so though this has since then eased the city and the russian president vladimir payton, has ordered teams of health, ministry officials and emergency responders to belgrade to help the victims of the attack earlier are t correspondent to remind customer i've shared more details on the dudley showing this attack a took place on a saturday early afternoon just the day before the new year's celebrations. and of course this was a sensor of the city. uh, this is the place where there was uh, a christmas tree in ice case in ring. so obviously it was the full offers civilian traffic. now the pictures that we saw from a bill girl and were absolutely horrifying. that was debris from the building. shuddered glass absolutely. everywhere we saw bodies of people on the streets. we saw the wounded like random people were administering a 1st aid to your strangers. now we were getting conflicting reports at the very beginning that the number of the victims might have been higher. but now we have of that official information. of course, a lot of damage was done to the local infrastructure as well. meanwhi

is all very good news for vladimir putin, waiting for this moment and his forces, trying to take town by town, often with great losses in the east. >> important point. nick payton walsh in eastern ukraine, thank you. >>> let's go to russia where officials say the kremlin has been monitoring the meetings between presidents biden and zelenskyy very, very closely. cnn's matthew chance is joining us live from moscow right now. what is the kremlin saying about today's meetings? >> reporter: the kremlin say they are watching very closely, but in general, russian media, particularly, is relishing the idea that u.s. resolve when it comes to ukraine may be crumbling. they've been absolutely poking fun at this trip by president zelenskyy to washington, basically cap in hand begging for money, ridiculing him for needing american cash to continue to survive. very much plays into the image we've seen a lot of this russia, about how zelenskyy is a puppet whose strings are being pulled by pickuper masters in washington. it's a sort of idea that they often use in this country to characterize the ukrainian leader. you heard president biden talk about praise for republicans for

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