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welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada, and around the world, im kim brunhuber, ahead on "cnn newsroom," the united states announce more sanctions on russia, as the war enters the second year. a slow-moving storm floods highways and prompts a rare blizzard warning in southern california. details plus the wintery forecast for tens of millions of people. alex murdaugh back on the stand, prosecutors target the lies the disgraced lawyer admits telling while...

saturday. im frederica whitfield. russias expectations of a quick defeat were dismissed. in kyiv on the anniversary a solum ceremony. >> [ speaking non-english ] >> ukraines president zelenskyy remained the very public face of ukraines resistance and defiant in his speech. >> translator: if we all do our homework, victory will be inevitable. i am certain there will be victory. i dont think i want it this year. >> western allies this week pledging more military support for ukraine inclu...

trump there would be no january 6th. the final report from the january 6th select committee lays out the case against the former president. just in time for holiday travel, a bomb cyclone bearing down on parts of the u.s.. and with it, a slip of the tongue or the change in foreign policy. for the first time, let reporting uses the w word following the invasion of ukraine, a war. an 18 plump long in vest again, sound doesnt, interviews documents, records and house committee investigatin...

>> reporter: the installation hanging in this stairwell reminds us the war actually began in 2014 with putins annexation of crimea, invasion of donbas, and an attempt to crush an independent nation, calling this greater russia, of lessia calls that absurd. >> i dont think this is ukrainian identity, that is a problem at all in this war. its russias identity. if russian identity is imperial, ukraine is essential part of it. >> right. >> but if you rethink russian identity as a non-imperial identi...

We witnessed the deliberate assault on their cultural heritage. so this is vladimir putins idea of liberating a paternal brotherly nation. so i think hes doing all this because he loves ukrainians or as many believe because hes motivated by a rising hatred and anger at their westward loving democracy at their resistance and at their refusal to come under russian control. from kharkiv to kherson, 0 decem -- odessa to donbas. a heroic effort has been underway since the first missile struck. here t...

Glory to every warrior of ours. glory to everyone who protects our country. we bring to ukraine to donbas, and to bakhmut, where our defense forces awaited. >> ukrainian forces on the frontlines saying they are in fact getting the weapons they need, and the sooner they get them, the sooner there will still win. >> -- being sent to ukraine. but the latest military aid package from the white house saying, ukraine and its allies, are signing up for a long war that russia will prevail. its already b...

They already have the stretch, that you should see there it. is already walk you pipe by russians. so, there is one general trump it, in that we will call all the way to transnistria, take odessa, and connect everything. remember, there are new military objective, right, now is to connect crimea to donbas. but some have said, they should go all the way to transnistria. i should say, im skeptical with the capacity to do that. if they are already struggling in donbas, to go on to take odessa and, ...

Behind them, so the offensive will build, it didnt get off to a very big start what the russians are trying to do is to draw a line from kharkiv in the north to mariupol, and create the close the salient that would enclose, and therefore surround about 40% of the ukrainian army who are well dug in in that area. that is a big line to draw if you look at it on a map, kharkiv to mariupol. more immediately the russians are trying to draw a smaller line, south of isium as far as donetsk. that would e...

Kharkiv in the north to mariupol, and create the, close the salient that would enclose, and therefore surround about 40% of the ukrainian army, who are well dug in in that area. to that is quite a big line to draw, more immediately the russians are trying to draw a smaller line, south of isium as far as donetsk. that would enclose a smaller area, and the _ that would enclose a smaller area, and the two — that would enclose a smaller area, and the two places they want to go for are _ and the tw...

Yet and so far the ukrainians are holding the russians, most of the three or four areas, the three or four lines of offensive that the russians have tried to establish, so far. �* , , . , ., ., far. and these pictures are from donbas, far. and these pictures are from donbas. but _ far. and these pictures are from donbas, but odesa _ far. and these pictures are from donbas, but odesa hasnt - far. and these pictures are from donbas, but odesa hasnt fallen far. and these pictures are from i donba...