sides of this war. ukrainians in mariupol overwhelmed with the loss of life. they are forced to dig graves in the streets. at the same time, russian military leaders appear to be desperate to gain any momentum. that is according to a senior u.s. defense official. he said that russian forces have not achieved anything of what the u.s. assessed their objective to be. especially controlling ukrainian s population centers like the capital kyiv. the official said that is why vladimir putin s forces are intensifying their long range missile and artillery bombardments targeting civilians. one ukrainian man told cnn that the carnage of innocent people is worse than when the germans invaded generations ago. [ speaking foreign language ]
outside chernihiv. outside chernisome breaking newe uk ministry of defense, and uk defense intelligence has just published its latest updates on the war in ukraine. it says, russia continues to besiege a number of major ukrainian cities including kharkiv, chernihiv, and mariupol. as we ve just saw showed you, and also in mariupol as well. russian forces are proving reluctant to engage in large-scale urban infantry operations, rather preferring to rely on the indiscriminate use of air and artillery bombardments, in an attempt to demoralize defending forces. and, it warns, as it s likely russia will continue to use its heavy firepower in urban areas, and as it looks to limit its own already considerable losses at the cost of further civilian casualties.
they will come in again around kyiv. they will start artillery bombardments around kyiv. i hear a lot of optimistic reporting and a lot of pride in the ukrainian defense, but this fight is at least in military terms a long way from being over. and it s going to require lots more resupply than has gone in there because they re not just hunkered down in their defense. they need to advance. and in the attack, you do use more artillery, armored vehicles. you need more weapons than you ve got. javelins and stingers, that s great. give them more. but we ve got to get more than that in there if they re going to push the russians back. general clark, i appreciate it. thank you. coming up next my conversation with a survivor in almost every imaginable way, he survived the siege of mariupol, bombing of his apartment, and even being detained by russian troops and threatened with death. later, the report behind the
turkish-syrian border. sam? reporter: natalie, when this raid was conducted is not inside territory that would be a comfortable resting place for the so-called head of the islamic state. it is nestled in territory controlled by an al qaeda affiliate group, an organization that indeed was split from islamic state so-called back in 2014 and fought very hard against it for some time. 6 so ideological and theological and battlefield enemies were all around al baghdadi. but they are united in their hate of the west, and the united states in particular. this is an environment also, natalie, that is densely tpop lated with refugees from the russian air strikes and artillery bombardments that have so cursed the syrian landscape for so many years, particularly
secretary of state? ish. sort of. they are not using their major conventional weapons. they are there have not been massive air strikes or artillery bombardments. but turkey has much longer objectives here. first of all, it has militias on the ground. radical militias. and i m not sure if this part of the story is really breaking through because it is so important. you have a nato country with a giant army that is using shock troops, arab, radical militias that officials say contain former al qaeda and isis members. those are the forces i was talking about that the kurds while they are trying to escape are in some cases having to bribe their way through militia check points to get out of the country. it s unclear if they are going to stop fighting even though they re under some turkish guidance, some turkish control. and turkey is a longer play, which is once this five-day ceasefire is over, then they