united states, canada and all around the world. i m kim brunhuber. ahead on cnn newsroom, an oil depot hit and nearly a dozen russian recruits killed in the region near the border with ukraine. we re live in kyiv with a look at what s behind the latest setback in putin s war. plus xi jinping has a message for taiwan as he prepares to secure a historic third term as party leader. we re live in beijing and taipei with details. and the cdc is reporting an early wave of flu cases sweeping parts of the u.s. we ll look at where they re surging and why some americans won t get the flu shot. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. we re getting word of new strikes in ukraine, reportedly affecting people on both sides of the front line. a short time ago, ukrainian officials reported that russian missiles destroyed two schools in the zaporizhzhia region. at the same time, a pro russian official says the occupied donetsk city also came under fire, wh
a global recession is all but inevitable. and, the first woman to win the booker prize twice, have condemned the referendums being held in parts of ukraine to decide whether they want to join russia. it added the votes, which are being organised by moscow backed officials, are a breach of the united nations charter. these are the four areas where voting is being held. they include occupied parts of luhansk and donetsk in the east, and zaporizhzhia and kherson, in the south, and cover around fifteen% of ukraine s territory. voting is expected to run until tuesday, and the result seems almost certain to go in moscow s favour. these pictures, filmed in russian occupied donetsk, show representatives taking polling cards to people in their own homes. here, at least, it is not a secret ballot. meanwhile russia is continuing to mobilise its reserve troops, which isn t going entirely smoothly. with the latest, here s our russia editor, steve rosenberg. it was the moment the kremlin t
warning, it is distressing. the date of that video suggesting that it was filmed today. kostya ntynivka that it was filmed today. kostyantynivka is the city involved. it is near the front line, near bakhmut, and these are pictures of the aftermath. 3a people wounded that we know of. we don t know exactly the details of the attack, whether it was a missile or a shell, we don t have the details as yet, it is unconfirmed. us secretary of state antony blinken is in ukraine. he is in the capital kyiv, and he has been pledging continuing us support, military and economic support, military and economic support to ukraine. that includes $665.5 million in new military and civilian security assistance. in total, we ve committed over $113 billion in security assistance since the beginning of the russian aggression. now, since i was last here, almost exactly one year ago, ukrainian forces have taken back more than 50% of territory seized by russian forces since february of 2022. in the o