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Military support from the west in terms of, you know, systems like javelin and so forth. so you are seeing ukrainian counteroffenses. these counteroffenses are not necessarily making huge progress, but they are nevertheless important first steps. but i do think we're in for a prolonged conflict rather than a quick conflict, and i do think you will see intensified war of the cities where the russians are using, you know, large-scale artillery attacks on cities indiscriminately. >> so what the western allies, nato allies, the u.s., the eu, what they're doing now, is it enough in the longer term ...

>> reporter: hi there. you're right. the attacks on chernihiv have been increasing a lot. one of the things we have to make clear, that chernihiv is a really important city for the russians. it is right between the capital of kyiv in ukraine and the belarusian border and the russians haven't been able to take it in the last three weeks. it has been encircled. this is why the mayor told me he believes the attacks are increasing. especially over the last couple days, there have been a lot more artillery attacks and incorrect fire attacks. you've had 53 people killed in that town on wednesday alo...

Parts of the country that, so far, have escaped much of the violence, the strikes, and the artillery attacks. cnn's oren liebermann has that. >> reporter: russian military is expanding its invasion of ukraine. increasing its attacks on the western part of the country. fire and smoke seen in the aftermath of strikes on airfields near the polish border. it is a scene that played out in cities all across the country as russia unleash add barrage of attacks in the early-morning hours. in the central city of dnipro, fire poured out of a destroyed factory. rubble littering the ground and another str...

Yegor, 5 1/2 years old. he and his mom are from kharkiv, ukraine's second largest city. suffering indiscriminate russian rockets and artillery attacks since the war started. how are you doing? how is he doing? "i'm playing soldiers," he says. his mom adds, "yes, soldiers. he is always saying air raid." if me and you were playing air raid now, how would we play? "show them how you play," she says. "i'm shooting at a tank, he says, any tank i can hit." how do you explain what is happening in ukraine? "he saw everything," she says. "and now it.

Kyiv and that they're not going to give up their aspirations of taking the capital city. they may focus some more of their artillery attacks now in the don bass region because the operation in kyiv has gone so badly, but nobody you speak to here, military officials, tell you that they're going to leave the area around kyiv or chernihiv. and of course we've seen places like mariupol which they have not left alone at all. they've consistently pounded that city and by all accounts in the next few days mariupol may fall into russian hands even though they put up such a fierce resistance there they...