heard, they move forwards, sometimes at 100 meters per day. that s how slow the work is demining, that s how perilous the ground is. nick paton walsh in zaporizhzhia, stay safe. we ll stay in touch with you. thank you very much. now let s get more on how russia is lashing out as ukrainian forces strike in vladimir putin s back yard. look at this drone attack in moscow. listen to the fear it unleashed. [ screaming ]. cnn s nic robertson is following all these developments for us. nic, ukraine is repeatedly striking targets inside moscow. zelenskyy has said the war is, quote, returning to russia. what s behind the new strategy? reporter: perhaps it s an
president volodymyr zelenskyy. russia hitting back after new ukrainian drone strikes tarting moscow. i ll get a new assessment from key white house official john kirby. donald trump s new defendant in the classified documents investigation appears in court for the first time. this as trump could face new charges in other cases very soon. the top prosecutor in the georgia election interference probe says she s ready to go. in haiti, an american nurse and her child have been abducted. we ll have the latest on their fate as the u.s. orders all u.s. citizens to leave haiti immediately. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the wo world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. we begin with the escalating
of mr. putin s desperate efforts to really terrorize the ukrainian people, to bring the war home to them. he s not making the pretense of going after military targets. this has been going on for months. we see this as more steps to break the back, the will of the ukrainian people. you would have thought by now he would have long ago learned that s just not going to happen. what s the u.s. position of ukraine launching these attacks right in downtown moscow? again, we ve seen this in the past before. i want to make it clear we re neither encouraging or enabling these attacks. we ve had conversations with the ukrainians about our concerns about attacks inside russia. can speak to their targeting what s the u.s. position? our position is we want to focus on the war inside ukraine. we want to make sure they have everything they need for the counteroffensive that nic was
strike. reporter: tonight the u.s. announcing more avenger air defense systems for ukraine. our teams showed one already in action. the adventure is a highly mobile air defense system. this unit s job is to hunt down a russian drone or missile and then the heat-seeking technology on board as the rest. the adventure firing stinger missiles, ukraine getting more of those too. david, the new packages were $300 million, taking total u.s. military aid to ukraine to more than $38 billion. the white house reiterating u.s. weaponry should not be used for attacks inside russia. david. david: tom soufi burridge and our team there to make. thank you. back here in the u.s. and the race for the white house. tonight ron desantis taking aim at president biden s and taking aim at former president trump, saying we don t need a retainer as presid president. jonathan karl in iowa tonight. this country is going in the wrong direction. we know it, we feel it. reporter: ron desantis
in the northeast, the air quality concerns, images coming and smoke from canadian fires filling the skies over several major cities including philadelphia. rob marciano times this out. tonight, a store owner facing a murder charge for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old boy he accused of shoplifting. the teen shot in the back while running away. police did find a gun. what we ve learned tonight about that store owner before. the apartment building collapse. authorities using drones to search for the missing. our team in iowa. the war in ukraine tonight and the missile debris raining down on the ukrainian capital of keefe, this is ukraine launches new attacks inside russia. the russian refinery tonight to set ablaze. here in the u.s., the race for the white house. ron desantis taking aim at president biden. and former president trump saying we don t need an entertainer as president. jon karl in iowa. the breaking news. after danny masterson over that