who has traveled at warp speed and traveled the entire galactic universe. our team is preparing landing safety operations and recovery of our astronauts from the crew capsule. we ll be on the ground at the landing site to follow the action in just a bit. maybe even talk to the world s newest astronauts, some absolutely breathtaking stuff. i ll note that you re going to see the recovery team show up very shortly, we actually send them out before the capsule has landed. by now we re very, very good analyzing where the capsule is going to come down, where the winds are. we re going to see the recovery team come out there and, of course, they will also be joined by some of their friends and family to watch as they ve merge from the capsule. let s look at our four astronauts there in the texas desert after having gone up over the carmen line and back. hello everyone. i m kate bolduan. we re beginning with breaking news. just a beautiful sight to see. star trek actor william
assault on far away kyiv. russia, however, is failing in the air. the uk now says ukraine has retained control of the majority of its air space. russia unable to conquer ukraine s air force or its air defenses despite having more planes in the sky. there is also new evidence emerging from bucha showing russian forces were indeed operating in the exact locations where the bodies of civilians were found after russia s retreat. isa soares is on the ground in ukraine for us. isa, good morning. russia has repeatedly denied that its troops had anything do with all the atrocities that we saw, but of course the pictures don t lie. pictures do not lie. good morning to you. what we are seeing is a very different story from what we re hearing from the russians. the very disturbing story, disturbing images we ve seen this morning of the atrocities being committed in bucha and the cities just outside of kyiv of course where scores of civilians were killed. if you remember back in april.
border into nato countries. first, russian state media reports explosions in three separate regions inside russia, this is a picture of one of them. let me show you where these regions are on the map. over on the big map you can see where they are over the border into russia. i can push in here, you can see at least one of the sites several hundred miles inside the border, included is an ammunition dump near belgorod. the russians have claimed ukrainian attacks before to somehow try to portray themselves as victims, however, if there is any truth in this it could represent an expanding reach of ukrainian power. now, on the other hand, russia is escalating its economic attacks into the west, beyond the ukraine border. it shut off natural gas supplies to poland, and bulgaria after those countries refused to pay for the gas in rubles. now, this is significant. both countries rely on russian energy, they are nato members and both countries have aided the ukrainian defense. in
Whaend the and when they get there, the hatch will open and they will be greeted by those already up there. and very interesting given the current geopolitical tensions over the situation in ukraine. and laura, it is not just the launch we got to see. the landing too, that booster return at night, always spectacular if you ve never had a chance to see it. yes, very cool. kristen, thanks so much. thanks so much for joining me today. i m laura jarrett. new day starts right now. breaking news. good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world, it is wednesday, april 27th, i m john berman with brianna keilar. breaking news, word just in of an expanding war, possibly inside russia. and economically for the first time in a new way over the
Civilians. there s much more to come as we ve seen. let me begin our coverage with cnn s kristin fisher. she s live at the launch site and has been covering all this in texas. we know as we saw with the last flight, there s going to be videos coming out and we re going to see a lot more, but it looked flawless. blue origin has to be very, very happy about this mission. it looked flawless. we ll certainly get to hear a bit more about that. we should get some of that video later today of william shatner and the rest of the crew floating around during the precious four minutes of weightlessness. william shatner may be the star of the show today, but that booster return just gave him a run for his money, not the capsule landing, i m talking about the booster that propelled the capsule into space. if you ve never seen one before, and very few people have. up until a few years ago that