zelenskyy told the wall street journal, quote, we are ready. attacks inside of russia are already happening. this shows the aftermath of a ukrainian strike just across the ukraine/russia border. today at the white house president biden signed legislation lifting the debt ceiling. this came with just two days to spare before an unprecedented default. cbs s christina raffini is at the white house. reporter: good evening. a sunny prelude a at the white house. this week a strong jobs report is a nice surprise. a political storm is gathering just over the horizon. passing this budget agreement was critical. the stakes could not have been higher. reporter: in his first oval office address president biden counted the bipartisan compromise as a win. no one got everything they wanted but the american people
situation inside russia. we must do everything we can to prevent this from happening no matter the cost. reporter: he s talking about the situation in russia, possibly being destabilize. that s something we haven t heard to that extent before. one to have things the ukrainians were saying is they believe the russians have positioned special forces in that region to come to terms with that situation. but it is a vast and large region that s being hit in that cross border shelling. two people have been killed. but we have also seen drone attacks in various areas across the ukraine/russia border, and that certainly is something that is expanding and probably one of the reasons why that add visor to the ukrainian president said the gates of war are opening for russia. back in ukraine, that very long frontline, how is that evolving?
of itself. reporter: very remark shl turn of events. we re learning the u.s. intelligence committee is assessing, based on information it has gleaned, that officials within the ukrainian government authorized this attack on this prominent political figure, alexander dugan. importantly, that did not occur. instead what happened is his daughter was killed because she was the one driving his car at the time. u.s. officials do not believe the daughter, darya was the intended target of this assassination that happened just outside moscow at the end of august. what we re learning is this is potentially a big expansion of ukraine s covert operations inside russia. previously it had seemed that the operations were really limited to around the ukraine/russia border, in the southwest part of russiand a aimed mostly at fuel depots and military installations there. now, for this to have occurred really in the heart of russia