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Good morning. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im victor blackwell. And im amara walker. Israels army appears to be entering a new phase of war. An Army Spokesperson from the idf confirmed to cnn that idf Ground Forces are in gaza right now. Infantry, artillery and other units moved into gaza from the north overnight. As troops march in the north, israel continues to fire missiles across the border. The idf have been launching heavy and continuous air strikes throughout the night into the morning. Idf reserve soldiers are calling it the most intense night of bombing of the conflict so far. Cnns ji...

United nations could be involved, but victoria nuland said if the russians allow it. you're talking about in the middle of a combat zone. usually when warring parties come together and they act under pragmatic and humanitarian rules, they will allow for these kinds of things to happen. but we're seeing russia do anything but act under humanitarian rules. they are in fact using those kind of rules. it's like putting a meal in front of a starving man and then saying, no, not so fast, we're not going give it to you. it is again part of the information ops, the psychological operations to crush th...

Loyalist posted photos on her facebook page which she said showed evidence of genocide in donbas, which she called former ukraine. it shows piled up dead bodies. there's no way to know whether these photos were staged or not. the hybrid warfare group in ukraine explained what to expect based on what putin did in 2014. attempts to steal personal data of ukrainian soldiers for military and psychological operations, sending threating to the soldiers and members of their families, urging them to defect, sending those messages via text to their phones, even in neighboring poland, cyber experts that...

Officials to be doing things because they are beholden to foreign powers or because they want to curry favor and have other countries interfere in elections in the future. this is a perilous thing. it's also surprising to not see republicans speak out at this point. look, the russians happen to favor trump. next time china might favor a different candidate, a democratic candidate. they aren't always going to be on the winning side here so this really is a moment that calls for bipartisan condemnation and saying, this really is about the fundamental norms of protection of democracy. >> the info...

History of using information ops, using hacking, using propaganda, as a soft power tool. that it has done it in the past ten years or so, about 14 times to silence its enemies, to influence political process -- the political process in eastern europe, in germany, when there was a hack of the german parliament. and that each time it has been used quite effectively in ukraine, in georgia, lithuania, that the kremlin becomes more bold, and is -- is finding that it is an effective tool of power. but here in moscow, no. most people are accepting the government's line, it seems. >> richard, really q...