the true extent of russian losses, but their estimate last week of russian personnel losses on or around 6,000, we noted that that s approaching what the u.s. lost in iraq and afghanistan combined through 20 years of war. this in fewer than three weeks of the invasion so far. manu raju on the hill. it has been rare, except on the issue of ukraine, to see republicans and democrats stand up and applaud. we saw that at the state of the union address when president biden addressed the issue, the war in ukraine, and certainly we saw the warmth and respect of the reception to the ukrainian president here. what are you hearing from members of congress as to what they want to do now? are they going to answer this call from zelenskyy? reporter: well, there is still a division about exactly the policy that the united states should take in regards to ukraine and whether or not they should do everything that zelenskyy just called for. there is actually bipartisan opposition to the idea of
attacked, the structure will be in place and they will be able to move rapidly. barbara starr at the pentagon for us. barbara, thank you. over on capitol hill, the house is expected to vote today on a massive spending bill that includes more than $13 billion in aid to ukraine. the bipartisan deal offering humanitarian assistance and military aid to the war-torn country. cnn s manu raju on the hill with more. what do you know about this? this is a massive bill to fund the entire government. in this proposal that is 2,741 pages is $2 billion of money that would help with the efforts in ukraine, on the military side and also with the refugee crisis we re seeing play out in europe. that proposal to provide money for ukraine has bipartisan support. it is expected to pass as part of this massive bill that was proposed at 1:30 in the morning later today. now, at the same time the house is moving forward on another
has been increasing. there has been a very significant increase in the amount of combat on the west, and on the east of the city. sam kiley there in kyiv, please stay with us. i want to turn to our chief congressional correspondent manu raju on capitol hill. manu, as you know, foreign leaders addressed the congress before, churchill, mandela, rabin. this is the first time one has done so virtually. what message can we expect to hear from zelenskyy today? a call for help and expect a receptive audience, something that will lead to more pressure on congress to act, lead to more pressure on the biden administration to act, expect a call for more armed drones, for mobile air defense systems and act for congress to move forward. just 14 just yesterday, the president signed into law roughly $14 billion in aid that will go to ukraine. there is also other legislative efforts under way, revoking russia s trade status with the united states, imposing a ban on
turned ukraine into, and just these three weeks since it began. my panel is back with me now. i want to begin with cnn chief political correspondent dana bash. and what has been notable not just about this speech, but his speeches so far to the canadian parliament, the uk parliament, is he deliberately customizes his message to the audience. in this case, recalling pearl harbor, recalling 9/11, when he said america was attacked by the skies and now we are being attacked from the skies. tell us the significance of that and how do you think congress takes that message? le well, you saw it, he came into the audience, the united states congress and more broadly america and really the world that was already predisposed to wanting to help. you see people who walk the hallways every day wanting to help, trying to find ways to help. and what the goal of president zelenskyy s speech was was to make it impossible for them not to help. and you re exactly right, talking about values, talking abou
effort to try to combat the russian threat, including to caudify the ban that joe biden announced yesterday, to ban russian energy imports. legislation will move forward on that issue today, but there is still a dispute about how far to go. democrats and republicans on the hill had tried to go even further to revoke the trade center. it s a normal trade relations between the united states, russia and belarus, but the white house had concerns about going that far, and that language in that separate bill has been changed, has been watered down to not go that far on that language. nevertheless, this effort today both on the ukraine aid and also to combat to push back on russian energy, both will get bipartisan support as republicans and democrats are trying to show unity in the u.s. response to what s happening in ukraine. guys? manu, thank you so much for that. coming up still for us, we are learning more details about a russian airstrike that ukraine