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you are live in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim acosta in washington. we begin with remarkable new insights into ukraine's president and the desire to hit russia on home soil. the "washington post" said president zelenskyy has suggested bold attacks behind closed doors including blowing up a pipeline and attempting to occupy russian border villages to gain over moscow. zelenskyy made such suggestions months ago. still, the pentagon did not dispute the authenticity of the leaked materials. this comes as we're getting new signs that the long-awaited ukrainian counter offensive could be getti...

Counteroffensive but may offer gains that could develop into having strategic effects. what ukrainians are doing at the moment is constantly probing and seeking the opportunity to rattle the russians, hopefully cause dramas and frictions within the russian leadership. rattle them inside their own territory with their cross border raids, with the russian dissidents that have been sponsored by the ukrainian government, and then military raileds into russian territory. they're all adding up into this world that the russian soldier and their generals are ultimately vladimir putin having to deal wi...

Against the town of luhansk with a number of people being reported to have been injured there. the russians, of course, have counter attacked to some extent. they killed two recently in a bombardment of a town in the east of the country. but more broadly, we are seeing more of these longer range attacks possibly involving ukrainian-made or even ultimately british-made cruise missiles reaching behind the main front line elements, going after the logistics chain and ultimately breaking that logistics chain is part of the effort to break the will of the russian soldiers. jim? >> sam kily, thank y...

Three, the numbers of killed to estimate the number of wounded and captured. that would take up to 30,000 or 40,000. if 30,000 or 40,000 russians have been taken off the battlefield as a result of putin's invasion, that's a total force of 190,000 gathered for the invasion. a lot of those people would be logistics troops. this would be a major blow indeed to the russians. they've already lost five generals. so there's some evidence that they are really getting hammered here and there. they do have more men and more weapons to draw on. >> all right. sam kily in kyiv. thank you so much. new vid...

The russians, british and american sources, military sources saying that the russians' command and control system is under pressure. they still have an awful lot of weapons. we are seeing across the country in addition to the bombardment of civilian areas with bombs, the increased use of these very specifically targeted, very large weapons right across the country. >> sam kily for us in ukraine. thank you. president biden called key allies today ahead of his trip to europe later this week. the world leaders home to finalize and unveil a new group of measures aimed at punishing russia. as phi...