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and welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> i'm erica hill. president biden a short time ago laying out his plan to keep energy prices down for americans which includes another push for oil companies to boost production and it comes, that push to lower gas prices as early voting gets under way in some states. we are now officially less than three weeks to go. >> who is counting? >> yeah. >> the president just announced he will release another 15 million barrels from the nation's oil stockpile beginning in december. this is in addition to the 165 million barrels of crude oil that's been put und...

What that means -- and i think it's important to point this out. let me take one step back. we haven't spent a lot of time talking about the dnipro river. clearly what that does is it isolates the country just as we can see right here. and by doing that, what the russians are doing is that they are creating a salient, a pocket right here. this is now their priority. they're not going to do anything with odesa for a while. their flank is now protected. and as a result of the positioning of their forces relative to the river. so, any movement now is going to be in this direction. and the use of ...

Chernobyl disaster site north of the city, the company running it says russian troops dug trenches in the highly contaminated isolation zone, received what it said were significant doses of radiation and quoting now, panicked at the first sign of illness. cnn cannot independently confirm that but imagine the effect on morale which apparently is poor across the board. speaking today, head of britain's intelligence agency, gchq said and i'm quoting here, we've seen russian soldiers short of weapons and morale refusing to carry out orders, sabotaging their own equipment and even accidently shooti...