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Russia COVID surge at record high

Russia's recent unprecedented COVID surge is so lethal more than 1,000 deaths a day have been reported for more than a week. President Putin declared a nationwide order for most people to stay home from work. With record-breaking death and infection rates, the stay-at-home order is being extended in some regions. As Elizabeth Palmer reports, after decades of corruption, there is widespread Russian mistrust of the government and its rollout of Sputnik V, its locally-made vaccine, so much of the population remains unvaccinated.

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Putin pressures Ukraine on multiple fronts

Ukrainian forces are battling a Russian invasion on multiple fronts. In the south, Russians have launched sweeping offensives on strategic port cities along the Black Sea. In the east, the ferocious assault on Kharkiv, Ukraine’s heavily populated second city, continues, but the Ukrainian military says what President Putin really wants is to seize the capital itself. Senior foreign correspondent Charlie D’Agata is in Kyiv, which U.S. officials believe could be isolated by Russian forces within a week.

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