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Tonight, a senior u.s. defense official warning that russian forces have shown a willingness to hit civilian targets on purpose. the mayor of kharkiv, ukraine crease second largest city, telling me putin is intentionally killing civilians. on russian state media, though, wow. it is a totally different picture. it is like a humanitarian effort down there. nic robertson is out front with this report from moscow. >> reporter: on russia state tv, audiences are only being told what the kremlin wants them to know about the war in ukraine. this new russian army video shows troops handing out humanita...

Language ]. >> reporter: on russia's state tv audiences are only being told watt kremlin wants them to know about the war in ukraine. this new russian army video shows troops handing out humanitarian aid. they claim russian forces are giving civilians safe passage from the fighting. a message reinforced in president putin's latest state tv speech. >> translator: our military have provided corridors in all areas of combat action. >> reporter: the terrible reality the rest of the world sees, shelling of civilians, suffering, death and destruction, never gets aired on russian state tv. and many r...

Ago, you are saying to me this is not shock and awe. this is not as viewers were expecting to see the skies above ukraine lighting up. that's not what they are going to see. it is highly targeted but as matt bodner was just saying, they can't do that, the russians can take kyiv without this looking like a ground war. at least in the beginning. >> first of all, there's no question that this is a massive complex air ground, the combat action by the russian armed forces. coming into ukraine on multiple axes, it looks to me as if it's assuredly an attempt to seize the entire country. restore the u...

$65,000 to be paid to the families of soldiers who were killed in the fighghghngo far. it's his go to place. still despite everything, despite all the images we see. that still resonates here. >> on russia state tv, audiences are only being told what the kremlin wants them to know about the war in ukraine. this new russian army video shows handing out humanitarian aid. they claim russian forces are giving civilians safe passage from the fighting. a message reenforced in president putin's latest state tv speech. >> our military have provided corridors in all areas of combat action. >> the terri...

Humanitarian aid. they claim russian forces are giving civilians safe passage from the fighting. a message reinforced in president putin's latest state tv speech. >> translator: our military have provided corridors in all areas of combat action. >> reporter: the terrible reality, the rest of the world sees shelling of civilians, suffering, death, and destruction never gets aired on russian state tv. and many russians believe their government, that the war was forced on them by ukraine, backed by nato. >> translator: i know the truth. this was a forced measure on our side. after what russia wen...