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And didn't try to reconstitute them. all those weeks and months ago their efforts have been faltering and now seeing shifts. 1,700 ukraine troops from underneath the steel plant and even though vladimir putin declared victory now they can declare victory. now they will be able to move forces from mariupol to elsewhere in the donbas region and really start to focus on retaking that and remember at the same time we haven't seen the full thrust, the full appearance of that really big military equipment that had been promised from washington, from london and elsewhere in western europe. only some ...

Essentially the dominion of russia under the guise of russian backed separatists in ukraine and now looks like the russians made a push to take that whole region. this shouldn't be a surprise because vladimir putin declared that this was his motive. since withdrawing from the north of the country vladimir putin and military said they would be concentrating on taking the donbas region and now that they have tried and this is weekings ago to make the announcement and the results so faltering and vptd learned the lessons from the attempts to take kyiv. they had a really faltering effort to try to...

Inslovyansk. it's a key city, if they take the city, they can envelope the ukrainian forces dug in here and want to equip the forces coming up from donetsk. that's essentially the end of western donbas if they're able to do that. but big questions about their ability to do that, when you zoom back out and look at the bigger picture. separately, we saw russian forces doing probing operations here in the south. but i think that's mostly to keep ukrainian military forces tied. you we've seen them push around mykolaiv, and this sliver here known as transnistria, part of moldova. but they try to st...

Can essentially redeploy this force up towards donetsk, they would try and make a maneuver to the north and try and link that with their forces coming in from izyum. essentially what the russians would like to do, i don't know that they'll be able to do it, but to essentially encircle and essentially cut offer a lot of the ukrainian military, which is in this very key region here on the western donbas. when you look even further, when you get in close, you can see the russian march. i'll rewind three weeks or so. it's very small and incremental. they move forward each week trying to grab a lit...

This work, ukraine continues to defy expectations and the sinking of the russian ship is a big victory. >> 50 days of their russian invasion even though the occupiers have given us a maximum of five. that's how they know us. those who have shown the russian ships can go to the bottom only. >> this friday morning here in ukraine, we are learning more about the toll of human suffering and devastation in the city of variable. of the u.n. saying people are being starved to death after russian troops obliterated most of the town. ukrainians fight for the city is ongoing although russia claims ukrai...