wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven t been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it s these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin s bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn s fred pleitgen. fred, were you not far from where that playground was. what was the latest there on the ground in kyiv? reporter: hi, there, boris, well, it s an intense situation here in the capital. and really, there are not many people throughout the entire part of the day going through. the mayor told people to stay inside and shelter if they don t absolutely have to go out, simply, because for such a long
way in over their heads jetting across the world in their private jets and making your life miserable. and, by the way, they are getting paid and you are paying for it. what are we talking about? joe biden getting elected president and him making his buddy john kerry climate czar. who has been keeping track on what john kerry has been up to? jesse watters primetime,,. where do we begin? kerry may have blown his chance to be president back in 2004, but it s not stopping him from running around and playing president today. doing what democrats do best. taking taxpayer money and using it to make your life more uncomfortable. the energy security worry is driving a lot of the thoughts now about we need more drilling of this, we need more drilling of this. we need to go back to coal. no we don t. we absolutely don t. unabated fossil fuel is allowed to grow in these next years in a significant way as it appears poised to do, that is a deep unbelievably costly challenge for the
can t do the kinds of things that it has done in ininvestigating ukraine. so, it has already lost a lot of military capability, and a lot of it troops quite frankly. jesse: america s agenda to take down putin is basically going to make this war go on, i don t know, indefinitely? thousands of civilians have been killed and nearly 20% of the country s population has fled. how long can this go on? nato s chief said this war can last years. were we told that? are we going to fund it for years, too? lieutenant colonel daniel davis is a senior fellow at the defense priorities. you know, listen, i was for the sanctions i was for the armament but i think we all know at this point this is a proxy war to bleed russia dry. i don t know how effective that is going to be at all. and what s the cost to the country of ukraine?
sci-ops unclear? sergei lavrov said yesterday, raising the spec tore of that. is there the possibility there could be a russian strike on a nato target even? i would say we don t have reason to believe that concretely at this stage, but this is all coming on the heels of the defense secretary lloyd austin s words, which were very strong, saying that ukraine can win this war if they have the right support and we want to give em the right support and, by the way, the new u.s. policy appears to be now to sort of slowly try to bleed russia dry. throughout this war. none of these 125i789s come in a vacuum. they are often in direct response to something else that happened. yesterday you had european countries, dozens of them meeting, the defense ministers meeting and you have lavrov talk about nuclear threats. i think there s no question
million more direct military aid. we know tanks are coming in from poland. there s been a wide host of military equipment and weapons being sent from the u.s. government. can you characterize the position of the biden administration on what they think of a feasible outcome of the worries, which is to say, some say this is an attempt to bleed russia dry. the mckayla sprinklers possible. and there are others who say, no, this is an item three green to actually effectuate a military victory, and essentially digestible and story. what is the goal here of the biden administration would these arms? so, our goal is number one, we want ukraine to win. one of the be successful in the battlefield as they were in kyiv. want them to be successful everywhere and repel the russians from their country. and number two, we want to swear to be a strategic failure for russia. and that has been the goal of our policy. and that s why we have long weapons, who search weapons and keeping tell them the fand