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Period of time we were surprised to see the morale is extremely high and i think one of the main reasons for that is they just feel they have this gigantic goliath army trying to punch through the defenses and managed to push them back and that is something that has given them a big morale boost, i think they realize they know how to fight against the russian army, capable of fighting against the russian army but, you know, the ukrainians also taken pretty big casualties especially in that fight...

Provides will not be cut off, and that china will help in some meaningful way. and i think the key to undermining his will to continue to undermining his will to continue to fight is to make those beliefs questionable. i dont think we should take things off the table, andindeed should take things off the table, and indeed im sure theyre not. bind and indeed im sure theyre not. and for ust a and indeed im sure theyre not. and forjust a key. _ and indeed im sure theyre not. and forjust a key, how ...

Russian speakers. and i know your dad -- your dad was a russian speaker. and i wonder how your family makes sense of the rationale that the russian government is giving for all of this. >> i think people who have been in war with russia in that region for eight years. and people dont have illusions anymore about the intentions of the regime. this ideology doesnt make sense. somehow has an image of a right ukrainian, correct ukrainian. my family didnt fit and my city doesnt fit into that understa...

President zelenskyy was on fox tonight talking about what happened. and he was asked about assassination attempts get are against him here it is. >> do you know how many assassination attempts youve survived? >> i dont know. >> but there have been some. >> there are things which is difficult for me to count. my intelligence says there were such attempts. and we saw information about some arrivals of planes. there were other details. but, listen, im alive. im not wounded. im intact. so its hard f...

Progress in mariupol. otherwise, very limited. the fear is they will attempt — very limited. the fear is they will attempt to escalate things further, that possibly they may decide that having _ that possibly they may decide that having shelled cities like mariupol guite _ having shelled cities like mariupol quite severely over the last few days. _ quite severely over the last few days, that they now see the time has come _ days, that they now see the time has come to— days, that they now se...

>> reporter: so, hes under no illusions that this is still going to be a very tough, very long battle ahead, especially as now the focus is going to shift on to the donbas area where they have been saying for days that theyre expecting very heavy fighting there, so were probably going to see a lot more shelling there, a lot more missiles there, and theyre going to also concentrate on mariupol. they havent given up on mariupol, which is a cascading humanitarian disaster. only a trickle of people ...

The waste, the chaos, the absolutely humanitarian catastrophe putin visited on ukraine, its a very important dimension of trying to build pressure on putin from within. none of us has any illusions that putin is not subject to democratic pressures where hes going to, you know, be concerned about whats written in a free press and russia. they dont have that, obviously. but there is a sense that across russia, this bar is not going well and that i think does put pressure on putin in a very, hopefu...

Intensifying between the taliban and afghan forces, but the taliban making gains in the southern part of the country. clarissa ward live in kabul for us this morning. what do we know about the attack on the defense ministers home? >> reporter: so we were not that far away from it and it was a massive explosion that literally shook the capitol. we ran up to the roof to see what has happened. we could hear gunfire. there was an air raid siren that was wailing. that was followed by another two expl...

Dont forget, these are many children, women, that have left these areas that probably want to go back there now that the russians have been pushed back, and its going to be a very dangerous place for them when youre mining bodies, putting booby traps around the place. one good thing is at least they are being pushed back but they are under no illusions here, even though theyve been pushed back, they feel like once the emphasis has shifted back from the east on to kyiv, there will be renewed figh...

Criticism of methods or aims. but some russians disagree with both. ruslan was a senior manager at one of russias largest banks, but hes resigned in protest at russias offensive in ukraine and the banks support for it. translation: russia has created a huge area of chaos _ and lawlessness in ukraine. of course, the russian government is responsible for whats happening there. before the war, i was proud of being russian, there was lots to be proud of, but the war has cancelled all of that out. ru...