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in part of the donetsk region. ukraine is not commenting on that. also a strike at a checkpoint up here near kursk. these are areas where the russians are saying the ukrainians are striking back. again, no comment from the ukraini ukrainians. vladimir putin u.n. secretary general antonio guterres was wrapping up his visit when several residential buildings were hit. in the east u.s. officials acknowledged that russian forces are making progress but are describing it as slow and uneven. president biden is asking congress for a $33 billion aid package for ukraine to cover the next several months. and an american citizen 22-year-old marine veteran willie joseph cancel killed while fighting alongside ukrainian forces in ukraine. according to his family he was working with a private military contracting company when he was killed on monday. his mother tells cnn he believed in what ukraine is fighting for and wanted to help contain the conflict, quote, so it didn t come ....
near that complex. now it comes as mariupol s mayor says more than 600 people were injured in a russian bombing that struck a makeshift hospital facility inside the steel plant complex. reporter: and they re there trying to save their lives because russia s bombing the rest of their home city. in the east, u.s. and nato officials acknowledge russian forces are making some progress, learning, i m told, some lessons from their failed offensive in the northern part of this country, around the capital kyiv. that said, ukrainian forces doing their best to push back a fuel depot attacked, set on fire in part of the donetsk region controlled by russian-backed forces, that in the east. ukrainian officials say a town in the northeast has been recaptured from the russians. this is the give and the take of this battlefield. all of this as we are learning of another american casualty in this war. a 22-year-old who was fighting al alongside ukrainian forces, part of that internati ....
hours, injuring some 600 people. and now ukrainian officials say russian troops are blocking evacuations from part of that complex. breaking promises again in the east u.s. and nato officials acknowledge russian forces there are making incremental progress. i m told that the u.s. has seen some evidence of improvement in the russian military s ability to combine air and ground operations as well as its capacity for resupplying forces in the field, two issues, two problems they ran into up north, bianna. yeah, they are making adjustments and making inroads there. plus, breaking overnight, alleged ukrainian counterstrikes, a fuel depots with attacked and set on fire in part of the donetsk region controlled by russian-backed forces. now, all of this as we re learning of another american casualty in this war. a 22-year-old who was fighting along side ukrainian forces, we ll have more on that in a moment. some of the many, many internationals who come here to join the fig ....
good morning to you, i m jim sciutto reporting from lviv, western ukraine. i m bianna golodryga in new york. we have breaking news this morning. some good news for a change. russia has released u.s. marine veteran trevor reed from prison as part of a prison swap with moscow. this new video just into cnn from this morning from russian state media showing trevor reed being escorted by officials in what they say is a moscow area airport. the u.s. and russia agree to exchange trevor reed who was convicted and jailed in russia for allegedly endangering police officers for constantine yurashenko for drug smuggling. i spoke with ed price about the swap. this was a decision that the president made. it was a decision that was predicated on the fact that this russian individual had served the majority of his prison sentence for a non-violent drug crime, and again, our overriding priority was the safe return of trevor reed, knowing not only that he d been held against his wi ....
at the same time, russian missiles were raining down on vital train infrastructure across ukraine. the ramped up attacks on a rail system that they viewed hours prior couldn t drown out what the world heard from them. we don t know how the rest of the war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin s on the scene. and our support for ukraine going forward will continue. it will continue until we see final success. we want to see russia weakened to the degree that it can t do the kinds of things that it has done in invading ukraine. so it has already lost a lot of military capability. and a lot of its troops, quite frankly. and we want to see them not have the capability to very quickly reproduce that capability. secretary blinken also announced u.s. diplomats will return to ukraine this week. they ll be coming back to scenes of destruction. this drone video was taken in a kyiv suburb yesterday s ....