immigration restrictions expire. the white house is taking unprecedented measures as federal and local officials are preparing for the worst. also this hour, high-stakes debt limit negotiations between president biden and congressional leaders have been called off for tomorrow. we re going to tell you what we re learning about the postponement as the country is another day closer to a potential default. and new republican reaction to donald trump s controversial positions and brazen lies at cnn s town hall in new hampshire. the state s governor, a republican, chris sununu, weighs in as a prominent trump critic and potential 2024 rival. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you are in the situation room. the countdown is on at the southern border. the trump-era immigration policy known as title 42 ends in less than six hours. we have correspondents on both sides of the border. rosa flores in texas. david culver is in
what are you learning. reporter: we learned these new british missiles can strike deep into the russian-held territory. they were only delivered after the ukrainians made an important promise to the british government. a senior u.s. military official tells cnn it s a game changer for ukraine on the battlefield. the storm shadow cruise missile. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto reports great britain now delivered multiple storm shadow missiles to ukraine. a weapon that has the capability to strike deep into russian-held territory in eastern ukraine. jim sciutto cites a western official as saying britain received assurances from the ukrainian government that the missiles will only be used within ukrainian sovereign territory, not inside russia. it s notable that uk officials said repeatedly they view crimea as sovereign ukrainian territory, illegally annexed by russia. this leaves open the possibility that ukrainian forces can use
in moscow, outlandish and baseless claims that ukraine was about to invade and launch a war against russia. that ukraine was prepared to use chemical weapons. ukraine committed a. without any evidence. we saw a flagrant violation of international law, attempting to create two new republics on sovereign ukrainian territory. and that the very moment that the security council was meeting to stand up for ukraine s sovereignty, to stave off this, putin declared his work. within moments, moments, missile strikes began to fall on historic cities across ukraine. then came the error rates followed by tanks and troops rolling in. we ve been transparent with the world. we share declassified evidence and false pretext so there could
topple the zelenskyy government, put in a russian puppet government. he said he wants to demilitarized ukraine. if he does not, he s essentially winding the clock back to pre2014. but if he leaves on has no further aspirations to take more territory and he does not annex ukraine and make it a part of russia, do you think the european union will stand firm against him, knowing that he s got his finger on the energy switch? and that it would be very difficult for european nations who have become so dependent on russian oil and gas to find alternative sources? i think it s a great question out it would be up to the ukrainian people to rise again in order for that to switch back around. i don t think that the prospects of u.s. funding of long-term
known as, received appealed to recognize their sovereignty in connection with the military aggression, this is a kremlin statement, of the ukrainian authorities. the massive shelling of the territory of donbas, as a result of which the civilian population is suffering and the kremlin went on to say that putin will issue a corresponding decree soon. that would seem to indicate that he is at least leaning in the direction of recognizing them. we d need to hear those words from the russian president s mouth. we go on to hear from the kremlin statement that both the german and french leaders express their disappointment with this development. we know that they, as does the u.s. and nato, oppose russia recognizing the independence of these areas because they are, after all, within sovereign ukrainian territory, but as we noted before the break, dana, this would not be the first time the russian president took pieces of sovereign territory of ukraine. 2014 with crimea. still control crimea e