she remembers the cupboard. that was where i was standing. the multiple rocket attack on this, the kharkiv regional administration, was an early sign of the ferocious cowardly brutality russia would unleash on civilian targets. this is our unit then. she had been serving coffee and cookies to soldiers. saw a flash and curled into a ball. translator: i feel a physical manifestation of fear. i don t like cookies anymore. a box fell on me, and i remember the smell. reporting from nick paton walsh. let s get insights from the former commanding general of u.s. army europe now a cnn military analyst. general mark hurtling. grateful for your time. i want to start with where we were at the top of the hour. you were a young major in europe if i have the calendar right when the berlin wall started to
response will suffer if congress continues to dither. we ll talk more about covid aid later in this hour. thank you. joining me now cnn military analyst retired lieutenant general mark hurtling, also with us cnn national security analyst steve hall, a former cia chief of russia operations. let me again with you and that barrage of missile strikes on odesa. this isn t the first strike against that important port city. we focus on russia s failure to advance on the ground in ukraine, but what is the message that russia s sending by firing missiles all the way to odesa and ohypersonic missiles at tha? you know, i can t figure it out, much like i haven t been able to figure out many of the actions russia is doing, but firing these three hypersonic missiling from a strategic bomber and then releasing the film of it to the world, firing
use and resort to nuclear weapons if he feels that russia is facing existential threat, but what is that threat? that s the big unknown. lieutenant general mark hurtling, steve hall, thank you as always. and coming up, gas prices are going up as the war in ukraine and inflation worsens. in just moments, president biden will outline what he will do about that. stay with us. ostbusters, baseball, ghostbusteters, baseball. it s good to be back! that is one foul ball. let s do this! cross the stream! get your tv together with the best of live and on demand. directv stream. call 1-800-directv more protection, more sun, more joy. neutrogena®each defense® the suncare branused most by dermatologists d their families,
hitting precision targets with their artillery and their missile. they certainly are covering wide areas burt they re not hitting lot of targets. i give the advantage once again to the ukrainians based on their training and leadership and their ability to know their home turf which they re fighting on. lieutenant general mark hurtling, thank you for the insight, sir. actress amber heard is testifying in the defamation trial against her ex-husband, her emotional testimony, next. we need to reduce plastic waste in the environment. that s why at america s beverage companies, our bottles are made to be re-made.
ukrainian infrastructure in the western parts of the country. that s according to pentagon spokesman john kirby. a spokesperson for the ukrainian defense ministry stayed nearly 50 strikes were seen across ukraine yesterday. we re showing some of the locations here, luhansk, don donesque as well. there were attacks on railway infrastructure, particularly in lviv in the west and let s bring in general mark hurtling. first, your take on the focus on the railway infrastructure. well, victor, the explosions you see on that powerpoint map don t tell the whole story because they look like they re arbitrary attacks on specific locations, specific cities. all of those cities where you see the blast symbol have to do with either road junctions, railroad transfer points or line of communications as they re called in the military.