more about those lives that were taken so callously, solely out of hate. we re also learning more about the suspect. authorities identifying him as this 18-year-old white man who apparently traveled more than three hours from his home to target that community. a 180-page manifesto attributed to the suspect was posted online just before the attack. it shows the meticulous planning that apparently went into a racist attack in just chilling detail. we also learned the suspect was already on law enforcement s radar. he had made a generalized threat as a high school student last year. tomorrow president biden will travel to buffalo to meet with families of the victims. the terror in new york, sadly, just one of several mass shootings in recent days. let s begin with cnn s victor blackwell on the scene in buffalo. the suspect currently faces one count of first-degree murder. that really a starting point here. do we expect that federal hate crime charges will be added? reporter: y
do we know if that s a long-term roadblock to this or just a short-term one? reporter: well, eu diplomats, nato diplomats were very, very clear about this, including antony blinken of the united states. they believe this is a surmountable obstacle for countries to join nato, finland, and sweden has taken in a number of people from the kurdish community that obviously turkey has an issue with. it s believed that with some shuffle diplomacy, they can probably get over that issue. the swedish defense secretary is heading over to the united states to meet his counterparts over in washington, d.c., this very week. we have duelegations heading ovr to ankrah. in the last hour we ve had the government and also the leader
received important guests in recent weeks. next up the un secretary general. weeks. next up the un secretary-general. weeks. next up the un secreta -general. ., ., , , secretary-general. antonio guterres is cominu secretary-general. antonio guterres is coming here secretary-general. antonio guterres is coming here and secretary-general. antonio guterres is coming here and today secretary-general. antonio guterres is coming here and today actually . is coming here and today actually but he is officially meeting president zelensky tomorrow and having seen president putin and moscow yesterday so it s a bit of shuffle diplomacy aimed at getting some sort of cease fire ideally a longer term piece deal but that does not look likely. a cease fire does not look likely. a cease fire does not look likely either. the russians did not seem interested in talking constructively to mr birthers and that ukrainians, there pretty angry and irritated by the fact that the un secretary general went t
we stand for the deoccupation of our territory. translator: we had an exchange with the president who told me that he would not be the cause of an escalation. the second important element is that there would be no fixed base or deployment of sensitive equipment in belarus. let s get more on the story. cnn s nathan hodge is standing by in moscow. i begin with melissa bell in kyiv, ukraine. good morning, melissa. we saw president macron claiming some small victories as he continues this shuffle diplomacy. what is your sense both from your sources but also what you re hearing in kyiv. how much progress has been made so far? his efforts were clearly welcomed by the ukrainian president when they met yesterday, isa, who praised him for his efforts to try and bring peace to the region. i think this is something ukrainians have been explaining, officials have been exploring over the past few weeks. how much they want the noise, the tension, the rhetoric