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Meanwhile britain and the european union are hoping to inflict more economic pain on russia with new sanctions going into effect today. their target, russia's diesel exports. scott mclean has more from london. lots to get to, but first the battlefront in bakhmut. >> reporter: that's right. the fighting continuing. frankly, kim,ite benz continuing for months and months. russia has thrown many resources and man power to attack this town, but so far no luck. this town, bakhmut, you likely would have never heard of it before the role, but it's place and outside important to the war. it's been well...

Doing on the ground. as you talked about, some of the most intense of fighting is coming out of the mariupol region. there are plans to try to open another humanitarian corridor today. in less than an hour, they try to remove civilians that are heading down inside the region. 50 escaped yesterday before things broke down and the fighting resumed. there is a lot of concern from you and about the rescue team and how long they will be able to actively try and rescue civilians today with the fighting continuing. the victory day celebrations, it appears, that russian troops in the couple of days ha...

We've had three air raid sirens this morning, but it's another morning where it's still. there are even fewer people that we can see from our vantage point here on the street. you see armed volunteers stood next to professional soldiers on checkpoints and barricades in streets across the city, and you can't help but wonder, do they know what awaits them on the outskirts of the city? that ito—mile long armoured convoy 30 kilometres north remains in situ. army chiefs expect it to be joined by russian reinforcements working their way down. but, equally, you wonder if the invaders know what awai...

We're gonna continue to need your expertise on sanctions, we appreciate your expertise tonight. >> my pleasure, wish we were better circumstances. >> we need to. and, joining us, now is david rothkopf, former analyst for usa to be, and the -- is the host of the deep state radio podcast. david, your assessment of where we are tonight, where vladimir putin is tonight, after as we come to a friday nights in the first week of vladimir putin's war. >> well, we're at a precarious moment for kyiv, with russian troops on three sides. fighting continuing. they're making considerable progress, despite t...

Armoured convoy, so that will boost people, but it is nevertheless quite scary for people in the city to hear the fighting continuing, and the worry is that that could come quite regular as this war enters a new chapter. but as ever mariupol continues to be attacked with air strikes, we are told, 100,000 people still thought to be trapped there. and on russian state tv, we have the official reason for why russia is doing what it is doing, they laid out their vision for this land corridor running from crimea all the way up to the eastern dom bess region, which they hope will give them both a mi...