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Civilian evacuation point. and then in irpin also, we also see these tanks. this is russian tanks. they're lining up near civilian apartments. this is just west of kyiv. so what does all this tell you about their strategy to get into kyiv? >> well, this is the encirclement of kyiv and it starts from the outside and works in. what they found when they made a run straight into kyiv is they got knocked out. that was the fighting last week in the suburb of bucha which you show up there. now the challenge for the ukrainians is can they come out into the suburbs like irpin and can they take it out a...

Particularly in cities like mariupol being agreed. look, it was a positive, you know, that these talks took place at all. given the security situation, given the ferocity of the fighting. and i think it is also true that both sides went to the negotiating table in a -- with slightly compromised positions. the russians, for instance, appear to have dropped their demand, that there should be a change of government inside ukraine. they want to install a puppet government that would be pro moscow, that demand is no longer being voiced. the ukrainians for their part have, you know, said that they'r...

Expressed by the ukrainians ahead of these talks, after them i spoke to a senior ukrainian official who had knowledge of the talks and he said, look, our impression was that sergey lavrov, the russian foreign minister, he came to listen to the talks, to these -- to this meeting. he didn't come to offer any compromises. this is what he said, it takes two to tango, but lavrov was not allowed to dance at this meeting. and so this was never, from the russian and the ukrainian point of view, going to be the point at which a deal was done. but at least that process, you know, if we can draw a silver...

Capital. i am hearing now in the past couple of minutes, outgoing rocket launch systems, something the ukrainians have been using and in the suburbs of kyiv that's been incoming as well. that's something that we have heard and seen over the entire course of the day with plumes of smoke coming from outskirts of kyiv as heavy fighting was going on there. a lot of that, wolf, is concentrated to the east of the city, but especially towards the northwest of the city. and there the ukrainian military now says it made some important gains. it now says it has 100% full control of the suburb called erp...

0 there for this white house. that could mean more high prices to come. >> john: it's stunning from a lot of americans that we would rather buy oil from iran and venezuela than doing the former. >> sandra: we're going to dig into a lot of what she said today. thanks for joining us. i'm sandra smith. >> john: i'm john roberts. "the story" with martha stars right now. >> martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. i'm martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as russia escalates the bombing of civilians in ukraine, they're being accused of committing war crimes, russian is,...