reporter: this is what the slow route of russia in southern ukraine looks like, kyiv s forces are pushing close to kherson, the first city the kremlin took. here so many people being evacuated day by day, and the area quiet in contrust to these impacts we see all around in the fields, just constant barrage over the past days. the bus is the last way out. the village has been ukraine s last position for days, so this is what russia left of it. the noise is the village gas main leaking furiously. putin s war of annihilation was sure not to overlook this school, its front torn off by a
exterminate us, kill us. and if we demonstrate the dignity of our people, our army, that we are able to deal a powerful blow, we are able to strike back. they strike back with any weapons they can get their hands, whether those come from allies abroad or their enemy. these fighters say anything that drives or shoots will be put to use against vladimir putin s invading force. fred pleitgen, cnn, ukraine. to another dimension of this war now. just before russia s invasion of ukraine you might remember a series of cyber attacks hit the country. websites of ukrainian agencies and big banks went off-line in what poilgss said was the largest cyber attack in the country s history. the white house blamed russia, the kremlin denied involvement. but u.s. officials warned that a wave of debilitating cyber attacks could accompany russia s war. so far it just hasn t happened.
that night the kremlin s blunt force hits another target around mykolaiv. moskow may be losing ground here but does all it can to crush and stifle what it cannot have. nick paten walsh, cnn, ukraine. for analysis i m now joined by lieutenant colonel daniel l. davis. he s a retired u.s. army officer and senior fellow and military expert at the defense priority s think tank. so difficult to really look at military strategy when we see the devastation there among civilians. i mean, let s deal first with this ultimatum apparently that the russians gave to ukraine. they rejected it. mariupol they say will never surrender. from the point of a military strategy here, why the