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Ukraine's Zelenskyy honors those killed in helicopter crash
"Ukraine's president has met with families of those who died in a helicopter crash in the outskirts of Ukraine's capital. At the somber service in Kyiv, Ukrainian president Vladimir zelensky and his wife laid flowers on each of the southern coffins, draped in the blue and yellow flags of Ukraine. Zelensky then spoke briefly with the families as a small orchestra played a mournful adagio, although what caused the helicopter crash is unknown, zelensky said it would not have happened, had they not been at war. The helicopter carrying interior minister Denis monastery and other officials slammed into a kindergarten building, killing him and about a dozen other people, including a child on the ground, Kyiv police released body cam footage shot by a first responder arriving at the scene of the crash in the video a man can be heard making a call to emergency services before entering a building in brovary, the crash came just four days after a Russian missile struck an apartment building in Ukraine's southeastern city of dnipro, killing dozens of civilians, including 6 children. I am Karen Chammas
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"The war began nearly a year ago. We caught up with Matt Gutman Indonesia as he was covering the apartment blast on his way to Kyiv to cover the chopper crash. Both incidents highlighting the nature of what people are going through in Ukraine every day in this struggle. We've been here for days, really, we got to the site of that missile where obliterated an entire apartment block 72 units, 200 actually units were completely destroyed. And it was just this hive of activity that were rescuers and firefighters and police and soldiers. And people who've come came out of the woodwork, volunteers with pickaxes and spades and shovels just trying to get to survivors and trying to help in any way they can cooks and cleaners and people with stoves that they just created these campfires made stupid and tea and just over the past 12 to 24 hours it's become so quiet. And that's a sign that the search and rescue operation is over, even recovery at this point is over. The entire complex, you know, these are these post Soviet complexes sherry that have this one at 1700 apartment units living there over there. So it's truly massive, purely civilian area. And it has become a ghost town. And this whole area is just emptied out at this point other than, you know, the people doing the rest of the cleanup and some of the families coming back to gather whatever belongings they could from their shattered apartments. You have been talking about the Russians hitting the city's infrastructure in Ukraine and in other cities. And there is concern about the power grid. You actually had access to a power plant that has been the target of Russian strikes. Why don't you see in there? This has been hit 12 times by Russian missiles over the past 6 months. And it became apparent to the people who worked there across the entire power grid of Ukraine that Russia has started to target specifically power plants in order to hobble their grid ahead of a very cold winter. And so they've been trying to put it back together. They've only managed to fix about 20% of what's destroyed. But you walk through the outer area, not the actual plant where the giant turbines and the engines are and the boilers, but with the grid actually goes out into the neighborhoods and the communities of this area that is vast. Frequent are those hits to the power throughout the country. Constant daily, multiple in a day, a power is constantly coming in and out. They're rationing it, we're very fortunate that often the generator at our hotel will kick in and provide us electricity. But that's not the way it works for most of the country. So they walk around with flashlights at night. There are no streetlights in most places. They're pretty cold and dark and miserable there. It has not been an easy winter for the civilians living in this country. ABC's Matt Gutman reporting from dnipro Ukraine on his way to Kyiv to continue his reporting on the war which next month will have gone on for a year. Thanks, Matt, stay safe. Coming up, giving of yourself so that someone else can live. The ABC News producer, who noticed a shortage of Latino
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"Now with the latest news from New York City and around the world, here's Michael Barr. Tom Lisa John, the death toll from the Ukraine wars deadliest attack on civilians of one location, has reached 45 at an apartment building in the southeastern city of dnipro, emergency crews continued to clear the tons of rubble in the block over 70 apartments were completely destroyed by a missile strike. Pentagon spokesman pat Ryder. It just highlights the nature of this conflict and the lack of civility on the part of Russian forces when it comes to targeting civilians. Meanwhile, an emergency services helicopter crashed in a Kyiv suburb killing at least 18 people. Ukraine's interior affairs minister and 8 others aboard were all killed. Officials in central California gave an update on the investigation into Monday's mass murder which left 6 members of the same family dead, including a teenage mother and her ten month old baby. Investigators believe it was a targeted killing saying the brutality and sophistication of the killings suggest it was a gang or cartel related style killing. To layer county sheriff Mike to bedroom. What I have not seen is the very apparent murder of a ten month old child for no reason. What I have not seen is the very clear assassination to the head of a teenage mother. That I have not seen. It's egregious. Sheriff boudreaux says they're asking members of the public to come forward with any information that may be useful in tracking down the suspects involved. Live from the Bloomberg interactive broker studios. This is global news 24 hours a day on air and on Bloomberg quicktake. Powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries. I am Michael Barr, and this is Bloomberg. Hey
