tapper. wolf blitzer is over in the situation room. have a great day. happening now, president biden just announced new action aimed at easing student debt after the u.s. supreme court blocked his loan forgiveness program. he s slamming the ruling as wrong and accusing republicans of hypocrisy. we re also following the fallout from the high court s other major decision today putting limits on lgbtq protections. the senators warn the ruling may open the door to discrimination of all sorts of protected minority groups. and growing questions right now about the fate of the russian mutiny leader yevgeny prigozhin. are kremlin spies plotting to kill him as ukraine s intelligence chief claims? i ll ask top white house official john kirby about that and much more. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer, and you re in the situation room. we begin with today s one-two punch by the u.s. supreme court, decisions limiting lgbtq protect
weapons are so controversial? yeah, wolf, we are told this right now is pending approval really at the highest levels of the white house and this could happen and be included in a military aid package to ukraine as soon as next month, so this could move fairly quickly here. essentially what cluster munitions are is they are munitions when they explode on impact they scatter a large number of bomblets. and those bomblets can actually fail to explode when they hit the ground. some of them can be duds. and so the concern there obviously is the risk it could pose to civilians over the long-term very similar to land mines. and this is why the biden administration had been reluctant for several months to fulfill the ukrainian s request for cluster munitions because they could pose risk to civilens and more importantly these cluster mufigs are also banned in over 100 countries worldwide including key u.s. allies. now the u.s. says because of conditions on the battlefield in ukraine for the
again. so that s the sense many ukrainian cities have. yes, right now it s peaceful than it was a few weeks back, but obviously we expect russia will not stop. and until putin is in power, ukraine and every ukrainian city will obviously feel danger. yeah. listen, we wish you and all the reporters out there working, i hope you stay safe and well. thank you so much for joining us. really appreciate it. thank you. over the past 24 hours the city of mykolaiv appears to have been the target of multiple russian attacks. local officials say russian artillery fired cluster mufigs into residential areas killing at least five people and wounding dozens of others. cnn s ed lavandera is there. reporter: the cluster of explosions jolted this residential neighborhood in mykolaiv friday morning. witnesses say some people were walking their dogs in a park at the time.