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illegally annexed in 2014. similar to crimea, u.s. officials believe that russia will soon host bass sham referendum in kherson, which has been occupied since the early days of the war. to the bottom of your map. pressure continues attacks on nearby nikolai of, a key strategic city which has been under siege since the start of the war, yet remains under ukrainian control. a u.s. official sideways that russian continues to pose no threat of a man of salt on odessa, by either land or sea. intense artillery fighting continues in the donbas, notably near the towns of severodonetsk and is...

general, eric holder, joins me live at this hour. new details of emergency landing by an airplane passenger incapacitated. we are going inside the harrowing ordeal. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world, i am wolf blitzer and you are in "the situation room." tonight ukraine is claiming several victories in the hotly contested terrains around kharkiv. a major city miles from the russian border. cnn's scott mechclean is on the ground for us. oren liebermann is joining us live from the pentagon with a new u.s. assessment from top u.s. defense offic...

But look at this — the number of paratroopers filmed listening to sitnikov during his visit is only around 30 in these shots. many were on duty elsewhere, perhaps, but in the long struggle to gain an advantage at the front, the better assault units, like the 331st, have survived as small detachments to spearhead assaults. in the footage we saw at the beginning — the armoured group from the 331st — looking at the call signs on those filmed — appears to consist ofjust three bmd vehicles. the question of overall numbers in the regiment is not easy. we believe that the 331st entered ukrain...

A wrestling match. they're covered with mud. it's slippery. they're exhausted. we can't tell where the balance lies on this. but if you cut it too close, if you try to modulate the assistance to appease vladimir putin so that he doesn't say, oh, i'm going to use a nuclear weapon, if that's the guide post and you make a mistake and you err, this kind of conflict with russian reserves being formed up some 20 to 40 battalion groups have been held back, there could be a strategic breakthrough. that breakthrough could result in mobile warfare over relatively dried out terrain, and it could be -- it...

Including 600 wounded are held up under horrific conditions in ongoing russian bombings, including one that hit a field hospital according to the foreign affairs ministry. despite not capturing the city, the officials say that russia has pulled out several battalion groups, each of 1000 soldiers from mariupol. they are redeploying them to the fighting in the donbas region. the official also says that russia appears to be several days behind on its new major offensive in the donbas, making no major gains. it is only slow and unsteady advancements while dealing with many of the same issues from ...