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Leave and then they'll surround the area and take it over eventually. it is a war crime off the bat, no question and it's a tactic if they use it here and they are successful, we have to worry they might use it elsewhere, too. >> john: the bigger picture here across ukraine. so, what we are seeing here up in the north is the ukrainian forces are holding off the rush russians to the north, and the west, and kharkiv, the area that's open. the russians are nowhere near there, even though they have tried to move through. we are told there are some russian gains in donetsk, and where do you see the...

He was 18 and he was in second year of university. he started -- wants to become an i.t. professional. started programming and my daughter -- and my daughter was 9 years old, and what she liked, dancing, painting. she studied english. they were normal, cheerful children. and we have here where i am now four families. all of us resettled from the donbas area, and this house where i am now is where my wife had to be evacuated. i have here got children and we will not leave kyiv. we will stay here till the end. >> sergei, thank you so, so much for speaking with me and for sharing this, such deepl...

Vladimir putin has recognized a special entry operation has not gone well. clearly they have had to give up their aspirations for a regime change, a change in ukraine. president zelenskyy is going to stay there. so that is a major achievement as far as the russians are concerned. the ukrainians now talking about neutrality, and not giving up on wanting to join nato. but again, it is a battlefield that is defying conversation. we understand that the russians are focusing on the donbas region, well, that is understandable. given they have been fighting there since 2014, and given that the two do...

Where the strategy of the russian military may be? >> it is very difficult, willie, to know specifically what mr. putin is going to do on a day-to-day basis. all i can do is tell you what we're seeing happen, and what we're seeing is they're taking defensive positions in the north. they don't appear to be willing or able to move on kyiv anymore. they're just kind of digging in around the city. as i said, the ukrainians are fighting back. what we're seeing, willie, is a prioritization. they publicly admitted this. we saw a few days ago, they were starting to prioritize the donbas area, the east...

True, the strike would mark the first use of this kind of advanced weapon system in combat. as russian forces raise the stakes, the civilian death toll unfortunately continues to climb. nearly 900 ukrainian civilians have now been killed since russia launched its invasion, including 64 children. ukrainian officials have repeatedly accused russian forces of purposely, targeting civilians, which is a war crime. luis moreno ocampo, both a founding chief prosecutor of the international criminal court is going to join me live in a few minutes to discuss with that actually means. and shelling contin...