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i met up with my best friend, dominic blackwell. it is hard for me to talk about dominic.ike me, he had big dreams. we spent the morning like any other, laughing, talking, until we heard a loud pop. it was a gunshot followed by six more. one of the bullets hit in the stomach. somehow i was able to get up and run away. dominic could not. i was airlifted to the hospital and spent hours in surgery having a bullet removed from my abdomen. then my parents told me the terrible truth. dominic had died. so had another classmate. the community was left shattered. i later learned that we had been shot by a 16-year-old student for reasons i will never know. he brought his father's weapon to school, a firearm i would say is a ghost gun. ghost guns are untraceable, build it yourself firearms that looked like a gun, shoot like a gun and killed like a gun but has not been regulated like a gun. i also learned as a student i don't just have to worry about spanish tests but also my life. ghost guns are on the rise and the last thing i learned other than the loss of friends or the shattering

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i'm alisyn camerota. >> i'm victor blackwell.its own in the war. so far russia has made no major territorial gains in the donbas, according to two senior u.s. officials. the british ministry says ukraine has been able to repel russia's attempts to take more land in the area. a regional area in

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>>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn "newsroom." alisyn is off. ukraine said that russia's onslaught in the east has begun. and president volodymyr zelenskyy said his country is ready for full scale combat operations. hismill leaders see more russian troops regrouping in donesque. they are using this eight mile convoy to try to resupply and reinforce russian soldiers in the east. a spokesperson pointed out why vladimir putin is renewing his focus east. >> i don't think mr. putin needs many signs that it hasn't been going well for him in ukraine. i mean, here we are day 46 and, again, he failed to achieve so many of his strategic objectives inside of ukraine so they're repositioning and refocusing on the donbas. >> president zelenskyy is pleading with allies to rush weapons to the war zone. today' peers to south korea assembly to save ukraine. >> translator: russia is preparing another offensive. hope to break our national resistance. the occupiers concentrated tens ever thousands of soldiers on a youth amount of equipment to try and strike again.

i'm victor blackwell live from the scene of a subway shooting in brooklyn, new york. >> there have been a lot of new developments since this morning. that happened shortly before 8:30 this morning. people were going to work. kids were going to school. a manhunt is still underway for the single suspect who first deployed a smoke canister from his backpack, then opened fire inside the traincar and ran on the platform. this was the scene just after 8:24 a.m. inside a car that was approaching the 36th nation on the n line in brooklyn. the fdny says 16 people were injured, at least 10 shot. five are in kcritical but stabl condition. investigators have recovered a gun and multiple high capacity magazines from the scene. >> a law enforcement source tells cnn, they believe the gun may have jammed as the suspect attempted to fire more rounds. the nypd says this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism for now. the police chief said that she wasn't ruling anything out when it comes to the motive -- the commissioner, i should say. last hour i spoke with one of the witnesses who captured so

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." >> i'm victor blackwell. the u.s.s showing signs of confidence as the war enters its third month. the u.s. is opening its embassy in kyiv. president biden announced a nominee to be the next u.s. ambassador to ukraine. blinken and austin met with president zelenskyy in ukraine. they are the most senior officials to visit the country since the invasion began and both assured the world that ukraine can win this war. >> in terms of their ability to win, the first step in winning is believing that you can win. and so they believe that we can win, we believe that they can win if they have the right equipment, the right support. and we're going to do everything we can, continue to do everything we can to ensure that that gets there. >> we're seeing that when it comes to russia's war aims, russia is failing, ukraine is succeeding. we don't know how the rest of this war will unfold, but we do know that a sovereign, independent ukraine will be around a lot longer than vladimir putin is on the scene. >> the british ministry of d

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>>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome. >> the u.s. believes russian for forces have completely withdrawn from the area around kyiv and chernihiv. analysts do not detect any russian troops around those cities, but the u.s. warns putin's war on ukraine could be entering a new, protracted phase in the east of the country. this afternoon, president biden talked about the long road ahead. >> today, kyiv still stands and that government still presides. this fight is far from over. here's the point. this war could continue for a long time, but the united states will continue to stand with ukraine and the ukrainian people in the fight for freedom. >> they're seeing the arrival of new russian forces in eastern ukraine. this is according to a regional governor there. the leaders in the luhansk and donetsk areas say heavy fighting is happening now and they're calling for everyone to evacuate. further north, ukrainian officials say russians launched 27 strikes against residential areas near kharkiv overnight. >> global outrage continues to gro gr

