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Advertently, large numbers of helicopters in this area, russian helicopters, ferrying in airborne troops to that antonov air base, trying to create a bridge head, what we have been advised by our security observers here, that would imply, what they intend to do once they secure that airport, bring in more troops, supplies, weapons, things like that. let me take you through this once more. in terms of the actual fighting, we have been warned by our interior ministry contacts not to go anywhere ne...

The city of kyiv. and we believe that is the vassell air base. it is an airstrip in the southwest of the city, a place where the russian special forces deployed to secure a bridge head to bring in more reinforcements. it is not entirely clear that they have been successful in doing that. theyre met with strong resistance from ukrainian military forces fighting back attempts by the russians to gain a significant foothold on the outskirts of the city but we know see within the past hour a huge exp...

Today. here is the latest. jonathan. >> todd and carley, good morning to you, russian forces have seized their first ukrainian city. it is the city of kherson, south of the country. the mayor confirming russian troops arrived at city hall and spoke to him there. he says he asked them not to shoot civilians and to give the people of kherson time to remove bodies from the streets. russian forces continue to press the offensive in kharkiv, in mariupol and again in the south and hearing russian troo...

Also about logistics. the bigger fight i wanted to talk about, weve talked about rugts weakness in the north getting bogged down in the convoy, in the south its a different story. in crimea they made a major land bridge tieing in with the insurgent-held areas in donbas. mariupol is under complete siege, power outages, major bombardments. this is a forecast of what we might see in kyiv should they surround that in the north. yesterday they advanced to kherson. thats key because theres a bridge he...

The ukrainian military is doing an amazing job of stopping the armored convoys but how long can they do it? russians trying to encircle and envelope the city to the south. they have to keep up the fight as long as possible. that brings me back to what is going on in the south. we were talking about where russia has done better or worse. the south, the military units advanced in a big way. two areas to watch. one of them is a city where essentially the russians pushed their furthest advance in th...

Atmosphere. and when it does this, it actually destroys peoples lungs and it makes it extremely difficult for anybody to survive an attack like that. this is particularly dangerous for enclosed spaces. now if we go to kharkiv itself, we see some of the destruction that we have here. this is -- these atactics that are designed very specifically to effect the civilian population. so this is a war against civilians. it is not a war against the military and these are pictures that prove that very fa...

Increase in indirect fires and aviation, when we started this discussion, we were talking about kharkiv. this was one of the areas that you had that was very bombed out. getting hit with indirect fire. lots of aviation pouring in now. youre seeing lots of bombing runs, but they are terrible, so far, the russians in terms of suppression of enemy air defense and by that i mean the ukrainian surface to air missiles, their air defense has been really impressive and in some places, youre even seeing ...

Loss of life? >> the u.n. officials that would normally go on the ground and verify these figures for themselves by, you know, literally looking at hospital wards, they cant get to a lot of the contested areas right now. i heard from a u.n. official who said, look, were puttingfigure our strict methods, and we are constantly updating them. the ukrainian officials are in the middle of the fight. theyre where the people are dying. >> lets talk about where the fight is right now, colonel. the russi...

Are fighting in the open, but when we go into the cities thats when it becomes easy. i am struck by some pictures i have seen of entire streets just filled with gutted russian tanks and russian equipment that went into an ambush and a siege. so ukrainians doing very well in pushing back, but this truly is -- if you look at the map, this truly is -- this is a story of two wars. one in the northern part where the russians are bogged down and doing terribly, and one in the southern part of the coun...

Airstrikes to the west, thats that military base that was struck with the missile. lots of casualties. this was always probably going to happen. the russians have to cut off the supply lines coming into ukraine or they will never, ever be able to take the ukrainian military. theres some doubt whether they can do that. here in the north, this is kyiv, just watching this, this is the convoy from last week. theyre trying to splinter out here to the west. you see them in and around irpin. thats wher...