in the east, talking about the amount of destruction they ve seen. the amount of continues shelling that they ve seen ahead of that ground offensive. for example, in luhansk, the main city under attack by russian shelling right now, in donetsk. 70% of that main city has been destroyed in that city, according to officials out there. and my colleague ben wedeman is actually in luhansk with his team right now. they witnessed that shelling in a city in luhansk in that region earlier today. so what s going on out there, russian shelling in different cities and towns. many of these areas being filled with civilians. they re shelling these regions ahead of that expected ground offensive that could start in coming days or weeks according to ukrainian officials. luhansk officials pleading with civilians in that area to evacuate to safer places. some 70,000 civilians according
russian warplanes and had taken off from the neighboring country of belarus. the ukrainian defense official saying they managed to shoot down using air defense systems, shoot down the forces before they reached the region. also overnight, another attack in the southeastern district of the city of kyiv. that city s mayor saying at least one person died after that attack as well. we know that rescue crews are still on scene there going through some of that destruction. several other people have been hospitalized, start of that. but these are more individual attacks that have happened in other parts of the country. what we re seeing in the eastern part of the country, that is where the vast majority of the shelling continues, where the vast majority of the fighting is right now, as we wait for the real scaleup in the expected campaign. the offensive campaign. that russia is intend stog mount in the eastern part of the country in the donbas region. and we re hearing from officials in luhan
we will get a general response from the general secretary of the tcu. and just later, i ll be speaking to the former foreign secretary jack strong. it is tuesday, the 22nd of march. russian troops turn on peaceful protesters in the occupied city. living in the shadows. a new report from kharkiv, a city under attack. how long you have been living here? three weeks. how do you feel about it? we hear something blow up, we re down here, what was that, oh, shooting. good morning, from odesa in south ukraine. a city which has seen its first shelling thanks to russian naval war ships as president biden
this story is but msnbc barely touched it. i couldn t find any groups represented on the shows. msnbc is conflicted on this story. right now the parent company comcast is trying to merge with timewarner cable. that would be a combo bigger than at and t plus direct tv. the at&t deal will help comcast and vice versa because regulators will conclude they will balance each other out. so that s msnbc. for real blue news on this story, i looked online and here is a bold headline from salon the other day. this merger is a nightmare, why we should all be very afraid. check out the illustration, a city under attack. usually this is where i turn from blue news to red news, news of the probusiness, promerger bent but this week the place i found the most skepticism and the most proconsumer message was on fox news. cable and internet providers