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 fight. le
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 will for
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 showing
zelenskyy. the u.s. will resume its diplomatic presence in ukraine with plans to reopen an embassy. the u.s. will provide an additional $300 million in aid. so add that to the ongoing tab. dana: secretary austin and blinken giving their assessment of the invasion not going as putin planned. when it comes to russia s warings, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. russia sought as its main aim to totally subjugate ukraine to take away its independence. that has failed. bill: hours after that meeting moscow unleashed a flurry of attacks hitting five train stations in central and western ukraine. dana: seems like a major escalation. matt finn is reporting live from lviv, ukraine. what do you know today? this morning here in ukraine there have been missile strikes and threats to the central and western parts of this country including here in the lviv reej an where we are now. ukraine national railway is reporting five train stations came under fire this morning. happ
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