send diplomats back to ukraine for the first time they were withdrawn for safety. president biden will nominate a new ambassador to ukraine, the current ambassador of slovakia. also, we re hearing decidedly different language from the secretaries about the future of the war. in terms of our verability to win, the first step is believing you can win. they believe we can win. we believe that we can win they can win, if they have the right equipment, the right support, and we re going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets done. we don t know how the rest of this war will unfold but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. also notably, and i really do think for the first time, the senior u.s. official, secretary austin, said the u.s. wants to diminish russia s military power going forward so russia could not just do this again. we want to see russia w
secretary of state antony blinken and defense secretary, lloyd austin, the top diplomat and top civilian military official offering a one-two punch, a show of support to ukraine. they offered a diplomatic presence will return to ukraine this week. blinken says russia s war objectives in the country have, quote, already failed, while austin declared ukrainians can still win this war and stated publicly for the first time the u.s. intends to, quote, weaken russia, so it cannot invade again. top u.s. officials were in kyiv, russian forces attacked at least five railway stations here in the western part of the country. ukraine says that russia is trying to systematically destroy its railway infrastructure which has been so key in getting refugees out and weapons in. there have been deadly attacks over that infrastructure in the course of this war. in the east, officials say almost the entire luhnkk region is without water. barricaded at the steel plant can evacuate. ukraine say
kyiv. the pair announcing u.s. embassy officials will begin making day trips to ukraine with the goal of returning to kyiv as soon as possible. they pledge $713 million in additional aid to ukraine and surrounding countries in the region. you are watching fox and friends first, i m carley shimkus. joey: and i m joey jones. new attacks on ukrainian train stations, matt finn is in lviv with this breaking news, what do you got for us? matt: reported strikes in western and central ukraine, including here in the lviv region, where the air raid sirens have been going off. we are under an active alert right now. the railway is reporting five train stations were attacked this morning with unconfirmed reports of casualties. lviv train station just outside of lviv to the east. that state governor saying within the past 24 hours in lviv, the air defense shot down a russian missile he says came from a plane and threat of a russian missile from the caspian sea. sharing president b
got it, got it. that is a dramatic rescue in florida. a sheriff s deputy climbing up the outside of a three-story apartment building in orlando to save that 1-year-old girl from a fire. those are five things to know 230r your new day. all of these on cnn and cnn.com and download the five things pod podcast. go to cnn.com/5things. one mile to go. one mile left, that s it. cnn s coverage continues now. two months since the start of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine and overnight the first high-level visit in ukraine by u.s. officials meeting president zelenskyy in the country s capital. i m jim sciutto reporting from lviv.
Their officers fol cus more patrol on stores. carley: we know there is one more in los angeles count that he is speaking out against wokism, that is a headline. joey: what a thing to say, make it liveable. carley: make it liveable. thank you so much. push to spare the life of a female texas death row inmate. melissa lucio is set to be executed in connection with the 2007 death of her daughter. she insists she is innocent and was coerced into admitting she killed her child. we believe ms. lucio s case is a miscarriage of justice and strengthen public trust in our legal system. kim kardid sheian is among her supporters. carley: a deputy climbing up