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Artillery, tanks, armored vehicles, all heading south and southeast to take the donbas region. from the intelligence were hearing from the ukrainians, from the west, theyre heading to a town which the russians captured last week, and they want to use it as a launching pad to get to sloveniacs, thats a pivotal town for both sides in this war. ukrainians took that back in this war. they lost it in 2014. and whoever controls it is going to have a good launching pad into the donbas area. if the russ...

Civilians and terrorize them and trying to trap them in the areas where they live, and there are no rules of conduct by the russians, and they make no distinction between military and civilian targets, and that was clearly an all-out civilian target. they are trying to get away from what is expected to be a massive attack by the russians in the donbas area, and the russians did not want them to get away and the russians are denning they carried out this attack, and they said we do not have these...

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Russians have realized is their logistical ineptitude and we saw that mainly around kyiv. if theyre focusing down on the donbas they have a much better logistical supply coming from russia, coming up from donbas and coming up from crimea and the sea of azov, from the waterways there where they have a huge russian naval presence. the third, though, is they really underestimated the terrain in many of the areas that they moved into. well, they know that area around the donbas area. they have been ...

Eastern luhansk region in the contested donbas area. meanwhile a town near that contested region russian forces are conducting limited offensive operations. they have, however, managed to take that town outside of kharkiv. now, in the eastern city of mariupol, once again humanitarian aid is stalled and evacuations halted by russian forces. we know 100,000 people remain trapped in that city without access to food, and water. they have been without electricity for weeks. this is a growing issue we...

Whatever claim moscow makes over them. russian-backed separatists control about a third of the donbas area, but until now, no government, including russia, formally recognized those self-declared republics as independent. ukrainians refer to them as invaders and occupiers. they refuse to talk to their leaders directly. russia has always maintained it had no soldiers on the ground there, but the us.s. and nato says the kremlin supplies the separatists and embeds their own officers inside their ra...

Reactors, you could have something thats just as bad as chernobyl was and could spew radioactive steam and other by-products, could spew it for hundreds of miles to the west. it would make parts of ukraine in that area, which is very valuable farmland virtually uninhabitable for generations, so its a reckless, stupid military maneuver. >> you know, general, clarissa ward was showing us moments ago, reuters images of an apartment complex just completely blown apart and theyre drone images, extrao...

The key movements that have taken place over the last 2a hours in terms of territory have been in the south. these are the russian troops that have moved up north from crimea towards mariupol, towards the east. yesterday evening, we had heard they had taken the town of berdiansk, its a port town, population of about 100,000 people. and we believe they are now moving on to mariupol, which is an even bigger city on the sea of azov. so quite possibly in the next 2a hours or so, we could see mariupo...

Firefight at the facility. so whats interesting about this is that it, apparently, and again, we dont know if there is, have been rockets or, you know, missiles in this area, but i mean that would appear to be tracer fire of relatively large caliber weapons so it looks like more of a ground fight at least at this time, on this camera. >> i cant, from the pictures, really, you know, interpret whats going on in the detail but im sure that as the night goes on, well learn more. >> yeah. i want to b...

Much for the update. joining me for more on this, especially the region sam is talking about right now. cnn military analyst, retired major general james marks, great to see you. this is a map that weve been looking at for weeks now. the three sides of where russian troops have been positioned around ukraine. lets focus in on what is now considered the front lines. >> correct. >> this, the donbas region, this disputed territory where if vladimir putin, as he has ordered troops in, if they are mo...