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn. the frontline is intensifying in the east. senior u.s. defense officials are seeing those russian troops who retreated from northern ukraine starting to show up in the donbas region. this is the latest indication the forces are about to launch a major assault in the east involving thousands of troops. increasing numbers of armored vehicles pouring into this area. this is where the terrain is more open. this shows ukrainian forces training on flatter ground in luhansk. >> that's different than the urban iron in the kyiv area. today cia director said use of low yield nuclear weapons cannot be ruled out if putin suffers more set backs on the battlefield. >> given the potential desperation and the leadership, given the setbacks they've faced so far militarily, none of us can take lightly the threat posed by a potential resort to if you can leer weapons. >> he added they have not seen any evidence of that kind of deployment. ukrainians may have made major headway in the battle at sea. the flagship of the black sea fleet for russia is still bur

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. systemic violations of human rights against russia. the objection is the first of its kind in more than a decade. it's in response to the russian military's wanton mass killing in bucha, ukraine. as the world further isolates russia vladimir putin's military continues to wage war especially in the east fighting on the ground is escalating in the battle for the donetsk and luhansk regions. america's top general, mark milley, said today ukrainians are in for a, quote, long slog ahead. adding all of ukraine remains a combat zone. the scale of russia's operation will remind people of world war ii. >> the battle for donbas will remind you of second world war with large populations, maneuvers, involvement of thousands of tanks, armored vehicles, artillery. this will not be local in regards to russia's preparation. >> new images show the devastation the russians left behind in a suburb of kyiv and like bucha bodies are scattered on the streets. dead civilians show signs of torture and the ac

. >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome. >> the u.s.r forces have completely withdrawn from the area around kyiv and chv.

robert blackwell of cfr.he human tragedy is some thing we are following still and hoping that the west can do some more to help. bruno le maire, the french french minister, earlier this morning making a renewed push on an oil ban. you wonder if that would bring the situation back onto the markets' radar. tom: $110 on brent crude. the wraparound with lemaire is the bitterness of this french election, which just in the last number of days has really almost hour-by-hour of campaigning gone topsy-turvy. you've got to fold that domestic story into the french foreign story as well. jonathan: round two this sunday. what are you looking for? tom: i am looking for we get in at about 12:00 noon and we get the results around 4:00. jonathan: i am looking for two-year recreation of that macron photo with the buttons undone. does that work with the electorate in france? tom: i saw the same thing. i was not going to bring it up. jonathan: do you want to go there? tom: no, i don't. jonathan: i am not suggesting you go there

. >> hello, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota.wist in the war in ukraine. russia is accusing ukraine of launching a missile and striking a fuel depot inside of russia. new video shows a fire at the fuel depot in belgorod, that is just over the border into russia. the russian defense ministry said two ukrainian helicopters entered the territory, flying at a low altitude and attacked. cnn cannot confirm thi

. >>> i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn newsroom. >> and i'm alisyn camerota.lerted before it took place on a peninsula in russia's far east. but the launch only heightens concerns about what russia will do next in its bombardment against ukraine. all eyes n

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we begin with major developments involving russia.an prison today as part of a prison swap. this happened on a tarmac in turkey, russian state tv, they broadcast the exchange of reed for a convicted drug smuggler. reed is now on his way back to the u.s. he's a former marine, and he's been held in russia since 2019. his parents just spoke to reporter

. >> hello, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. we begin with a new twist in the war in ukraine. russia is accusing ukraine of launching a missile and striking a fuel depot inside of russia. new video shows a fire at the fuel depot in belgorod, that is just over the border into russia. the russian defense ministry said two ukrainian helicopters entered the territory, flying at a low altitude and attacked. cnn cannot confirm this claim. and the ukrainian defense minister would neither confirm nor deny this report. a spokesperson for the kremlin said this strike could negatively impact the peace talks between russia and ukraine. >> russia's devastating attacks continue in ukraine. the northern town has seen heavy shelling in the last 48 hours. the latest attack destroyed a cancer ward. and a small respite for the city of mariupol. 2,000 people were able to leave the city on buses, but officials estimate more than 100,000 people are still there. trapped. and don lemon is in western ukraine. don, so we know a red cross evacuation team

