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Heavy gunfire was heard in the capital city throughout the night. reporters on the ground said they had increasingly frequent bouts of small arms fire. drying ever closer to the city center. the ukrainian military seems to have shut down multiple aircrafts, including transport planes covering my passion troops. they said there is a heavy battles south of western kyiv, where they delay paratroopers. and this video was taken by a defense reporter for the kyiv independent. it is a newspaper showing combat fire near the kyiv zoo and city center. reports tonight, ukraine's president is staying put ...

Will be about a third ukraine and then about two-thirds domestic. i'm told biden's message will be directed toward obviously several audiences, the congress, the american people, our allies. but perhaps most important, he is sending a message to one man, vladimir putin. according to a senior intelligence official, biden is really facing the question, how far putin goes. and the source said, quote, the grim period is about to start. in response, my source believes the president's language has to be steadfast but calibrated and signal strength but not trigger putin. the source said there is a re...

That's the wrong word to use. i think americans have this concept he's got his security counsel, he sits down there in the -- i used to work with all these people. i know them. he doesn't do that. that makes it hard for us to know how do put pressure on him. second, really brilliant thing. you just referred to a former senior intelligence official that you talked to, right? i'm not going to ask you to disclose who that was. that's great reporting. that's exactly the kind of reporting that kier can't do in moscow. there is no former senior intelligence person close to putin that will talk to an...

Patrol where i live and i have a kalashnikov for the first time in my life. a guy from a boarding school in the middle of britain, you know, my parents sent me there. never thought to hold a kalashnikov rifle in my life but i held one. i can't say it feels good but at least i feel safer now but all that craziness means nothing if we lose this war so look. you can put your money on us. we still going to be here. tomorrow, the day after and a million years from now. >> what do we get wrong in the military analysis, which is that russia has more guns and more tanks? former intelligence official t...

His hold on power is less now, he is, as the intelligence official says, likely to dig in and double down. that means he will take increasing risks. we know the history of these personalist regimes, when they lose power, they can expect to be jailed, exiled or killed. i think that's what putin expects, and so he will use all tools at his disposal to prevent that fate, and it does put us in a risky situation where we have to do everything possible to support ukrainians, their ability to defend themselves, we have to put pressure on vladimir putin, and we need to do it in a calibrated and carefu...