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>> they should not come here with empty hands now. we're not waiting just for presents and cakes, we're expecting especially big things, and especially big weapons. >> today marks two months since vladimir putin launched his invasion, and it's also the day of an orthodox christians in ukraine celebrate easter. in his nightly address zelenskyy drew parallels between that holiday and the war. >> there will be a resurrection. life will defeat death. the truth will defeat any lies, and evil will be punished. >> intense fighting does continue in the south and east. eight were killed in a missile st...

Regions of russia, where there isn't much economic opportunity, and isn't much kind of value for life because life feels meaningless. there's literally no meaning in their lives. and if anything paradoxically the war gives them that meaning. i talked to journalists who covered the region around like bikol, which one part is very economically depressed and populated by ethnic budouts who are asian looking and really stand out in this war of, you know for the russian world, this kind of pan slavic vision. they're being killed at a disproportionate rate and they're joining at a disproportionate r...

Really, in many ways was the poor performance of the russian military. their war plan was terrible, you know, right, they decided on a blitzkrieg strike on the capital. they failed on that. the battle of kyiv was lost. this is the war that many experts expected them to fight in the east. it plays to the russian military strengths. they can put their big artillery and blast away at these cities. so i think biden has really shifted in his willingness to be giving more and more weapons to ukraine, and i notice that president zelenskyy has also shifted. the frustration that he often expressed with...

Handed and don't bring cake. >> i don't think that was by accident that, in fact, just earlier this week when president biden was speaking to the american public about the war, he really touted what the united states is doing when it comes to sending weapons. take a listen. >> to modernize teddy roosevelt's famous advice, sometimes we will speak softly and carry a large javelin. the sustained and coordinated support of the international community led and facilitated by the united states is a significant reason why ukraine is able to stop russia from taking over their country thus far. >> but t...

Level of ambition. >> it is also notable, as phil black said in his live shot, they are now seeming to double down on mariupol. they've already devastated that city, but now they are seemingly positioning themselves to storm this steel plant. does that signal a russia that is poised to have even bigger ambitions? they seem to be struggling just to say victory when it comes to a city that they've already devastated mariupol. >> i think it's them constantly repositioning, and respining their failures early on in the war into successes. so i think getting back to the map you showed, this is them ...