It's happening now breaking news. The first major Ukrainian city appears to have

fallen. The mayor of person now indicated that the Russians have taken control of the southern city as

Kremlin forces roll through the streets. Also breaking, the Ukrainian capital is

battered by airstrikes but still holding the line against Russian invaders

as a new explosion echoes on this seventh night of the war. U.S. officials

warning that Moscow may be shifting to an ominous strategy of what

U.S. officials are calling slow annihilation. Our correspondence are covering this

war from key locations across Ukraine along with reporters in Russia at Ukraine's

border with Poland and here in the United States. We want to welcome our viewers in

the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Flitzer, you right to the breaking news.

On the Russians appearing to overtake the strategic southern city of Herson,

a first in their brutal war on Ukraine.

See and as Nick Payton Walsh is in southern Ukraine for us.

Nick, you were there of Khorsun, just a few days ago.

What are you learning?

Yeah, I mean, it is quite clear that a significant change of control has now occurred in her

song predominantly because the mayor of that

strategic city.

he had a lot of fighting for an important bridge to its east. The mayor of that city has said he had a meeting with what he referred to as armed men who came to his office,

building that must be a reference to the Russian troops

that we've seen on multiple videos inside the city and then in those discussions which

he said were all about the politics he so hated they essentially agreed on a number of rules that locals in the

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