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"And 40° right now in Washington, brought to you by your local Honda dealers. Start the new year in a new Honda. See your local Honda dealer today. 1141 we're seeing the final death toll from a weekend Russian missile strike on an apartment building in southeastern Ukraine. It's up to 44. It comes as the body of another child was pulled from the wreckage. The strike in the city of dnipro was the war's deadliest attack since spring on civilians in a single location. Many civilians have been detained by Russian forces since the war in Ukraine began. The Ukrainians, a languishing in jails for months, without charges, as they relative seek to find out what's happened to them. Some have been deemed prisoners of war, even though they never took part in the fighting. Others remain in a sort of legal limbo, Ukraine's top human rights organization says it has received requests concerning around 900 civilians seized by Russia and more than half are still in captivity. One Ukrainian human rights official puts the number even higher. He says his office has received inquiries concerning more than 20,000 civilian hostages as he puts it, detained by Russian forces. I'm Charles De Ledesma. Ukraine's First Lady once world leaders and corporate executives to do more to help those affected by the war. At the World Economic Forum's annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland, Elena zelensky says, world leaders aren't using all of their influence, even as Russia's invasion leaves children dying in a world struggling with food insecurity. She says parents in her country are in tears watching doctors trying to save their children and farmers are afraid to go back to their fields that are filled with explosive minds. The extreme weather out west isn't letting up as evacuation orders remain in place for parts of California after the newest storm has hammered the region. Mudslides could bring danger long after The Rain has stopped, and the death toll continues to rise. Experts tell us the extreme drought here in California has actually made the state more susceptible to mudslides after all of The Rain here. Here in Ventura county, you drive by giant piles of
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Child’s body found in Dnipro building, strike deaths hit 41
"Rescuers are still retrieving bodies from an apartment building. Following a weekend Russian missile strike. Then the pro death toll is now beyond 40, after the body of a child was pulled out from the shattered building, emergency crews have cleared about 90% of the rubble, during a multi day search since the Saturday afternoon strike, the deadliest of the war on civilians at one location since the spring, according to the governor of the nipro region, around 25 residents of the building are still missing. Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky has vowed to bring those responsible for the strike to justice, saying it's a fundamental task for Ukraine and its Western Allies. I'm Charles De Ledesma
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"The national action network's annual breakfast. Biden traveled to king's ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta Sunday to deliver the morning sermon. My message in nation on this day is we go forward. We go together when we choose the mocktail we're autocracy. A beloved community over chaos. I'm Donna warder. The Republican chairman of the House oversight committee says they have a lot of questions about those classified documents found a President Biden's home and former office, former deputy U.S. attorney general rod Rosenstein says it's too early to tell yet how this compares to the Trump docudrama because they don't know yet what Joe Biden knew exactly. What did the president know about those documents? Was he aware that they'd been moved that he in any case in the past 5 years has he handled those documents? Was he aware of them? We just don't know that yet. So I think given that, we really can't speculate just based on what's in the public record. He was on NBC's meet the press. Republicans are demanding The White House turnover are all information related to its searches of President Biden's home and former office. Ukraine says Russian missiles hit an apartment building in dnipro Ukraine over the weekend, killing dozens of people, the Kremlin says they don't target residential buildings. They're suggesting the dnipro building strike was the result of Ukrainian air defense. She was a big star in the 1950s, Gina