has not gone to plan? no. i told you last time that i don t know the plan, so maybe it was planned this way. and, you know, russia is ready for peace and negotiations. the question is whom to negotiate with? zelensky is not a legitimate leader now and the west, it seems to be, doesn t want to have any serious negotiations. they instead want to continue the war. that s the problem. so, you know, unfortunately, we do what we can and what we should to stop nato expansion to russian borders. and it goes as planned so far. we stopped nato and we have our allies, as you noticed at the beginning, as planned. it goes as planned? it can t surely have been the plan to expend so much in terms of men and materiel to hold less territory inside ukraine today than the russian military held when we last spoke to each other at the end of march, 2022? that makes no sense whatsoever. it clearly has gone very wrong? well, you know, ithink we should divide here two different terms strategic and
plus: the groundbreaking bionic eye operation and the 88 year old woman who s now able to see her grandchildren again. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. the us has delivered its first shipment of military aid to ukraine made up of what it says are 90 tonnes of lethal aid two words which seldom go together. the details of what is included haven t been made public but this is what it looks like. this plane load arrived in ukraine in the early hours of saturday morning. you can see crates being unloaded. they re clearly too small to contain anything like a tank or armoured vehicle but what the boxes contain remains unknown. it comes after high level talks between the us and russia on friday, over the tensions in ukraine with tens of thousands of russian troops currently camped near the ukrainian borders. with the latest here s mark lobel: the threat of conflict persists. as president putin continues his apparent drive for a new p
we re following two major developing stories. secretary of state antony blinken is in ukraine this morning, and warning that russia has already amassed more than 100,000 forces on its border with ukraine and it could double on relatively short order. ahead of blinken s crucial meeting with his russian counterpart on friday in geneva, he made clear to russia that there are only two paths, diplomacy or consequences. the world is watching what s happening here. when russia uses its strength to act with impunity against another sovereign nation, it makes other countries think that they, too, can violate the rules of international peace and security and put their narrowed strefts ahead of the strefts of the community. the attorney general says she s uncovered significant evidence of what she calls misleading and fraudulent ivanka trump and don jr. more on that investigation in a moment. first let s get to cnn national security correspondent kylie atwood at the state depart
january 6th select committee, how her hours of testimony may actually end up being key to the investigation. let s go outfront. good evening, i m kaerin burnet the breaking news, russia intensifying assault on a sprawling steel plant where thousands of ukrainians are holed up. i just spoke to a commander there who said the strikes have been literally nonstop over the past few hours yet despite the attacks ukrainian fighters say they still hope to evacuate several hundred people which includes still in that plant, commander tells me, 20 children. as you can see, though, there is heavy black smoke rising over the area where the plant is located. it is, of course, in the area of mariupol, and tonight, russia is cla claiming putin s forces reached the outskirts of the plant and carrying out a step-by-step clearing operation. well captain pladomar at the plant pushed back against russia s claims. translator: all of the buildings that they re showing or might be showing, they a
the strongest possible response to russia s aggression following her visit to kyiv and talks with president zelenskyy. this hour we ll discuss the war with the acting u.s. ambassador to ukraine as american diplomats are now back on the ground inside ukraine. our krornts standing by in ukraine, in russia and neighboring moldova as well as in washington. we welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, a top ukrainian commander says about 200 civilians remain trapped inside that mariupol steel plan under bombardment by russian forces. they are so desperate to join the first wave of evacuees who did make it out live, hoping to arrive in the city of zaporizhzhia. nic peyton walsh is on the scene for us. what can you tell us about the desperate conditions in mariupol tonight. reporter: certainly, wolf. expectations have been so high today that we will begin to see here in ukraine, the first wave of evacu