state blinken back in israel to deliver president biden s message for humanitarian pause to benjamin netanyahu. we believe that each of these efforts would be facilitated by humanitarian pauses. that was an important area of discussion today with israeli leaders. how, when, and where these can be implemented ultimately we believe this can be a critical mechanism for protecting civilians while enabling israel to achieve its objectives of defeating hamas. israel s prime minister is still unwilling to give an inch without the release of hostages, instead pressing forward with a massive military operation. and in lebanon, a leader of the iran backed hezbollah defends the actions of hamas and threatens an escalation in their rocket attacks on israel, warning all options are on the table. also an update on americans and other foreign nationals making it safely out of gaza and the efforts to free the 242 remaining hostages. plus, we ll recap another week of trump family legal
live as soon as the home secretary arrives. let s get more now on moscow s claims to have struck more than 1,000 targets overnight in what ukraine says is the launch of a large scale offensive in its eastern donbas region. the move marks a new phase in the conflict. 0ur security correspondent frank gardner told us russia s tactics may now differ from what we ve seen so far. this is basically a race against time now. some of ukraine s best forces are fighting there in the east but they are heavily outnumbered. russia has got anything up to 76 so called battalion tactical groups, these are up to 1,000 each, in ukraine, and focused very much in that area. they have got massive artillery and air strike capability, so ukraine is saying, look, if we are going to have any chance of fending off this big assault, then we need heavy kit.
we are trying to do the best we can to help them in the maritime environment. in the azov, in the black sea. we know the russians are using the maritime environment to help reend force their own invasion. what i hear from you is there will be no u.s. involvement in the waters there. i know of no indication that we would be doing that. the most recent attacks on lviv means nowhere is safe. that aggression in the west is always inching toward the door step of nato countries. what do you make of the attack on lviv and how it raises the stakes for something like that happening? we ve said from almost the beginning. that places like lviv and kyiv are going to be under threat by the russians, by the air strike capability, the missile strike capability that they have available to them. it is difficult to know exactly what they were trying to achieve in kyiv and lviv with the strikes over the weekend. we largely assessed they were going after military or military-related targets. but t
organize basing for the over the horizon air strikes? and then secondly, how worrisome is it that a city like karat, kandahar, where u.s. air power has been focus in the recent weeks in attempt to assist the afghan security forces, are either falling or have fallen to the taliban despite the additional u.s. support. i m sorry, i didn t get what the question was on your second one. sorry. over the last couple of week or so, the u.s., we re told, has focused some of its air strike capability on cities like kurat, kandahar, in an effort to bolster the efforts of afghan security forces there. how worrisome is it that those cities appear to be falling or have fallen into taliban hands despite the fact that the u.s. has focused what capabilities it has on those areas? well, obviously no one s
any progress on securing anything closer to afghanistan in terms of staging or basing for the over the horizon air strikes? secondly, how worrisome that a city like kandahar where u.s. air power has been focused in attempts to assist the afghan security forces are falling or have fallen to the taliban despite the additional u.s. support? i m sorry. i didn t get what the question was on your second question. sorry. over the last couple week or so, the u.s. we re told has focused some of its air strike capability on cities like harat, kandahar in an effort to bolster the efforts of afghan security forces there. how worrisome is it that those cities appear to have fallen in