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Advertently, large numbers of helicopters in this area, russian helicopters, ferrying in airborne troops to that antonov air base, trying to create a bridge head, what we have been advised by our security observers here, that would imply, what they intend to do once they secure that airport, bring in more troops, supplies, weapons, things like that. let me take you through this once more. in terms of the actual fighting, we have been warned by our interior ministry contacts not to go anywhere near it, saying the fighting is too fierce, do not go close to it if you can help it. so what we're do...

The city of kyiv. and we believe that is the vassell air base. it is an airstrip in the southwest of the city, a place where the russian special forces deployed to secure a bridge head to bring in more reinforcements. it is not entirely clear that they have been successful in doing that. they're met with strong resistance from ukrainian military forces fighting back attempts by the russians to gain a significant foothold on the outskirts of the city but we know see within the past hour a huge explosion rocked the city. it came from the area. you can see the glare of those fires. i believe fuel...

Today. here is the latest. jonathan. >> todd and carley, good morning to you, russian forces have seized their first ukrainian city. it is the city of kherson, south of the country. the mayor confirming russian troops arrived at city hall and spoke to him there. he says he asked them not to shoot civilians and to give the people of kherson time to remove bodies from the streets. russian forces continue to press the offensive in kharkiv, in mariupol and again in the south and hearing russian troops are heading toward odessa via warships in the black city. odessa, another critical city that woul...

Also about logistics. the bigger fight i wanted to talk about, we've talked about rugts weakness in the north getting bogged down in the convoy, in the south it's a different story. in crimea they made a major land bridge tieing in with the insurgent-held areas in donbas. mariupol is under complete siege, power outages, major bombardments. this is a forecast of what we might see in kyiv should they surround that in the north. yesterday they advanced to kherson. that's key because there's a bridge head there that crosses the river that opens to the mouth of the black sea. they crossed that. the...

The ukrainian military is doing an amazing job of stopping the armored convoys but how long can they do it? russians trying to encircle and envelope the city to the south. they have to keep up the fight as long as possible. that brings me back to what is going on in the south. we were talking about where russia has done better or worse. the south, the military units advanced in a big way. two areas to watch. one of them is a city where essentially the russians pushed their furthest advance in the south and take this bridge head to move towards moldova. if they can move towards moldova, they wi...