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Significant gains have been in the south. remember, one of russias earlier objectives which create a land bridge from crimea and expand their control towards the russian declared republics. theyve also made gains in the northeast but as yet theyve been unable to take the main cities there like car care. lets look at their advances from the north. —— kharkiv. russian forces and continue their efforts just around the capital kyiv. they are meeting fierce resistance. last week russia claimed th...

Moskow. >> reporter: at the very same time that cnn and other western media were showing the attacks in kyiv, western tv was not showing live coverage from kyiv. in fact, it was showing pre-taped reports some of them very dramatic showing reporters in flack-jackets standing in front of tanks but coming instead from that break away region in the eastern part of ukraine, the donbas region where those two break away republics that were recognized officially this week by russia are located. this is ...

Interesting piece here. we have seen shelling in the donbas region, the ukrainian defense minister says at least two soldiers have been killed. what do we know about the russian separatists inside ukraine and what theyre doing to facilitate or participate an act of war by russia itself? >> well, these, michael, are the so-called peoples republic of donbas that are -- that are kind of proxies for russia when they sort of became separate in 2014. it was populated by russian separatists. this is wh...

The self—declared peoples republics of donetsk and luhansk have been fighting the ukrainian army in the east for the past eight years, in a conflict thats claimed more than 1a,000 lives. the west fears president putin could use an incident in the separatist republics as a pretext to invade ukraine. our correspondent orla guerin has been to the frontline village of trudivske, and sent this report. an increasingly grim horizon in eastern ukraine. we headed for the front lines, where shelling has...

Do you have much confidence in minsk as a way out of this? the short answer is no. one of the strengths of minsk when it was conceived was when it had this wonderful facility for being understood differently by both parties. that is that ukraine, which basicallyjust wanted to end the fighting, and the fighting never ended completely, but it effectively dialled down the fighting in the eastern portion of ukraine, whereas the russians stressed the part of the accord which has not been fully implem...

Unrealistic demands that putin is making, demands he knows will be rejected and knew from the beginning would be rejected. any intention other than going forward, but nonetheless, we want to go to the last mile to try to avoid war. because if it comes to war, its going to be a humanitarian disaster. that casualties could be very significant, but i share the celebr sentiments youre expressing. >> theres been a step discussed short of war, perhaps part of a broader war plan but that is to recogniz...

..unsurprisingly, countries dont like it when you militarily attack them. so... they dont necessarily hate them in the donbas, though, do they? because those two self—declared republics now look more russian than western. well, i think its certainly split cos i dont think the people in the donbas have enjoyed being at war for the last eight years. it hasnt exactly made them sympathetic to ukraine. yeah, no, exactly. its probably made them unsympathetic to both. i mean, as we speak, theyre bein...

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Powerful security council. "i will let you all speak," he said, "then we must decide what to do." and one by one, they spoke, all urging president putin to defy kyiv and the west, and officially recognise the pro—russia rebel republics in eastern ukraine. "we must recognise these republics," the interior minister says, "but within their earlier, larger boundaries." the president listened, but looked like a man whod already made up his mind. later, he addressed the nation. translation: the esse...

Worst, yesterday we heard from ukraines president volodymyr zelenskyy, ramping up as violence continues in the donbas region, in the past 24 hour. one ukrainian soldier was killed bringing the death toll to five. ukrainian military reporting an increased use of heavy weapons on the other side of the contact line, this, as we heard yesterday from the nato secretary-general saying theyre watching as russia is sending more troops and more military equipment into those separatist-controlled areas. w...