given what s happening right now with regard to ukraine. all that being said, there could be an arrangement involving other security guarantees with a subset of nato members in any future peace agreement. and of course, the ukrainians have taken such a toll on the russians, on the battlefield, maybe more than 220,000 casualties, 2,500 battle tanks destroyed. and so they certainly are worthy of being perhaps rated as among the best militaries in europe at this point. are you seeing support for ukraine faltering in the house of representatives? we heard from the ukrainian president saying over the weekend that he s afraid of losing that bipartisan support. he cited dangerous messages from some republicans. is he right to be afraid? i think we re all concerned about what we re hearing from certain members of the republican caucus. but at the end of the day, i think there s still broad
the constitutional order, the life and security of russian citizens. we highly appreciate it. reporter: putin s gratitude, a sign of his questionable grip on power. his fate being tested as ukraine makes slow progress on the front lines. zelenskyy, meanwhile, acknowledging difficulties on the battlefield but claiming his military is retaking territory. championing the fight ahead by drawing inspiration from ukraine s strongest backer, the united states, on their independence day. only the brave gain independence, and only the best of the brave are able to pass the freedom from generation to generation. reporter: and what we re hearing is a lot of talk about the situation at the z zaporizhzhia power plant, the biggest pout in all of europe. president zelenskyy had a phone
violence, the violent nature of some people who would just take a firearm, ar-15, semiautomatic, and just randomly spray a crowd of people. just i mean, it is totally ridiculous, what s going on now. there are so many guns out there, but part of the problem, also the people that don t hesitate to use a gun to commit a violent crime. so this is something that has to be addressed. we haven t done a good job. we talk about it. we pray about it. but we don t do anything about it. and it s not going to stop. it s going to continue, and the numbers are going to continue to rise until finally we wake up as a nation and realize, this is not normal. we cannot accept it. we have to figure out a way to do something about it. it s just so sad. sad that we have to have this conversation on this day of all days. thank you for joining me, and happy fourth of july to you all. just ahead, live to ukraine.
city of kharkiv say more than 40 people have been wounded in an attack there. meanwhile in russia, defense officials are claiming that they intercepted five ukrainian drones near the capital, moscow. cnn s ben wedeman has the details from ear ukraine. reporter: a tiny plume of smoke rises above moscow as blood seeps into ukrainian soil near an apartment block. two people were killed by russian shelling in the southern city of kherson tuesday. dozens of civilians also injured in an attack in the kharkiv region with medics wrapping bandages around the heads of those wounded. i was lying on the sofa, there was an explosion, the balcony was blown off, everything was blown apart. the relentless targeting of ukrainian civilian structures by russia comes as the kremlin says it intercepted five drones near civilian buildings in moscow.
apartheid as per human rights watch, and the rest of the human rights organization, amnesty, thus israel is in a constant state of aggression. therefore, the palestinian people are in a constant state of self-defense. of resisting these illegalities. not the other way around. because we re hearing the u.s. administration all the time talking about israel s right of self-defense. what about our right for self-defense? and the u.s. and the west holds completely different standards to the palestinians than the rest of the world. think of ukraine. think what is happening now. can you imagine the u.s. president, for instance, coming out and saying that russia has a right to self-defense? in ukraine? can you imagine the american president saying that the ukrainian resistance fighters are terrorists? can you imagine a scenario where the u.s. administration would block the ukrainians from taking russia to the international