a good sunday evening to you. i m jim sciutto, and this is cnn s special live coverage of the extraordinary events this weekend out of russia. moscow s red square blocked off again today after the brief but stunning insurrection that s gripped the world, could perhaps weaken vladimir putin s grip on his country. we should note it s far too soon to know. so much we don t know about what led wagner mercenary group leader yevgeny prigozhin to launch a march on moscow and what convinced him to abruptly call it off. and then, it s said, go into exile. u.s. secretary of state tony blinken today called the whole series of events extraordinary, believes it indicates that cracks are emerging in putin s rule. the very latest now from cnn s sam kiley live from london. sam, we re watching russia closely, ukraine, also events in belarus. any developments to indicate to us what s actually happening right now? reporter: well, jim, i think the most stunning development so far is an absence
you ll see them crawling on hands and knees, deserting an area. we re live on the ground tonight. plus, new pictures from the violent attack at congressman gerry connolly s office that sent two staffers to the hospital. congressman connolly is outfront. and the new york mayor publicly breaking with president biden as angry parents demand to know why school gymnasiums may be closed down to become the new home for migrants. let s go outfront. good evening. i m erin burnett. outfront tonight, every single russian rocket shot down by ukraine today. as some of putin s forces are on the run on the front lines. these are two major developments tonight in the great european war. first, russian president vladimir putin firing a total of 18 missiles at ukraine. take a look at that new video there. it s one of the interceptions. ukrainian officials say they shot down every single one of those missiles down. you see one of them right there. it s like lightning in the sky. it
our viewers joining us in the united states and around the world. i m bianca nobilo. and i m max foster. just ahead on cnn newsroom we re having a wonderful time. everything is going well. nothing has been resolved in this negotiation. so let s stop the political games. let s get down. we only have 15 days to go. house has overridden the governor s veto and the bill becomes law. should we be worried about this for our elections? my worst fears are that we cause significant harm to the world. live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster and bianca nobilo. it is wednesday, may 17th, 9:00 a.m. in london, 4:00 a.m. in washington where the pressure of the debt standoff has the president offering his plans for the g7 summit. joe biden will cut his trip short in order to get back as the default line creeps closer. the u.s. has until june 1 to raise its borrowing limit. and the latest round of talks between the republicans and the white house resul
was to underestimate your enemy and overestimate your own capabilities and maybe an opportunity. so the ukrainians need to stay extremely focused. this is like the hedge rows in normandy after the landings. fight hedge row by hedge row. 50 yards by 50 yards. the only way to get through it is to pop your head up and become a target. this is not dissimilar from that. the ukrainians have to be very aggressive with their intelligence collection and their maneuvers. they re claiming some success although not massive success in the last 24, 48 hours. okay. belarus here. by the way, this is a story, so i m applying it with a grain of salt. the idea is that prigozhin is now up here, and some of his forces now up here in belarus. what s the significance of that? i don t my view is that lukashenko got involved because putin told him, make this a safe haven temporarily. we still don t know where prigozhin is located.
sense of tunnelling. they see that when they engage in direct cat every army going back gazillions of years, if you not engaging, you are digging the deeper and improving the defensive procedure. that is what is happening here. and if you are going back to world war ii and thinking of the hedge rows there in norm di, those rr horrible fighting that took place more more pan labyrinth of the defensive positions is incredibly