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Former AIDE TO THE GEORGE W. BUSH WHITE HOUSE AND STATE DEPARTMENTS, ELISE JORDAN. JOE, HAS THE MORNING OFF. > > >. We BEGIN WITH THAT. Enormous SETBACK FOR RUSSIA, AS ITS FLAGSHIP VESSEL IN THE BLACK SEA, HAS SUNK. . Russia’S DEFENSE MINISTRY YESTERDAY SAID THE “ MOSKVA” WAS BEING TOWED TO PORT AFTER SUFFERING HEAVY DAMAGES AND SANK IN A STORM.. A DAY EARLIER UKRAINIAN OFFICIALS SAID THEIR FORCES HIT THE SHIP WITH TWO ANTI-SHIP MISSILES, CAUSING SIGNIFICANT DAMAGE. . Moscow DENIED THE CLAIM INSTEAD SAYING THAT A FIRE BEGAN ON BOARD, CAUSING AMMUNITION TO DETONATE. U.S. OFFICIALS SAY THEY CAN NOT CONFIRM WHAT CAUSED THE EXPLOSION ON THE VESSEL.. The MISSILE CRUISER WAS A SYMBOL OF RUSSIA’S NAVAL POWER. WILLIE, EITHER WAY IT IS SYMBOLIC OF RUSSIA FLAILING TO AN EXTENT., > >. Sure, SYMBOLIC AND STRATEGIC., WE HEARD FROM PENTAGON PRESS SECRETARY ADMIRAL JOHN KIRBY YESTERDAY. AT THAT POINT 24 HOURS AGO. He SAID THEY THOUGHT IT WAS BEING TOWED BACK TO RUSSIA. IN THE PROCESS O...

The russian military machine maintains a very competent means of picking its targets frankly at will across this and other cities, and we've seen that right here in the capital today because of the ukrainian military censorship laws. It'S pretty limited as to what we can say about what happened here today at the moment and, of course, the now familiar warning. I'M afraid that some of you may find some of the images in our report tonight disturbing u. s intelligence sources say around a fifth of russian ground forces have pulled back from around kiev, but the city is still open to missile and artillery attack, and this is what Skepticism looks like kiev style, the beloved statue of queen oleg on mikhailivska square being sandbagged, but the russians are retreating. We said why bother with all this 12 miles northwest of kiev, the once agreeable commuter town of europe for several weeks now, a focus of mr putin's special military operation, also known as his failure to tak...