on this monday night. good a thing, i m alison menendez in for stephanie ruhle. ukraine has now been fighting russia s unprovoked invasion for nearly three months. today, vladimir putin was trying to defend his war, this was victory day in russia, when the nation celebrates victory over nazi germany. it is russia s biggest holiday, and during today s observance, is putin tried to justify the war, with false claims of nazis and ukraine, and so-called aggression towards russia. amid the images of troops marching information, and the military hardware on display, putin did not declare a new offensive in ukraine, i did not declare victory. we he offered up his own message to the kremlin we today, a senior u.s. defense official called russian efforts on the battlefield, incremental and somewhat anemic, despite, that rich russia continues to hammer ukraine with airstrikes, this weekend being used as a shelter. 60 were said to be killed, msnbc s news says the biden tonight
that russian war planes haven t been able to gain air superiority despite flying 200 to 300 missions aa day. and russian units are suffering from major morale and discipline problems. a top u.s. official tells the washington post, they believe that middle rank russian military officers uks, some as high up as battalion commanders are slow in carrying out orders or refusing them altogether. a really terrible sign for the russians. and it shows once again just how rotten the culture is, the russian military. let s bring in right now former president of ukraine petro poroshenko. thank you for being with us. it seems when you hear the news out of the donbas and the news out of odessa, you put it together and it seems like more of the same. the russians targeting children, grandparents, mothers, other civilians. but not being able to do a damn thing on the ground when they actual i have to fight a war. where does this war stand right now, the day after victory day? first of
murder suspect on the run now for custody, amazing story how they were tracked down. let s go outfront. and good evening, welcome to special edition of outfront live in kyiv tonight. i m erin burnett and we begin with the breaking news, explosions rocking the ukrainian city of odesa tonight. witnesses say a large shopper center has been hit. russia pounding the crucial port city in recent days and in mariupol this hour, russian forces we understand are storming the steel plant where ukrainian soldiers are holed up. as ukraine s ministry of defense releases this video, they show ukraine s flag flying tonight over that steel plant and cia director bill burns says putin is stepping up his assault in ukraine because he does not believe he can afford to lose this war. it all comes as putin gives a defiant message to the world during his so-called victory day speech, putin referred to new nazi threats in ukraine, again, making the baseless claim this invasion is meant to de-n
i digress. tonight, i would like to draw your attention to a rather telling footnote, just as samuels elitist on stripping worth of have our population by overturning roe. it caught a bit of online attention this weekend. in this footnote, it cites a report from 2008 that notes, quote, nearly 1 million women were seeking to adopt children in 2002, whereas the domestic supply of infants relinquished at birth or within the first month of life, and available to be adopted, had become virtually nonexistent, unquote. the domestic supply of infants. that line caught twitters interest as kind of creepy. in fact, the citation backs up and argued that was pushed by ultraconservative justice amy coney barrett during her questioning in the case last december. after varied noted both roe and casey emphasize the burdens of parenting and focuses on the consequences of parenting and obligations of motherhood, she asked, why don t the safe haven loss take care of that problem? safe haven law
the latest. welcome to the show, everyone. it s 9 a.m. here in ukraine, but all eyes are on moscow where russia s annual victory day parade is about an hour or so away. this is video from rehearsals from saturday. the holiday marks the defeat of nazi germany during world war ii but today under the shadow of a new war in europe, the event taking on new significance. it s been warned russian president vladimir putin could use this holiday to make a major announcement about the war in ukraine. the victory celebration comes one day after ukraine marked its own day of remembrance with president volodymyr zelenskyy accusing russia of failing to learn the lessons of world war ii. russia has forgotten everything that was very important to the victors of world war ii, but ukraine and the whole free world will remind it so that no one will forget so that really important words never again which are repeated all over the free world every year on the days of remembrance of the vic