this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
escalation of the war in ukraine, announcing the mobilization of some 300,000 russian reservists and threatening a nuclear attack in clear and disturbing terms. translator: this is not a bluff. the citizens of russia can be sure that the territorial integrity of our homeland, our independence and freedom will be ensured. and those who try to blackmail us with nuclear weapons should know that the prevailing winds can turn in their direction. now global leaders are responding to that, calling that announcement from putin a sign of panic and the administration saying an admission of failure. this as the mayor of kyiv says putin has, quote, launched the process that will bury him. the question, though, today, jim, is how will president biden respond when he speaks in just over an hour in front of a global audience? no question, and how seriously does the world take what is a very public threat from the russian president who has often followed through on threats. our team is
There is another league, the national league. judge in the bottom of the ninth last night, yankees down 8-4, he crushed it. the yankees ended up winning the game because stanton hit a walk off grand slam so the yankees won. judge is one home run shy of tying the american league record with roger maris with 61 home runs. the yankees blew it by not signing him to a big money contract. this is going to cost them. cnn s coverage continues right now. it is the top of the hour, good morning, i m poppy harlow. and i m jim sciutto, live outside the u.n. general assembly in new york where just over an hour from now president biden will speak directly to world leaders for the second time as commander in chief. it is a critical time, biden s speech comes just hours after russian president vladimir putin signaled a major public