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Have foothold in those locations of the remains to be seen that there can be challenge in all of those locations because they have to simply got there but if the russians are able to control all of those, that would mean control over access to the potter and that would mean resupply. it changes the dynamic for them. all eyes are public to the north of the country and that is on this convoy estimated at 40 miles long. a convoy of armor and infantry and weapons coming from the belarus border headi...

>> we can show you overhead video now of a strike on a russian armored column outside of kyiv. the information we have right now is ukrainian fighting forces want to make use of this turkish made tv 2 drone. they had excess before the invasion. what was interesting about the drones, they have the ability to carry four smart antitank weapons each. it appears as video of this strike on the russian column was indeed the use of one of those turkish made tv 2 drones. up to this point come over port o...

Launched now odessa is in the sites on the vaccine that would give the russian navy a vital. on —- foothold in the south russian rockets have destroyed a ukrainian airport in response to president zelenskys request of a no-fly zone. ukraine hangs in the balance is the fighting enters a second week what can you tell us quick. >> putin came out today saying his campaign was going to plan and he would not stop until the ukrainians stopped fighting and as such the civilian death toll continues to ...

There is intense fighting as the russians are trying to breakthrough and get their first foothold into kyiv, but so far they have not been able to do it. and a big development today, and i think it reflects back to the difficult time that russian forces are having here. if you listen to peskov, putins spokesperson, he said the war could end if the ukrainian government agreed to certain demands, and they were considerably less than the demands that russia has been ask for until now. vladimir puti...

What should they do? >> i am just appalled by the way in which the government seems to be standing back, and allowing companies to ride roughshod over community, and not very far, and then we have this situation in black bull, that caused a real concern, across the northern of england, about the impact of fracking and whether that was actually safe or not. weve said for a long time, the government should not be pressing ahead with establishing a new industry in gas against the wishes of local co...

Do they want you to leave the capital and be with them too? they do, obviously. you know, it has been going on a month almost we havent seen each other. they are still in ukraine, we have made that decision we are not living ukraine. we have the chance to do that, as most ukrainian males are not allowed to do that, younger than 60, i am a us and ukrainian citizen, and i could live but im not, i made a decision to stay in ukraine and i am here in kyiv for a few days and im thinking about maybe re...

Once these cities are raised to the ground, the buildings have fallen down, it is almost impossible for attackers to gain a foothold. the russians know all about this from the second world war. over 1 million red army soldiers, dying, defending stalingrad. but what happened in syria is that after a four year, conventional battle for aleppo, in northwest syria, in december 2016, and 13 days, they dropped chlorine barrel bombs to break that siege. the chlorine seeps underground, its its heavier th...

These guys to feel terrible and isolated but theyre at the table for one of the most important deals to be negotiated. how do we square that? >> i would pay attention, shannon, to what is going on in moldova. because those are places where vladimir putin has already taken a foothold. if he wants to distract. if hes seeing the battlefield getting more and more difficult in ukraine, he might look to open another front. and i think that really will raise a lot of challenges for washington and europ...

>> reporter: the ukrainians have been able to bog down any progress the russians have been able to make, particularly with the town of mariupol. the fighting, as you know there, has been severe, and the civilians have paid a very, very heavy price. were know now getting some images that indicate russians are, indeed, getting into the city of mariupol. if you lack at the images -- look at the images, it looks like an apocalypse. there. the russian army has been bombarded, has been bombarding that...

In retaliation. attribution is hard. we know that its hard to figure out who is attacking what in the cyber world. but its also an opportune time for any threat actor to commit a crime. you know, people are looking in one direction and the great opportunity to leverage that destruction, create more chaos, get a foothold and obtainable. and there are there are many actors that are doing that right now. yeah, theres a theres a cyber security analyst named dimitri alperovitch and he, by the way, pr...