i usually like to say to you happy friday. happy friday eve. getting us started. russian missiles are blowing the top off an apartment city liviv. officials call it a heaviest attack yet. that city is near poland. more than 300 miles from the front lines in eastern and southern ukraine. dana: both sounds vowing to respond to this escalating violence as ukraine admits russia has been successful in slowing down its counter offensive. bill: a big story overseas. administration has gone back to china again. janet yellen arrived there a short time ago facing a high-stake test to calm tensions between the world s two largest economies as the u.s. and china have a tech war. mike pompeo on deck on this. first to jeff paul with the latest on ukraine. we re following two big stories involving russia. the first being that attack in ukraine but let s get to the possible new whereabouts of russian mercenary leader. he is in russia. originally set to go to belarus as part of a deal
we are looking at lviv. cruise missiles hit a residential area killing four people and injuring dozens. the mayor there says it was the heaviest attack on civilian areas of the city since the war started. more than 60 apartments have been damaged. zelensky is vowing to respond to russia with a, quote, tangible one. bill: thank you, jeff. bring in mike pompeo to get his view of the situation and major international i shall jules. to china in a moment. what would you do now given the stubbornness of the ability of the ukrainian to move forward in a big way on russia? good morning. the mission hasn t changed. the american interest in ukraine hasn t changed. we should be leaning into this.
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can i ask you one other not related to this? there are reports the afghan military and maybe some others who are rising up against the taliban, particularly some in the north. i m wondering if there has been any request for u.s. military air strikes to support them? if so, is that the kind of thing the u.s. military would engage in? doe want to anticipate the future. no current requests for that have come in, but we continue to maintain the current scapabilit we ve had on the ground and in the air since beginning operations. the only thing i d add is the mission hasn t changed. the mission of the united states military in kabul is to secure that airport and keep it secure. conduct, manage, and lead air operations so we can continue to move people out. that s the focus of the military mission. a week ago, there was a mission to support the and still to support the afghan military with air strikes. so, i mean, that was supposed to
Our assessments of the security environment and what we think is in the best interest. can i ask you one other not related to this. there are some reports that the afghan military and maybe some others are rising up against the taliban, particularly some in the north and i m wondering if there s been any request for u.s. military air strikes to support them, and if so, is that the kind of thing that the u.s. military would engage in? don t want to anticipate or talk about the future. as you know, no current requests for that have come in, but we continue to maintain the current capability that we ve had on the ground and in the air since we began operations. and the only thing i would add, the mission hasn t changed. the mission of the united states in kabul is the airport, to keep it secure and lead air operations so we can continue to move it out, and that s the mission. a week ago there was a