Zelenskyy in a situation where because he needs a national referendum to get through any kind of peace agreement, he s unlikely to get that now. the sense of the ukrainian population has turned. on the other hand, russia has never been negotiating from a position of good faith. and so both sides now are racing to get position in the donbas. the russians are flipping the battlefield. they re going from the offense to the defense in large part because they ve lost so many junior officers that they need to be in a defensive position where it s easier to operate, right? where the simple order is hold the line, and they can wait to try to reman when they get the new conscripts trained up and moved into place. so that s the game that s going on right now, and i wouldn t put any faith into these negotiations. we ll have more from ukraine later this hour, but let s go back to paula in atlanta. we have more now on that investigation into the new york subway shooting. police are looking for
Let s go back to paula in atlanta. paula? thanks for that. i ll pick it up from here. french voters have narrowed down their presidential candidates, and the incumbents are current president emmanuel macron and his far right rival marine le pen. france s interior ministry reports the current president won about 27% of sunday s first round of voting, putting him in first place in what was a crowded field of about a dozen candidates. le pen is in second with around 23%. the second round of voting in two weeks is set to be a rematch of the 2017 election. after the polls closed, centrist macron made his pitch, while the far right le pen made appeals to the mainstream. i want a france which inscribes itself in a strong europe, which continues to form alliances with great democracies to defend itself, not a france that exited from europe but have for its only allies the international pop liss and xenophobes. that s not us.