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It was pretty big news late last week, when our government said theyd ship more than $800 million worth of helicopters and howitzers and drones and armored artillery and more. to get more than $800 million of that shipment approved by president biden last week. apparently, they started making plans for another shipment of about the same size. in eastern ukraine, the russian assault appears to be as massive as was feared in the leadup to the phase in the war. in mariupol, where at least hundreds,...

Joining us now from kharkiv is the correspondent the new york times whos the lead byline -- thomas givens. mr. give us enough is the bureau chief of the new york times facing last time -- he brings unique experience to this reporting job hes also served our country as a marine infantrymen with two tours in afghanistan. mr. given snuff, thank you for joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> so weve been following your reports from kharkiv any reports from all the reporting theyve done in ukraine c...

But people seem to remember my eyes before they are anaesthetised. there is really no other way of doing it. one minute you are a fit, healthy young man, the next minute, you are a cripple. thats a very hard thing to take on board. and the nursing staff were on the front line of that at the most difficult time, when the news has broke, or the realisation dawns on you that your life is now going to be changed for ever. and people like nicci were in the front line of making sure we got through tha...

Regrouped your reporting, talked about theyre going to focus their mass on the east instead of doing multiple things at once, which is that phase one. in phase 2, theyre going to combine into their mass. theyre going to have shoulder logistics lines, and theyre going to move in with what they do best, and that is artillery. we have seen that in the 20th century. were going to see it now, where they go in and youre not going to see a lot of fancy, tactical tricks. youre just going to see masks, a...

Very much. jonathan, on this new military aid package, what would that look like? >> well, it is a recognition by washington, and frankly, the rest of europe, that the war is entering a new phase here. that in the donbas, it is going to be potentially a months-long slog. and much more a world war ii-style set piece battle, with tanks and heavy equipment. and the ukrainians are saying, they believe its already begun, as the russians have stepped up their bombardments from a distance. so the penta...

It is very sophisticated. right now is prioritizing the equipment thats coming through. it will be important for the ukraine military to get the switch blades. in order to defeat the russians at this point, they have to win the artillery war. every weapon that is fired,s they have a return address. they have to figure out where that return address is coming from and put fires on that directly. do you think they could have success with that? president biden said they will send more artillery, s...

Intelligence, air superiority, so for now the u.s. officials are fairly confident that because the russians have not been successfully interfering with those convoys with those shipments that they are getting into the right hands here. but, of course, a u.s. official did tell cnn last night that that could change, that theyre concerned that the russians could actually ramp up their attacks on these convoys as they try to impact the ukrainians ability to fight off this new offensive in the donbas...

Hit those try to evacuate a train center and killed 50 two weeks ago. i would keep an eye potentially on this area for putins army to start focusing on and start concentrating on because they could come in from the north, they could come in from the east and if mariupol falls, they could come in from the south as well where the pin ser movement would happen on behalf of putins army. were over 5 million refugees that have left ukraine and neighboring countries. extraordinary numbers there. >> dan...

And we consider this global battle started already. the dynamics can be different. it depends on the weather, the motivation of soldiers and different points. that is why we are still looking for more weapons to be supplied to ukraine. at the same time we see russia attacks leave in an effort to destroy a railway infrastructure. thats why it has to be done as soon as possible. >> sergii leshchennko, thank you for joining us this morning. jim, the russian forces have started on the new phase of...

>> thats some really important con context, jessica. joining me now is a professor of infectious diseases at the university of alabama, birmi birmingham. what do you think of this mask mandate going away? do you think its time? >> its a very complex questions. early in the pandemic we relied on mandates, like school closures, business closures to keep us safe. we all put up with it because we were so scared, right? the fear factor overrode everything else. now were trying to come out of that p...