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in friday's fighting, a russian missile destroyed a vital supply bridge into the city. bakhmut has seen intense fighting for weeks, as russia tries to claim a victory in eastern ukraine. cnn's melissa bell joins us now from kyiv. melissa, where do things stand? >> reporter: well, we've just been hearing from the british ministry of defense, saying that they understand that ukrainian forces are under increasing pressure. that's what we're hearing from the ground, with one soldier on the ground telling us that they were essentially outmanned four to one. and this has been the story for...

maine, new hampshire and massachusetts. we're finally starting to see things subside at this point. a lot of these areas have picked up a foot or more of snow. it's the snow combined with the wind, making travel very difficult. this wind could trigger more trees coming down and an increase of power outages and we already have plenty of those across that region. now we move from the east coast to the west coast where our next system is beginning to take shape. we're starting to see rain and snow showers across areas of washington state, oregon and northern california. that's going to ...

>> i'm amara walker. >> i'm paula reed in for boris sanchez. >> you're live in the cnn newsroom. this morning, more than a million people are without power in the eastern united states, as a deadly storm system continues to move north. over the last 24 hours, at least 12 people were killed in multiple states, due to the severe weather that brought tornadoes and major flooding to parts of the south. the majority of those deaths were in kentucky. where hurricane force winds toppled trees and even toppled tractor-trailer trucks. in indiana, the high winds tore the roof off of a church. ...

Because you write about, you know, a little bit about this winter lull, in "the wall street journal," and in an opinion piece, that the ukrainians should be making the most of it. how? >> well, first of all, i still stand by what i said in "the wall street journal," but we've got to recognize that that equipment that is coming over, this new aid package, will take months to get there. so while they are taking advantage of the winter lull with these defensive operations, this is what we want to see. we want to see them, the ukrainian forces increasing their strength and their capability to cond...

Also the assistance that they will be providing in the future, according to a white house readout, that includes security, humanitarian, economic, and political assistance, as well as a crackdown on russia. now biden thanked shults for his leadership saying he was quote strong and steady and shultz has been seen as a crisis leader in leadership, a critical partner to the united states, and all of this is against the backdrop of intelligence, suggesting that china may provide lethal aid to russia. so the two of them meeting at a critical time to demonstrate and reaffirm the support for ukraine,...