measure. thank you, my friend. enjoy your home. thanks to you at home for being with us. before he became the editor of the most important english language magazine in the world david remnick was moscow correspondent for the washington post and in fact won the pulitzer prize for his landmark 1993 book about the last time russia fell apart at the end of the soviet union. david remnick will be joining us live in a few minutes as we try to make sense of the latest news that burst out this weekend. everybody in the world trying to figure out whether russia may be falling apart again, whether vladimir putin may be teetering at long last after 23 years of increasingly consolidated, increasingly dictatorial power in russia. david remnick will be joining us live on that story in a moment. we are also keeping eyes tonight on our own supreme court where in the midst of their own serious and expanding ethics scandals among conservative justices on the court, that court is neverthe
viewers joining us here in the united states and all around the world. you are watching cnn newsroom, and i m rosemary church. we are following developments out of ukraine where explosions continue to be heard in central kyiv. the first blast came just hours ago, and one official says russia is now attacking the capital with kamikaze drones. cnn s chief international correspondent clarissa ward joins me now from central kyiv. what is the latest on this? reporter: so, essentially, rosemary, people here woke up to the sound of air-raid sirens followed by two loud explosions. then there were at least another two explosions, and we re right in the center of the city at the location or right next to the location of the impact of one of those blasts. you can probably see behind me there s still a lot of smoke in the air from that explosion. we don t know yet how many people may have been injured or possibly killed in this series of blasts here in the capital. we did speak to th
Plunged. she said, quote, we all on the plane panicked because we thought we were going to crash. this was a sudden dive, changing the altitude very drastically. it was very violent. i ve never felt this on an airplane. everybody was in shock. so the fighter jet forces this passenger airplane down. it lands at minsk. nobody knows why. once they re on the ground bell belarusan police storm the plane and grab a guy a 26-year-old blogger, a television channel that was critical of belarus s leader and in support of a protest that had sprung up in 2020 after belarus s dictator really appeared to have lost an election but decided he was going to stay in power anyway. i mean it is an amazing thing, right? in modern day europe this dictator used a mig fighter jet
To force a european commercial flight that wasn t even supposed to be landing in his country, he forced that plane down into his country, specifically to get this kid off the plane so he could throw him in prison. the belarusan dictator did that. his name is alexander lukashenko. even if you ve never heard of lukashenko or never in your life given one thought to the country called belarus i swear he is exactly what you are imagining when you think to yourself, what does a belarusan dictator look like? just imagine right? look. magic. exactly that guy, right? giant like comically over sized military hat. regulation size and shape saddam style dictator mustache. he likes to be seen holding guns of all shapes and sizes just randomly and for no reason. makes him feel like a big man. almost as big as when he wears
Attacks in northern kherson over the weekend. i expect that will continue. and the rugs at the moment have really lost the initiatives and momentum. they can only respond to what ukrainians are doing, too. sqand in the wake of the belarusan president announcing a russian regional group of troops we re now seeing increased fears of a deepening military cooperation between these two allies. how might this change the direction of the war, do you think? it changes significantly from the floor of the inflation it s been giving the russians lots of ammunition particularly artillery ammunition, and they ve just provided them with dozens of t72 tanks. it s unlikely in the short or