Taking Donbas News Today

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But not launch a draft. he continues to walk this line it seems for fear of upsetting his own population but what does that say that he felt the need to find more troops? >> i think first and foremost it says he has not won the war. the strategic objectives that he outlined six months ago he has failed on all of them. six months ago he said he would unite ukrainians and russians because ukrainians are russians with accents. he failed at de-nazi fication. he failed to take the capital of kyiv and...

Closer of the wider goal of taking donbas. theres civilians caught the mid of this, of course. over 7,000 of them in severodonetsk. no clear way to pull them out. the main roads and bridges destroyed or inaccessible, so fears and concerns for them. moscow is also claiming they have been able to encircle 2,000 ukrainian troops so potentially you could have a mass prisoner of war situation there if that claim is true. and, yes, as these g7 leaders meet, they have to recognize that the ukrainian mi...

Then they have not been successful in neither taking donbas, nor kyiv. and then, because they have met much stronger ukrainian resistance than they expected and then they are now changing, regrouping. but this is not a withdrawal. it is actually just another way to wage war and -- and -- and we see that the shelling continues and we see that the, you know, suffering continues. so the war continues. its not withdrawal from the war. >> so, the donbas is an industrial reegion in the east where mosc...

Territory, and we will use those drones even more than the anti-tank weapons. we will use those drones that americas providing us to make your life a hell. and if you think that you will trap our troops in the east, and walk all over us in the donbas, you might have another thing coming. ukrainians might have more surprises in store for the russians to counteract the barbarity of putins tactics. we have to wait and see there. >> they have had a few -- they have had a few surprises already, rober...

Meals, clothes for free if -- if they werent able to get out with their clothes in time. and then, further information about where to go from here with free transport because then again, everybody -- a lot of these people -- this is all they have left. a bag, a suitcase perhaps, and if theyre lucky, their family members with them. so, this is a major evacuation. there are estimates of at least 2,000 people on some 52 buses that have finally made it through many, many russian checkpoints to ukrai...

And call a halt to this brutality and -- and maybe have some concern for the future of his country. isolated, sanctioned, a pariah state for decades. but he hasnt. he just wants as much territory as he can get even if it means senseless killing. >> well, very quickly, the russians have claimed that two ukrainian helicopters crossed into russian territory, destroyed a fuel storage site just across the border. ukrainians will neither confirm nor deny that attack but assuming the attack was carried...

Main goal is now control of the donbas region in the east, and russian troops are noticeably being redeployed from northern ukraine. >> the occupiers are withdrawing forces in the north of our country. the withdrawal is slow but noticeable. somewhere, they are expelled with battles. somewhere, they leave positions on their own. >> satellite images show russian armor and artillery have abandoned the airbase near kyiv. the airfield was captured on the first day of the invasion and russian forces w...