moment including new details on the investigation and more scrutiny on commander pete arredondo who tells cnn he has been in contact with texas officials. the president also wrapping up u.s. support with his decision to provide long range missiles to the ukrainian government believing that they won t use to launch strikes into russia. germany following the united states lead agreeing to supply ukraine with anti-aircraft and radar systems as well. we want to start first though in uvalde. joining me now is julia ainsley, jim cavanaugh. but gaud, let me start with you. i believe at this point we re about 75 days off from the beginning of school, much of the community when i was there on the ground saying to me they did not want to return to the scene of the crime to robb elementary as the school year began because of just the unspeakable tragedy that occurred there. and we re now hearing that in fact they will not be returning to those school grounds. talk us through it. repor
welker and michael crowley and barry mccaffrey. thanks for joining us. molly, let me start with you. we see russians make key advances, especially as they are being more concentrated in the eastern part of ukraine. they are hammering the area of severodonetsk. talk me through what you are hearing when it comes to the battlefield in ukraine. reporter: that s exactly right. they are hammering severodonetsk and all of the villages surrounding it. there s been a pocket, a horseshoe-like area, a-in-law fighting area, but that s where all of the russian aggression for the last week has been concentrated in the donbas. severodonetsk has the biggest city, the most strategic in lieu luhansk. this morning. we heard the front line cut the city in half. as of an hour ago, we heard from the head of the city military that told reuters, 60% of the city is under russian control, the eastern part. 20% under ukrainian control and there s a portion of that city which is no man s land. evacuat
To understand why the Ukrainian air force is so keen to get F-16s, you first have to understand the aircraft the surplus European F-16s will reinforce.