threats or provocation. paula is live in seoul for us this morning. so paula, bring us up to speed here. reporter: well, erica and jim, we re hearing from a senior administration official telling cnn that the same as we heard from japan s defense minister, they believe that this ibm, if it was fired at a normal angle would be able to reach main land united states. at this point north korea fires its long range missiles into the air very high so it comes down very close to where it was launched. this is how their testing how far it could go. but if it was at a normal angle, there are concerns how far it could go. at the apex summit in thailand, kamala harris convened a hasty meeting with some of the allies, the leaders of japan, south korea, australia, new zealand, canada, to talk about this. they all condemned the launch and they all decided on how they could work together to prevent
joining us as well cnn presidential historian tim naftali. dana, any thoughts on what you just heard? well, he certainly tried to heed the warnings of those around him well, what they really wanted him to do was not make this announcement right now. but given the fact that he rebuffed that, in terms of the content of the speech tried to stay on policy, tried to remind people of the issues that many of the republican supporters and some independents believed in and stay away from the grievances. he didn t actually talk about what went wrong in 2020. he did no question mislead in a very, very big way about what happened in 2022. he actually intimated that china controlled the election. well, there s that too. fair point. thank you. thank you for that. but clearly which by the way nobody
has. we re just air raid sirens and people are being told to go into basements. the united nations said half a million refugees have fled ukraine. we crossed over the board fresh poland today and you see women and children at the border going through the lengthy procedures to cross over the border. one mother who escaped romania said she could not hide her fear. she may not be able to return to her homeland. it is hard to come back. to come back, i don t know. we re scared about our husbands, our brothers. reporter: well cnn is covering the war in europe for all angles. clarissa ward is in kyiv tonight and nic robertson is in moscow. let s start with national security correspondent alex
more than 2,000 civilians have so far been killed. this morning cnn spoke with ukrainian woman who has volunteered with the medical battalion. our jim acosta jim sciutto spoke to her. she described the horrors in the streets of kyiv. i m seeing dead children, hospitals being bombed, churches being bombed. it s difficult. i don t know what to tell you. what am i seeing? i m seeing my people die. i m seeing all sorts of horrible things. i ve studied crimes against humanity at the university. i studied humanitarian law. i never thought i would see this with my own eyes in my peaceful country. we have seen throughout ukraine and russia as well cnn s fred pleitgen is inside russia s border near belgorod. alex marquardt is in kyiv. it is 8:00 p.m. in kyiv as the
a senior u.s. defense official detailing the struggles in ukraine. he said all of the russian advances in ukraine remain stalled. and added that air space is still contested and that russia has not achieved air superiority over all of ukraine. and the official pointed out that ukraine s forces are not only targeting putins weapons and combat assets but struck against logistics and ukrainians are trying to impede and prevent russia s ability to sustain themselves. joining us now to discuss, cnn military analyst retired general wesley clark. he s a former nato supreme allied commander and with us sean turner, from the director of national intelligence. welcome to you both. general, let me start with you and what you see as the current tate of play for russia considering the context of