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Who said russian aircraft were planning to, quote, level everything to the ground. >> reporter: cnn cannot vouch for the authenticity, but the sbu has previously released audio from intercepted radio traffic with russian soldiers discussing killing and raping civilians. both allegations of war crimes by russian troops. a tendency of russian troops to use unsecured communications in ukraine. for now a ukrainian commander says russian forces are, quote, willingly bombing and shelling the plant, a sprawling complex in mariupol southeast that once employed more than 10,000 people. it's unclear how...

But let me give you the backstory of why this is so important. this is a sprawling complex. you can see it's a hugely wooded area. and it's in these areas that military exercises, training, education, troops come to learn and practice, not just on their own, but with a lot of their western allies, including american troops. there were joint military exercises held on this space just a few months ago, joint exercises between the americans and ukrainians. this is a vital point for the ukrainian military. this is the strike at the heart of an operating base that would be crucial. the other part o...

Sprawling complex. about five or six miles from the main road where many refugees are using to meet up with the border check point to get out of the country. only about 11 miles from the polish border and it is that proximity to poland that many figured would be the reason why this part of ukraine would likely be spared by russian military strikes, figuring that vladimir putin wouldn't want to get so close to a nato allied country. apparently not the case. this base in particular was used particularly for training american, canadian, other military troops have come in to train, in peace keepin...

President zelenskyy says some towns simply no longer exist. imagies from a village about 30 miles west of kyiv show a school and a medical building as well. we start wis moth what it l like. we have the latest on the shelling. >> reporter: on the outskirts of the perimeter. normally this is a public access road but already a checkpoint is set up down the way. a bit of tension and security concerns. several missiles, air strikes, ukrainian officials say, landing in that base. we know there are more than 50 people wounded. several people killed. according to ukrainians authorities. still tryin...

Responsibility is to protect the embassy. to protect the embassy with 650 troops, you can't protect this sprawling complex as bagram, so they decided to concentrate or hamed karzai in kabul. >> martha: that reveals what we've heard, which is that the military leadership at the pentagon felt they didn't have enough people to do both as you said. so the fact that they say well, we can give up bagram, they're dealing with the number of people they're given. so they had to make a choice. that was an administration choice, not to give them enough people to secure the embassy, secure bagram and what...