military officials. they were able to successfully intercept 54 out of 69 believed cruise missile launches from russia. but there has been significant damage to ukraine s infrastructure when it comes to energy. of course, a power supply there has been deeply impacted and that has long been a concern, long been a concern target by the russian forces, leaving some parts of the country now experiencing-limited power supplies. so, a significant concern there but there has been a staunch response from ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, saying last night in his nightly address, he said, this provided further evidence that the russian on forces, that president putin, he s engaging in acts of terror in ukraine. take a listen. translator: with every rocket attack, russia is getting into that dead end. russia has left rockets. but the status of the biggest terrorist in the world will
interests, that are in fact unfair advantage and give unfair advantage to american companies, particularly in the area of electrical vehicles, for example. the act gives $7500 tax break to americans who buy electric cars that are made in the united states and the europeans say that s just unfair. bianca? jim bitterman live from paris. thank you so much. ukrainian military officials in the donetsk region safe russian strikes have killed five civilians and injured 15 in the past 24 hours. two were killed in the city of bakhmut where some of the heaviest fighting is taking place. russia has concentrated large forces there and one ukrainian commander says his troops are struggling to hold off that onslaught. cnn s matthew chance is there reporting from the front lines. reporter: the brutal fight for bakhmut.
point that these russian soldiers were killed. that drone footage has been confirmed to cnn by ukrainian military officials as being from that scene in eastern ukraine. but of course, the russians are furious about this. they re saying these soldiers, these russian soldiers were executed after they had surrendered, and within the past few minutes the kremlin said it will attempt to bring those responsible for these killings to justice. what ukrainian officials, though, kind of underline is that there wouldn t be any russian soldiers killed in ukraine if russia hadn t carried out this invasion of ukrainian territory. so, this has become just another episode in the on going war of words and actual war between these two countries. well, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is accused russia of launching more than 4,700 missiles since the start of the war. he also spoke about what he called the ukrainian peace formula. can you explain that for us? and just kind of lay out what
which is nobody really targeted, sorry, russian positions. nobody expected them to be able to do that. it was an interesting kind of weird pentagon press conference a week ago, when the pentagon sort of, you know, they got a question about, are these, in the video, are that these are on the mig 29, and the pentagon official was very much they appear to have successfully done that. this has never been done by an air force before. and there are many other instances of this, where ukrainian military officials, ukrainian military technical officials have managed to mount systems on trucks that hadn t been expected. for instance, the missiles that took down the russian ship in the black sea fleet back in
almost every minute. church of ukraine says three monks were killed by striking nearby. nada bashir is covering this for us. what is the latest in severdonetsk? reporter: president zelenskyy has acknowledged the significance losses, the 20% around mark of territory that is now in russian control. and of course severdonetsk has become the key focal point of ukraine s counter offensive against russia s military offensive in ukraine. we ve seen severe bombardment in severdonetsk, the situation there has been described as difficult by senior ukrainian military officials. and of course the ukrainian armed forces, the troops there in that city are facing a significant risk of potentially being encircled by the russian trooped. but as you mentioned, despite the situation on the ground, we ve heard from the ukrainian armed forces that they do not