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Tenfold. luhansk, many cities are comparable to mariupol. the russians are leveling it. the situation deteriorated. earlier this week we talked about no man's land, there was some ukrainian held territory. most is urban street combat. this is the closest to the front line. he visited kharkiv, but anytime we have seen him has been in kyiv or in kyiv region where he was. he wants to boost morale of troops seeing the fiercest of the country's war. he says i am proud of everybody i met, everyone i shook hands with, and everyone with whom i connected with and expressed my support over the weekend, ...

As russian troops are still actively storming at least one eastern city, severodonetsk. let's get to melissa bell live from zaporizhzhia. the head of the luhansk regional military administration says russians now control most of that city? >> 80% of it this hour, jake. it is street to street combat that is now taking place. and what we have been hearing from that head of the regional military administration is that there's been heavy shelling all around the luhansk area with those villages, those settlements still in ukrainian hands. the scenes of heavy shelling this evening. they have managed...

Are advancing on the ukraine capital. this just after 5 am in kyiv where the arid sirens did go off during the night. people who have remained in kyiv are preparing for street combat, if and when russian troops arrive. we're going straight to nbc news correspondent matt bradley in oman, ukraine. matt, what is the situation there, and will you know about what's happening the rest of the country? >> yeah, lawrence, we're in the midst of a road trip. we were out in the east of the country, we are moving west. we're trying to stay a couple of steps ahead of the russian advance in the east, just a ...

As we can. >> it seems on the other side, putin made more than a couple false claims that were not tru. that there would be no street to street combat necessary. that he would, with little resistance, be able to install governors around ukraine and that an insurgency from the ukrainian people was not anticipated by putin. i wonder what, whether the assessment now is that putin is more or less dangerous no that he's been humiliated in the early days of this war? >> i think putin has really misjudged on this throw levels. on the first level, the one you spoke to. if he was under the impression, ...

That's certainly true. so, he had hoped that he could do this with minimal casualties. he hoped that he could intimidate and maybe zelensky would flee, he'd put in a puppet government, he would be able to rely on cyber, information warfare, and that stuff is not working for him so now, as he is bogged down, the risk is that he is going to feel forced to get involved in much, much nastier street combat. in other words, it's going to become heavy, casualty heavy and brutal. that's where we are going. i think the question then is — will the russian people put up with it? the thing that putin wi...