succeeding pat sajak, the announcement comes two weeks after sajak announced plans to retire from the hit game show after more than 40 years. seacrest left his talk show live in april, saying he wanted to focus on american idol and other projects. he says i m truly humbled to be stepping into the footsteps of the legendary pat sajak. i can t wait to continue the tradition of spinning the wheel and working alongside the great vanna white. congratulations to ryan. and don t miss tonight, my colleague erin burnett s full interview with the ukrainian foreign minister about that revolt in russia, and what it means for the war in ukraine. that is tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern right here on cnn. thank you for watching, i i m our coverage continues now with wolf blitzer in the situation room.
kramatorsk in ukraine targeting ukraine civilians in a very busy city center? once again, target on all ukrainian civilians, no military objects in the area around and unfortunately right you are busy hours, and unfortunately as of now four people are already reported dead, including one young person of 17 years old. and almost 50 are wounded as of now, including 8 month child. so, i mean, in the war, almost 500 days of war and the tactics of russian armed forces is barbaric, lack of any success on the battlefield, attacking civilian infrastructure, and killing civilians. seen by so many as war crimes committed by the russians. as you know, putin says no combat units, igor, he says no
russia. yeah. so, again, that s the biggest single issue right now. the question beyond this is, does this undermine russian morale? prigozhin s criticisms of the minister of defense, chief of the general staff, the decision to launch the war the way the war was being conducted, all of which of course enraged putin in the end, when this gets to the soldiers, will it cause them to question what it is that they re doing? and then, can the ukrainians capitalize on this? they ve been conducting all of these probing attacks, reconnaissance and force, positioning these new armored brigades that are full of the western tanks and infantry fighting vehicles. can they then capitalize on this, crack the russian lines, force the russians to start moving in response to that? and then really build on that, and generate momentum that could ultimately allow them to cut that ground line of communication from russia through south eastern ukraine to
happening now, rescues are under way after another deadly russian missile strike in eastern ukraine. local officials accusing russian forces of deliberately targeting crowded civilian areas right in the center of this city. in russia tonight vladimir putin is attempting to show strength after the mutiny by wagner mercenaries. this, as we have a new satellite image suggesting the wagner chief is indeed in exile right now in belarus. and donald trump is now responding to the audio obtained exclusively by cnn in which he acknowledges having secret documents he did not declassify. stand by to hear the recordings and what trump is saying now. welcome to our viewers here in the united states. and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin in ukraine with the new russian missile strike on a
to make sure that he preserves his empire. that means as he gets money from let s say the operations in africa, whether he ll be allowed to keep those, whether he gets anymore money, i doubt it, from the russian government, but i think it s really preserving what he can, and maybe not ending up either dead or in prison. jill dougherty, as usual, thanks very much. demeetry alparovich, thanks to you as well. let s get more on all these dramatic developments unfolding right now. i want to bring in retired u.s. general david patreas, general, thank you so much for joining us as we see these devastating images from this latest deadly russian strike on ukraine how do you expect the wagner mutiny will influence putin s approach to this war in ukraine?