Page 17 - 134000 News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Now, there are new signs that russia's invasion of ukraine is not going well, or according to plan for the russians. president vladimir putin signing a decree authorizing more than 134,000 people to be drafted into the russian military. that is part of a biannual call-up, but mr. putin originally claimed that russian conscripts would not take part in the ukraine conflict. now, the u.s. believes mr. putin has been misinformed by his advisers about the russian military's performance in ukraine. that's according to a u.s. official. here's what u.s. president joe biden had to say. >> there's a lot...

Drafting more than 134,000 people into the military. it's unclear if these draftees will participate in this war in ukraine. i wonder how long would it take to train for battle? >> well, the draft is not unusual. this is, i think, a biannual -- i'm sorry, twice a year kind of a deal for the russians at this volume and this scope in terms of conscription. 135,000 troops coming on being brought forward and going through their training will make zero -- will have zero impact on the outcome of what's taking place. any outcom that would occur would come after their basic training, their specific tr...

Equipment and breaking moments ago, russian president vladimir putin signed a decree to draft more than 134,000 russian citizens into the military. u.s. intelligence officials say putin is angry and feeling misled because his own military leaders failed to inform him about key failures throughout the invasion. they were apparently too frightened to tell him. >> also this morning, signs that russian forces are regrouping in belarusian territory after suffering heavy battlefield losses in ukraine. negotiations with russia are ongoing, but president volodymyr zelenskyy calls the talks only words....

We talked loudoun county is here. next to it is the largest population center. fairfax county. this is prince william, excuse me. let me come up to fairfax city here. fairfax in the city, in the county, itself. still waiting but that's one of the places we have reporters on the scene. >> yeah. in fact, punch up fairfax county because i am going to go to ryan nobles right now, who is in critical fairfax county, virginia, and, ryan, you have some -- you have some vote numbers coming in for us. what do you have? >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jake. just handed the early vote and absentee vote r...

Of covid. just happened. >> bret: okay. so according to the virginia department of health's website, throughout october 23rd, you have got 134,000 kids, cases, 976 hospitalizations. 10 deaths. that's since the beginning of covid. what's the campaign saying about this? >> the campaign has no comment on that, bret. and "the washington post" looked into this last week and got a response from the campaign that said that sometimes he tends to misspeak on the campaign trail when it comes to these covid statistics. "the washington post" found that it just happens way too often. he tends to inflate th...