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Vladimir putin formally recognizing two separatist regions as independent. world leaders in the face of this con demning putin's action, imposing tougher sanctions against russia and possibly more to come. let's get the very latest. sam kiley is live in eastern ukraine for us this hour. sam, keep us updated. >> reporter: kate, well, i'm in the province of donetsk. the donetsk people's republic, so-called, and the luganz neighboring republic that the kremlin officially recognized last night in the house of representatives effectively in moscow also moved to recognize. the issue for local people...

Pro-russian separatist leaders would aspire them to be. the borders, the way they aspire them to be, are significantly more expansive and include key cities currently held by the ukrainians such as mariappa, will we see with russian forces alongside them to try to nibble away further into ukrainian territory? now, for the most part now, it's been largely quiet this that donbas region today. we heard from the deputy russian foreign minister who's speaking to russian news service tasks that there were no plans to send troops in to donbas imminently but we also know that president putin had essen...

Attack on dashboard video, published by new york times. you'll see them freeze at one time where they highlight the individual projectile falling on what the driver says is a residential area and you'll see multiple projectiles. [ speaking foreign language ] that is not precision bombing. those are multiple projectiles falling in what is said to be a residential area. along with the growing attacks on civilian areas, yet more people forced to relocate or flee the country entirely.

Shouting, what means it was a pharmacy or drug store targeted and then you hear a woman screaming from another part of the area, screaming which means children, children, so the video is very graphic, i don't think that we can show it ubut you can see the bodies of civilians lying on the ground. hearing from local authorities that more than 30 people were killed in those attacks and also closer to the capitol just close to the northwest the town of boravyanka, minister saying there were many civilian casualties there, just astonishing images, anderson, residential apartment buildings, big towe...

Donbas area, including crimea, which russia annexed in 2014. and just a few minutes, we will be joined by the former prime minister of ukraine who is in power during that invasion back in 2014. but we start this hour with nbc's cal perry who is live in lviv for us. cal, it's good to see you again. let's talk a little bit about this, because you have been on the ground in the before the better part of this entire invasion. lviv has been relatively spared from direct conflict thus far, but talk to me about the evolution that this city has gone through since use first start arrive until now. >> t...