Onslaught. pamela? matt rivers in lviv. thank you. so sad about all these kids now without their family members due to that strike in lviv. ukrainian defense ministry spokesperson warns russian troops have completed regrouping for their anticipated offensive in eastern ukraine. cnn national correspondent clarissa ward joins us live from dnipro. how intense has the fighting been in and around the donbas? reporter: pamela, there s no question there has been a marked uptick in the intensity of the pummeling of these front line towns in the donbas region that is in the luhansk and donbas regions. they ve been at war with the separatists for eight years but they are not experienced to deal with this level of intensity. we are hearing reports from some regional ukrainian military authorities that they believe in
Lithuania and was greeted by lithuania s president addressinr more nato forces and his baltic state after blank and said that allied pole and will send russian made fighter jets to ukraine which could possibly be backfilled with u.s. jets. that gets a green light and impact talking with our polish friends right now what we may be able to backfill, their needs if they choose to provide these fighter jets to the ukrainians. knelt the move is getting bipartisan support at home. senator ben sasse said the united states and nato allies to keep them in the fight in the skies and in the streets for as long as it takes, but there are fears that they could draw into the conflict as russian who do my cores and he would be seen as an act of war. the defense ministry spokesperson issuing a statement saying the use of airfield
Earlier today saw that the area was closed off for several miles, at least the roadways. they saw in a nearby village some foreigners who were there. they said they were volunteering to help with medical evacuations. if you ask the russians, they sma 180 foreign mercenaries, as they called them, were killed in the strikes, and also a large cache of foreign weapons. the ukrainian defense ministry spokesperson said that was pure russian propaganda. and one other thing on mention is that the ukrainian foreign minister is now saying that a second ukrainian mayor has been abducted by russian forces. this is the mayor, again, the foreign minister claiming this, of a small city called dnipro rudna. cnn is not in a position to confirm that but if so, it would be the second mayor taken by russian forces since friday after the mayor was taken in broad daylight. since then, an unelected
Flying low to evade radar, the helicopters make their escape. ukraine s defense ministry spokesperson later saying he could neither confirm nor deny that ukraine was responsible. this as peace talks continue. ukraine s chief negotiator telling abc news negotiating positions change day-to-day depending on battlefield gains or losses which makes talks, quote, extremely difficult. ukrainian forces claiming to have beaten back the russians in towns and villages across this country. despite consistent shelling, like at this airport near kyiv, some russian troops have moved back from the capital. these areas show the closest the military got to kyiv compared to today. and further complicating his war efforts, the president says he s now firing two high-ranking members of the ukrainian secret service. in his latest address, he called them traitors. and in mariupol, the nightmare continues. russian-backed soldiers laying
Approximately 7,200 applicants are awaiting responses regarding recognition of their disabilities and the degree of help that will be offered to them. The One Soul program will speed up the process.