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>> it's surprising the degree that russia is struggling. the second big ground day. two major night attacks with air power. their air power program hasn't been anywhere year as effective as you would expect it to be. they still stunninglily have not taken down the ukrainian air force in terms of their infrastructure. they are still knocking russian airplanes out. and ground advances are struggling and the air campaign is tied to that. they have not taken out ukraine's total air force, they have not been able to support their ground maneuver unit to overwhelm the ukrainian resistance. you put i...

Front that, yes, we're talking. yes, we understand. yes, we're going to negotiate over this and that. but i know from my own time here with the osc -- i was here in 2014, 2015. we had multiple talks with the russian-backed thugs in donetsk and representatives from moscow. each time a cease-fire was negotiated, it was broken shortly afterwards. there's a pattern of lying and deceit on the russian side, and i don't think we should expect anything less right now. >> it's a bit of a different situation only in the sense that here the russians are certainly not performing the way they had hoped. >>...

So no matter where we will end up, i will have a candle to light. >> reporter: rosa flores, cnn, orlando, florida. so much -- so much heartbreak. if you would like to help people in ukraine who may be in need of shelter, food, and water, go to cnn.com/impact. at last check, cnn viewers have helped raise nearly $5 million to help in ukraine and neighboring countries with all those basic and immediate needs. now, we are following all the breaking developments here in ukraine where russia is stepping up air attacks even as an american official says its ground advances remain largely stalled. ...

And south eastern parts of the country? does it appear russians are using more crude weapons because they are frustrated in their ground advances? >> yes indeed. there's no doubt. every analyst would now agree. the russian attack has stalled and badly. and they didn't expect to be stopped. when they entered. what's the fourth week of this war. according to we're looking at some sort of modern siege tactics. they decide what they're going to do about the cities. many times previously the best hope for ukrainian success is to defend from the city. where the russian overwhelming superiority of th...