smaller summer vacation because we made a bigger spring break vacation. and new day continues right now. this is cnn breaking news. all right. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is friday, april 1st. i m in western ukraine. brianna keilar is in washington. we begin with what could be significant breaking news. a potential extraordinary development, reports of a ukrainian strike inside russia across the border. we have this new video in russia near the ukrainian border near kharkiv. belgorod s governor says it was attacked by two ukrainian helicopters which entered the
that says we should think about this in a new way. that is russia is in a different place than on february 23rd. explain that. how does that change the calculus? it is a pariah. it is by itself. it doesn t really even have china in this case. china has abstained, as we know. it is a different conversation. but russia is isolated and damaged and might be willing to go into some kind of an agreement that says that the united states and germany and turkey can give a security guarantee to ukraine. that would be okay with them. if what, they get some ukrainian land? what do you see the trade being? i think the trade is neutrality. i think ukraine s willingness ukraine thought it was applying to nato. it wanted to be in nato, for all the reasons we just said.
there was nothing. that is truly remarkable, that the russians in the town had no idea what was going on. they were asking locals who were watching the news to tell them the status of their invasion. our thanks to christoph for that. we just haven t had a window into what life was like or is like in some of the areas that are under russian occupation. so that was simply fascinating. we do have breaking news, though, this morning. what could be a ukrainian air strike from helicopters over the border in russia. what happened? we ll give you the latest details about what could be an extraordinary attack, the first of its kind. thousands of hungry people trapped in besieged mariupol. russians are blocking aid from getting in and residents from getting out.
this is what it looks like now. scenes of total destruction. christoph righter was there. and he has written about what he saw once the russians withdrew. i had a chance to speak about it overnight. christoph, what was it like in trostyanets after a month-long occupation by the russians? we arrived as the first foreign journalists probably 36, 40 hours after the last russians had left, which the local people didn t know first because there is no working mobile line system, no land lines. so when we came it was basically the first hours to bear out through their city which many hadn t done for one month. there were incredible scenes of people meeting each other knowing if the others were still
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