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the room full of victims. what we ve now learned tonight. marcus moore standing by in uvalde. also tonight, a small group of democrats and republicans meeting on zoom today in the wake of the shooting. what s on the table now and would it stop a young person turning 18 buying an ar-15-style rifle the next day, like the suspect in texas? rachel scott with a rl tonight. the severe storm threat as we come on the air, from texas to michigan. damaging winds and the potentially dangerous system moving into the northeast overseas tonight, the fierce battle under way right now. the last key city in one part of the donbas, in luhansk. russian forces gaining ground. the white house pressed, will it send rockets, and if so, how far will they go? ian pannell in ukraine tonight. this evening, the pilots on a flight from jfk airport in new york to rome. did they both fall asleep? air traffic control saying it lost contact for ten minutes. fighter jets about to scramble what ....
Increasing fire. the ukrainians determined to hold on, the russians determined to take this land. captain svetlana bogdanova admits they re taking losses, saying, there are a lot of dead and wounded, but we know what we stand for and more will join our ranks. to help the ukrainians in their fight, the u.s. is likely to send multiple rocket launch systems into the country. president biden has been careful to say the u.s. will not provide them with longer range systems that have the ability to more easily hit targets across the border. we re not going to send to ukraine rocket systems that can strike into russia. reporter: but one u.s. official told abc news the administration is still likely to grant ukraine s request for rocket systems with greater range than the howitzers the u.s. has already given. david, a major move by the west tonight to further punish russia. the european union announcing a ban on almost 90% of russian oil imports by the end of the year. it could cost russi ....
Mass graves. and estimates that 40% of the town is destroyed. russian forces also once again blocked humanitarian convoys from entering three different cities to evacuate civilians, once again breaking an agreement with the red cross. in kyiv, we continue to see small signs of resilience, life insisting on some sort of normalcy. including this, the british prime minister boris johnson making a surprise visit yesterday to the ukrainian capital. as you can see, the british embassy even tweeted a surprise along with a winking emoji. for a meeting with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. the two leaders, along with a well armed security contingent, then defiantly strolled the streets of the capital. they spoke with several citizens of kyiv. the european union, which is reportedly set to grant ukraine candidacy status in the next few months, says its reopening its embassy in kyiv. italy also says that it intends ....
yesterday, 16 children were killed. again, and again, president putin is going to say that is some kind of operation, that we are hitting a military infrastructure. where are the children, what kind of military factors do they work at? the fact we have seen evidence of children killed here. zelenskyy pleading with the european union to grant ukraine immediate membership in the union, amid the ongoing fighting. cnn white house reporter natasha bertrand has been in brussels, belgium, the headquarters of nato, natasha, are european leaders responding? is this a realistic option at this point? reporter: well, the message here today has broadly been one of complete solidarity with ukraine, but the question of european union membership for ukraine is a completely different one, right. this is something that they have signaled that they are open to, ....