is cnn newsroom with michael holmes. ukrainian president ze zelenskyy said that more than a thousand villages and towns have been retaken, including six more over the past 24 hours. he said the russians are paying a heavy price for their aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers. many of them young conscripts, they have lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles and a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters and drones and all of the prospects as a state. ukraine said that russian troops are continuing to retreat around the city of kharkiv in the north. they claim to have blocked a russian advance in a key river, the destroyed pontoon bridges, the top u.s. defense ministry spoke for an hour on friday, their first since the war began. the pentagon said that lloyd austin appealed to keep the lines of communication open. in the donbas, ukrainian forces claimed to have stopped a russian advance across a key river. repor
biden administration on the defensive. plus, we re live at the cnn weather center. how climate change is destroying homes with extreme weather across the u.s. announcer: live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy says more than 1,000 towns and villages have been retaken so far from russian forces. he says the russian military is paying heavy price for its aggression. translator: russia has lost almost 27,000 soldiers, many of them young conscripts. russia has lost more than 3,000 tanks, armored combat vehicles, a large number of conventional military vehicles, helicopters, drones and all of its prospects as a state. ukraine also says russian troops continue to retreat from around the city of kharkiv in the north. further south, ukraine claims it successfully blocked a russian advance at a key river in the donbas. ukraine says it destroyed more than 70 armored vehicles including tanks and multiple failed
Before we moved to sport, the latest developments. We have had a statement from the un Secretary General, a new statement from Antonio Guterres. He said the humanitarian system in gaza is facing total collapse come up with unimaginable consequences for more than 2 million civilians. These are some of the live pictures from gaza. The skyline, and we have seen in the last a0 minutes or so intense bombardment and strikes continuing in gaza. I will keep these pictures on the screen as i take you through some of the statements from Antonio Guterres because he says, as the bombing intensifies, needs are growing evermore critical and colossal. About 500 trucks a day were crossing into gaza before hostilities began. In recent days, an average of only 12 trucks a day have entered despite the needs being far greater than at any time before. Given the desperate and dramatic situation, he says the un will not be able to continue to deliver inside gaza that without an immediate and fundamental shif
Amendment put forward by canada that corrects these glaring omissions. It is straightforward and an object of old. It calls on us to condemn hamas s terrorist attacks on october seven, and it calls for the immediate and unconditional release of hostages. It should be easy. This is the bare minimum that we would hope to see in this resolution. We urge all Member States to vote yes on this amendment. The General Assembly most send a clear message to the world that we stand against all acts of terror, and that we stand with all those who are being held hostage. We believe the un Security Council, a body charged with maintaining International Peace and security, must send this same message. And that is why this week we put forward a Security Council resolution that garnered the support of the majority of the council. In drafting this text, we solicited input from all council members, including russia and china, and the product of our consultations was a balanced and strong resolution. That
Gazas hamas controlled Health Ministry says 7,326 people have been killed in the strip after nearly three weeks of bombardment. More than 40 of them are children. And a senior un official is warning that many more will die from the catastrophic Aid Shortages caused by israels total siege. Israels military says it carried out a new raid in gaza overnight targeting hamas fighters, with ground units accompanied by helicopter gunships. These pictures, supplied by the idf, apparently show a Hamas Tunnel Being struck by a guided missile. Launch sites for anti tank missiles and command and control centres were also hit and the army says it killed a senior hamas commander. Its the second brief ground raid in as many days. Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu has insisted a full offensive is coming. The main un agency in the gaza strip has again warned that its humanitarian work is becoming more difficult because of the lack of fuel in the territory. The head of unrwa said more aid urgently needs