top news in the united states and around the world. ahead this hour, stalled or just slow-going? russia s attacked in eastern the don t blame me it s not my fault approach to tackling high inflation as u.s. president joe biden claims soaring prices his top priority. and the w.h.o. calls out beijing for its zero-covid policy calling it unsustainable. time for a rethink. live from cn nrk center. this is cnn newsroom. three weeks now into russia s attacks in ukraine. by most downs, ukrainian force are mostly holding their ground. ukraine s second biggest city has been the scene of intense fighting, but according to zelenskyy, the russian occupiers are gradually being push out. amove which they say the likely to protect lines from russia as well as to prevent cross-border attacks. they say the country s armed forces are resisting on most fronts, and four more settlements are now under control. but it could lead to a dangerous new phase according to the director of nationa
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they re already in charge of units. it s awesome. the best of the best with are here. his books are dark fantasies set in this waer with russia. an all too rich source of material. sam kiley, cnn, eastern ukraine. well, to washington now. said rick layton. colonel, good to see you. so if the ukrainians have in fact taken this real estate on kharkiv, it puts them within striking distance of russia s lines. well, it could be that. i think that they may not have all the thing that they need in order to mount a counteroffensive like that, but if they can, i think they would certainly be well-advised to do something like this, especially given the fact the russians have had some difficulty getting their supply lines situated
and to enforce a no-fly zone. that is all that the ukrainiukr have in the moment in their arsenal. thank you very much. i want to go to retired air force colonel said rick layton and steve paul cia of russia operations. colonel, let me start with you. you hear mathew chance talking about russian state tv, claiming that syrian fighters are going to ukraine to help russia. the implication is that there could be what 15, 16,000 of them putting out these incredibly high numbers. what does this tell you? well, erin, it tells me that they are going to brutalize this war effort. they will do what they can to make this look like aleppo or their syrian cities in the sense of a war. and the effort to bring these syrian forces in also means that putin may not trust his conscripts to do the job because