i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota, trevor reed has been released by russia in a prisonwap. reed, a former marine is reportedly on a plane to the u.s. as we speak. russian state tv broadcast the exchange of reed for a convicted drug smuggler. you can see it here on your screen. this took place on a tarmac in turkey. the 30-year-old former marine has been held in russia since 2019. this afternoon, reed's parents spoke to reporters from their home in texas. >> finally after waiting all this time i'm going to be able to hug my kid, put my arms around him. >> the biggest issue is his health. if you've seen any of the videos today of him getting out of the fsb van to get into the fsb jet -- >> he looks terrible to us. as his parents, we know he does not look well. he's very thin. >> he was walking strange. they had to help him get into the airplane. >> he didn't look good. >> on the battlefield, parts of eastern ukraine continue to be under intense bombardment. ukrainian armed forces acknowledge the loss of several towns in the donbas to russia. >> but they say ukrainian troo

." >> and i'm victor blackwell. a sobering warning from ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. a nuclear or chemical attack. >> i think all of the world, all of the countries have to be worried. because you know that it can be not real information, but it can be the truth. because when they begin to speak about one or another

. >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota.ne can win this war and the fighting could ultimately weaken russia. chairman of the joint chiefs, mark milley, and defense secretary lloyd austin, met with allies from 35 countries today to discuss the future military needs of ukraine. secretary austin said russia's actions in ukraine are, quote, indefensible and called out russia's foreign minister for talking about the possibility of a nuclear war.

thank you for sharing your strength, for helping us remember your friend, dominic blackwell and gracieuld you stand up? [ applause ] >>> if you have a moment afterwards, maybe you could come into the oval with me if you wouldn't mind. i would like to talk to you. frank, nancy, brian and cindy, everybody here, as they say, feels your pain a little bit particularly if they have suffered a serious loss. you have now joined a terrible fellowship of serious loss that many have experienced, and too many survivors and advocates here today for me to mention, but let me say the loss in the crowd is incalculable, but so is the strength. i believe our nation will be safer for your bravery, and i mean that. survivors like the los angeles deputy sheriff that survived the ambush by a shooter with a ghost gun represent victims all over the country whose lives were changed by a ghost gun. some made national headlines and many did not, and today we honor your strength and action, and a year ago standing here with many of you i instructed the attorney general that would reign in the ghost guns, and i us

. >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota.he regrouping of its troops to launch that anticipated eastern offensive. according to a u.s. defense official, russia has added 11 battalion tactical groups to their forces in the east and south of ukraine since last week. the u.s. believes that russia is learning from their failures in the north of ukraine. and applying those lessons in the east and the south. then to the north and west there is new video of one of several russian missiles hitting

. >> hello, i'm victor blackwell, welcome to cnn "newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota.an train station that was crowd ready civilians trying to get to safety. the strike killed at least 50 people. but officials expect that number to rise. at least five of those killed were children. these were civilians fleeing their homes as russian forces ramp up on an all-out assault. we have a warning for you, the footage from the scene is graphic and disturbing. it shows bodies on blood stained pavement. about 8,000 people typically pack that station every day now to try to get away from the violence of vladimir putin's forces. ukrainian president zelenskyy said as many as 300 were hurt. nearly a hundred were taken to the hospital after this attack. >> a witness posted a clip in the moment after the impact. watch.

. >> i'm victor blackwell live in brooklyn, new york, at the scene of a mass shooting on the new york8:24 a.m. this was inside the subway car. it was approaching the 36th street station. this was the m line in brook lint. the fdny says 16 people were injured, at least 10 shot. five are in critical but stable condition. and the suspect is still on the loose. a man hunt is underway and police are asking for the public's help. >> an individual on that train dawned what appeared to be a gas mask. he then took a canister out of his bag and opened it. at that time, the car began to fill with smoke. he opened fire striking multiple people on the subway and in the platform. again, it is an individual being reported as a male black approximat

