to make this country safe. if anything, it just captures the sense of persistent danger that continued even after the capitol building was officially cleared. barb, committee members all over the sunday shows yesterday. we re now seeing this video being tweeted out. it seems like it s a bit of a p.r. campaign. stick with me. obviously we have wrapped up the summer sessions. we know there are more to come in the fall, but it s obvious the committee members do not want the conversation to stop. they want to keep the january 6th investigation top of mind, even if that means we re not going to see any testimony between now and september. yeah, it seems clear that they want to keep the momentum going. they don t want people to forget about all the things that happened in the month of july. no doubt they still have hours and hours and hours of video clips that they did not get a chance to show during those hearings so i think if they re being very strategic, they would do just what they
there were multiple things that happened between just the draw mats tick sudden loss of my husband to it being a national news story and on every tv across the country to a video being released that was on every social media outlet once it was released. you can t go online running into it even now. these are things that we need to have available to these families because it takes them years, if ever, to recover from. ahead of this memorial day weekend, michelle says the holiday can be particularly hard for many gold star families. sometimes it s hard for us when we hear happy and memorial together. to us memorial means death. so happy and memorial don t really mesh for a lot of us that lost somebody. but says people should not miss out on the fun. asks americans to do one thing to remember what the day is all
including troops based in the air, sea and land that are near ukraine s borders, which is much more than the assessment we got just four weeks, just a month ago and much more in line as well with the level of troops that the united states is assessing that russia has placed around the boarder. the ukrainian foreign minister said they ll believe it when they see it. this video being put out is not doing it for them in terms of verification. there is also other interesting facts that came out in this intelligence assessment we were given from the military intelligence service saying despite the fact there are all those troops now on the boarder or near the border with ukraine in russia and elsewhere, that s not sufficient for russia to
generation of ukrainians. so much uncertainty ahead. thank you very much for your joining us. she has been documenting the war on her twitter account, and she many people have been following the tragedy in this country through her eyes and her post. thank you so much. a ukrainian mayor who was captured by armed men last friday now says he is ready to fight for his country again. as cnn reported back then, the mayor was seen in this video being dragged away after the city of was captured. but now ukrainian officials say the mayor has been released through a prisoner swap for nine russian soldiers. he later spoke with president zele zelenskyy who told him to get back to work. i m very glad to hear from you, the voice of a living person. thank you so much for not leaving me. we dent leave our people.
during a brief cease-fire only to be told to turn around and return to shelters immediately. ukraine accusing russia of violating the cease-fire and shelling in the areas designated for civilians to escape. you ll hear from the deputy mayor from one of those cities live in a moment. also moments ago, new video being shared by ukrainian forces which they say shows a russian helicopter shot down over northern kyiv. cnn is unable to verify when this happened. you see it right there. and a u.s. official tells cnn russia is set to deploy 1,000 more mercenaries to ukraine and is poised to bombard cities into submission. all of this as the humanitarian crisis grows worse by the day. the u.n. now saying more than 1.2 million have fled ukraine. cnn has reporters across ukraine covering all the latest breaking developments. let s go to jim sciutto live from lviv.