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country's borders. welcome to the show, everyone. it is now 8:00 a.m. in lviv, ukraine, and we're getting a clearer picture about russia's goals in ukraine. russia's military now confirming its objective is to take full control of ukraine's black sea coast. and key to that is a city that we've been talking about for days now of mariupol, where an unknown number of ukrainian troops as well as civilians are trapped inside a large steel factory, a large steel complex as you can see it on your screen. ukraine's prime minister spoke about the dire situation as he met with u.s. officials...

Are doing. i'm not sure that ukraine has the means or the wherewithal to do it, but if that were the case, that's what i would be saying. let's take the initiative here and launch our own offensive where it would hurt the russians most. and of course any threat to crimea will certainly get the attention of the kremlin. >> it should indeed. finally, let me ask you about mariupol. we've seen, you know, the city under intention shelling and fighting for weeks now. it's clear that russia, stuart, has most of the city in its control with the exception of kind of this pocket of resistance. they're r...