Russia captures Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant as fighting intensifies

RUSSIA CONTINUES ITS INVASION OF UKRAINE.. MAKING SIGNIFICANT GAINS IN THE SOUTHERN PART OF THE COUNTRY. 

Mariupol ON THE BLACK SEA HAS BEEN SURROUNDED BY TROOPS AND Kherson IS CLOSE TO COLLAPSING WITH NO ESCAPE ROUTE FOR RESIDENTS. 

AND OVERNIGHT UKRAINE SAYS RUSSIA SHELLED ONE OF ITS POWER PLANTS STARTING A FIRE. 

THE International Atomic Energy AgencY SAYS RADON WAS NOT RELEASED AND THE FIRE WAS PUT OUT…

 HOWEVER THE RUSSIANS HAVE SEIZED THE PLANT… WHICH WESTERN NATIONS INLCUDING THE U-K SAY IS CAUSE FOR CONCERN. 

AS THE WAR IN THE SOUTH INTENSIFIES.. 

THE SAME IS TRUE FOR THE AREA SURROUNDING KYIV.. WHERE RUSSIAN SHELLING HAS BEEN NONSTOP. 

THE TIMES of London REPORTS UKRAINE’S PRESIDENT ZELENSKYY.. 

WHO REMAINS IN THE CAPITAL CITY… HAS SURVIVED THREE ASSISANTION ATTEMPTS BY THE Kremlin-backed Wagner group and Chechen special forces. 

THEY REPORT IT WAS RUSSIA’S VERSION OF THE C-I-A.. THE FSB.. THAT STOPPED THE ATTEMPTS. 

BACK HERE IN WASHINGTON, PRESIDENT BIDEN IS REQUESTING 10 BILLION DOLLARS FROM CONGRESS TO HELP UKRAINE.

TAKE SOT- BIDEN

<<”we’re providing support to the Ukrainians in their fight for freedom: military assistance, economic assistance, humanitarian assistance.”>>. 

Annie Andersen: AND NOW… A BIPARTISAN BILL TO BAN RUSSIAN OIL.

TAKE SOT- SPEAKER NANCY PELSOI (D-CA)

<<“I’m all for that. Ban it.”>>

Annie Andersen: U-S SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE REMAINS HIGH.. 

OUTSIDE UKRAINE’S EMBASSY HERE IN DC.. FLOWERS AND SIGNS OF SUPPORT. 

AND TWO INDIANA MEN WERE ARRESTED THURSDAY WITH GUNS OUTSIDE OF THE EMBASSY ACCORDING TO THE WASHINGTON POST… 

BUT THERE WAS NOTHING NEFARIOUS ABOUT IT.. THEY TOLD THE SECRET SERVICE THEY WERE THERE WANTING TO VOLUNTEER TO FIGHT THE WAR IN UKRAINE. 

STRAIGHT FROM DC.. I’M AA