documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we ll tell you who s about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we re taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin s aggression. as for biden, we ll be meeting with ukraine s president zelenskyy whose attendance had been in question until late today. both expected to be on the agenda and top the agenda. also today. turkey dropped objections to sweden becoming a member, and stockholm in turn appears to be supporting turkish membership in the european union. according to turkey s state run news agency. complete the succession to nato is a historic step that benefit
wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven t been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it s these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin s bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn s fred pleitgen. fred, were you not far from where that playground was. what was the latest there on the ground in kyiv? reporter: hi, there, boris, well, it s an intense situation here in the capital. and really, there are not many people throughout the entire part of the day going through. the mayor told people to stay inside and shelter if they don t absolutely have to go out, simply, because for such a long
nato is a historic step that benefits the security of all nato allies at this critical time. it makes us all stronger and safer. on russia, of course, there was the stunning claim by the kremlin s top spokesperson that vladimir putin met with yevgeny prigozhin five days after the wagner mercenary boss led an armed insurrection, overran a major city, shot down aircraft and began marching toward moscow. that claim notwithstanding, we have not seen prigozhin in public since the 24th last month. we re going to talk about all of this with the former cia chief of russia operations, the lifting the veil on vladimir putin s secret train. cnn s matthew chance did the reporting and joins us from london. this is really fascinating. what have you learned? reporter: remarkably little is known about vladimir putin s private life or about how he travels around his vast country, which makes this incredible trove of photographs and documents that was gathered by the dossier, which is a russian
paint work and grime. state media was once allowed inside, recording president putin, meeting transport officials in a sump yous board room, the other carriages updated as recently as last year have remained a closely guarded secret until now. sir con service is a russian company that builds what it calls elite wagons for its clients, specializing in luxury designs for private or state corporations, of course the kremlin. among a trove of documents, including blueprints, letters and image, obtained exclusively by the russian investigative dossier center and shared with cnn is one from zircon service daylight dated august of 2018, noting a test run for the sport s health run that s been ordered. accompanying photos show what the dossier says is putin s private gym on board the train.
so i think this is meeting, again, i don t have any classified intelligence, but i m sure this meeting was an attempt to get him back on board while his forces, the wagner group are being disbursed and, in fact, sort of broken up, being told, hey, they ve got to join the russian military or get away from the wagner group so there is confusion within that force. steve, it was june 24th that putin called the leaders of the rebellion, which would include prigozhin traitors on television. now the spokesperson is saying fo five days later he met with prigozhin and on russian state television, they re putting out all of this video on the raids on prigozhin s property. looking at his wigs, money, and all the guns he has, which i assume comes with the kremlin stamp of approval for all of that video to be out there, then to be sort of trying to tear him down as a populist. how do you read all of this?