Lola bridgetta died today in Rome. She was 95. This is AP news. An appeal to Beijing to tell the world more about its COVID situation. The AP's Charles De Ledesma has this story. The World Health Organization is appealing to China to release more COVID-19 information. The health body wants to know more about China's wave of COVID-19 infections after the government announced nearly 60,000 deaths since early December, following weeks of complaints, it was failing to tell the world what was happening. The Saturday news was the first official death toll since Beijing abruptly dropped antivirus restrictions in December, despite a surge in infections that have flooded hospitals that left the WHO and governments appealing for information. Well, the U.S. South Korea and others imposed controls on China visitors. I'm Charles De Ledesma. They have found a leopard safe after she escaped her enclosure at the Dallas zoo. I'm Rita foley, AP news. This is a 20 a.m. W CPT willow springs and streaming worldwide at WWC PT 8 20 dot com. We are Chicago's progressive chalk, where facts matter
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"And respect, a dream award, we all deserve liberty and justice. Members of king's family attended the service, including his 95 year old sister. President Biden's alleged mishandling of classified documents is dominating the talk in Washington. Congressman Adam Schiff, who led the House investigation against Donald Trump, says the document cases against both presidents should be handled the same. I would like to see Congress do its own assessment of and receiving assessment from the intelligence community of whether there was an exposure to others of these documents, whether it was harmed in national security in the case of either set of documents with either president. He spoke on ABC's this week with George Stephanopoulos. In Nepal, around 70 people were killed. When a plane crashed into a gorge, trying to land at a new airport. In southern Ukraine. Rescuers search, a bombed out apartment building in dnipro, where more than two dozen civilians were killed. Tragedy strikes the Georgia bulldogs team just hours after their victory parade, lineman Devin willock and a team analyst were killed in a traffic crash, central California still a watch with heavy rains coming from this latest storm. This is AP news. There's a new Miss Universe. I'm Archie's are a letter with an entertainment update. Arbonne Gabriel of the United States has been crowned Miss Universe. She is a
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"Coming up after traffic and weather top stories were following for you at this hour, President Biden spoke at ebenezer baptist church in Atlanta today, where reverend Martin Luther King Jr. was once passed or at least 29 people dead dozens missing after a Russian missile attack on an apartment building in the Ukrainian city of dnipro also a plane on its way to Nepal crashed into a gorge today, killing most of the people aboard, stay with us at WTO for more on these top stories in just minutes. Traffic and weather on the 8th and when it breaks, let's head back over to Steve dresner in the traffic center. Well, head back to Virginia, the fairfax area is still dealing with the crash she spent on route 50, the ramp to good eastbound 66 does remain personally blocked for the ongoing crash activity. Manassas, southbound dumfries road at the Prince William Parkway report of a crash with possibly a lame block. Otherwise, we're in good shape, both directions on the bell lane, Virginia, no issues to report currently on three 95, southbound 95 just a bit backed up lower into the aka Quan after the bridge, all clear all the way down to the Fredericksburg area. In the district, we're good to go both directions on the freeway no issues on D.C. two 95 or I two 95. And also in the district still a bit slow in northwest 15th and Massachusetts avenue, a multi vehicle crash in the clearing stages, but still tough to get around in both directions. In Maryland, quite on the bellway throughout Montgomery county and prince George's county, traffic moving a lot better southbound on the BW Parkway that crash activity, all clear, traveling to open up near one 97. Good ride on 95 between the two beltways, no current issues on two 70 war on road 50. Steve dresner, WTO traffic. Two happening weather wise, here's storm team four meteorologist Ryan Miller. Mostly clear conditions anticipated here this evening through the overnight as well
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Death Toll Rises After Russian Strike Destroys Apartment Block
"Ukrainian authorities say more than two dozen people were killed in a Russian missile strike that hit an apartment building in the southern part of the country. Emergency crews worked through a frigid night, looking for survivors and victims at the crumpled multi story apartment building in dnipro. Saturday's attack was the deadliest strike since September. And while Russian authorities confirmed the missile attack. There was no mention of civilian casualties. Ukraine's president volodymyr zelensky says they will fight for every life, adding the recovery effort will continue around the clock. He says more than 70 people were injured. Russia also targeted the capital city Kyiv, and the northeastern city of kharkiv on Saturday.
