public. president biden writes a new york times op-ed, writing if russia does not pay a heavy price for its actions, it will send a message to other would be aggressors that they too can seize territories and subjugate other countries. richard angle has more. reporter: with relentless bar rge barrages of artillery fire, it s now too dangerous to evacuate the 12,000 civilians estimated to be trapped in the city, one of the biggest in the donbas region near the russian border. president zelenskyy called on the united states to supply long range weapons that can destroy russian artillery from a safe distance. president biden described how his administration is trying to strike a balance between helping ukraine without triggering a wider war.
downstairs, american volunteer dallas casey has arrived. the six-year army veteran says he was compelled to help ukrainian defend its democracy. dallas and his team help vitale down to a car bound for a hospital where they ll tell him his wife is dead. do you think you re making a difference? yes. i have helped people, i have treated people medically, i have evacuated people. making difference is not something that is on my side or the other side. richard mentioned $700 million more now in military aid and support including some of those weapons that president zelenskyy has been asking for. obviously the attention of our country has been upon uvalde, texas, for eight days or so, but the white house continues its commitment to ukraine. it does. this is an important step forward in terms of providing the weaponry ukrainians have
Two SpaceX Falcon 9 rockets have completed back-to-back Starlink launches less than 24 hours apart, successfully delivering 106 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). Originally scheduled just a handful of hours apart, slight delays eventually saw Starlink 4-13 and Starlink 4-15 settle on 6:07 pm EDT, May 13th and 4:40 pm EDT, May 14th, […]
SpaceX has successfully launched and landed the same Falcon 9 booster a dozen times for the second time in a matter of weeks. Falcon 9 booster B1051 became the first to cross the 12-flight mark on March 18th, launching a batch of Starlink satellites more than three years after its debut. Now, less than two […]
SpaceX and NASA have delayed Crew Dragon’s fourth operational Commercial Crew launch for the fifth time as four private Axiom Space astronauts begin their fifth day aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The two Crew Dragon missions have been scheduled just a few weeks apart for several months, which has inextricably linked their launch dates […]