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Make ever more gains in the country as a whole. now controlling all the areas in red and there is new breaking news this morning, word that what we saw in kharkiv might be something we see again in other places as well. cnn chief national security correspondent jim sciutto who is on the ground in lviv with this reporting, jim. what have you learned? >> reporter: john, in the latest u.s. intelligence assessments, this is frankly a sobering warning for the 40 million people of ukraine. and that is the u.s. assessment that as russia has suffered setbacks and delays to its original blitzkrieg, rap...

Tro troops, but when they're used on the civilians, it can kill a wide area of people if you are going after people in a public square, for example. it could potentially devastate everybody within a large city square. when you look at the thermobaric b bombs, that is a weapon that is designed to go after people in enclosed spaces. what happens is, in essence, it's a kind of glorified, if you will, flame thrower, and what it does, it attacks an area that -- i believe we used it in an enclosed space and it sucks the air out of people's lungs who are targeted. it's a very grotesque weapon, and wh...

Of artillery is being used here. that is their great strength, as i said. what we've got there is thermobaric weapons. they spread like a powder through the air, and when that explodes, it is much more disruptive than a normal explosion, and so the russians call that a heavy flame—thrower. and that is broadly how it works. it fires about two km maximum. you fire it directly at the target and it puts down this huge explosion, with a horrible wave, and that is extremely bad for anyone nearby and it is extremely bad around buildings. it makes it very hard to defend because the air is sucked out...

They have a job, they will play rachel to the job, and this they have a job, they will play rachel to thejob, and this is they have a job, they will play rachel to the job, and this is that job. they have not used it yet. if they face resistance in a city, they will bring out the heavy chain thrower —— flame—thrower to deal with it. it is ruthless, it is logical to them, it is escalatory, but they escalate to win, and that is what we have seen in all of this, and you see the consequences. now if they see a roadblock or someone fires from a building, they will destroy the building and mov...

Thermobaric weapons. they spread like a powder through the air, and when that explodes, it is much more disruptive than a normal explosion, and so the russians call that a heavy flame—thrower. you fire it directly at the target and he puts down this huge explosion, with a horrible wave, and that is extremely bad for anyone nearby, and it is extremely bad around buildings. it mixed a very hard to defend because the air sucked out of the building, so defenders cannot hide in rubble, so defenders cannot hide in rubble, so when the russians come to a strong point, they can use weapons like this,...