extraordinary day of pageantry and mourning, including a show of unity by king charles and his family as they walked in a royal procession with the queen s flag-draped coffin. and ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy visits a newly liberated city and says he s shocked, shocked by the destruction russian troops left behind. cnn is on the ground with the latest on ukraine s gains, russia s retreat, and the state of the war. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. our top story tonight, a potential freight rail strike in the united states is already having a major impact just ahead of a friday deadline. amtrak shutting down all long-haul train routes as unions and freight rail companies try to hammer out a deal to avoid a work stoppage that could cripple fragile u.s. supply chains. cnn s pete muntean is joining us from just outside the u.s. labor department in washington where negotiations
armor and what zelenskyy did another reason ukrainian moral seems to remain high. russian president vladimir putin is usually hundreds of miles away in moscow when he gives out medals. this past startling week, a tale of two nations and enthusiasm for the fight. moscow s manpower crisis so acute, this video is apparently from a russian prison allegedly showing the man called putin chef. afghan personally recruiting convicts for the front line. he tells prisoners that war is hard, if they get taken prisoner, take drugs or have sex with foreign men or women in the fight. an undesirable message to an undesirable crowd. russia increasingly less looking like a nation united in what it won t even call a war yet. even putin turning, here again undermining the kremlin that brutally put him in power. if you ask me, i would enact martial law and exhaust all possibilities to end the conflict with these demons. unlike a volunteer for russia, he said writing later quote we are at war with