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Happening now, US Marine veteran Trevor Reed is finally heading home after being freed by Russia in a prisoner swap. This hour I'll ask the State Department spokesman Ned Price

about Reed's long sought release and whether it will have any impact at all on the

war in Ukraine. As Kremlin forces unleashed death and destruction in Ukraine, Russia is now escalating its economic

war with the West by cutting off natural gas supplies to both Poland and Bulgaria. The White House warns Vladimir Putin is now weaponizing energy and a European leader is accusing him of blackmail.

Our correspondence are covering all this and a lot more with

live reports from Ukraine, Western Europe and the White House. We want to welcome our

viewers here in the United States and around the world. I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation. Tonight a new threat from Vladimir Putin to the west,

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