>>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to "cnn newsroom." >> and i'm alisyn camerota. new this afternoon, ukrainian defense officials believe russia has completed the regrouping of its troops to launch that anticipated eastern offensive. according to a u.s. defense official, russia has added 11 battalion tactical groups to their forces in the east and south of ukraine since last week. the u.s. believes that russia is learning from their failures in the north of ukraine. and applying those lessons in the east and the south. then to the north and west there is new video of one of several russian missiles hitting lviv. the strikes -- >> the strikes caused the first war time death inside lviv since the invasion started 54 days ago. it injured several people including a child. in the south ukraine is still trying to hold on to the port city of mariupol. amid intense shelling. ukraine rejected a russian deadline to surrender. president zelenskyy told jake tapper in an interview that ukraine will not give up any territory to end the war with russia. >> translator: ukraine and

." >> and i'm victor blackwell. a sobering warning from ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy. he spoke to jake tapper in an exclusive interview. and said that the world should be prepared for putin to launch a nuclear or chemical attack. >> i think all of the world, all of the countries have to be worried. because you know that it can be not real information, but it can be the truth. because when they begin to speak about one or another battles or involved enemies or nuke weapons or some chemical issues, chemical weapons, they should -- they could do it. >> today russia is launching a new wave of strikes across ukraine after the sinking of the jewel of the black sea fleet. >> that ship now sits at the bottom of the ocean. a senior u.s. defense official now said it appears the ship was hit by two ukrainian missiles. that is a major victory for ukrainian forces. overnight russia appears to be retaliating for that loss hitting a military facility on the outskirts of kyiv and russia blamed for another deadly attack near kharkiv and heavy shelling in the donetsk region. but help is

. >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn "newsroom." alisyn has the day off.aine and it goes far beyond a special operation it announced for east. state media reports that a russian general detailed phase two which aims to take control of southern ukraine. now the general confirmed for the first time that by seizing donbas russia would have a land corridor to crimea and added so

i'm victor blackwell. we begin with reported new evidence of how deadly vladimir putin's war on ukraine has become. ukrainian officials now say they've identified multiple mass graves just outside the near decimated city of mariupol. the satellite company said more than 200 new graves can be seen. today vladimir putin proclaimed the efforts to capture mariupol a success and he scrapped plans to storm a sprawling factory compound where reportedly more than 1,000 civilians and ukrainian fighters are sheltering. a blockade to keep even a fly from getting through. the siege of mariupol was compared to a terrorist operation. he added ukraine's forces do not have enough heavy or serious weapons to free mariupol. >> translator: we don't know when we can unblock mariupol, and i say this openly, that all the boys in mariupol want our victory, they want a free city. none of them are going to surrender to the enemy. first it involves serious and heavy weapons. at the moment we don't have enough to free mariupol. >> m

. >> i'm victor blackwell. vladimir putin just met with the u.n. secretary general who said putin agreed in principle to let the red cross and the united nations evacuate civilians from a factory in mariupol. the russians have surrounded the plant where more than a thousand people are reportedly sheltering. putin also made some ridiculous claims, including that ukrainian forces were hiding behind civilians and keeping them from escaping. the ukrainian mayors, governors, president zelenskyy even, they have said many times over the weeks that russia has broken promises to hold their fire, and that prevented evacuations. >>> today, america's top two defense officials say ukraine can win this war, and the fighting may weaken russia to the point that it would not attack other nations. chairman of the joint chiefs, mark milley and lloyd austin met with 35 nations to discuss the future military needs of ukraine. secretary austin said russia's actions in ukraine are quote indefensible. general milley stressed the entire global international security order

. >> hello, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota. president zelenskyy saw firsthand the human atrocities to civilians in bucha. he said it would be very difficult to negotiate are the russians after seeing what their soldiers have done. we have images of the aftermath and a warning that these images are disturbing. the pictures reveal bodies scattered in bucha streets. bucha's mayor said these civilians, men and women were killed execution-style. some shot in the back of the head. he also said that putin and his defense minister gave the go-ahead for a, quote, safari in ukraine. >> the carnage that people endured there, we see it, it is only being exposed after russian troops retreated from the kyiv region and the barbaric has sparked worldwide condemnation and calls for consequences for vladimir putin. this morning president zelenskyy called it genocide. >> with thousands of people killed and tortured, with the limbs cut off, children killed, women raped, that is genocide. we want to show the world, we want you to show the world wha