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"Is wildfires in the state of California just consider the last two years. We never had anything like that in terms of civilian deaths. So these weather events have taken more lives in the last two years of wildfires. That's how deadly these are. The storms are expected to continue into next week. China is reporting nearly 60,000 deaths from COVID-19 since early December following complaints. It was failing to release data. AP's Julie Walker has more. China's government says while the death toll is nearly 60,000, the emergency peak of its latest surge appears to have passed. It's all included more than 5000 deaths due to respiratory failure caused by COVID and more than 54,000 fatalities from other illnesses combined with COVID since December 8th. The national health commission says those deaths related to COVID occurred in hospitals, leaving open the possibility more people may have also died at home. The report also more than doubles China's official COVID death toll to more than 10,000 since the virus was first detected, I'm Julie Walker. Russia sent another wave of missiles at targets across Ukraine today at least 12 people were killed in an apartment in the eastern city of Danny pro where could BBC correspondent Paul Adams is at. Rescue workers and volunteers worked frantically for hours, trying to find survivors, but as night fell, the official number of those killed or injured began to rise. Sirens did sound several times during the afternoon. Here in dnipro, people
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"Character balloons, 28 floats, 1200 cheerleaders, 700 clowns, a dozen marching bands, and of course Santa Claus. That CBS News correspondent, Bradley, Blackburn. We're getting more details about that mass shooting in a Chesapeake, Virginia Walmart. Police and witnesses say a manager there pulled out a handgun before a usual employee meeting in the break room, and then started firing wildly. He killed 6 people, heard at least 6 others. Here's Chesapeake mayor, Rick west. I know this community, and I know it well. And I know that we will come together and lend a helping hand to the victim's families. We'll share this burden together and we'll be stronger for it. The gunman apparently shot himself before police got there. At least still trying to figure out a motive. Residents of Ukraine's capital have switched into survival mode a day after Russian missile strikes plunged the city and much of the country into the dark. In scenes hard to believe in a city of 3 million people, some Kyiv residents resorted to collecting rainwater from pipes. Friends and families scramble to find out who had electricity and who had water touring the city of dnipro WHO Europe chief Hans kruge warned of the disaster that could unfold if blackouts throughout Ukraine continued for much longer. Right now, there is a blackout in the whole city and the whole oblast. How can a hospital function without electricity? How can modernity work function without incubators, vaccine storage without fridges? The winter promises to be a long one, but Ukrainians say that if Russian president Vladimir Putin's intention is to break them, then he should think again. I'm Karen Chammas. Coming up on WTO P after traffic and weather hundreds of Chinese made drones have been flying in restricted airspace here in D.C.. How concerned should we be? We'll get some answers ahead. It's 1236. We've been together for 30 years. 35. 35 years together. And never an argument. Oh, we fight a lot. Is that we couldn't settle. But we finally agreed on cannabis of all things. Our Friends had had a good experience with it. So we decided to give it a shot. And we both agreed we didn't want to go sit in some doctor's office with a bunch of masked strangers waiting for a medical cannabis card. We
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Bombed not beaten: Ukraine's capital flips to survival mode
"Residents of Ukraine's capital have switched into survival mode a day after Russian missile strikes plunge the city in much of the country into the dark, in scenes hard to believe in a city of 3 million people, some key of residents resorted to collecting rainwater from pipes, friends and families scramble to find out who had electricity in who had water, the cafes that had both became oases of comfort for many resident Alexi COFF pace of calmly recounted how he was in the subway at the moment of the strikes. I hadn't explosion and the electricity suddenly disappeared. When I got out of the subway, there was a column of smoke. When I got there, the police were already there, and they didn't let people in. Well, horror was happening here touring the city of dnipro WHO Europe chief Hans Kruger warned of the disaster that could unfold if blackouts throughout Ukraine continued for much longer. Right now, there is a blackout in the whole city and the whole oblast. How can a hospital function without electricity? How can maternity wards function without incubators, vaccine storage without fridges the winter promises to be a long one, but Ukrainians say that if Russian president Vladimir Putin's intention is to break them, then he should think again. I am Karen Chammas
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Russia launches new missile barrage against Ukraine
"Were killed and dozens more were injured after Russian drone and missile strikes pounded Ukraine Russian air strikes on Ukraine have continued with the latest barrage smashing into energy infrastructure apartment buildings and an industrial site in Ukraine's capital Kyiv authorities said they were able to intercept two cruise missiles and 5 Iranian made exploding drones However some missiles and drones still managed to get through the Russian strikes hit dnipro and Ukraine's southern Odessa region for the first time in weeks a video released by Ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky shows
