happening now, another child s body found in the rubble of a ukrainian residential apartment building as the death toll from a powerful russian missile attack rises. this hour i ll ask key white house official john kirby about new u.s. and western military aid to ukraine and whether it s enough. also tonight the white house is ramping up its damage control as the crisis over classified documents intensifies. the biden team defending its delayed and incomplete release of information while accusing republicans of fake outrage. and the husband of a messing massachusetts woman is now charged with murdering his wife. we re breaking down the new evidence in this very high profile case as it takes a dramatic turn. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer and you re in the situation room. we begin with the growing carnage from russia s attack on an apartment building in ukraine, one of the single deadliest strikes of vladimir putin
we re focused on giving ukraine what they need in the fight they re in. that s why air defense has been a priority for us. you ve seen in the last package we ve announced the bradley infantry fighting vehicle. we re going to continue to modulate these packages and if we can t provide it, we re working with other allies and partners to see if they can. the joint chief general milly had his first face-to-face meeting with the ukrainian commander in chief. they met in poland today. did they discuss what military support the u.s. might provide ahead of a possible spring offensive by the russians? we did have a chance to sit down with the top ukrainian general in charge of their defense of their war. they had a chance to get a sense of what the battlefield looks like. it was important for general milly to understand what s going on in the battlefield especially where the fighting is still very
the united states and germany is going to be giving ukraine the patriot anti-missile system. now, later this week the countries that are members of the ukraine defense contact group, which includes most european powers, the united states and others, is going to be meeting in germany. and it is hoped there that officials will convince the germans to allow poland, for instance, to provide ukraine with leopard 2 tanks. these are modern battle tanks, which are desperately needed by the ukrainians. desperately needed because it is anticipated that as the weather improves in the spring that the russians will launch a major offensive in this part of ukraine. that s an enormous fear right now. all right, ben wedemen in ukraine for us. thank you very much. stay safe over there. new western military aid hopefully is on the way.
it was about killing innocent civilians while they were at home. so it s totally egregious and we re going to continue to make that case and help the international community as they document these war crimes. so should putin personally be charged with war crimes for what his military is doing? that s going to be a decision for international tribunals, wolf. i won t get ahead of that. we do believe russian military, the armed forces of russia on the ground in ukraine have and continue to commit atrocities and war crimes against the ukrainian people, and that s why again we re going to continue to support international bodies as they document this for further analysis later. announced putin s plans to increase the size of the russian military. what is russia preparing for? what could the fight look like in the coming months? it is clear mr. putin knows he s short on man power in this fight. he has thrown an awful lot of resources including human bodies into this fight in ukraine