Tank War News Today

Hes one of the more influential officials in the ukraine, correct . Yes. I believe hes one of the few that stands with lutsenko and the zelensky administration. Yes, thats correct. Look k back at hing back a , hindsight, who was doing what . He was out to get him. He said some nasty things. Sometimes that happens on social media. And are you asking me whether it is appropriate, probably not. But i would say that minister ivankoff has been as well as others both in lutsenko and zelensky administr...

Remember putin has lost the war for ukraine. i think before we got donbas and think about the next battle, we need to remember that his original intention, which was to swallow up all of ukraine, because ukrainians are just russians with accents. he failed at that. he failed to chase away zelenskyy. he failed to take kyiv. battle of kyiv will be a historic moment in ukrainian nationhood and ukrainian history books and even as you just showed, he has not taken any major city yet. little ones like...

Appears to be a shrinking delta between what the ukrainians are asking for and what were willing to give? weve had a lot of pentagon reporters report over the weeks that theres a diminishing distinction being made by the biden administration between offensive and defensive weapons systems. >> well, nicole, ill be quite frank with you. ive always had a little bit of trouble desiefing between offensive and defensive weapons, but we certainly have been in talks with the ukrainians about what they n...

>> well, i think youre spot on. the intelligence assessments of what the russians were planning to do and what was happening with them massing at the border, some of the false flag operations that the intelligence community projected, and i think thereby undermining russias ability to prosecute those have been really, really important to this effort. i think that most of us would have thought that the russian army would have performed far better than it has, and i was in ukraine about a week bef...

Respected and other people are taking it from you, and this does relate to the kinds of things that tucker carlson has been trying to create these wedges and convince people that somehow they are losing their position in society, that its being taken away from them and they are all victims. >> well, and you dont get to white replacement theory, is that what tucker calls it? and a warm embrace of vladimir putin without coming at it from fear. i mean, i think the reason that editorially it was an ...

The strikes over the weekend in lviv shattered that citys feeling, even if it wasnt a reality, but a feeling that it was relatively safer than, obviously, the brutality that weve been covering, really in horror, for weeks now in mariupol. can you sort of -- can we start in the west and then well move through to the east? >> yeah, sure. i mean, youre absolutely right. i mean, lviv is an area that really has kind of escaped the violence of the war that is really permeated the east. tens of thousan...

Is that right? >> yeah, its very -- you know, being in kyiv is very interesting. i have been here about two weeks and i was -- you can see the increasing number of people coming in each day, more and more. i mean, i think there is really just such a desperation to get back to some form of normalcy. you go to -- you can go to a few restaurants now where theyre pretty much bustling. you hear sirens. the war is never far away. there are a lot of checkpoints, sandbags across the city, these anti-tan...

Have a very different concept of time, but this will be a big battle and as weve been reporting, youve been reporting, it will be a much more conventional style battle than this slaughtering of innocence weve seen so far. >> theres no indication that those features will diminish as the brutality has been rewarded in russia, the soldiers who carried out the atrocities in bucha have been recognized by putin himself. im sure that doesnt tell you anything new, but what should the rest of us take fro...

Rewarded back in mother russia. putin awarded honors to the same russian army brigade that ukraine has accused of committing -- war crimes. at war with one another. one calls what happened in bucha a genocide, which it clearly was. the other rewards the soldiers who carried it out. its where we start the hour. joining us now, npr white house correspondent live from central ukraine. we have some of the pictures youve taken from your twitter feed, and i want to start by putting up this one. this i...

I am the commander of the azov regiment, he says, and i call on the leaders right now, mariupol at the steel factory, hundreds of civilians are sheltering. they found their only available shelter was next to ukrainian soldiers who were still defending the city from russian invaders. i urge the politicians of the civilized world to organize a proper green corridor to ensure safety and provide immediate evacuation for everyone. >> mariupol on the brink of possibly going one way or the other, right...