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1997 levels. all the things we've heard before. so that avenue of diplomacy doesn't look particularly open. and at the same time, the military gap, particularly in that donbas separatist area, that's growing wider. so it seems even more unlikely that zelensky, the ukrainian president, would actually reach out and do what putin is telling him to do and speak to those separatist leaders. there are many reasons he won't do that. but it's not happening, and that appears in putin's mind potentially to have been a key to de-escalating this. at the moment, the military forces really do seem poised. r...

Right now with the latest on where this battle is in its third full day right now, the russian invasion of ukraine and where with things stand at this time. griff, what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, good morning, neil. putin's battle plan has been the same after three days. we've heard or three axis, an attack from the northst -- north, the east and the south. by the way, coming land, air and sea. but this is that russian-backed separatist area, the donbas renal. it's been heavy fighting there and they're trying to take particularly this town here to strengthen what was already russian c...

With saturday morning dawning o day 31 of russia's war on ukraine, let's check in with jonathan hunt, who is live. jonathan, how significant is th russian forecasts to the donbas breach into the east? >> potentially really significant. this was announced yesterday by some of the general saying the first phase of the military operation as they called it is complete and now they're going to focus on the east, that separatist area for fighting ha been going on for some time. if that is true they are essentially saying we never intended to own all of ukraine. we just want that eastern separatist a...

It's grim here in the twilight of europe's forgotten war. not much has changed, the daily dusk artillery shoot out here in months. but oddly it is the new trump era that have put hopes up in this russian-backed separatist area. president trump's first day in the office and it is raised the question should there be sanctions still against russia. they were put in place because of this war in eastern ukraine. the world may have taken it out of its attention, but it is still this night ongoing. this meant to be a cease fire. we never know who is firing at who, but they say they get hit here and b...

Scenes of slaughter today in ukraine. government trues mowed down in a pro-russian separatist area. these latest and taxes come after calling for the united nations for help. we're in the city of donetsk and jim sciutto is now in kiev with the very latest. jim? >> reporter: wolf, there has been something of a fragile calm leading up to the crucial elections on sunday. the calm now broken in dramatic form by one of the deadliest days of the crisis so far. they see pro-russian separatists behind this delay but they draw a direct line between the separatists and moscow and in this violence they s...