translator: we will have our victory. reporter: volodymyr zelenskyy in an exclusive interview with cnn on the battle for it. republican scepticism about spending more. i said no blank checks. reporter: what president biden told him in the war zone. and his plea for american war planes. are u.s. fighter jets the weapon that will make or break a ukrainian victory? a cnn prime time special. the interview starts right now . good evening. i m wolf blitzer. at this very moment, ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy and his country are facing a critical time in the invasion. now in its second year. for the first time in eight months, the russians could, could be on the cusp of capturing a ukrainian city, bakhumt. the sight of the bloodiest battle of the war. a warning that bakhmut may fall in the coming days. ukrainian s military claims to be holding off putin s army around the city saying they killed more than 100 russian soldiers in a 24-hour period. they also ackn
nuclear warheads and we don t know much about the missile test yet because the regime has not said exactly the range of these missiles or the precise capabilities. but it would obviously be in contravention of u.s. sanctions if this missile was capable of carrying nuclear missiles. some of the very specific details. we may not know. peter bergen, thank you for being with us this morning. thank you. the violence seems to be amping up around israeli and gaza. car bombs, missile attacks. several killed. and a police officer injured. what is behind this new wave of violence some we are going to talk about that. also, it was a tragic accident. dozens of doctors and patients killed during an air strike by american war planes. now the u.s. has a plane a plan i should say to help the families of the wounded and killed. today, jason is here to volunteer
buying secondhand russian fighter jets. just the latest in a string of american adversaries from syria to iran, now aiding iraq. iraqi prime minister, nuri al maliki, slammed the u.s. in an interview with the bbc, saying iraq could have repelled isis advances if the u.s. had delivered f-16s first ordered three years ago. translator: if we had air cover, we could have prevented what has happened in this country. reporter: those f-16s, say u.s. officials, are just weeks away, though maliki has also asked for air strikes on isis by american war planes. syrian jets are already carrying out strikes on isis targets. this is some of isis work. two mass graves believed to contain bodies of iraqi soldiers, police, and civilians murdered in saddam hussein s hometown of tty chris. they murder tleed groups of men,
american adversaries from syria to iran now aiding iraq. iraqi prime minister nuri al maliki slammed the u.s. in an interview with the bbc saying iraq could have repelled isis advances if the u.s. had delivered f-16s first ordered three years ago. translator: if we had air cover, we could have prevented what has happened in this country. those f-16s say u.s. officials are just weeks away. though maliki has also asked for air strikes on isis by american war planes. syrian jets are already carrying out strikes on isis targets. these are some of isis work. two mass graves believed to contain bodies of iraqi soldiers, police and civilians, murdered in saddam hussein s hometown of tikrit. a new report by human rights watch analyzed isis photos and concluded the militants executed three groups of men numbering in the hundreds. though the group claims a death