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"Down to the latest in the war between Ukraine and Russia, a jubilant Vladimir zelensky, visiting this group of people in the newly liberated area of kirsan. It was a daring trip actually to the region the Russian forces had held from the very beginning of the war back last winter in February. They retreated just last week. This morning, WTO national security correspondent JJ green breaks down the significance of this moment. President volodymyr zelensky's appearance in kursa was a tremendous morale boost. To actually go out there and be out there in the streets. Within the firing range of the enemy's artillery. Jury sack adviser to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense says this development is hard to overstate. But they're trying to remain grounded. I would not like to be over optimistic at this stage because this war is far from over. Yes, the fighting does continue, but even though Russian troops are not officially in croissant, some of them have still tried to remain there. Some of them are believed to have tried to blend in with the rest of the population there. And the Russian troops did not go quietly. Mass graves of then discovered and booby traps are stashed all throughout the city. Ukrainian leaders were skeptical JJ that Russia was actually going to pull out of the region last week, but it seems they've really changed their tune on this. What was it that changed their minds? You're right, Hillary, because we talked about this on the air last week that there were questions about whether Russia was actually pricking or trying to play a trick on Ukraine's military, suggesting they were gone, then trying to essentially come back an ambush them. But talking to Ukrainian military officials, they say, they saw some signs way before they made it clear was that they had seen that suggested Russia was done. They found uniforms of Russian military troops in trash cans. They found them on the banks of the dnipro river, which meant that some of them had just abandoned their clothes and jumped into the cold water to try to swim away. They had all this intelligence suggesting that that was happening, but they wanted to be sure before they told the world that that's what was going on
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"Visiting this week of people in the newly liberated area of kirsan. It was a daring trip actually to the region that Russian forces had held from the very beginning of the war back last winter in February. They retreated just last week. This morning, WTO national security correspondent JJ green breaks down the significance of this moment. President volodymyr zelensky's appearance in croissant was a tremendous morale boost. To actually go out there and beat out there in the streets. Within the firing range of the enemy's artillery. Jury sack adviser to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense says this development is hard to overstate. But they're trying to remain grounded. I would not like to be over optimistic at this stage because this war is far from over. Yes, the fighting does continue, but even though Russian troops are not officially in croissant, some of them have still tried to remain there. Some of them are believed to have tried to blend in with the rest of the population there And the Russian troops did not go quietly. Mass graves of then discovered and booby traps are stashed all throughout the city. Ukrainian leaders were skeptical JJ that Russia was actually going to pull out of the region last week, but it seems they've really changed their tune on this. What was it that changed their minds? You're right, Hillary, because we talked about this on the air last week that there were questions about whether Russia was actually pricking or trying to play a trick on Ukraine's military, suggesting they were gone, then trying to essentially come back an ambush them. But talking to Ukrainian military officials, they say, they saw some signs way before they made it clear to us that they had seen that suggested Russia was done. They found uniforms of Russian military troops in trash cans. They found them on the banks of the dnipro river, which meant that some of them had just abandoned their clothes and jumped into the cold water to try to swim away. They had all this intelligence suggesting that that was happening, but they wanted to be sure before they told the world that that's what was going
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"Luke Luger WTO penis, The White House is now commenting on the shooting press secretary karine Jean Pierre says, in a statement that the president and the First Lady are mourning with the University of Virginia community, she says administration officials are in close contact with state and locals and are grateful for those authorities swift response to the attack. In Moscow, Idaho investigators are still looking into the deaths of four university of Idaho students. Their bodies were found in a house near campus Sunday, police have called the deaths suspected homicides, they have not released additional information, including how the students died. It's three 33 a jubilant volodymyr zelensky visited with people in newly liberated her son today in Ukraine. It was a daring trip to the region that Russian forces had held from the beginning of the war back in February. Those Russian forces retreated last week, op national security correspondent JJ green joins us live to break down the significance of the moment, JJ. President volodymyr zelensky's appearance in khasan was a tremendous morale boost. To actually go out there and be out there in the streets. Within the firing range of the enemy's artillery. Yuri sack adviser to Ukraine's Ministry of Defense says this development is hard to overstate. But