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And not just the men and the soldiers, its everybody. you have the old ladies who say give us a molotov cocktail we will throw it out our windows, and give us hunting rifles, we will shot with those. half the population is ready and willing to fight. and the commanders say they have multiple rings going out and it. they have not broached any of those yet and remarkably successful at keeping the russians outside and again, thats why the fear of the bombardment is ever present. the city is also ex...

Will be back at 4:00 with the latest on the tonight, several developing headlines as we come on the air. heavy fighting reported on the outskirts of kyiv tonight. and elsewhere, you will see the moment the ukrainians appear to diffuse an unexploded bomb with a bottle of water. tonight, the ukrainian military releasing video showing a russian tank convoy ambushed. vehicles destroyed. the russians forced to retreat. ukrainians now claiming two russian commanders have been killed. and that harrow...

Military commanders all over ukraine with generally the same instruction, which is take out strategic targets and you know, the russias russias achilles heel right now is is logistics and resupply. and you know, you have a military commander in that part of the country whos got the weapons. hes got the people in place. hey, heres a strategic target . my job is to take one out. i dont think theres a lot of deep thinking in terms of which target to hit when if its a target of opportunity, its some...

They could stay there without getting hit by ukrainian forces. it might be part of the reason theyre breaking up to smaller factions within this larger convoy operating outside of the city. on the eastern side of kyiv, we did see overnight some new video indicating that the ukrainians are hitting these convoys quite hard. you can see in these images here, the ukrainian hit both the front and the back of the convoy trying to basically ambush the russian soldiers who were approaching very quickly ...

From ukraine in just two weeks. the evacuations from besieged cities are expected to continue today. and ukrainian and russian foreign ministers arrived for talks in turkey, president zelenskyy has said ukraine alone cannot end this war. i asked about the latest pictures from mariupol and whether or not he thought russias claim that the incident is fake news, heres what he told me. >> the west is watching. and russian commanders needs to remember that war crimes are not just committed by those a...

Ben. certainly russia has some advantages in size and scale in the troops in this country, not a good offensive for the russians. they do not appear to be taking any major cities like the capital. but theyre on the doorstep. theres no question. >> speaking to the commanders here on the ground here in kyiv, lucas, 100 planes and helicopters are shut down. 300 tanks have been destroyed. thats possible because of the javelins and the stingers theyre receiving from the u.s. thats one of the big ques...

Whatever possible to prevent any incidents or accidents and if they happen, to ensure that they dont spiral out of control because with heightened tensions, more military close to the borders, we saw the attack on the training center close to the polish border a few days ago. of course, the risk for accidents has increased and therefore it is important that commanders have the necessary lines of communication. we use them if necessary. >> the lines are open, but have the russians responded? >> w...

Is confident his people are with him? >> reporter: no. its a sign of desperation. putin cant afford for russian people to learn the truth about war in ukraine. if you say war in russia, if you stand with the no war poster, you can end up in jail for three years. if you tell the truth about the losses, the mounding losses of losses. you can end up in prison. putin is desperately trying to turn my country into information bubble. because the news from ukraine, from the front line are really, reall...

Night, and the ukrainians told me -- they didnt reply once. they didnt want to -- they want to conserve their weaponry, but at the same time, they didnt want to turn that frontline into a battle zone because civilians were fleeing along that very road. so when i asked them, what happens if at some point, russian tanks to come through, one of the commanders went and grabbed and and law anti tank missile which was inside of a warehouse and basically said, we are ready. >> wow, a lot of the people,...

Movements over the weekend, seen walking around in kyiv, going to a hospital, giving that countrys version of it looked like purple hearts, medals to soldiers injured in the fighting. i wonder if you could talk about -- youve done so much incredible reporting about civilians buying weapons and taking up arms but talk about this military. ambassador bill taylor described them as the best trained and most experienced military in europe. >> reporter: so, and they have leadership now that weve seen ...