and then crashed. the driver dead on the scene. that driver was darya dugina, a commentator and supporter of russia s invasion of ukraine who was sanctioned by the united states and by the uk. she was also the daughter of prominent right-wing ideolog alexander dugin. an explosive device detonated saturday night setting the vehicle on fire. russia has opened a criminal investigation the investigative committee says they believe dugina was murdered. taking into account the data obtained the investigation believes the crime was preplanned and of an ordered nature, a statement said. while forensic work continued the foreign ministry implied ukraine may be behind the attack. if the ukrainian trace is confirmed, foreign ministry spokeswoman wrote on telegram. the ukrainians deny any involvement. translator: i emphasize ukraine definitely has nothing to do with this because we are not a criminal state which the russian federation is and even more so we are not a terrorist state.
many of my colleagues have responded to what i think is a great moral test and challenge of our time. some 160 people safely evacuate from a new mexico national park after being trapped by flash floods. the roads that are washed out and we can t pass through. they don t even know about food and water for us. it is still raining. it s not letting go. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown has the night off. you are in the cnn newsroom. investigators in russia say the car bomb that killed the daughter of a key putin ally was preplanned. a murder investigation is now under way after she died in last night s attack on the outskirts of moscow. her father is an influential russian ultra nationalist and also considered an architect of the ukraine invasion and often described as putin s brain. cnn s fred pleitgen has more. reporter: hi, phil. there is very little in the way of information coming out from that investigative committee as to where exactly things stan
with a country that some think is what america needs to do, that is write a new constitution. and he will speak to one of the top scientists responsible for the webb telescope and those awesome images it has captured. these videos show explosions that have happened in the last two weeks at russian military facilities in crimea, which has been occupied by russian forces since 2014. one attack at an air base destroyed at least seven russian warplanes. ukraine has claimed responsibility for that attack and two others according to an internal document obtained by cnn. is this evidence that kyiv is launching a counteroffensive against russia and could it gain back territory illegally overtaken by moscow? joining me now is retired u.s. army general mark hurtling. and general grks tohave good to have you on. great to be with you. let s talk about the attacks inside crimea, this territory has been controlled by russia for some eight years now. does ukraine s ability to strike beh
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