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Regional governor, was post essentially a cheat sheet for russian soldiers who may want to surrender. he said that those soldiers had thought they were on a training exercise. they kept hearing again and again from prisoners and they didn't want to go forward to advance but couldn't go backwards without risking being killed by their own fellow soldiers. obviously i can't verify those statements but it shows the source of propaganda or messaging that we're hearing from the ukrainian side here and how that fight for mykolaiv is increasingly brutal. we've seen shelling and strategically key when ...

Foreign minister said it was apparent he didn't even have the authority to say that the russians would adhere to any kind of a cease-fire, even if that was the intention. one other thing that was really important, we heard lavrov say and he was calling for the denazification and demilitarization of the ukrainian side. those are two very extreme demands that the russians had made that they had seemed to back away from a little bit before but putting them back on the table today, jake. >> clarissa ward, thank you, please stay safe. to southern ukraine and nick paton walsh in odesa. nick, local...