>>> hello, i'm victor blackwell. welcome to cnn "newsroom." alisyn has the day off. russia has now announced a new goal for its war on ukraine and it goes far beyond a special operation it announced for east. state media reports that a russian general detailed phase two which aims to take control of southern ukraine. now the general confirmed for the first time that by seizing donbas russia would have a land corridor to crimea and added southern ukraine to that plan that by having the east and the south russia would have access to a russia separatist conclave in the area of moldova. but in the east heavy fighting continues. with ukrainians saying russias have making advances in the luhansk region and 42 more settlements have come under russian control. and tens of thousands of people are trapped by russia's unrelentless shelling in mariupol. new satellite images show evidence of mass graves oiutsid of the port city and the estimate of the death toll so far in the city. >> we have around 20,000 dead, civilian deaths in mariupol. and these were people who were buried b

. >> i'm victor blackwell. 50 days into putin's war in ukraine, a new front is intensifying.t sign that vladimir putin's forces are about to launch a major assault in the east involving thousands of troops. with russian leaders aiming for victory by early may. now, satellite images show increasing numbers of russian troops and armored vehicles pouring into that area and we know the terrain

." >> i'm victor blackwell. the u.s.nt biden announced a nominee to be the next u.s. ambassador to ukraine. blinken and austin met with president zelenskyy in ukraine. they are the most senior officials to visit the country since the invasion began and both assured the world that ukraine ca

. >> i'm victor blackwell. some of the west's first assessment shows that ukraine is holding its own in the war. so far russia has made no major territorial gains in the donbas, according to two senior u.s. officials. the british ministry says ukraine has been able to repel russia's attempts to take more land in the area. a regional area in luhansk says russia has control of 80% of the territory. he says ukrainians are succeeding destroying russian equipment, but it is clear that russia is going to push on. >> the whole of huhansk territory is being shelled. there is no safe town. we understand that the russian government is going to push ahead and going to destroy everything on its path. >> meanwhile, vladimir putin tested an intercontinental ballistic missile today. the icbm was fired toward a peninsula in russia's far east. the u.s. was notified of the test, as part of an international agreement with russia. also today, all eyes are on the besieged city of mariupol. the steel factory there has been a shelter

i'm victor blackwell live from the scene of a subway shooting in brooklyn, new york. >> there have been

-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com ♪ >>> hello, i'm victor blackwell, welcome to "cnn newsroom."lisyn has the day off. we are beginning with putin's war on ukraine and the critical port city of mariupol. ukrainian officials now say they've identified multiple mass graves just outside the city. the satellite company that released these images said that there are more than 200 new graves. today, vladimir putin proclaimed the efforts to capture mariupol a success, and he scrapped plans to storm a sprawling factory compound where reportedly more than 1,000 civilians and ukrainian fighters are sheltering. instead, he directed his military to set up a blockade so that a fly can't get through. this morning, president biden cast a doubt about the russians having taken full control of this near decimated city. >> it's questionable whether he does control mariupol. there is no evidence yet that mariupol is completely fallen. >> well, what is not in question is the intensifying urgency to free the estimated 120,000 people trapped in that city by russian strikes. those who are still there ha

. >> hello, i'm victor blackwell. >> and i'm alisyn camerota.said it would be very difficult to negotiate are the russians after seeing what their soldiers have done. we have images of the aftermath and a warning that these images are disturbing.

the stomach by a teen-aged classmate in an attack that killed her best friend, 14-year-old dominic blackwell. >> dominic had died and so had another classmate, gracie ann, a 15-year-old girl with an infectious left. a community was left shattered. i literally we have been shot by a 16-year-old student for reasons i will never know. he brought his father's weapon to school, a firearm i would come to know as a ghost gun. ghost guns are untraceable, build it yourself firearms that look like a gun, shoot like a gun, and kill like a gun but it has not been regulated like a gun. amy: biden's new rule does not ban sales of ghost gun kits. instead, it would mandate serial numbers for weapons parts, as well as a background check for buyers. meanwhile, president biden has nominated former u.s. attorney steve dettelbach to head the bureau of alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. biden's previous pick, david chipman, failed to win the support of three senate democratic caucus members and withdrew his nomination amid attacks from republicans and the nra over his gun control advocacy. the senate has