going up to russian vehicles in the streets with no weapons just to push them back. the spirit of the ukrainians that we re seeing on display is just something that is utterly remarkable, john. . even as civilians are clearly being hit, auto parts office, a gym where we saw ellipticals and tread mills. alex marquardt on the streets in kyiv. please stay safe. thank you so much for that. up here in key. so much focus up here. down here on the black sea coast, the russians appear to be making advances. the russians are claiming they have control of this city of kherson. the ukrainians do deny that. let s get a report from the region. nick paton walsh is now in odesa not far, another black sea port. give us a sense of what you re seeing and hearing. reporter: yeah.
burning our flag and burning our cities. so as an american citizen looking at this and it s really interesting to look at the maps and i, you know, it s fascinating to have joey and pete telling me all the war games, i m joe america sitting here going, what does this have to do with me, and why should i trust anybody in any of this? i m very confused, to be honest. will: very legitimate place to sit today and questions to be asking. pete, as you see this and we ve circled in on kyiv and carr kyiv kharkiv, do you have any thoughts before we move on? pete: yeah. you re so right what you said. there s a ton of information flowing back. all the chechnyanings are killed, 56 tanks, the other side is saying it s just a couple of them. no one knows. and you re right, rachel, we break down the, ands and os because this is the base level of human nature which you never want to get to which is hand war amongst people. and just because we re covering it doesn t mean you re
they know they are losing the narrative, the information war. there was a major attack here just yesterday on this tv tower here in kyiv. it is about three miles from the city center. a number of rockets hitting around this area, including at least one missile that hit there. you can see right there in the middle is where that impact was. there was a blackened area, as well as windows that have been absolutely blown out. but rockets landing all over here. i m going to ask my cameraman alesandro to point down the street. there is a large street pole that has been absolutely shredded. and this is, very sadly, where a number of people died. five people tied, according to ukraine s interior ministry. some of that blood is still on the streets. now, john, last hour we showed you that gym that was destroyed. this is just down the block. this is an auto parts store. every single window blown in. you can see the owners and staff
fascists. it is watching a maniac coming to destroy the place. it reawakens the images of the holocaust. it is symbolic honestly that all the never-again talk has to become never-again action. that s what i think of this. . as i said you said in the words of a holocaust survivor, i ll tell you last night a woman in kyiv said god made me live through two wars. why did i have to go through that and now this again? she said this bomb should wake up those people, those victims of babyn yar that let them come out and fight against the russians to get them out of this country. it s amazing, seering to hear the words.
destructive. and depending on what that is, and how permanent it is, you could become the co-combatant. what about some of the efforts, even if it doesn t make the u.s. the co-combatant but they re being liberal with some of these things, if these things don t work, if these things short of military action don t work, i understand we re all watching, the u.s. is very clear it is looking at polls, the administration is and saying we can t go in militarily, can they afford to watch kyiv get creamed really? can they? smashing and crushing kyiv is the russians only play and a play they used in multiple conflicts before. that s what that whole convoy of vehicles coming in is all about. that s why they re warning ukrainians to get away from certain targets. the next step is to bombard that city in a way that they push enough of the nonhardened combatants and remaining civilians out so they can try to