they're trying to remain grounded. I would not like to be over optimistic at this stage because this war is far from over. Yes, the fighting does continue, but even though Russian troops are not officially incurs on, some of them have still tried to remain there. Some of them are believed to have tried to blend in with the rest of the population there. And the Russian troops did not go quietly. Mass graves of then discovered and booby traps are stashed all throughout the city. Reporting live, JJ green. That will do TOP news. Ukrainian leaders were skeptical JJ that Russia was actually going to pull out of the region last week, but it seems they've really changed their tune on this. What was it to change their minds? You're right, Hillary, because we talked about this on the air last week that there were questions about whether Russia was actually tricking or trying to play a trick on Ukraine's military, suggesting they were gone, then trying to essentially come back an ambush them. But talking to Ukrainian military officials, they say, they saw some signs way before they made it clear was that they had seen that suggested Russia was done. They found uniforms of Russian military troops in trash cans. They found them on the banks of the dnipro river, which meant that some of them had just abandoned their clothes and jumped into the cold water to try to swim away. They had all this intelligence suggesting that that was happening, but they wanted to be sure before they told the world that that's what was going on. That's a part of the reason why they seem to be so confident going into her son today. JJ, thanks. You're welcome. WDT open national security correspondent JJ green up ahead on double DT op. President Biden's student debt forgiveness plan. It's still having some trouble in courts. We'll tell
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"The latest of the war, Russian air strikes cut power and water supplies to hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians part of what Ukraine's president alcohol is an expanding Russian campaign to apparently drive the nation into the cold and dark and make peace talks impossible. Vladimir zelensky said this week nearly one third of Ukraine's power stations have now been destroyed just in the past week, causing massive blackouts across the country. This morning, WTO national security correspondent JJ green, with the very latest. A member of Ukraine's parliament messaged me the following four hours of attack now in parliament, singing the national anthem. I asked what kinds of attacks she said missiles. And it's because of these missiles and swarms of drones that Russia has been sending key and more than 1100 towns and villages across Ukraine have been left without power. This is after about ten or 11 days of Russian strikes that have targeted energy facilities across the country. And according to Ukraine's emergency services director, there are 1162 settlements in dnipro, petrovsk, kirov grad, zero to mayor, kharkiv, Donetsk, zapper Asia, Luhansk, michelada, her son, they're all cut off from electricity in some part. So this is what's been going on. Ukraine is facing a very serious situation that's very much akin to what was taking place in the early days of this war. JJ, we've seen through the course of the war that Ukraine is responded strongly to a number of significant challenges. How is the country responding to what's been happening this week? They're working very hard to try to shoot down as many of these missiles and drones as they can in their working feverishly. Lobbying western governments to send them weapons that can help them do this better. More modern weapons that can help them do this better They're repairing these downed or damaged power stations and facilities, but the problem is it takes a while to do that. And in the meantime, Russia continues to send these swarms of drones at them and firing missiles. Russia's objective in this particular situation seems to be a nuisance, but it really does have a very significant impact on the daily lives of Ukrainians. Doesn't give Russia an upper hand for considerable period of time until Ukraine can find a way to respond. No, but what Russia is doing is biting its time doing the best it can until it can do better. Their objective is twofold. They want to knock out as much energy infrastructure as they possibly can to try to force the country to give in. And two, they want to distract Ukraine's military from the very successful offensive that's forced them out of areas that they had taken over. And so what they're trying to do is to force Ukraine to get back on defense. These drone and missile attacks and key and other places that they have been dealing with absorb a lot of time and energy. But
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"We get rolled in national news. But Nathan here, hey. And staying on top of developments in Russia's war with Ukraine, Paul. That blast was in the city of dnipro, one of several Ukrainian cities that came under an intense barrage of missile strikes today at least 11 people have been killed, including in the capital, Kyiv, Russian president Vladimir Putin is warning of even more attacks after the explosion at a landmark bridge to Crimea over the weekend. Bloomberg's Rosalind mathison reports, it's getting tough to see an off ramp for Putin now. At this point, the question is, does the Russian president risk his own hold on power and his prestige at home? He's backed himself into a corner with this war and it's very hard to get out of it. He doesn't really have the ability to hold on to territory. Bloomberg's ra's Matheson and now Ukraine is renewing its pleas for more weapons, some European allies may be struggling now to meet that demand. Sources tell us NATO states are urging defense contractors to boost production both to resupply Ukraine and to reinforce their depleted stores. Allies have already sent Ukraine billions of dollars in weapons, munitions, and equipment, it's putting pressure on ammunition stockpiles, including 155 millimeter artillery shells. