ukraine officials say la s 23 confirmed that. in the city and mitchell slammed into that apartment building, they were sleeping in. and in dnipro, also reported killed, russia routinely denies they are targeting civilians with a list of noncombatants killed is a long one, and tonight as they continue to be clear, that list is likely to grow, cnn s team is there, as some of the dead were found. with us last night, joining us about the attached have been recording how does today compared today through out this work lacks reporter: the numbers are always terrifying, not the worst we have seen since the war has began but after weeks of not months or less of missile attacks like this, in terms of their intensity. the numbers they tell are much more intimate and horrifying where they have had an apartment block, families who knew each other and under that rubble tonight, firefighters are still looking for a boy and girl that parents are trying to reach their children for but ge
we re not even talking about the lead up to this conflict by that point, why were you there originally to do a duck documentary, what was it about ukraine or maybe it was about zelenskyy that interested you? get i think i was in the better part of the population with enter understanding of ukraine, with the exception of a phone call between president and zelenskyy and president trump that was made a lot of and the fact that president zelenskyy had been a comedic actor who ha betrayed an actor who became th he went initially to make a documentary that had kind of a bring home a sense of ukraine and a profile of this president fred. it wouldn t bent as interesting and then the next thing you do is this build up o vladimir putin on the eastern side of ukraine. first we have 50,000 troops, then it s 100,000 troops and then all the military equipment and you are chronicling all of this and you develop a relationship with zelenskyy perry telus, as this was unfolding, a lot of t
reports, ukraine s president takes his plea for military aid right to washington. zelensky meeting with senators on capitol hill right now. he ll be at the white house this afternoon. what zelenskyy says he needs for the war. plus, it is a busy day for disgraced politicians. rudy giuliani back in court for day two of his defamation trial. how much will he have to pay to election workers? in new york, george santos just walked into court as we hear talk of a plea deal. what could that look like? and the texas supreme court rules against a woman seeking an emergency abortion. what this ruling means for women s healthcare in texas and beyond. thanks so much for joining us on this tuesday. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting from new york. we begin this morning with a desperate plea from a war time president. right now ukraine s president zelenskyy is in a closed door meeting with senators on capitol hill, making his case for more aid. you see him there arrivi
Improved antiaircraft and antimissile systems, supplied by the west, and i fear that we will see more of this as the counteroffensive inevitably gets underway in the days or weeks ahead, russia has a track record of lashing out, overtime, claiming that it s trying to hit something, but really knowing it s targeting systems are pretty poor and the violence ends up being indiscriminate, and will probably try to take its anger and revenge out on the ukrainian civilian population, we have seen that in the past when i have endured losses but a lot of pressure on ukraine now to get results in this strategic win that it needs in the counteroffensive. thank you so much. we thought tonight would be a good check to check in with cnn military analysts. we heard the ukrainian foreign minister say in the aftermath, that the way to peace is the arm ukraine with f-16, this has been talked about certainly since the beginning of the war, our fighter jets answer?
Defend themselves? reporter: yeah. i mean, of course. every opportunity, ukrainian officials get, they sort of restate this idea they want more weapons from united states in particular, also other countries as well. the emphasis at the moment is antimissile systems, particularly patriot missile systems, to defend against the massive onslaught of missiles that are coming from russia, attacking infrastructure targets across the country. dmitry kuleba said they ve been asking since before the war, before the latest invasion began back in february. now is the time for the decision to be made. there s been a lot of discussion ongoing on opening lines with russia, potentially ending the war. did he have anything to say about that? reporter: yeah, i mean, i put it to him, this idea that president biden had come out in that press conference yesterday, i think it was, with the french