welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world, i m kim brunhuber, ahead on cnn newsroom, the united states announce more sanctions on russia, as the war enters the second year. a slow-moving storm floods highways and prompts a rare blizzard warning in southern california. details plus the wintery forecast for tens of millions of people. alex murdaugh back on the stand, prosecutors target the lies the disgraced lawyer admits telling while maintaining he did not kill his wife and son. live from atlanta, this is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber. the second year of russia s war on ukraine is beginning with reports of more attacks, we re told russian forces have shelled the southern district overnight into saturday and just a short time ago came word of heavy explosions in the occupied city of mariupol. confirming the destruction of an ammunition depot. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy confirmed his call to arms. here h
saturday. i m frederica whitfield. russia s expectations of a quick defeat were dismissed. in kyiv on the anniversary a solum ceremony. [ speaking non-english ] ukraine s president zelenskyy remained the very public face of ukraine s resistance and defiant in his speech. translator: if we all do our homework, victory will be inevitable. i am certain there will be victory. i don t think i want it this year. western allies this week pledging more military support for ukraine including a $2 billion package from the u.s. and a new round of sanctions on russia. but ukraine has suffered some 8 million people have fled the country and of those who stayed roughly 18 million are in dire need of as assistance. that s 40% of the population. christiane amanpour looks at the war and the national impact on identity. reporter: perhaps there is no more powerful sense of belonging than this, she deciding to marry in their orthodox church, the very day russia invaded and tried to cla
trump there would be no january 6th. the final report from the january 6th select committee lays out the case against the former president. just in time for holiday travel, a bomb cyclone bearing down on parts of the u.s.. and with it, a slip of the tongue or the change in foreign policy. for the first time, let reporting uses the w word following the invasion of ukraine, a war. an 18 plump long in vest again, sound doesn t, interviews documents, records and house committee investigating january 6th has been released its full report. 845 pages in all which finds donald trump and his allies took part in a number of schemes to overturn the 2020 presidential election. the report makes 11 recommendations, including one aimed squarely at trump. it says, anyone who incited insurrection should be disqualified and barred from holding public office. the report also urges new laws which would prevent a vice president or other official from overthrowing electors chosen by individual sta
reporter: the installation hanging in this stairwell reminds us the war actually began in 2014 with putin s annexation of crimea, invasion of donbas, and an attempt to crush an independent nation, calling this greater russia, of lessia calls that absurd. i don t think this is ukrainian identity, that is a problem at all in this war. it s russia s identity. if russian identity is imperial, ukraine is essential part of it. right. but if you rethink russian identity as a non-imperial identity, then you do not need ukraine, baltic states within your well. that is the point of putin s war, to crush democracy, whose now world-famous flag was publicly raised in 1990, just ahead of independence. before that the soviets would have jailed anyone caught carry rg it. today, olessia says it remains a
Resistance, and at that refusal to come under russian control. from kharkiv to kherson, odessa to donbas, museums, opera houses and art have been targeted, looted and destroyed. and yet, a heroic effort to save and protect this heritage has been under way since the first missile struck. here, at the national museum of the history of ukraine, an exhibit on this past year of war, and especially reminders that so many russian targets were clearly marked. children, people live here. former deputy cultural minister of lessia luta tells us that across the country many curators took shelter inside with their collections. that s the situation of virtual every ukrainian museum. you can t have objects from the collection, museum, objects on display. they have to be secured. they have to be cared for.