you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin with remarkable new insights into ukraine s president and the desire to hit russia on home soil. the washington post said president zelenskyy has suggested bold attacks behind closed doors including blowing up a pipeline and attempting to occupy russian border villages to gain over moscow. zelenskyy made such suggestions months ago. still, the pentagon did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked materials. this comes as we re getting new signs that the long-awaited ukrainian counter offensive could be getting underway soon. sources tell cnn, ukraine has begun shaping operations and cnn s sam kyly has more details on that. reporter: there have been signs, i think, very clearly now, that there are shaping operations going on ahead of a summer offensive by ukraine to try to recapture this territory that was taken by the russians. both in 2014 and more recently last year. what we ve seen is psychologi
white supremacy. president biden and the first lady are headed to buffalo tomorrow and the tributes are already pouring in for the victims who were killed, all black americans, ranging in age from 32 to 86. the former buffalo fire commissioner and son of one of the murder victims, ruth whitfield, speaking out against the hate and racism that investigators say motivated this shooter. what are we supposed to do with all of this anger, all of this pain? i can tell you, this was an easy decision for us to go public. we re a private family. this was not easy for us. but how else could we honor our mother, how else can we uphold the things she put in us, the things she believed in? how else can we do that? what else are we supposed to do, he says, with all of this pain. and i know you re learning more about what the shooter had planned. yeah, we learned this from the buffalo police commissioner. he told me this morning there s some documentation that the shooter had plans t
could the uk be heading for a trade war with the european union? that s certainly the fear of some in the business world, as tensions grow over the post brexit deal on northern ireland. uk foreign secretary liz truss is holding talks with the vice president of the european commission in the next few hours, as her government threatens to tear up large parts of the agreement. that could trigger legal action or trade sanctions from the eu as our deputy political editor vicki young reports. for some businesses in northern ireland, trading opportunities have grown, but the rules can cause disruption too. this garden centre in belfast is dealing with extra paperwork and supply issues. it has slowed our deliveries down. we would order lots of stuff from england, from holland. our frustration is that we are a weather dependent business. as soon as the weather gets good, we need to get ordering. we would usually order on a monday for a friday delivery. that has completely changed. we