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un says his country's recent missile barrage was a test of tactical nuclear weapons, state run Korean central news agency described the launches as a severe warning to the U.S. and its allies, international pressure is building on Iran after weeks of protests over the death of a 22 year old woman in morality police custody. The UK has slapped sanctions on senior security officials and Iran's revolutionary guard corps. Their reports oil workers have joined the nationwide protests over masa Amin's death. Global news on air and on Bloomberg quicktake powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than a 120 countries. This is Bloomberg
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"Be in the low to mid 60s. More showers on Monday, it'll stay high mid over 60s. I'm storm team four meteorologist like Steiner Ferdinand 66 Ian crofton. We've got 71 and Tyson's corner. Also, 71 lump on Plaza in D.C.. WTO P news time for 40 now to Ukraine. Russia is planning a big ceremony tomorrow to formally announce it's taken four provinces from Ukraine. But the international community and Ukraine are not going to recognize Russia's claim. WTO national security correspondent JJ green spoke with Ukraine's Ministry of Defense about this and joins us live with more. JJ. That's right, Hillary, Russia is planning a big party, but Ukraine says nobody's going to participate. Of course, nobody will ever recognize these acts of annexation. Yuri sack is an adviser to Ukraine's minister of defense. For us, it's all the same. It's not going to have any impact on our military strategy on our plans to liberate our land. He suggests the acquisition of this territory is more like a funeral for Russia itself. Russia will cement itself as a terrorist state. And Ukraine's president zelensky said tonight in his nightly address, Russia is sealing its own fate by pressing ahead with this act of defiance, reporting live, JJ green, WTO news. JJ what is the fighting like there tonight? Well, tonight, even as we speak, the city of dnipro, which is one of Ukraine's largest cities, Sean has been hit by Russian strikes. They are also explosions that have been reported in Odessa and mikolaj tonight. Two people in mikolaj had been killed 12 have been wounded. And to the north, the Belarusian defense ministry is denying reports tonight that it's actually planning to mobilize its own military to help rush you out in this war in Ukraine. We've heard today from Ukrainian sources that 300,000 draft age men have left Russia, but Russia has managed to successfully mobilize 100,000 men. And they say most likely those men will end up essentially in a situation in what they call being used as cannon fodder. Back to you. Thank you so much, JJ. WTO national security correspondent JJ green. Stick with us here on WTO. We've got the commanders getting ready for big matchup with the Dallas Cowboys this weekend. And the nationals, well, they've got to play a lot of games this weekend because of hurricane Ian will tell you about the schedule changes just ahead. Four 43. Hi, honey. How was your flight? Long. Hey, mom, don't take this the wrong way, but you look tired. Since
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"This is WTO P news. Now we turn to the latest this morning on Ukraine, rescue operations continue, and one southern city after four people were injured in missile strikes. It follows this week's other missile strike in central Ukraine. This morning, WTO national security correspondent JJ green on Ukraine and an update on Brittany grinders trial. Ukrainian authorities say that in the city of dnipro, Russia's launched an air strike there, there are civilian casualties and the air strikes Jan venezia that killed 23 civilians. Russia is now saying it was targeting a meeting between Ukrainian air force officials and foreign armed suppliers in veneti as House of officers. It's a building that locals say is used for cultural and social events. Also, a British aid worker captured by Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine has died. He was working for a humanitarian organization. And his name was Paul uray. The Ukrainian authorities say they are certain that he was working for a humanitarian outfit, but the Russians say he was a professional soldier. Well, JJ, American basketball star Brittany griner was in court in Russia facing those drug charges. What has happened there? Well, this is how this works with these trials in Russia. There's never any understanding about what's going to happen and when it's going to end, it sort of day by day. Most folks think that there is a foregone conclusion that she's going to be found guilty. There was some testimony that indicated that she had essentially a prescription to use the kind of items that she was caught within the airport, the vape cartridges essentially that had cannabis in them. She supposedly had a prescription to use that for chronic pain. It's not clear how Russia is going to use that. Against or for her
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"dnipro" Discussed on WABE 90.1 FM
