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it is now highly lookly the united states won't be able to pay its bills by early june. also tonight, trump accuser e. jean carroll is seeking further damages from the former president for disparaging comments he made about her during a cnn town hall. and in ukraine after months of brutal fighting, it now appears bakhmut has finally fallen to russia, but ukrainian forces say they still hold a small portion of the totally ruined city. i'll get reaction from the former ukrainian defense minister. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. y...

Fully benefit from it. >> it appears, andrei, that attacks on russian soil are escalating right now. is there any military or psychological advantage worth the risk of undermining the support potentially, at least, of ukraine's allies? >> no. we don't think so. we obviously think that -- first of all, the people who are there are russian citizens, and they have a full right to fight against the dictator and the tyrant. secondly, no, we believe that this will provide a certain distraction for russian troops because they currently have been in a complete assurance that, you know, that the border...

Our job is to liberate the territory of ukraine. >> in a major shift, as you know, andrei, the allies plan to help ukraine secure f-16 fighter jets. what are the biggest hurdles in getting pilots trained and actually getting the planes into battle? >> the -- it just takes time and a certain effort to train the pilots and train the mechanics and the supportive personnel and put up the systems because, of course, those pieces of equipment are very difficult to maintain, to prepare for the battle to service and so on, and of course, all those processes and procedures are very different from the o...