israeli police beating with batons. live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than a thousand towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces, including six more over just the past 24 hours. he says the russian military is paying a heavy price for its aggression. translator: today we can report 200 downed russian military aircraft. russia has not lost so many aircraft in any war in decades, and russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. farther south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river. you re looking at drone video there showing pontoon bridges destroyed. also tanks and other heavy equipment destroyed as well. meanwhile, russia s top general and the u.s. defense secretary spoke by phone for an hour on saturday, their first chat since the war began.
biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple failed
committee investigating the house insurrection. five congressmen are subpoenaed including kevin mccarthy. and new evidence of possible war crime in ukraine. an exclusive on the general who ordered some of those acts of brutality. announcer: live from cnn. russia is reacting to finland s announcement that it homes to join nato with threats of retaliation. former president dmitri medvedev warns that it would strengthen its western flank. they called it a radical change in policy and a treaty vial participation will bring consequences. philipish leaders say their finnish leaders say it is a drastic change in the security environment after ukraine. helsinki admits there are no direct military threats right now and its extremely long border with russia is secure. finland has been a member of the european union since 1995. for years we ve been a very close partner to nato. so in that sense, this will not be such a major one and maybe it is not as big as people might think.
shelves last week than the week before. when cnn pressed the white house on what federal agency had answers or who worried parents should call if they can t find baby formula, this was the white house response. we would certainly encourage any parent who has concerns about their child s health or well-being to call their doctor or pediatrician. peter pitts is joining us. good morning, sir, so nice to see you. we ve seen recalls of formula before, but this is really a perfect storm because at the same time you already had a really tangled supply chain. tell us what is happening here and who is responsible. that is a great question because it really isn t a supply chain issue like gasoline. this is an issue because the baby formula business is a consolidated industry. there aren t a lot of players here. so when you take abbott out, not surprisingly, you have shortages. who is to blame? i think the blame is placed squarely on abbott which is the company, fda inspected th
to desperation for millions of parents nationwide as a shortage of baby formula has so many scrambling for ways to try to feed their children. coast to coast store shelves are showing up em pi. more than 40% of formula is out of stock across the country. eight states and d.c. particularly hard hit, reporting more than half of formula in those locations is out of stock. this crisis has been building for months due to pandemic supply issues as well as the closure of a major production plant in february. a lot going on here. the formula shortage is the latest pressing issue that s facing the biden white house, which is also very clearly under growing pressure to also fight inflation and the sky-high gas prices that we continue to track. let s start with cnn s arlette saenz live at the white house for us this hour. arlette, what is the white house saying and doing about the shortage and this crisis? reporter: kate, this baby formula shortage is causing anxiety for so many am