota, 75 degrees. all of our mother s day cities here, queens, pennsylvania, 73 degrees. rachel, those are your mother s day rachel: i love that. i saw that map up and i just love it. sweet love, flowers, heart adam: just like all of our mothers. happy mother s day. rachel: that s nice of you, adam. and happy mother s day to your mom too. we re back with headlines beginning with this, the utah mom accused of killing her husband after a dispute over a mansion threw a house party just a day after his death according to news reports. she s accused of lacing her husband s moscow mule with fentanyl after he refused to buy
they are seeing right now. some of the ways, that s a the battle. we re see figure in bakhmut as a battle. what we have been expecting for some time deals with the war. show me where that could take place and how this plays in. there s a difference between tactical success and operational victories. you have to tie together a number of tactical engagements, which ukrainians do magnificent lu. they show fearlessness in combat, but you have to have the heft, you have to have the mass, the amount, the volume of forces to tie tactical victories together here and here. then you achieve this penetration. you can hold on one side and then you can reduce in that direction. we haven t seechb that yet. so we are seeing the start of tactical victories that then need to lead to some type of operational advantage. let me put a different map up. this is bakhmut, where you have seen the fighting there.
and look at the forecast for the rest of the country. do a couple temperatures for me. miami 87. dallas 72. correct. chicago. yep. los angeles 72. janice: amazing and you did it with a jelly donut, fantastic connor. brian, not too bad, i need replacement when i go on vacation. brian: love how he did not stop eating. janice: perfect for the weather department. brian: he doesn t need a lunch break, he works through breakfast. ashley has the news. ashley: we know you will not get a donut and eat on air. two fox news alerts. an oil tanker amid wider tension over iran s nuclear program.