Kyiv still stands. president zelenskyy and his democratic elected government still remain in power. and ukrainian armed forces joined by many brave ukrainian civilians have thwarted russia s conquest of their country bolstered by a supply of weapons, ammunition, armor, intelligence from the nations of the free world led by us, the united states. as russia continues to grind out the military advances, and their military advances and the brew talts against ukrainians putin is banking on us loseing interest. you heard me say this from the beginning. he was counting on nato, european union, allies in asia cracking, moving away. he is betting on western unity will crack. he is still betting on that. once again we ll prove him wrong. we will not lessen our resolve. we ll stand with the brave and proud people of ukraine.
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Strikes into gaza against what it calls hom mass targets. th they report two if a talts. let s go live to beirut and bring in cnn s ben wedeman. we understand there have been violent protests near the u.s. embassy. reporter: yes, dave. that was yesterday at about a mile down the hill, north of beirut. there were moments when some protests did throw rocks plastic water bottles and sticks in the direction of lebanese security who were guarding the road leading to the u.s. embassy. the they responded with tear gas and birdshot. but by and large in fact for most of the four or so hours of the demonstration, it was peaceful and the organizers did try to impose discipline on some