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Vicki young, bbc news. ukraine since russia controls most of the key city. on the last major cities in the region still in ukrainian hands and has been under heavy bombardment for weeks. the past hour, they have accused russia of dropping bombs on the chemical plant in the city is as nitrogen is spreading and that people must stay inside. the eu has agreed on a compromise deal of banning oil imports under the summit in brussels, sanctions will impact run two thirds of russian imports that arrive...

Then, the pentagon says, armed combatants appeared on the scene. at least two of the fighters were killed by a u.s. helicopter gunship. >> there were clear indications te anoer u. as hostilenten helicopter had mechanical problems and was deemed too dangerous to fly out of the area, so it was detonated and the ground and destroyed. thmpnds it helped eight of them children, who local rescue groups later helped load into ambulances. >> this is a man that we should all be happy is no longer walking ...

What is reasonable to expect out of the russian military as it moves into ukraine? >> well, willie, i think the objective of the russian forces here ultimately is to depose, overthrow, topple the zelenskyy government an drive him out of kyiv. in order to do that they have to break the command and control nodes he leverages to command his own forces. so i think a lot of the targeted attacks, whether by cyber methods or kinetic methods meaning dropping bombs are designed to diss corrupt command an...

Noted, is only part of the area of donbas and the two states there. so this is his way of inching in. but hes not, i dont believe, going to allow those 190,000 troops or whatever it is on three sides of ukraine to just sit idle or not use them. so hes going to do more, and thats when he gets into what i would call the zone of unintended consequences. right now hes controlling the script. but when you start pulling triggers and dropping bombs, things can go bad, and he wont be in such control. so...

Putin is acting like a madman. hes attacked a nuclear plant. we as the united states do everything we can to give him the air power he needs which is a competitive advantage and could turn the tide of the war. we need the migs and the sue coys and the aircraft to be able to blunt and halt the offensive. these are defensive with weapons that are defending the sovereign air a space and the sovereign territory of ukraine, and he needs them now. maria: yep. congressman ellzey, these planes are sovie...

Russian bombardments. there is no drinking water and any medication for more than one week. another big problem is for people who died because of lack of medication. many people who were killed, theyre just lying on the ground. and today, we learned that among the dead is the woman on the stretcher in this now infamous picture. it was taken in the immediate aftermath of a russian attack last week on a maternity hospital in mariupol. her name is not known. its understood she begged medics to let ...

Both died this weekend. as for the living, this was reportedly filmed yesterday in a cellar in mariupol. "the planes are flying overhead," she says, "dropping bombs, "scaring the children. "please organise a humanitarian corridor to help our "children escape." today, a few hundred people were able to drive to safety, but thats a drop in the ocean. well, its...it�*s about two sides that need to come to the same terms. they need to find together an agreement. and if that doesnt happen? well, if ...

The ukrainian flag and if they dont attack russian forces the alternative is we will flatten your city to the ground. they made clear it is one or the other, total capitulation or total annihilation. will: thank you. when you think about the courageous resistance of the ukrainians and i looked at the size of the russian air force, the second-largest air force in the world, thousands of warplanes, between the war planes they can put into action, the cruise missiles and what you are seeing outside...

And there were a lot of such people inside mariupol who were killed or injured, and theyre just lying on the ground. and today, we learnt that among the dead is the woman on the stretcher in this now infamous picture. it was taken in the immediate aftermath of a russian attack last week on a maternity hospital in mariupol. her name is not known. its understood she begged medics to let her die if that would help them save her unborn child. both died this weekend. as for the living, this was repor...

Nature. every hour that passes, more cruise missiles in lviv, and more aircraft are dropping bombs, and more artillery units are firing. in this carries on for much longer, how much of the country will be left? >> that is precisely the point, where military objectives, and political objectives are just widening for the russians. it is very difficult for putin to address a lot of this, as the political victory. this has achieved some objectives in the south. they were saying that this was across ...