Western Donbas News Today

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Have had it. i dont know that he can take the donbas. you can see the board every. that is not that much more ground. here this is the border to the western donbas. the ukrainians are fighting. i dont know that he can get here. it is hard to say im done and trying to take the areas to be russian he would have a ukrainian insurgency to defend. what happens come july and august when sanctions kick in? what can putin do? >> yeah. how this all goes in into summer with western patience and whether th...

May have come at a steep cost. it depleted the ranks and now talk of russians looking for older russians to join the military. matt bradley now joins me from kyiv and clint watt is here to talk about russias military strategy. matt, give us some more context of what president zelenskyy said the region is a hell scape. >> reporter: yeah. this is a region thats been at wash since 2014. it was recently that the russians made the push out on february 24th to try to take the entire donbas region and ...

To the eastern part of the country to be used in battle and havent seen the full effort by the russians in the donbas and the ukrainians and we can probably see more violence and civilian death in that region in the months to come. >> now we understand why president zelenskyy describes it as hell and could get worse. clint, it is one thing for the russians to win now in the east. the question is whether they can hold the region. we got reports today they look for soldiers. they will take volunte...

And didnt try to reconstitute them. all those weeks and months ago their efforts have been faltering and now seeing shifts. 1,700 ukraine troops from underneath the steel plant and even though vladimir putin declared victory now they can declare victory. now they will be able to move forces from mariupol to elsewhere in the donbas region and really start to focus on retaking that and remember at the same time we havent seen the full thrust, the full appearance of that really big military equipme...

Essentially the dominion of russia under the guise of russian backed separatists in ukraine and now looks like the russians made a push to take that whole region. this shouldnt be a surprise because vladimir putin declared that this was his motive. since withdrawing from the north of the country vladimir putin and military said they would be concentrating on taking the donbas region and now that they have tried and this is weekings ago to make the announcement and the results so faltering and vp...

Inslovyansk. its a key city, if they take the city, they can envelope the ukrainian forces dug in here and want to equip the forces coming up from donetsk. thats essentially the end of western donbas if theyre able to do that. but big questions about their ability to do that, when you zoom back out and look at the bigger picture. separately, we saw russian forces doing probing operations here in the south. but i think thats mostly to keep ukrainian military forces tied. you weve seen them push a...

Can essentially redeploy this force up towards donetsk, they would try and make a maneuver to the north and try and link that with their forces coming in from izyum. essentially what the russians would like to do, i dont know that theyll be able to do it, but to essentially encircle and essentially cut offer a lot of the ukrainian military, which is in this very key region here on the western donbas. when you look even further, when you get in close, you can see the russian march. ill rewind thr...

This work, ukraine continues to defy expectations and the sinking of the russian ship is a big victory. >> 50 days of their russian invasion even though the occupiers have given us a maximum of five. thats how they know us. those who have shown the russian ships can go to the bottom only. >> this friday morning here in ukraine, we are learning more about the toll of human suffering and devastation in the city of variable. of the u.n. saying people are being starved to death after russian troops ...