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disaster. cnn s frederik pleitgen is joining me live from ramstein air base. what do we know about the new aid package? reporter: the secretary of defense made those remarks just a couple minutes ago here and you re right, it certainly comes at a really decisive time as the war is dragging on in ukraine. on the one hand the fighting around the zaporizhzhia power plant, but then also you have the ukrainians making gains in south of the country and also in the northeast of the country as well. the secretary of defense says the u.s. wants to make absolutely clear that they remain strong in their commitments to ukraine and are going to give the ukrainians what they need to succeed. he was saying that the package from the presidential drawdown is $675 million and he listed some of the main items on that new drawdown. here is what he said. the latest package includes more gimmlecs, howitzers, artillery munitions, missiles, humvees, armored ambulances, anti-tank systems, s ....
Need to defend themselves. fred pleitgen, thank you so much. the state department says members of vladimir putin s administration are personally overseeing and coordinating so-called filtration camps for ukrainians. these camps are allegedly used to interrogate and forcibly transport ukrainian citizens to russia. the state department will not say whether putin himself is involved in the efforts or whether the program constitutes a war crime. russia as systemically used the practice of forced deportations previously and the fear and misery it evokes for people forced to live under the kremlin s control are hard to overstate. soma shlae melissa bell has latest for us from oig kyiv. and we re talking about adults ....