that did not happen. the kremlin blaming bad weather for that. as putin was speaking in moscow, ukraine s president released his own victory day message. translator: very soon there will be two victory days in ukraine, and someone won t have any. we won then, and we will win now. happy victory over naziism day. u.s. diplomats return to kyiv for the first time since the war began. it s a big step towards officially reopening the embassy. let s go right to cnn s matthew chance live for us in moscow. mat matthew, what stood out to you about putin s speech this morning is this. this morning? look, first of all, the atmosphere, the spectacle of the display of russian military might was as we expected it to be, quite dramatic. we saw thousands of russian troops on the cobbles of red square chanting patriotic slogans, military bans playing patriotic kind of war songs. there was a march passed and a salute taken by by president putin as the crowd cheered and applauded and t
she is sending a criminal referral to the irs and federal prosecutors in manhattan. just hours later, a federal appeals court gave trump a huge setback in his fight over classified government documents seized from mar-a-lago. that panel freed federal investigators to use those classified papers as a part of their pro. judge aileen can in, a trump appointee, they had blocked investigators from reviewing those documents until an outside judge could review them. on wednesday, the 11th circuit court of appeals said that can in abused her authority by demanding the documents be reviewed. two of the three of the appeals court judges are trump appointees. we are not done yet. also on wednesday, writer eugene tell said that she will sue trump under a new law that lets sexual assault victims file civil lawsuits no matter when the statute of limitations expire. carol said that trump raped her in a manhattan dressing room in the 1990s. caro has also filed a defamation suit against trump
time of salvation and resurrection is looking like this, sheer destruction thcht village near kyiv is bearing the hall mark of russian forces. the town is free, but the same cannot be said of other areas of the country. in mariupol, evacuation areas were thwarted by the ukrainian villagers after russian forces said they were headed for russian-occupied territories. and now, we are seeing that there is a site of mass graves outside of mariupol, and cnn cannot independently verify this. in odesa, a russian strike killed 18 people or i should say injured 18 people, and killed five including a 18-month-old baby who had yet to celebrate his first easter with his parents. a russian general says that russia wants full control of southern ukraine, because it would give russia a land bridge to moldova, stirring up fears of another soviet republic, and now, scott is joining us from sou southern kyiv, and what do we know now of mariupol? it is remaining dire, jim. there is a humanitar
On ukraine. you point out that he may be hoping for support in europe. we are already seeing some incidents out flagging support in russia. from your contacts in the country, what is the mood of the population of that country? my contacts at the moment representative area small portion of the population. these are people who don t support the war. i don t think that we are seeing flagging support for the war in russia. it is very difficult to measure the public opinion in a totalitarian country. it is almost impossible to measure public opinion in the country at war. at the same time, i don t think there is any reason to have the fears that we are seeing from an independent and state support research. they have overwhelming support for putin s war, overwhelming by into putin s propaganda. that is reaching hundreds of millions of people opposed to independent media. that is reaching a very, very
The conventional wisdom has been, yes, ukraine is occasionally pushing back russian forces, david is besting goliath here or there. but russia is the meat grinder, and that is what is going ultimately very possibly going to prevail. but if he doesn t have that will inside, andrea, does that challenge that conventional wisdom? i think what it challenges is also a segment within the russian public who is calling for more outright victory in ukraine. this is a balancing act for him in the sense that there are a lot of people domestically who i think don t support the war. we see vocal calls for outright victory in ukraine. max mist goals, and he s going to have to balance those two things. the important thing to note out of these two speeches is just because he didn t mobilize forces today doesn t mean he won t at a later date. that s still something he can pull on if he feels he is