america. at least nine mass shootings with all eyes on congress for any action that can help stop the killing. ukraine says russian forces are renewing their offensive as the battling for the donbas griends on. they reported russian troops suffered losses amid a push towards the key city. in the neighboring luhansk region, they expect russians to redouble their efforts. and cnn teams on the ground reported seeing a long line of cars leaving ukrainian controlled areas in the donbas region this morning. ukraine says president zelenskyy travelled to war-torn areas in the east and met with displaced residents from mariupol,b which fell under russian control last month. he reportedly visited front line troops in the donbas region. translator: i am proud of everyone i met, communicated with and supported. something was brought for the military but i will not detail it and i brought something from them to you. it s imported. we brought confidence and strength. mr. zelenskyy s v
garner enough support given this shift and given that rise from the far right linda, we ll certainly see how that plays out in july. of course, looking at these results, the french president s party didn t do well. emmanuel macron calling snap elections for later this month. yeah. look i think again, it wasn t a shock that the national rally and other far right parties did so well. but what was a shock was how emmanuel macron reacted to this. he didn t have to do this. he could have come out and said, look, this is a protest vote and just carried on. but on the one hand, i think he didn t have a whole lot to lose. he already lost his his overall majority in parliament. he s already struggled to get some key policies through and this may be a calculation that this is a chance to win back a mandate. and alizée source telling cnn that the approach will be convince, convince, convince in the lead up to these elections, the first round just three weeks away. but in his sp
side, russia took 80% of the city. now it s split half in half. street fights continue and you get the sort of open terrain battles in the donbas region where artillery becomes important. particularly long-range artillery. where we see russian air strikes destroying a lot of russian infrastructure. we siee a cnn team has a long line of cars heading to the west. sebastian in london. thank you. earlier i spoke with retired u.s. marine colonel, a former special operations commander with the marine raider regiment. i asked what he makes of the threats over supplying ukraine with long-range missiles. it s not as though putin has held back from anything short of nuclear or chemical weapons to this point. he s only held back by fear of