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President zelenskyy is pleading for additional help while accusing the west of being cowards. >> and a new round of peace talks set to begin between russia and ukraine this week in turkey. >> brian: such a pivotal week. mike tobin is on the ground in ukraine with more. it used to be quiet there those days are done? >> air raid sirens were just sounding. more airstrikes come into the west. most recent target is in the town of lutz. airstrike just hit yesterday. a fuel depot. that makes three fuel depots in the west of the country to be hit in the last two days. the trend is really developing wi...

>> i ask you because we have been reporting here, this russian shift in messaging, if you will, that they have been focusing more on the eastern part of your country, the eastern part of ukraine with concerns growing that putin is trying to split ukraine in half, and we are showing where that line would be, and how much of a concern is that for you? >> it's a major concern. i think that's not the only objective they are after. if you look closely at the recent bombings of the fuel depots, and putin is trying to create a global food crisis, because ukraine is a agriculture powerhouse. he's afte...

Message to nato and its allies especially striking so far west into ukraine? >> i think they do send a message. authorize no doubt about it, but i think this is russia finally coming to grips with the reality of what's happening in ukraine. i think they began this war with understanding the need to do strategic targeting on relevant military targets in ukraine. so the last few days we've seen them striking fuel depots. the next set of targets is going to be something like the electricity grid. they're already trying to take out the telephone towers. so these are targets that probably the russi...

Shunting through. >> i'm glad you point out it's a military target. there's no equivalence here. if the ukrainians did do this, there's no equivalence. the russians are hitting civilian targets as well as military targets but civilian targets all over ukraine, hospitals, hotels, residence dn, theaters where people are hiding not to mention fuel depots as well. but do you think the russians would use this as a predicate for reprisals? >> well it's difficult to say what the russians will do as far as even more savagery. the fact that they invaded a sovereign nation, so not sure what they would d...

Here in ukraine and we'll begin this hour with a new tactic emerging in russia's brutal war on ukraine. russian forces are largely stalled on the ground so they are firing missiles at fuel depots across the country including this one in the western city of luntsk. in kyiv, meanwhile, the deputy defense minister said they're trying to establish a corridor around the capitol to block humanitarian supply routes. she said ukrainian soldiers and residents are defending the city making it very difficult for the russians and the mayor of irpin west of kyiv says ukrainian fighters have reclaimed that ...