russia is ratcheting up its battle for control of ukraine s eastern industrial heartland. both sides are now describing it as a new phase of the seven-week old conflict it comes as person powers continue to supply ukraine with weapons and different splice. correspondent jeff paul is live in lviv tonight with the latest. good evening, jeff. yeah, bret. we are learning tonight the biden administration along with allied world leaders are discussing sending more weapons and ammunition to ukraine. all of this happens as ukraine braces itself for what it is calling the battle of donbas. push back and unable to save ukraine s capital city russian portions turn to the donbas. thousands are spread out across hundreds of files in the east. unlike the urban warfare encounter in the eastern region, russian also battle on familiar ground. the donbas is a region russian-backed sprittists have
territory this morning. these statements should be viewed with skepticism as the russians and russian-backed sprittists have provided very little evidence to show proof of ukraineible attack. amid fears of a larger russian invasion the washington post reports the united states wrote a letter to the united nations saying, quote: we have credible information that indicates russian forces are creating lists of identified ukrainians to be killed or sent to camps following a military occupation. the biden administration is honing to deter russia from invading with the threat of sanctions as pentagon press secretary john kirby reiterated yesterday. we have said all along that these are going to be crippling sanctions, sanctions the likes of which we have not put in place before. they are going to be unprecedented and we mean this as a very strong mess stooge mr. if you pull the trigger on that deterrent, well then it doesn t exist anymore as a deterrent. in the past sanctions have not