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Closed on may 9th, russia's victory day. >> translator: the curfew saved us all. some ask why do we need excessive measures of caution, we can see they're not excessive. >> reporter: russia focused on missile and artillery attacks. front lines a little different than a month ago. lviv, ukraine. standing by at this hour, what do you know about the ukrainian gains in the east of the country? >> first of all, they're all the more important, john, because they come off the back of what we've seen last few days and weeks. gains within the donbas region after russian forces concentrated there. and...

To ukraine. >> well, the nature of the fight in ukraine is changing. the russian forces previously were widely dispersed. they could be picked off by ukrainians and ambushed, as many of them were. now the russians are concentrating their forces in the east. a lot of the fighting is at long range, using long-range artillery. so it is changing the nature of what we provide in terms of weapons. we're giving them long-range weapons like how itzers. and we want to make sure that we provide them with the intelligence that they need, both to defend themselves against russian artillery attacks, but al...

National security council, matt miller. matt, thank you so much for joining us this morning. and we would like to just start with what is the latest white house assessment of what's actually happening on the ground in donbas? do you believe this second phase of this invasion, of this war, has started? >> well it's clear the russian forces have stepped up their attacks in the east, in the donbas. they increased the amount of artillery attacks in the last 24 hours or so. and it's clear, as we have been warning for several weeks now, that they are repositioning forces and preparing to launch this...

And as a person? as a person, to be honest i am not ready to answer this question. as a person, i have to swim through the sea of pain. at the moment, the most intensive fighting in this war is going on in and around the besieged town of mariupol, where russia is using the same brutal tactics it perfected in chechnya and syria. mariupol is a key russian objective because it sits in the middle of a coastal strip which links crimea, which russia seized in 201a, with the eastern territories around donbas, which it hopes to capture now. the town has endured weeks of bombing and artillery attacks, ...

Is going on in and around the besieged town of mariupol, where russia is using the same brutal tactics it perfected in chechnya and syria. mariupol is a key russian objective because it sits in the middle of a coastal strip which links crimea, which russia seized in 2014, with the eastern territories around donbas, which it hopes to capture now. the town has endured weeks of bombing and artillery attacks, and conditions there are said to be appalling. here in lviv, several hundred miles away, hugo bachega, a reporter for bbc online, has been meticulously chronicling mariupol�*s suffering. wh...