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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 ....
this is the first time a president is at this dinner in six years. the white house correspondents dinner returns to washington s political calendar. hello and welcome to bbc news. the us speaker of the house, nancy pelosi, and other congressional leaders have visited the ukrainian capital, kyiv, on an unannounced trip in which she expressed support for president volodymyr zelensky. the visit comes amid a push from the biden administration for a $33 billion package of support for ukraine, which he must pass through congress. speaking to the ukrainian president, ms pelosi described ukraine as the frontier of democracy. mr zelensky said ukraine was grateful for american solidarity. she is now in warsaw to meet to meet the polish president, andrzej duda. translation: first of all, i am | grateful to you for this signal. | this is a signal of strong support for ukraine. this is a powerful signalfrom the people of the united states, congress and two chamber support and two p ....
that an institution charged with protecting our children is tearing families apart. then, can social media helped dismantle democracy? we are about to find out. two of the smartest people i know we ll explain why. velshi starts now. good morning! it is saturday april the 30th. day 66 of russia s unprovoked invasion of ukraine. i am a velshi. this morning, we will go back in time to talk about a tiny place in eastern europe that could become key to the war that is now ranging across ukraine. geographically, transnistria is a in area in eastern moldova. it is looking between the east and the west and the ukrainian border in the east. the area encompassing transnistria and present a model that was touched taken by the soviet union in the early part of world war ii. it was then captured by the access powers and controlled by romania for a period of time. it was taken once again by the soviets in 1944, becoming the moldovan soviet socialist republic. months before th ....
in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that 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 there. we re seeing that when it comes to russia s war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. 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. the british ministry of defense said that russia has made minor advances in its push to take over the east. the uk also found that russia has, quote, yet to achieve a significant breakthrough. but if vladimir putin s forces continue to destroy more ukrainian buildings and lives. cnn just learning of a gas explosion in a government building in the luhansk region. officials say no one there su ....
let s go out front. good evening, everyone, i m kate baldwin in for erin burnett. this new drone video revealing the starting scale of putin s war. this is all that is left of a village north of the capital kiev, home after home leveled. the roofs blown off other buildings. this village was vital to stopping putin s march towards the capitol and why he pulled back and redoubled his efforts to the east. it is in the eastern part of the country russians are attacking with increasing intensity tonight. these images show apartments on fire, businesses gutted. tonight the pentagon warns putin is not letting up. what we dough k know is they putting more enablers in there, in the last 24 hours. what we do know is they are conducting operations in the donbas. certainly, they continue to bombard mariupol. now, one of putin s large commanders say russia s am ambitions go far beyond the east. that would give them a massive land to stretch russia s border to the black sea. th ....