went the extra mile to help one ukrainian family, go to cnnheroes.com. ask while you are there, nominate someone you know to be a cnn hero. and in just hours, my new talk show the don lemon show premieres on cnn plus. be sure to tune in tomorrow morning, to see the first episode. here is a preview. this week, i spoke to ukrainian americans about the war. when i was in ukraine, and even talking to ukrainians here, the biggest response i get is when i ask about the russians and putin. the most passionate ones, whether it s, you know, people break into tears when i ask them about putin. you re not scared? your feelings about that? absolutely. what are your feelings? my feelings about that that, you know, he should step down or he should be made down to be stepped down. what do you think of him? i think he is anti-christ, terrorist, and a war criminal. [ applause ] you can watch and learn more about my show at cnnplus.com.
like. ambassador, we ve seen round after round of heavy sanctions between the u.s. and its allies. now there is a contract to send to ukraine. we re now beginning to move beyond weapons that the ukrainians can learn to use very quickly that will take some training time, but they re beginning to provide some heavier weapons, artillery pieces, armored vehicles that i think will increase the wherewithall of the ukranian military to withstand russian attacks. the one loophole on western sanctions are the continued dependence in western europe on gas in russia. unless we can sort of close that, there will be many going to russia.
we want to talk to general hurley to help us break all this down. general, good to see you. thanks for being here. if ukrainians did take out the ship, what is the fallout and what does it do to russian morale? if ukraine did strike this, and truthfully, don, i believe they did. all indicators are that they actually conducted the operation that did that. it s more than just a missile strike, too, there is a lot of things involved in a hit like this. what i would say is it shows the russian navy that ukraine is capable in striking all targets. and, you know, this is a $750 million warship, a crew of over 500 people. it has the admiral of the black sea fleet aboard. it s called a flagship or command control ship. i actually had the opportunity to go on a command control ship in the mediterranean, and they are defense vessels.
reporter: after escaping, katya remembered the videos show recorded before the russians ravaged mariupol, ukrainians protesting without the now well-known theaters. the city s buildings, unscathed. she sees the pieceful faces of families and children. the video is hard to watch. are these people alive or left in makeshift graves around the city? katya ureskaya doesn t know, and for her there s only one way to deal with this haunting reality. i decided that i will try only when ukraine gets a victory. cnn, ed lavandera, ukraine.
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