Ukraines counteroffensive and sobering new assessment. And now it is time to set the rule of the road as they head to the trial, and trumps team is saying that the prosecutors are going after his First Amendment rights now. And 40 Million People are under severe threats today after the extreme storms have battered the United States over night. Im omar jimenez with kate bolduan and john berman. This is cnn news central. We have brandnew reporting this morning on ukraines counteroffensive in russia. Weeks into the fight, the reports from the battlefield are increasingly sobering. Specifically, concerns of the ability to retake specific territory. The National Security correspondent and the awardwinning author jim sciutto broke this reporting, and now he heard the reporting, and this is a marked change in weeks to folks in the u. S. And europe and the military and diplomacy and also lawmakers and there is a consistent read of the intelligence assessments here, and that is the counter offe
significant territory gains are falling. unlikely to make significant gains at this point. jim, it is notable that you are hearing this from a variety of uniformed reaction. any consensus on what could change the scenario? yeah. well, there is certainly consensus that there is no magic bullet here, one weapon that could change the dynamic on the battlefield, and by the way, it is impossible to do that, because you have to inttrain up the systems, and look at the abrams systems, and they are not going to arrive in the fall to train up on the ukrainian forces and train up properly in the field, and f-16s for instance, and there is increasing power that you are continuing to break through the russian lines without much air cover and the russians keep the advantage