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documents case. what special counsel jack smith did about it today. also tonight, record rain and floods in the northeast, we'll tell you who's about to get hit next. good evening, vladimir putin may be one of the most secretive russian leaders since joseph stalin. tonight, we're taking you inside his secret armored train. this on a day that russia and the war in ukraine is very much in the news. president biden has arrived in lithuania for the nato summit when the u.s. and allies will discuss efforts to obtain vladimir putin's aggression. as for biden, we'll be meeting with ukrain...

>> wow. dozens of missile strikes just like those. some of them deadly, rocking multiple major cities. many that haven't been targeted in months including the capital city of kyiv. across the country. critical energy supplies were struck. there was widespread damage and power outages that are being reported. but it's these images, a playground that was also bombed that provide a haunting reminder of just how brutal vladimir putin's bloody, unprovoked war has become. we have reporters and experts standing by to cover every angle of this. relates start in kyiv, with cnn's fred pleitgen...

>> so, anderson, i think the best way to read it is perhaps looking at the target audiences for these individual activities. it really doesn't matter whether or not this ridiculous meeting happened or not. by the way, we don't have information except from mr. peskov, who is known for not stating the truth. but it doesn't matter. it's the message putin and the kre kremlin want to get out. there's great concern that the kremlin and putin himself, that prigozhin might have gotten a grip or found a niche for himself inside the russian population. remember the themes he was talking about, my boys a...

Money, planning and constructing this armored presidential train? >> he's getting more and more enemies, committing more and more crimes. armor, the physical defense. >> reporter: there are signs that's an image the kremlin knows it should shape. recent weeks have seen putin more publicly engaged than he has been for years. but in his increasingly hostile world, the security and luxury of train number one may be sanctuary indeed. >> matthew, i mean, is he, you think, more concerned about threats from outside russia or from inside russia itself? >> i think it's almost certainly from inside russ...

As recently as last year, the kremlin was looking to upgrade the gym with american equipment to replace the italian machines originally installed. the former member of putin's personal protection service who says he fitted the train's secure communications equipment before defecting from russia told the dossier center, the kremlin leaders started traveling by train more regularly in the build up to the invasion of ukraine last year. but discretion for the russian president doesn't mean discomfort. leaked plans for the train also show a luxurious spa on board,