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Parts of the country that, so far, have escaped much of the violence, the strikes, and the artillery attacks. cnns oren liebermann has that. >> reporter: russian military is expanding its invasion of ukraine. increasing its attacks on the western part of the country. fire and smoke seen in the aftermath of strikes on airfields near the polish border. it is a scene that played out in cities all across the country as russia unleash add barrage of attacks in the early-morning hours. in the central ...

Moscow now widening its unprovoked war with its first air strikes on western ukraine. our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto is in the western city of lviv. jim, do these strikes on the airfields of the west close to the border with nato ally poland signify a new front in this war? >> reporter: it does. it shows that this war is being waged across the country though the concentration of fire and forces had been in the east to date. the other significant thing about this, wolf, is ...

So why do you think they are targeting them? >> because things are not going to according to their plan. in my account so they are digging into protect their airfields. they are terrace. and i dont know why is living in our house that we are saying in a tweet he will not by this but it has to be destroyed. there is no other option. they are not stupid. they have themselves in a lot of trouble so they are going crazy. peter: talking about the groups of people the russia people are put into camps ...

>> theres been a lot of speculation. about a week ago dod sources were reporting that there was a massing of naval forces off of crimea looking like an anticipation of a landing. that never occurred. now, amphibious landings highly complex and with some of greatest risk. the hand aring that was done over in mariupol early on in the war was done in uncontested, safe beaches. so they came ashore unopposed. that would not be the case here. griff griff im going to take you to a different map, and we...

There were three strikes. either air strikes or surface to surface missile strikes but clearly come under a long range because the nearest russian ground forces are about 100 miles from here, we understand now, a shoe factory was hit, a kindergarten was damaged and an apartment block was also badly damaged with about eight apartments in that block, suffering catastrophic destr destruction. this represents a significant step because dnipro is a long way inside the country, from russian forces, no...

Why would belarus send their people in? >> well, lukashenko owes putin a lot. putin has kept him in power. and theres been a decades-long back and forth between putin and lukashenko, the ruler of belarus,s too whether or not russia could absorb belarus and make it another like part of the russian federation. lukashenko has tried to maintain his independence but hes increasingly dependent on putin for internal security. so when putin says i want more soldiers, lukashenko feels obligated to provid...

Be drawn into direct conflict and better to do it today, rather than wait and waste time were even more ukrainians will have died and even more of this country will lie in ruin. ., ., ., ,, i. , ruin. for the moment, thank you very much, ruin. for the moment, thank you very much. lyse — ruin. for the moment, thank you very much, lyse doucet _ ruin. for the moment, thank you very much, lyse doucet in _ ruin. for the moment, thank you very much, lyse doucet in kyiv. _ polish mep radoslaw sikorsk...

Here in the studio is john venable, a 25-year veteran of the u.s. air force and senior fellow at the heritage foundation. welcome. >> its a pleasure to be with you. mike mike weve seen a lot of strikes on airfields. im sure thats no surprise to me. >> yeah, what is a surprise and it is to many people, is the late nature of these strikes. there are over 40 airfields in this country thats the size of texas, about 70 miles left to right here. and about 30 of those airfields come to the western side...

He told me why he thinks the russians launched an attack so close to the polish border. i think bombing ukrainian airfields in western ukraine, they are bombing them because they fear the delivery and they are bombing exercise grounds of the ukrainian army because they think that foreign volunteers may be gathering there and that they may shipment points for western military assistance in the ukraine. what is your assessment of where this conflict has reached, as we reported many times, this is ...

From the outside world with very little resources just to stay alive. now despite the attacks that happened yesterday people here in this city continue to go about their daily lives. the mayor though, however, saying he believes yesterdays strike was a way for vladmir putin to say hello to president biden. trace? trace: jeff, im wondering, last week there were some strikes just outside of lviv but they were targeting mostly the airfields, the local airports which seems like a tactic of war. why,...