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Much calmer and then there was the alarm that time during the attack. it is a difficult line so we will leave it there but thanks for the latest air. and a pointer because in about 15 minutes time we will be talking to ukraines former president petro poroshenko, his take on everything we have seen overnight and recent weeks with the two have european capitals and perhaps what lies ahead with the potential for the spring offensive. all of that coming up in 15 minutes time. as promised i will take...

David ignatius, as much. >> david, if you dont mind -- >> i was going to close out the block. >> oh, are we closing the block? >> yeah, we go to break. >> is that what alex is yelling in my ear about? really, okay. i thought he was talking about the yankees game last knights. david, quickly, talking about ukraine, where are we right now? were hearing, obviously, china getting more involved in possibly trying to bring the two sides together. you have germany. you have italy. you have nato powers ...

Think you do important steps, you declare that you are ready to launch a training programme for ukrainian pilots and the french president emmanuel macron do the same, inviting ukrainian pilots. this is exactly the right time, right things to be done. min exactly the right time, right things to be done. ~ exactly the right time, right things to be done-— exactly the right time, right things to be done. ~ u, ., to be done. will it come in time for the s-urin to be done. will it come in time for ...

Raised by russia against ukraine. aha, raised by russia against ukraine. a final quick question. youre talking to me earlier about spring offensive, summer offensive comments whenever it comes, are people making any sort of assessment of whether they stay or they leave? because we have seen an exodus at the height of the start of the war. are people still making those sorts of calculations for the months ahead? i guess the answer is not simple. its not straightforward. it depends, family by fami...

>> we should stop while were ahead. im right. they tell me. president zelenskyy is meeting today with british prime minister from the united kingdom. he announced a new package of support for ukraines military. that includes hundreds of air defense missiles ahead of the highly anticipated spring offensive. he also promised to start training ukrainian fighter pilots this summer. that is key. he has said fighter jets are on the table. he has not yet taken that step. president zelenskyy has been ...

For us our soldiers are invaluable. we will proceed carefully and we will use the western hype precision sophisticated weaponry to ensure we liberate our land with most destruction on the part of the enemy and a minimum loss and our side. we are almost out of time but i want to ask you one quick question, this counteroffensive, is this spring offensive that we have been talking about for a long time. is it the fact that ukraine still isnt ready? the counteroffensive is not an event which you can...

For the world. much more on that on cnn "news central" ahead. we will see you tomorrow. an unexpected slowdown at the border, but will it last? dhs says its too early to know. thats not stopping immigration politics, though, from heating up once again. hours ago a new bus of migrants arrived at the vice presidents residence. four russian aircraft down inside russian territory. what this tells us about what the ukrainians can do now and in a much discussed spring offensive. the travel forec...

Seekers while in border cities temporarily. i spoke to some of these individuals a little while ago, kate, one of them in particular hes getting ready to get on a bus and head over to denver in the next day or two. in the meantime hes waiting on the sidewalk because a friend of his is still in detention, hasnt been processed and released yesterday. so thats why were still seeing people, a limited number of people on the streets, but many, many more inside of shelters. these are folks that are ca...

Beginning stage of a larger offensive. we must hope. we have to assume. and that the key thing in my mind is lets stop talking if we are the ukrainians, lets stop talking about the spring offensive, lets get about the business of the spring offensive. and its not a shot from the canon, its not like a bunch of forces are suddenly going to surge and have these great sweeping motions in the vicinity of bakhmut or elsewhere. what youre seeing right now are the initial phases. thats where you strip t...

Strikes are going after civilian targets or there could be some collateral damage or there could be the pushing of ukrainian forces on the ground into russia, thats -- thats a form of escalation thats not essential at this point. what zelenskyy and his forces need to be able to do as described is to decrease the number of russian forces that can assemble, refit and be pushed across the border into ukraine. if you can do that and disrupt that youve taken the initiative out of the hands of russian...