air right now. the races are going to stay suspended through the remainder of the spring meet in july to find out what exact ly is going on, if it is a surface issue at the track. elsewhere in the sport, a 6-year-old horse died on thursday at new york s belmont park. this is ahead of next we can s triple crown finale. injuring his front leg after bumping into another horse. the horse was euthanized on the track. so the belmont stakes, a week from today. and some decisions to be made there. in tennis, a ukrainian player refusing to shake hands after her russian opponent after winning her match. she will continue to reject any opponent from russia out of the respect for soldiers defending her homeland. for me when i steppen on the court, i just try to think about the fighting spirit that all of
and the rail system has been under a lot of scrutiny lately in india. i i discovered this it s a bit shocking, but if we look at the data about 16,000 people are killed every year in rail-related accidents in india. not necessarily in a crash like this, but people are either hit at a crossing or they jump off a rail car. it s been ongoing concern and what happened here is going to prompt further discussion. it s a stunning number. as you said, people will be looking for accountability to figure out why this happened and hoping it won t happen again. appreciate it. the invasion of ukraine comes back to haunt russia at home. still ahead new artillery strikes hit the territory as ukraine tries to wash its hands of any responsibility. plus war, cnn gets an
that our ill wishes are intensifying in order to stir up the situation inside russia. throughout this conflict, ukraine has had had to fight on two fronts. absolutely push on those front lines in the east of the country, push on that battlefield, but also try to protect the rest of its territory from russian attacks on a much smaller scale it seems ukraine, without acknowledging, officials do not acknowledge or claim responsibility for these raids. it is forcing this strategy, this hybrid form of warfare on russia itself. forces now also having to fight on those battlefields, on those front lines while defending territory anding a re allocating resources and responding to what is a continuing attack along these border regions. they certainly intensified in a way that russia didn t see coming. i want to get back to that car explosion. it s difficult to know exactly
the second phase of its operation. it s inside russian territory trying to take out russian assets, but it contends it s sparing civilians. russian officials deny that those russian volunteer core fighters are actually on the ground inside russia. you can see the images of this very intense artillery and morter fire that continues to hit the border villages that forced thousands of people to flee, hundreds of families to shelter in government-provided buildings. it s forced officials to try to get control of the situation. and that s forced president putin to acknowledge and respond. he says this is all an attempt to destabilize russia. take a listen. today we re dealing with the same issues in ensuring security of russia. in this case, domestic political security taking into accounts
ukraine officially says it has nothing to do with. selma joins us live from london. that s the point in terms of what ukraine is saying. this whole cross borderer squirmish is reeking havoc inside russia and yet ukraine says we don t know anything about this. we don t have anything to do with it. it s the start of this conflict. this war has been fought on ukrainian territory and will continue to be that way. but in the last few weeks and months, what we have seen is the war coming to russia, if you will. this ramp up in drone attacks, including that dramatic one a few weeks a ago, now these cross border raids just a couple weeks ago, two russian national gr groups, but antiputin armed by ukrainian armed forces made this dramatic ground incursion into this region. one of those groups, the russian volunteer core is carrying out