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Months there and these tanks will help them with their maneuverability and that's key here as you look at the decision to send these tanks and the german tanks, as well. >> jeremy diamond live at the white house, just after this important announcement, let's go to kyiv and cnn's sam kiley is there. president zelenskyy has said i need tanks on the battlefield. tanks by their very nature are more an offensive weapon. yes, you can use them to defend territory but meant to maneuver, reclaim or take territory, is that the next chapter in this war once the tanks arrive? >> reporter: well, the ukrain...

Norah. >> o'donnell: absolutely sickening. nikki battiste, thank you. well, overseas now to ukraine, tonight, president zelenskyy says ukrainian forces have retaken more territory in the eastern regions that russia has illegally annexed. this as cbs news has learned a new u.s. aid package will include more advanced rocket systems that have been key to ukraine's recent advances. cbs' charlie d'agata is in southern ukraine. >> reporter: ukrainian tanks take up position, holding the line in recaptured territory in eastern ukraine, reinforcements after russian troops were forced to retreat from th...

Of nuclear weapons. >> obviously something to be concerned with as putin feels cornered as the military has been making advances. on that note, ukrainian forces are making lightning advances through territory falsely claimed by russia. the landscape of one ukrainian town bears witness to the speed and intensity of the fighting by ukrainian troops. the story now from cnn international security editor nick paton walsh. >> reporter: hidden but unstoppable. ukraine's not bragged much about its march south from kharkiv to donetsk, but every rooftop or treeline suggests they've just been too busy ...

One that many analysts did not patrick. the ukrainian forces made lightning advances and liberated over 6,000 square kilometers of occupied territory. they continue to break the expose the russian military for the hollow shell it really is. russia is in retreat and unable to defend or hold territory. i think it is just larger than these battles. right now the world is seeing this supposed great power that russia projects to be. it is exposing their weaknesses. i don't think the russians have the strength and capability we once thought they have. we don't have to fear them any longer and no one...

>> from the outside looking in, i mean, very few of us -- i don't know if you did -- even expected an invasion. in the first few weeks when it was clear the russian military was not making lightning advances and taking kyiv and other big cities quickly, the thinking was, well, putin is going to realize this is too costly in men, in money, in weaponry. and he'll back down and there will be some sort of diplomatic off ramp. that, too, doesn't seem to be happening. so are you puzzled at all by this behavior? >> well, i'm not puzzled because we do know that for the last eight years since the annex...