"Saying here is that successful counter attacks are taking place throughout the country which The Pentagon confirms The biggest ones appear to be in the south near the city of her song which was really the only major city that Russia has taken so far And then they're also making moves in the northeast near the city of sumi And Ukraine also said today that they've retaken ear pen which is a suburb northwest of Kyiv that has seen some heavy shelling Obviously it's too soon to say that the tide is turning but it does sound like Ukraine's forces have been able to hold on What does the outlook look like for Ukraine at this point in this war Yeah you know I think it's changing from what a lot of analysts expected at the outset part of that is that Russia really has mismanaged the worst so far especially in the early days Another factor is that just over the past 8 years Ukraine's military really has become a much more professional and experienced military and much more well equipped thanks to years of being supplied weapons by the west And Ukrainian officials sound increasingly confident about a Ukrainian victory and everyday people too frankly One key could be the changing weather Before the invasion experts widely viewed winter as key to Russia's goals In part because tanks and other heavy equipment move better on frozen ground But it's late March now And so the grounds are no longer frozen of course And yesterday I talked to ilko Bosco he is a regional military spokesperson here in the dnipro area and here's what he had to say Right now spring is common you know is still coming It will be totally fulfilled with greenery And it's really good for Googlers to start working with just one mole of cocktail can fire just one tank Basically he's saying a spring comes and the greenery here gets lush The better that is for gorilla warfare which is the kind of fighting that Ukraine has been doing Those guys with the stingers and the javelins they can stand in the trees where they're much harder for the Russians to spot Now that said spring does come late here it snowed yesterday in dnipro Trees are only just starting to bud So I followed up with him by asking you know it sounds like you're saying this might be long war And he agreed but he does think that Ukraine can hold on That is NPR's Becky Sullivan reporting from dnipro Ukraine Thank you so much Becky You're welcome Donations to community bail funds soared during the protests that followed the murder of George Floyd The funds are used to bail out people awaiting trial when they can't.
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"dnipro" Discussed on WTOP
"Hub in the east This morning Bill Rochelle senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracies on the latest carnage They are certainly expanding the scope of the operations One of the places is in a key city in the central eastern part of Ukraine This to me tells me the Russians are preparing to try to sever the eastern half And the strikes in the west appear to be against air bases There's been a lot of talk about the Russians and ability to achieve air superiority I'm not so certain they're Russians are fighting as we would So I think there's a lot of misinterpretation of what's happening there Russians can achieve our superiority locally But these strikes seem to be targeting air bases So it looks like the Russians are trying to interdict some of the Ukrainian air force activity that's coming from the western half of Ukraine The activity has been largely nonexistent since the war began You use the expression sever the eastern half for those of us that are not military tacticians What does that mean that Russia would essentially control the eastern half of Ukraine A lot of the focus on the operation is the capital of Kyiv But what the Russians are doing they take control of nearly all of the territory along the Black Sea and the sea of azov That's an industrial and export heartland of the Ukraine And along the east yeah they're preparing to chop that portion off They're moving from both the south and from the north And if they can take this town of dnipro you're going to see about one 5th of Ukraine directly under Russian control Maybe a quarter of the country We've been watching that Russian convoy in the meantime tanks other vehicles They had lined up north of Kyiv They now have broken up vehicles or parked in the forest others on near antonov airport That could be looked at as a positive development from the Ukrainian side and perhaps looked at differently as well How do you see it Yeah I think again there's been a deep misunderstanding of this Unfortunately The Pentagon has been repeating a lot of the Ukrainians talking points And this mud is the water the Ukrainians are trying to put the best phase on everything that's happening I don't think this convoy was stalled has been reported for the past week I think the Russians were organizing their logistics and preparing for the siege of Kyiv right now they're in the process of surrounding the city They border it on three sides now It's just the south is open And there's forces that gathered in the northwest of the city They appear to be moving into position to begin an assault on the city And then as well as attempting to surround the city from the south Now to be fair we have seen with our own eyes if you are to believe the cable news video that's being shown that the Ukrainians have had successes blowing up in one case a small convoy of tanks Aren't they more than holding their own aren't they putting up quite a great fight They're putting up a heroic fight They're fighting fiercely The question is is it enough The Russians can have tactical failures and still achieve strategic success And that's what I'm seeing There are advancing on multiple fronts The Ukrainians are making them pay and pay dearly The Russians fight in a Soviet style where they just keep throwing armor and soldiers at the problem They have failure They just keep throwing and the Ukrainians do they have enough weapons and men They're spread thin They're trying to defend everything right now And often in military when you try to defend everything you defend nothing And if the Ukrainians don't consolidate their lines they can start losing large parts of their country And their soldiers can be surrounded So they're yes they're fighting hard They're punishing the Russians but I don't think it's enough at this point in time Later the.