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i'm amara walker. >> and i'm boris sanchez. we're following reports of heavy explosions this ukraine as the world marks one year and a day since russia's invasion. why president zelenskyy says ukraine is going to win the war this year even as president biden says he will not be sending fighter jets to eastern europe. gripping testimony in the alex murdaugh trial as alex takes the stand himself. why he says he lied to police, including about where he was at the time two of his family members were murdered. plus a powerful winter storm sla slamming the west coast with rare blizzard...

obviously, tensions are already high between the two nations over involvement in ukraine. senior correspondent mike tobin is in kyiv tonight with the latest on this. good evening, mike. >> good evening, bret. a brazen violation of international law. that's the way the state department describes this contact between a u.s. drone and two russian fighter jets that ended with the u.s. drone being ditched in the black sea. the pentagon says for a half hour this morning two russian su-27 fighter jets harassed a u.s. mq 9 reaper drone in international fuel space. dumped fuel on it and pass ...

happy holidays we're here at msnbc headquarters in new york city, thank you for spending time with us on this monday the death toll from the once in a lifetime multi-state winter storm over the weekend continues to rise today. up by about 20 from this hour yesterday. we now have at least 55 people dead across 12 states with western new york especially hard-hit nearly half of those fatalities are in new york's erie county alone. the freezing temperatures and wind gusts also knocking out power for tens of thousands. in the latest update today, new york governor kathy hochul told driver...

She is. president trump is right when he says governor desantis is copping him first in his style and then on entitlement reform then on ukraine i have a different style than president trump and while i agree with him on most policies i do not on those. republicans deserve a choice not an echo. this seems like a real wedge, guy, this particular issue. >> yeah. i disagree and take real issue with the territorial dispute framing of this by desantis. but i also think if you actually read his whole statement carefully, what does he come out against? new offensive weapon systems for the ukrainians,...

On the ground need these tools? >> they need them quite a bit. it depends on the volume and depends on the exact type of weapon sls that the chinese would be providing them, but if it's true that the chinese are going to be supplying offensive weapon systems that include drones, it could be significant. the chinese have a significant drone manufacturing capability. as anyone who has gone to a hobby store lately, there are a lot of things that they can do that could affect the balance of power between the russians and the ukrainians. so this is a very critical issue and it is something that we ...