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Ukrainians with as much as we possibly can, munitions like antitank javelin missiles, anti-air stinger missiles. i think we should also be trying to get them more of the planes that they know how to fly, migs from eastern europe, that could enable them to be much more effective in protecting the skies, but also going after this tank column. theres nothing more vulnerable than a tank column sitting there massed together. >> youre talking about this convoy. here it is. this is a 40-mile-long russi...

They show some elements, most note by the artillery, are seen taking cover in a sparse batch of trees nearby in lubyanka. ten mails west of the base, a number of fall trucks and what they say appears to be multiple rocket launchers are seen in a field near trees. add tom what we already know, that russian forces have drawn closer to the capital with the closest elements about nine miles away. they are being met so far by serious resistance. take a look at a video of a tank column being ambushed ...

Do this right away because this is this is basic armor doctrine. you know, i served for almost six years in germany, most of it in armored units and fought in desert storm and tank on tank battles. and these are some of the basic elements that you do. you dont just stop on both because it makes you so vulnerable. and i think they had been hit so many times by by ukrainians fighters interdicting it that they finally just said lets get off the road, get into defensive positions, which makes it har...

Assume that was an ambush as seems likely. are there many routes in russian forces can use? >> reporter: i mean there are, i think. 3 million people, 360 degrees you can get in by various different routes but, yes, of course the ukrainians know which routes they are traveling along. its hard to hide them. they have their own drone intel, human intel and i suspect intelligence from western sources as well. i dont know that for a fact but i suspect they are. one of the easiest things to do if you ...

Officials describing it as armageddon, and say 1500 people have died because of the blockade. >> no way out, anyway out, russian troops do not allow even for humanitarian help. >> one sliver of good news, the pregnant woman seen in the aftermath of that strike on the citys maternity hospital, she gave birth to a baby girl, and named her veronika. tonight, there are signs that russias momentum is slowing. and a meeting with his defense council, russian president vladimir putin gave the greenlight...

Objectives. what were seeing is the russian advances are basically bogged down. they have been stopped by ukrainians who have really waged guerrilla style attacks, while the russians were expecting a conventional war, what theyre getting is anything but that. the ukrainians are fighting street by street. they dug trenches and cities outside of -- outside of kyiv to stop the russian push forward. and, you know, the russians themselves are reeling from their own kind of miscalculations. what were ...

Should say, a long tank column, russian vehicles, and ukrainian forces essentially attacking it from multiple angles using anti-tank missiles. you can hear what appears to be some kind of audio recording from a russian soldier in that tank unit, who is saying that his commander has taken a casualty, and so this is something that people are now watching very, very closely, anderson, because it is certainly a grim and ominous warning of things to come, fighting now spreading further and further ar...

And mariupol, it was a russian demand early this morning to give up, give up or were coming in. were going to fight street by street, and you know what, the ukrainians are fighting street by street and that will happen in kyiv. >> can i ask you, david, im curious, were looking at these, and youre right, people are cheering on the ukrainians. were looking at studies, reports, military assessments and one after another says the russians do not have enough troops, especially with how poorly they ha...

Diplomats produced no breakthroughs. though, a lot of people were surprised. the russian foreign minister sergey lavrov even denying that russia had attacked ukraine. now, ukrainian forces are putting up stiff resistance as we know to the russian military. but outside of the capital, they claim they have destroyed a tank column that was on its way to kyiv. cnns matthew chance reports. >> reporter: the aftermath of fierce fighting east of the ukrainian capital. this is what you get when you invad...

She gave birth to a baby girl, and named her veronika. tonight, there are signs that russias momentum is slowing. and a meeting with his defense council, russian president vladimir putin gave the greenlight for mercenaries from the middle east, posted from allied syria, to bolster russian ranks, the ukrainian military put out this drone video it says are a russian tank column outside kyiv, lured into a ambush. but russia still has 90% of its forces in tax. >> tonight, ukraines president zelensky...