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in part of the donetsk region. ukraine is not commenting on that. also a strike at a checkpoint up here near kursk. these are areas where the russians are saying the ukrainians are striking back. again, no comment from the ukraini ukrainians. vladimir putin u.n. secretary general antonio guterres was wrapping up his visit when several residential buildings were hit. in the east u.s. officials acknowledged that russian forces are making progress but are describing it as slow and uneven. president biden is asking congress for a $33 billion aid package for ukraine to cover the next several months. and an american citizen 22-year-old marine veteran willie joseph cancel killed while fighting alongside ukrainian forces in ukraine. according to his family he was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on monday. his mother tells cnn he believed in what ukraine is fighting for and wanted to help contain the conflict, quote, so it didn t come ....
the complex. and another tragic death to report. this time it is an american. a 22-year-old former u.s. marine was killed while fighting alongside ukrainian forces. his name is willie joseph cansell. his family says that he d gone over to ukraine as a private contractor to fight against russia with an international brigade of soldiers. let s begin in kyiv. cnn s matt rivers has the very latest on those strikes on the capital city. matt? reporter: well, this site right behind me is where ukrainian officials say those russian cruise missiles struck yesterday. and we know that at least one person has been killed as a result of that strike. a woman living in this building. she was a journalist, a 54-year-old woman working for a radio station here in kyiv. rescuers actually found her body this morning. we know that she joins multiple other people who are injured. at least six different people, we re told, are in the hospital with varying injuries including carbon monox ....
inside. a ukrainian commander from inside, inside that factory, told cnn what it s like on day 64 inside that plant with russians voubding them. the situation is critical. it s beyond a humanitarian catastrophe. very difficult situation. we have very little water, very little food left. right now we don t have any tools but we have some basics. but we also are in dire need of medication. we have almost no medication left. russia is making advances in the east. this video shows bombs hitting this region. they re fighting back in that same city. a fuel depots was hit. and ukrainians say have retain a village that is the largest city in the east. it shows the ukrainian flag flying over the town hall. cnn s anderson cooper joins us now from kyiv. 24 hours ago when you just first went on the air with us, we got first reports of the air strikes hitting kyiv. so tell us what is happening since then. yeah, we know a little more. a ukrainian journalist was killed in the ....
now seven last word with laura jean coming or it s. good evening rachel, this raises an untrusting artistic question, and that is what the discussion is cameras in the courtroom has been going on for a while. they re in almost all courtrooms in america, and the place where they re not allowed or in federal courts. and because we don t allow them in federal courts, we still have some court artists left. . and are doing this work, and my worry about cameras in the federal courts is what happens to that body of art? and i have some wonderful pieces from courtrooms from decades ago that i treasure. i don t know what the future is if, for that, if we don t have cameras in federal courts. i was thinking about that today. as a journalist, i want cameras in the courts, because i want more materials, as a citizen i m not sure that i do. you re right about losing that as a job. a thing that people need to be good at in our country. i remember one of the things we actually pr ....
private about the plot to keep donald trump in power. committee chairman bennie thompson says hearings will likely start on june 9th, which is six weeks from tonight, those eight hearings are playing with some of them in primetime. it will be presented in the context that there were multiple lines of effort involving multiple players at the highest levels of our government, to overturn the election. there is ample evidence of criminality including criminality of the former president. committee members say former trump lawyer rudy giuliani himself and donald trump jr. are on the short list for interviews, but they will not say when that will happen. they will say that republican house members who refuse the committees first invitation to appear, are soon going to get a second invite as soon as tomorrow. there also could be new interview request for some republicans in the senate, and that investigation moves forward, there are more alarming signs that trump s big lie ....