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Destroying the airport in dnipro, and they dont yet control poltava. you can imagine with this new set of operations, they still have their eyes on a very large swath of ukraine, perhaps not even just donbas, but its too early to speculate how far beyond that they would go. clearly if they succeed in this next phase of their operation, it could well be they have their eyes on really quite significantly dismembering the country. >> the chancellor of austria was in moscow monday. a very unpleasant...

U.s. and ukrainian intelligence officials say that they can see russian forces amassing just the other side of the border, some 25 miles to the north of kharkiv. they believe that they are amassing to come here, and to come here as soon as they can. nima alelbagir, cnn, kharkiv. this hour, vladimir putin expected to meet with the belarusian president, alexander lukashenko. lukashenko has been a longtime putin ally. meantime, austrias chancellor is speaking out about his meeting with vladimir p...

Country. >> uh-huh. >> we are so indented to you. thank you for being with us this morning. im herous. im curious. we are hearing about a phase that the war is about to go in with more world war ii type battles with heavier armor. obviously that doesnt play into the ukrainians hands. if you were directing ukrainian forces over the next three weeks or a month, what would be your strategy? what should they be doing? >> well, number one, they need to continue what is essentially maneuver warfare, h...

Course, replenish our own forces but something where we need support is equipment. so basically weapons. particularly if this war is goingar to be very different th what it has been so far, because what happens before, is that russians tried to attack from all different side, all different place,al and they had reasonably limited troops in many, many, many locations throughout ukraine. and our small tactic, small group tactic approach was very efficient. and thats where our allies were of course...

They should be done with their interview. mostly done with their interviews. they leave the door open that they could bring in people again, or if you evidence comes up they can keep investigating it. but then they will shift delaying out sort of a public education phase where there will be a series of hearings starting in may or june. and then a public report scheduled tentatively for september. those things can always get shifted as evidence comes in. but, theyre getting close here to finishin...

Satellite images suggest a huge column of russian armoured vehicles is on the move there. our defence correspondent, jonathan beale is in eastern ukraine. many people who live in this region have already left — thats why you can see few lights on in the block of flats behind me. i think the fighting here will be different from what weve seen in kyiv — its more open countryside. the advantage the ukrainians have is that they are already well dug in. remember, theyve been fighting russian—ba...

>> do they, shawn turner, have those systems in sufficient numbers? cnn is reporting that the new focus of u.s. and nato weapons supplies to ukrainian forces will favor now more tanks, for instance, heavy artillery, the subject of migs has come up again. can they get those weapons and will they have enough? >> yeah, jim, you know, it is a good question. if we go back and look at the security assistance to the united states and the international community has been providing to ukraine, up until t...

Ukrainians, the real challenge is to get heavy weapons that they say they so desperately need. armor, artillery, long range radar, the kinds of things they believe very desperately that they need to fight against the russians in this very kind of environment. bianna, jim? >> they have desperately asking for more weapons in the past few days at a larger scale than they have throughout this war. barbara starr, thank you. joining us now to discuss is retired army major general paul eaton and shaw...

Loser on the battlefield? >> i think thats exactly right. it will end with a victor on the battlefield. that is shaping up to be ukraine, frankly, at the moment. i think the recipe right now is over the next four to six weeks, well either have a resolution to this war, russia is defeated relatively decisively and the u.s. and nato can play a constructive role here, or russia achieves its battlefield aims after this current phase of the operation, which will become the initial phase in a longer c...

New phase in this war as it shifts its focus east. at least, thats what our intelligence officials and folks at the pentagon are saying. theyre sending hundreds of military vehicles into eastern ukraine. they show an eight-mile-long convoy into the east of kharkiv. what does ukraine need to do to win this? >> its a different war, a different fight, right? the russians are headed somewhere. we believe theyre headed to izyum, which is a key city or the couple cities around it that he needs to basi...