good monday morning to you i m jim sciutto. a significant day in ukraine and europe as the u.s. president joe biden makes a surprise visit to the war-torn capital of kyiv as air raid sirens sounded around him. [ air raid sirens ] walking side by side there in the capital with ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy, president biden with this visit sending a strong message to ukraine and to russia, it is his first trip to the country since russia invaded ukraine nearly a year ago. cnn has learned the president made the final decision only on friday to make the unannounced visit, this after multiple invitations from zelenskyy. this morning, the ukrainian president says that biden s visit leaves ukraine, quote, closer to victory. calling it the most important visit to his country in the history of u.s./ukraine relations. during a news conference, president biden announced a fresh swath of sanctions against russia as well as pledging another half billion dollars in military aid,
This is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome to our viewers joining us from the United States and all around the world. Im laila harrak. Its 7 00 in the morning in israel. Youre looking at live pictures where the military says it is keeping up its strikes on gaza and on hamas militants after the groups large scale Surprise Attack over the weekend. Hamas also claiming to have launched a major Missile Attack on the southern israeli city of escalon hours ago, targeting their safe houses. And Israeli Police say the target attack made a direct hit on an apartment building. This all comes as hamas claims to be hold mortgage than 100 hostages in gaza, including highranking israeli officers. Inside israel, the death toll from hamas Multipronged Attack now climbing past 700. Since then Israeli Forces clashed on the ground with hamas fighters and responded by Pounding Gaza with their strikes. The Ministry Of Health says at least 413 palestinians have been killed, including 78 children. More dist
As the idea continues to fight Hamas Inside Israel and they are still crossing into the country from gaza, but the idf says it is going door to door in towns near the Gaza Border Helping Survivors to safety. Our Rosemary Church spoke last hour with the Idf Spokesperson who gave us an update on the situation now. We know that Hamas Terrorists are still fighting Israeli Soldiers in a handful of civilian communities in israel along the gaza border and, of course, this is to be a long operation and were really in the early stages of beginning to mourn the horrific massacre we experienced two days ago, what is the biggest massacre of israelis since the establishment of the country. So it is a very tense and certainly dynamic time right now. The fighting continues here within israel as we speak. Israel doesnt have control of the border areas, but when might that happen, do you think . Of course, its a top priority for us. We know there are civilians there and civilians still held hostage by
missiles while the u.s. president was there. i wonder what you believe putin is thinking right now as he watches this. things are not going well for the russian military in the east, even as they re willing to sacrifice troops by the thousands, it seems, on that front line there. do you think he s scared that he s losing this war? i think that doubt has to start creeping into his mind. putin s calculation thus far has been that the longer he goes, the more he stands the chance of waiting out the west. and that in a direct contest between russia and ukraine, that russia has a lot more resources. the country 140 million people, large industrial base. that is not the message he is getting. the message is that the west will be the u.s. will be with ukraine for the long haul. in this kind of scenario, there is really no chance that putin could win. he had his surprise strikes in the opening days of the war. he got as much territory as he could collect.
procedures in place in an effort to ensure that everyone within the chain of command was clear, what lawful and unlawful orders entailed, general milley visited the pentagon s op. center to review procedures. he also spoke to the joint chiefs in the wake of the phone call with speaker pelosi. separately, i m told that general milley had multiple calls with his chinese counterpart and nato allies in the wake of january 6th. in order to reassure them that the u.s. government was stable and to reassure china that the u.s. did not plan a surprise attack. all of this in an effort to lower tensions with china during the tumultuous interim period between the election and the inauguration. the washington post account from the book peril says millie told his chinese counterpart he would let him know if the u.s. planned to attack. that is not true according to multiple sources. what millie did say, i m told, was that there would be no surprise strikes and that if there were a build up of tensi