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The faces of war, clarissa. as we watch this exodus, the steady flow of people in the rubble behind you, do you have a sense the russians are getting closer? is the circle closing in on kyiv? >> reporter: so i would say this. theres no question from what were seeing and hearing from the u.s. officials and others that the push has not gone the way that the russians had hoped. they had really hoped to take control of this air base, to be able to fly transport planes in, link up with ground troops ...

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>> reporter: in the north, u.s. says russian forces are making slower but still devastating progress. the russian military flattened a residential area near kyiv and houses in a town. it also destroyed an oil depot just north of the capital. in kharkiv in the northeast, russian barrages struck at least three schools. the u.s. says russian forces are stamging just outside the city now. the ukrainian military is still fighting. they claim to have hit the miles-long convoy that had stalled approach...

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Sending more than 20 of its russian made mig—29 fighterjets to ukraine via an airbase in germany. but the americans say they werent consulted and that the plan would raise serious concerns for nato. but petro poroshenko, the former president of ukraine, believes those planes should be sent to ukraine. give it from poland, give it from slovakia because everything is about humanity. this is a test, every single day, you should pass this test. are you strong enough to protect humanity? to protect...

Send them to the us base in germany. that is what took the americans by surprise and they have responded saying it is not tenable because you cannot send warplanes from a nato airbase into contested a space, that raises a lot of concerns. that is where we are right now, president zelensky made another appeal to congress last week for warplanes, he has now made another saying there is disagreements between poland and the us about this but do not, we do not have time for this, this is a human trag...

Different parts of ukraine. 24 miles to the doors used to be an airbase. there is fierce battle between russian forces in ukrainian military. i appears the ukrainian military as won the cattle so far but if the russian military is able to win that cargo strip, you have got the ability on behalf five putin to fly men mena machine into that, -- for the go to another map here and wanted to show you. you see belgorod here. has got a lot of installations on the north side of ukraine. protect the sate...

Been caused by the fuel tanks at the airstrip at the -- at the airbase, that seem to have caught fire but obviously, we dont have eyes on it so thats just, you know, speculative. but, nevertheless, that is just one aspect of what is happening right now. the rest of the time, we have got, you know, a really, really serious situation in the country and in the city. with russian forces now, you know, probing the -- the city from various different direc directions that is the southwest and of course...

Authorities that 40 civilians are believed to have been taken hostage by russian forces near the hostumal airbase, an airbase that russian and ukrainians have been fighting for control of ever since russian airborne troops parachuted in there back on february 24th and while the ukrainians have been able to take back some parts of that territory, apparently now the russians, this is according to ukrainian authorities, we cannot independently confirm it, but they are claiming that 40 civilians who...

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