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LVIV, Ukraine — Russia launched its full-scale offensive Monday to take control of Ukraine’s east, attacking along a broad front over 300 miles long, Ukrainian officials said in what marked the opening of a new and potentially climactic phase of the war.

Nothing seems to be working to deter russia from the onslaught in ukraine. for more on that, i want to bring in retired four star general. john allen. the author of the book future war and the defense of europe. theresth book cover. considering russias full scare assault, how far do you think putin is willing go? >> well, only he knows. im sure that the campaign plan theyre executing is a faith campaign plan. they appear to be striking in to ukraine on several different ax is. one out of belarus...

The latest. >> today french president macron called russian president vladimir putin what is being described as a last ditch effort to avert war. in the call according to to the kremlin which lasted for two hours, president putin blaming ukraine for the recent violence in don bas. urging the west to meet the security demands as for the situation in eastern ukraine, thousands continue to be evacuated from the separatist control areas speaking to journalists on the russian side of the border. hes ...

Pro-russian government installed in your country potentially? how does it feel to even contemplate that and how it might change your life? >> i dont believe that will happen. ukraine and russia have been fighting for the last like 350 years. and independent ukraine. right now so i think that western help if the west acts really tough and with ukrainian soldiers. strong and brave sons of ukraine. ukraine will be european union with crimea and don bas. thats my opinion. >> theres a lot of talk abo...

Next thing you are looking for here? the next move that you think will tell us where this is headed? >> the next move would be military action, both inside the donbas and perhaps beyond. the u.s. still sees preparations for that kind of military action. theyre taking it very seriously, watching day by day. listen, it is a tense situation here. lives are at stake. the pressure has not been let off from the perspective of the u.s. and nato. its going to be a crucial few days and weeks frankly with...

Doesnt work, is to fight for every inch of our land, john. >> so lets go to moscow. jill dougherty, what is putins likely response to the announcements that were made today with the sanctions? >> well, you know, interestingly, john, the kremlin said they were a little too busy to be listening to president biden. they had a meeting, the president had a meeting. so thats kind of the mood here. you know, its really kind of a sense of inevitability that theres a plan unfolding. you had president put...

Happening, john, as we are hearing from nato that russian troops are arriving in that don bas region. and the real question now becomes do their attempt along with those prorussian separatists to push the front lines to the borders that they believe constitute those two breakaway republics. if they were to go ahead and push forward with that, that would result in major fighting and particularly in major metro metropolises, a port city, and so you have the sense here that really the city is on so...

Three weeks ago exactly i had my life. i was living in my house. with my son. i was living a regular life. i was building for 20 years in kyiv. and now its all gone. i cannot stay at my place. i havent seen my son for three weeks. my boyfriend is with the army. i dont know where he is. and im able to see him again. it feels surreal r. that is just making so very little sense. i would say that we knew that the russians hate us enough and the fact that we are trying to build a democratic state. cl...

Donbas. all russian speakers over there hate them now. >> it does seem surreal. even for those of us not ukrainian. just watching the situation unfold. thank you so much for joining us. we appreciate it. i hope you can stay safe. reunite with your family as soon as possible. the white house says president biden is a big believer in face to face diplomacy. thats what his aids said. to that end he will travel to europe next week to attend the nato summit in person. expected to discuss deterrence...