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Bombardment of the capital city. also, we will talk about some of the airfields hit out in the west. the majority of the action down here in the south from russian forces. and you are seeing a lot more activity both in russian four encircle some of these cities. russian put back and counter offensive in these take a look at the south mariupol. city bombarded in recent days. you can see this red here. that is russian control surrounding completely the city and the number of strikes has increased ...

Likely cut that off. we have to be prepared to conduct aerial resupply and pinpoint air drops and landing in remote airfields. its our willingness to accept the risk. will we accept the risk is the issue. >> harris: i have to lot to cover with you and want to pause you there respectfully. are you the person with all the expertise on the one thing that zelenskyy says he wants right now. you mentioned anything about airspace and you get everybodys attention because we have some of the best fighter...

>> is this putin testing the west? >> i dow jnt have granularity the russian process. they hit some airfields in the previous few days in western ukraine. they are cleerply expanding some of their target sets. i cant get into their hands and tell you what has behind that target on that day with that many cruise missiles. i dont want to reduce this to some signaling. hes getting exactly what he says he doesnt want. a strong united nato on his western flank. just over the last few days, we moved s...

Response to that? >> yeah. i think we just need to be, you know -- first of all, im not -- i dont have granularity on the russian targeting process. they hit a ukrainian military training facility. they also hit some airfields in the previous few days in western ukraine. they are clearly expanding some of their target sets here. i cant get into their heads and to tell you exactly what was behind that target on that day with that many cruise missiles. i dont want to just reduce this to some sort ...

Here into crimea. this gives them a resupply route and do part of the stranglehold on ukraine, prevents ukraine from having access to the black sea, their only coastline. >> earlier today ukrainian president zelenskyy said a russian rocket destroyed the airport. >> it is the point where the ukrainian air force has their headquarters. when this airport is destroyed it is not a fighter base at the moment. its symptomatic of them not controlling the other airfields they have.

At the same time, they need more supplies, they need more intelligence, they need more armaments. i am glad that we have provided one billion dollars worth of armaments just in the last 6 to 7 months. the pace has accelerated to such an extent that there are certain airfields and the eastern part of poland that are diverting cargo flights, because there are so full right now that they are having trouble just keeping up with the shipments. so we have to continue at the space, as long as possible....

One of them out west here. this is lusk. an airfield struck by the russians four ukrainian servicemen killed, six wounded there. also another air field, residents ordered into air shelters as those bombs hit, the air raid striking these airfields likely a message about the mig 29s not using those airfields for that dont know specifically. here dnipro, fourth largest city in ukraine. for the first time a russian airstrikes targeted this major industrial hub in the east. state of emergency in effe...

Cities and towns like kherson. russia had success in towns. taken over large parts of the black sea coast, building a land bridge to crimea but theyre struggling to win over any populations down there as we said time and time again, that idea that an occupation can be a success remains seriously doubtful. will, pete, rachel. will: benjamin as you sit in the city center in kyiv, the map pete showed us show how close the russians are encircling the capital, have you experienced that? we heard figu...

>> reporter: you can tell there was an increase in the attacks in kiev, much of the city is surrounded. exposures, artillery, aerial bombardment mainly on the outskirts of the city but 7:00 in the morning an explosion louder than any weve heard so far it the airport nearby, significant bomb blast is taken out the family ammunition dump and the key facilities there, russia kept up the siege of other cities as well, war planes and artillery striking airfields and even a cancer hospital. it is cons...

West? >> well, i think its more than a threat right now. some of the attacks on lviv and in the west are specifically targeting those weapons shipments. but they only have been attacked once they enter into ukraine. if they, in fact, start going against the airfields in the nato countries where theyre being shipped from, that would invoke article 5, that would expand this conflict and that would escalate to a level that i dont think either russia and certainly not nato is seeking. >> we have to ...