liberated a number of towns near kharkiv. the region where they reported the civilian killed has seen several explosions. the cause is missiles and bombs. ukraine has not confirmed nor denied responsibility for the blast. another major development is finland joining nato possibly. they agreed to assist each other militarily should either country face attack. finland shares an 800 mile border with russia. finland s president will contact vladimir putin if that should happen. if that will be the case, what my response would be that you caused this. vladimir putin s profile. critics made a daring escape from russia. she ll tell us how she managed to get out. we ll start of the report of the russian civilian killed. scott mcclain. scott, since the first time this war began in february, what do we know? reporter: anderson, yeah. as you mentioned earlier, this is an area where ukrainians have been making progress in taking towns and villages around kharkiv. in those areas they
obviously there have been other explosions inside russian territory in recent weeks and really since the war began. ukrainians not exactly jumping up and down to take responsibility for them with one notable exception which is about two weeks ago or so that they didn t explicitly say they were responsible but a presidential adviser said, quote, karma is a cruel thing, anderson. ukraine s deputy prime minister is saying ukraine has offered to exchange russian prisoners of war. has there been any progress negotiating with russia? reporter: i mean, this is something that president zelenskyy said he s been working on even getting third party countries, influential third party countries involved in brokering this deal. there are hundreds of soldiers. perhaps hundreds of just wounded soldiers who are inside that plant. the ukrainian troops released photos that they say were severely injured people. they don t have medicine.
point he made claiming that china, a hostile foreign power, an authoritarian regime, negotiating with them, that they are more honorable than your colleagues in the senate, chuck schumer, nancy pelosi. is that an acceptable thing for the u.s. president to say? here is how i took what the president said. i think he is frustrated. my guess is that speaker pelosi is frustrated too. i think it would be fair to say that he has made more progress negotiating with president xi of china than she has negotiating with speaker pelosi. but he said china is more honorable. it s not the first time he has praised an authoritarian foreign power. he accepted vladimir putin s word. he has talked about kim jong-un in glowing terms. you know how brutal a leader he is. is that the kind of thing you want to hear coming from a president s mouth? i don t think the president