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Kyiv, Moscow deploy forces to Donbas area; Austrian chancellor to meet Putin in Russia

>> ali, this may be a stupid question, but what -- how do you -- how do you protect your country from an adversary targeting your country's civilian population? >> reporter: well, that's exactly what zelenskyy is saying. you know, give us advanced weapons to protect ourselves from this onslaught. and not just our army, our civilian population. you talk to regular people here, they're saying if we had the mig fighter jets, advance missiles, we could probably hit that eight-mile-long convoy of russian hardware heading to the donbas area, but they're low on missiles here. they need more air missi...

Military doctrine that means that they want to obliterate civilian targets to gain battlefield momentum. and we have seen that in syria. he was brought in in 2015 by putin to turn the tide in syria, when they felt that the assad regime may be losing the battle against the other forces there. and he launched a brutal campaign on them. look, he wiped out the idlib area, he wiped out syria's biggest city, aleppo, and that was done by targeting civilian posts, schools, bread lines, hospitals. you know, all of the pillars of civilian use. and the fear is that campaign is going to be accentuated her...

Ground to attack the town of slof yank. that's going to be key in this battle. it's in the donbas region. if they can capture that, that's going to give them a pretty straight shot into the donbas area. people are expecting a very bloody battle once the russians get into position, get those armored vehicles and tanks into there. the ukrainians are bracing for this. they've been waiting for weeks. they know the russians have refocused all their efforts on the donbas area. they're digging in. they know it's going to be a hard fight. let's take a listen to what the ukrainian foreign minister had ...

They all splintered off into different university. they think he's going to bring all the units, the ground troops, air troops together and focus sthar attacks very heavily on the donbas area. the ukrainians are bracing for a brutal campaign in the coming days. as you mentioned in your lead, they are getting more military held from other countries including the u.k. so hopefully that will help them in their fight against the russians. >> these next few days are going to be incredibly important. ali arouzi, thank you. the invasion of ukraine is looming large over french's presidential electio...