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A lot of that movement that you've been talking about, we see a lot of russian heavy armor that has been moving into that area over the past 24 hours. >> fred pleitgen with insightful analysis, thank you so much. let's go to natasha live in brussels, belgium. nato nations have been looking at new ways to try to help the ukrainian forces and over the last 24 hours some european nations are changed their disposition on giving specific weapons to the ukrainians. >> reporter: that's right. so it seems like they're really upping their defense support to the ukrainians now, the germans, for example,...

Much will there is where this type of pain before public opinion forces some of these countries to fall away from a tougher line towards moscow. that's really going to tell the tale and i'm pretty sure the russians have fought this through. >> trace: i don't know if this is under your bailiwick and i want to read this because it's breaking news coming across. new comments from zelenskyy, president zelenskyy of ukraine quoting here, vladimir putin has unleashed a war with the entire democratic world. he praised his nation's soldiers, hailing their courage, and urge civilians not to panic. he sa...

Defense support that they're offering to the country. last night the white house announced that president biden has authorized $350 million in security assistance to ukraine, bringing the total of security assistance over the past year to over $1 billion. you can see there some of the items and supplies that the defense department is trying to get into the country. one big question is how and when these supplies will arrive. we do know before this new authorization of assistance over the course of the past few days, they have been getting other supplies into the country, that's according to a ...

Of course, the illusion of that security now shattered, 35 killed after more than 30 missiles struck that base. more than 130 wounded as well, and it comes after the u.s. has promised more than $200 million in immediate defense support for ukraine. but russian forces say that any weapons shipments will be considered legitimate targets. so the question is how can ukraine continue to receive the support it needs, the weapons it needs, the aid it needs if it's being hit from the skies? >> all right, sal ma abdelaziz, thank you. so many said they can feel the ground shaking. it tells you how close...

The time to go wobbly. what would help most now? >> we definitely see the spirit changes in the policies of many countries that are starting to help ukraine at this point and pushing back on russia. but i think the assistance is not yet enough in order for us to succeed in having victory over russia, and that means that having really serious massive military support, defense support to ukraine specifically with air defense and specifically with planes and all the other possibilities, anything from attrition to ammunition for our armed forces and territorial defense and the society fights back ...