i m sumi somaskanda. thank you forjoining us. we start in ukraine where russia continues its violent bombardment, despite its own domestic turmoil. the latest missile strike killed at least four and injured more than a0 others in the eastern ukrainian city of kramatorsk. it remains under ukrainian control but is close to russian occupied parts of ukraine. moscow s attack struck a restaurant and shopping center at a time when the region s governer said the area was crowded with civilians. a witness told the bbc he could hear people screaming as rescuers tried to reach them underneath the rubble. that witness a belgian freelance journalist also estimated that up to 80 staff members and customers were in the restaurant at the time of the strike, and said he fears the casualty numbers could be severe . president zelensky, meanwhile, said the attack showed the world that russia had to be defeated. the strikes comes after a weekend of instability in russia, where the wagner mercenary
expectation as we come to a flashpoint and in a lot of ways i think they are ready to seize the next initiative. i want to ask you about something happening on the battlefield. according to the uk, ukraine is likely to have recaptured some russian land that had been occupied since 2014. at the same time, the bbc spoke to ukrainian president zelensky last week and he said the counteroffensive is not going as quickly as they had hoped. what do you think is actually happening? i think there was a little bit more nuanced what he said it did not go as quickly as they would have hoped, but at the same time he did, because everybody tends to be a little bit of an optimist and tends to have overinflated estimates of how well they will do, but he also, as leader of his country, and a country that has been at war for almost a year and a half, recognises how difficult these things were and he also counselled him not to think of this as days, but in terms of weeks and months. so, yes, he kind of s
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about trying to punish the president because of those violations? and then, two, did the president mishandle classified information, which can be an even bigger legal issue that the president is facing. on that issue of classified documents, there are a lot of people who are skeptical whether or not the department could ultimately prosecute trump for doing this because the legal bar is pretty high here because a president has a lot of jurisdiction and control over classified documents and what is deemed classified and not classified. but there are two important things to point out here. one, he is the former president, and, two, all of these documents have not gone through or at least some of the documents that we know of have not gone through the declassification process, and we re, again, still clearly marked as classified. it is an in-depth discussion we will continue having as long as you keep reporting on it. thank you. a small setback in the quest to protect young children