Kremlin is dragging out the war, waiting to see what happens in the 2024 u. S. President ial election. Cnns new reporting is straight ahead. And political Collision Course Donald Trumps legal calendar filling up just as the race for the republican nomination is heating up. After trumps third arraignment yesterday well show you why he hopes the Supreme Court can throw him a line. A Major Development in the gilgo beach murders investigation. Police say theyve identified a victim whose remains were found nearly three decades ago. Were following these stories and many more coming in right here to cnn news central. A brazen drone attack on the black sea and a potential warning to russias navy that more could be on the way. Look at this video obtained by cnn. It appears to show a Ukrainian Unmanned sea drone approaching a landing ship at a Russian Naval base. The video shows the drone inching closer and closer until you see there, the camera cuts off, likely the moment it hits and the ship e
heart-pounding view inside of the battle for bakhmut, and the footage that shows moment that ukrainian soldiers attacked their counterparts of enemies. thousands of new migrants continue to arrive each day on the southern border, and the action that the white house is hoping will discourage new migrants from coming. a key state of the u.s. economy and the crucial insight that consumers just provided right here on cnn news central. incredible new video into cnn this morning which appears to show ukraine s military attacking russian forces near the city of bakhmut, and the defense minister said they have pushed the russians back at least two kilometers in the city which is stuck in stalemate for months as we know, and now, take a look at this which appears to be in the newsroom which is appearing from the drone, and showing ukrainian soldiers attacking soldiers in bakhmut, and they say that ukraine s long-awaited counter offensive is taking shape, and they say that the st
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Certainly in what ukraine is showing itself capable of doing. we have had at cnn a direct claim a naval ship was hit by the drone. more oblique statements from ukrainian officials about how unidentified floating on thes are to blame for this. but make no mistake, this is exactly not what vladimir putin thought he d see at this stage of the war. perhaps a sign of more to come. russia claiming it fended off a drone attack at an oil storage facility in crimea. how is kyiv responding to that? reporter: they have suggested that something like that, diesel plant, fuel plant, would be an inevitable target. and we ve seen this over the past months, boris strategic, careful attacks against vital parts of russian infrastructure. fuel depos, ammo depos, railroad tracks. the things they need to keep
And what is the situation on the ground that you are seeing? yes, certainly, the indication from the u.s. official is that shaping operations to provide a light in the window that ukraine is doing to keep it as secret as possible, but it is indicating a broader umbrella term of what we are seeing in the last two to three weeks is ukrainian forces pushing to the smaller amounts in two to three weeks with the testing the russian forces there, and radar stations with fuel depos, and calculated and slow bid by the ukrainian forces to receive significant nato, u.s. and training forces of this offensive, but what we have not seen is the moment in which the