still ahead. also tonight, my exclusive interview with the president of israel on the conflict in ukraine and more. he s pushing back at pressure from ukrainian president vz volodymyr zelenskyy to choose a side. a second woman is now accusing georgia republican herschel walker of pressuring her to get an abortion. i m wolfer blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the war in ukraine. the body of an american man killed while fighting alongside ukrainian defenders is finally on the way home tonight after a swap with russia. this as putin s army prepares for a major battle inside the largest ukrainian city still controlled by moscow. c nrknn fred pleitgen has our rt from the war zone. reporter: ukrainian forces trying to hit the russians on all fronts. this mortar unit firing in the north of the country while in the south, kyiv is continuing a counter offensive trying to capture the russian occupied city of kherson. we met up with an artill
zelenskyy. i myself with met president zelenskyy, zelenskyy a year ago and we have a dialogue with president zelenskyy and understand the enormous plyte and pain of the people. we re treating hospitalized ukrainians in israeli hospitals. we ve absorbed many refugees in our country including personally, me and my wife, we ve absorbed them and are assisting a family of refugees in israel. so we re definitely there and i think rhetoric of that nature does not help. as you know, there is also some serious criticism of israel coming from both democrats and republicans, members of congress who would like israel to be more assertive in helping ukraine right now. so i m disgusted with important leaders in the house including with speaker pelosi who i have very strong relations with. she s a great friend, which i personally also have seen hosted in israel and i respect her a
still ahead. also tonight, my exclusive interview with the president of israel on the conflict in ukraine and more. he s pushing back at pressure from ukrainian president vz volodymyr zelenskyy to choose a side. a second woman is now accusing georgia republican herschel walker of pressuring her to get an abortion. i m wolfer blitzer. you re the situation room. we begin our coverage tonight with the war in ukraine. the body of an american man killed while fighting alongside ukrainian defenders is finally on the way home tonight after a swap with russia. this as putin s army prepares
territory of ukraine. as far as we can go in many non-lethal products, we can do. as far as dealing with ukraine, iranian drones, we definitely are analyzing the situation. because the fact that iran following its activities and killing its own citizens even today in working towards nuclear wea weapons endlessly encouraging the world, killing innocent citizens gives you a picture what iran is about and that s my main point of the meeting with president biden. i m asking you these questions because president volodymyr zelenskyy asked israel to choose a said and said is israel with the democratic world or those who turn a blind eye to russian terror. it s an unfailed judgment. we have respect for president
so to use a dirty bomb or nuclear device? we re all watching. the entire world is watching the situation carefully and naturally, we all express deep concern about the situation. i would not go into any replays on any theoretical situation and it would only add salt to the wounds of and to the pains that we re seeing anyway and then i would leave it at that at this moment. i sincerely hope the international community exand world leadership will find ways and means to deescalate the conflict. president zelenskyy warned without evidence that russia may actually be paying for iranian weapons, drones among other weapons by providing assistance to iran for its nuclear program. what do you say about that? i don t have any specific information to that effect, but