Gap in the Record: White House call records the day of the January 6th insurrection have a seven hour and 37 minute gap in President Trump’s phone conversations, The Washington Post and CBS News report. The gap includes the hours when the Capitol …

The War Room: Ukrainian authorities say that after a month of faltering Russian efforts to take their country, the invaders may have switched to a strategy of splitting it.   Ukraine’s military intelligence chief said that Russia’s Vladimir Putin doesn’t have the troops …

The War Room: The Russian army appears to have halted its advance on Ukraine’s capital city of Kyiv and is focusing more on taking and holding ground and ports to the southeast on the Black Sea. It’s a major change.    Col. Gen. …

The War Room: Russian missile strikes on a military facility in the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro has destroyed buildings and casualties are unreported. Taking Dnipro would link areas already occupied by the Russians in the south and east.    The Ukrainians …

The War Room: Ukrainian forces are holding tough and even pushing the Russian forces back in some areas as their country is pounded to rubble.   The Ukrainians today claim to have destroyed a Russian ship. “The destroyed ship in Berdyansk could carry …

The War Room: With great losses of both men and machines, Russia’s fighting force in Ukraine has dropped below 90 percent of its original “combat power,” according to a Pentagon assessment. The Russians are reported to be struggling not only at …

The War Room: The battle for the Ukrainian port city of Mariupol is down to street-to-street fighting in the rubble as the Russians press to take the city for their first strategic victory.   The Ukrainians had spurned a Russian deadline to …

The War Room: Ukraine authorities overnight defied a Russian demand for surrender of the southern port city of Mariupol. Russian Colonel-General Mikhail Mizintsev had promised that “All who lay down their arms are guaranteed safe passage out of Mariupol.” The Ukrainians ignored …

The War Room: Tank battles have erupted in the city of Mariupol as the Russians push for total occupation and the Ukrainians put up a stiff defense.   Russia’s defense ministry said it was “tightening the noose” around the city and the  national …

The War Room: A Russian missile strike today has hit the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, which has been a haven for people fleeing the embattled east.   As of this morning, only about 130 people have emerged alive from a bombed-out …