at the region, destroying more than 60,000 tons of grain stars and threat noting the global food supply, as well. that s not the only troubling development this week. russia may be getting military aid from china. here s news central s jim sciutto speaking to a top french adviser at the aspen institute. reporter: just quickly, has the the west seen any evidence that china has armed russia in any way in the war tin ukraine? well, yes, there are indications that they are doing things we would prefer them not to do. reporter: delivering weapons to russia for use in ukraine? well, kind of military as far as we know, delivering massively military capacity to russia. cnn s orren lieberman is live at the pentagon with a little more on this for us. how concerned are western allies about china s role right now?
with any nato leaders before the counteroffensive started, they would have hoped that the ukrainians would be this a stronger position by now. but it was very clear from the nato alliance meeting last week the level of support for ukraine, the military support, the diplomatic support, the economic support, continues to be as strong from the alliance as it has been on the first day of russian invasion. that has not wavered. let s talk about support on russia s side because the top french official that my co-anchor jim sciutto was speaking to revealed that he believes china is sending military equipment to ukraine rather, to russia to help in the war against ukraine. that s something that beijing previously said they would not do. they said they were not sending lethal assistance. my best understanding from nato and from the united states directly is that continues to be the view. what we heard from the french is talking about some dual use
companies had provided any sort of crucial assistance or technology or aid that could then be used in russia s aggression against ukraine. the broader issue clearly here something the u.s. is monitoring very closely. all right. thank you for that report. boris? let s broaden this out with ian berman, president of the eurasia group and g zero media. thank you so much for being with us. we ll get to the question of china s involvement in ukraine in a moment. first, i want to ask you about the volatile situation in the black sea and news that the cia director is calling out russia, the potential for a false flag attack in which they would attack civilian craft and then blame it on ukraine. what would russia get from doing that? well, we ve seen many occasions the americans putting out intelligence both to embarrass the russians and also to prevent potential attacks
from taking place. so that s why director burns is saying what he s saying right now. but of course, the russians are running out of offensive military capabilities right now. they ve got troops that are badly trained, they re defending territory they ve taken relatively well, but they re also nearing the end of their rotation which means either putin has to keep them there when their families are expecting them to come home, or in the fall, another 200,000, 250,000 have to be called up. these are horrible sort of options for putin. and almost everything that he s tried to accomplish in this war has not gone the way he s wanted. so as that continues, the potential for asymmetric warfare goes up. i want to ask about the attacks on odesa. russia targeting that region recently in response to ukraine s targeting of that kirsch bridge. the counteroffensive for ukraine
teams working for donald trump trying to overturn the election for essentially next month. so bernie carrick who was working with rudy giuliani, he has been scheduling. they re asking for documents from him. and then the special counsel s office wants to interview a former trump lawyer, as well, next month. and so how that factors into what this case is against donald trump, is it the same case, is it related but different case, are there multiple parts of this investigation that will come at us in waves? we re just going to have to wait and see. easy and easy to say that this is going to be a primary process unlike any we ve ever seen. true. thank you so much. brianna? earlier this week, vladimir putin let that deal lapse that allowed ukraine to safely export grain through the black sea. and in the days since, his forces have relentlessly targeted odesa, the port city that is vital to that shipping corridor. some 70 missiles have been fired