Page 46 - May 9th News Today

We want to warn you, its incredibly graphic. just frightening images there. men, women, and children lying on the ground besides their luggage and personal belongings. they were so close to reaching safety and denied that safety by putins forces. that strike landed near the donbas region near ukraine. european officials said one quarter of russian forces used in the invasion are effectively inoperable after heavy losses across the country. russia is feeling the pressure to have something to sh...

Claiming russia feels pressure to achieve some sort of victory by may 9th. thats an important anniversary day, i guess, for russia. >> it is, yes. in fact, thats the anniversary of the russian or soviet victory over nazi germany. that was the date the germans signed documents in berlin. that anniversary is important for a lot of historical purposes, and it kind of fits with putins de-nazi-fication narrative, which is a false narrative. but, you know, these artificial lines can play havoc with op...

There would be even greater nato support, not just for finland but also for ukraine. and putins had a very bad six weeks as a result of the invasion, and its only getting worse for him. >> and heres increasingly isolated, right? >> extraordinarily so. i mean, he had real soft power only through buying politicians and businessmen in europe. thats almost all gone now as a result of this major invasion. the change in especially german policy from one of kind of appeasement to resolute defense again...

Is that we have to have a paradigm shift away from talking about things like stagnation and ending the war and instead winning it. we are looking at a second phase, as you say. i think the russian offensive will probably start in about 48 hours. i believe mr. putin is sincere when he talks about wanted to win by may 9th, meaning there is a critical month ahead of us. what logically flows is that the west should be sending as many arms and all kinds of assistance, as quickly as it can, in the hop...

They lost many of their co comrades. they may well be on a deadline. may 9th, just over a month from now, that is the russia victory day parade celebrating the victory in world war ii over the nazis. this may be when they want to declare victory and perhaps declare a cease-fire. but they have to take a lot of territory in eastern ukraine before they do that. . >> just to be clear, again, as youre looking at this, kramatorsk is right in the middle where fighting could get fierce. also where thous...

It is flat, unlike the rest of the country where there was a lot of urban fighting and some areas mountainous. these make up eastern ukraine. nowhere to hide. so this means that the ukrainian, thousands of ukrainian forces that are in that wide plane, they cant rely on the ambushes and the sneak attacks that have proved to defivastating in the past. if they are working on towards a may 9th deadline, if we go back to the map, the russians could trap thousands of troops in here creating a situatio...

Analyze. the one way that he could, and, of course, it would not be victory, is to define the victory. say, well, you know, russia went in to take the donbas back. protect those people. they asked for our help. these are the russian speaking in the eastern part of the country. we took that back and that is where you see all of the force of russia right now moving to that area. and then may 9th is coming up. may 9th is a huge celebration of victory in world war ii. and it could be, or at least th...

An out on may 9th, he used that day as a pivot point, thats a month away. its a month away, and every day we see more horror and bloodshed. jill dougherty, grateful. up next for us, we come back to washington and we celebrate history. you see it right there. the soon-to-be justice ketanji brown jackson. so subaru is growing our commmmitment to protect the environment. in partnership with the national forestst foundation, subaru and our retailers are proud to help replant 1 million trees to hel...

Political spectrum, you are aware that there is news from somewhere else on the political spectrum. i am assuming that that is similar in russia. so how are russian people being sold on the idea that there was an independent press that just up and vanished? >> i think everything that you are seeing here has been part of a years-long effort. within russia, by putins regime, to kind of normalize and prime the russian public for what is happening right now. it starts with just this the stalled ship...

Angry that russia didnt accomplish the goals it wanted, which was to take over ukraine in 72 hours when it invaded on february 24th. his armed forces have not performed the way he thought they would. and that the ukrainians, you know, great miscalculation. ukrainians have fought back heroically, and their resistance is very fierce. so that was another major miscalculation. so what they are trying do is regroup and taking more land in the donbas region in southeastern ukraine. and putin is lookin...