believed to have remained. was told to shelter in place and instead decided to get on the road bike and cycle out of the city to save his life, despite the fact that the only road out was constantly being shelled. take a listen. you are on a bicycle, how did you manage to escape? i did not know that the rim was under constant shelling. the bridge between severodonetsk was damaged. across the river and then later the same day, the bridge was totally. destroyed now ukrainian officials tell me that if russia is successful in taking those twin cities, essentially argument at that point the whole of luhansk oblast, which will help them in their effort to take the battle for donbas. ukrainian officials tell me they are holding their own, but if luhansk, owes russia will
hejoins me from washington, lots with he joins me from washington, lots of analysis for l you with lots of analysis for us. thank ou for with lots of analysis for us. thank you forjoining with lots of analysis for us. thank you forjoining us with lots of analysis for us. thank you forjoining us and with lots of analysis for us. thank you forjoining us and enjoy. - with lots of analysis for us. thank you forjoining us and enjoy. we i with lots of analysis for us. thank i you forjoining us and enjoy. we are hearing there that ukraine is being able to push russian forces beyond the artillery range of kharkiv, this doesn t sound like a victory, tactically for the ukrainians, it is hugely significant, right? it is enormously hugely significant, right? it 3 enormously significant. as hugely significant, right? it 1 enormously significant. as we saw and heard on the package, kharkiv is ukraine was an second largest city city, home to over a million people, and to be able to take ru
the very serious process which will take, i don t know how long. but there s a lot of things to investigate, unfortunately. unfortunately, yeah. satellite images show russian forces have pulled back from the northeast region of kharkiv where there appears to be a powerful counteroffensive by ukrainian forces. how do you interpret this development? first of all, let s not forget that russians collected all of the possible forces in order to do that, what they call battle for donbas, and they re failing. and that explains a lot, that shows that russian army is far less effective than many military experts believed. so ukraine is more efficient, and ukraine is has less weapons, but we re trying very hard, and that s what gives us a chance that there will be victory at the end. that s very clear. there have been reports of morale issues, low morale among
he went on to explain, in the first months of the war, the victory for us looked like withdrawal of russian forces to the positions they occupied before february 24th and payment for inflicted damage. now, if we are strong enough on the military front and we win the battle for donbas, which will be crucial for the following dynamics of the war, of course a victory for us in this war will be the liberation of the rest of our territories. meanwhile, in washington, the house tonight will vote on an emergency $39.8 billion package of military and humanitarian aid for ukraine. it follows president joe biden s signing of a modern day lend-lease act yesterday. what that does is expedite this process for sending aid. it s where we start this hour with nbc news correspondent cal perry live for us on the ground in kyiv. cal perry, our friend, igor nobikov, was here yesterday. there is a sense that they re in this in a way no one predicted at least publicly that they would be two months in, but