worse by the worn ukraine. ukrainian troops are battling to defend the eastern industrial city of severity on the exc. russia has sent more troops to encircle the area, but you cranes, the president remains defiant, saying his forces will win back all occupied territory from key of charles stratford reports on developments across the east. sarah nights and neighboring least chance got the last 2 towns in the loo, ganske region that are not under full russian control. and we understand, according to the ukrainians, they actually contradicting the russians and sang that ukrainian forces are in control of the industrial area of that to city russians. the russian forces in control of the majority of the residential areas ukrainian saying that up to 12000 civilians are still inside the city. now we don t know whether in fact they re trapped all they are refusing to leave. it s important to recognize that in our travels in that eastern region, going into frontline cities and towns
fighting in soviet due. yet the fighting s force more than 14000000 people from the homes. meanwhile, the u. s. has announced a new round of sanctions against rationale, galks and elite suzanne bus. robbie has more from cave. if we go back to a 100 days ago, the whole world thought that ukraine would fall within just a few days, 3 days a week, maybe a few weeks. that was the, that was the estimation by experts and world leaders that ukraine could not withstand the, the force of the russian invasion. they come to its doors, but he is still standing many cities in the west. they are still standing. the russians have had to re mobilize to other parts of the country pulling out of places that they intended to conquer within the hours if not days. so that certainly does represent a victory in and of itself for the ukrainians. and now in terms of what s happening in the east, it is, it is difficult to forget that the war is, of course, still going on and is absolutely devastating m
anyway, even without their quite approval. if all the countries do the same thing, germany s foreign minister says that, but it will not stand the way of poland if it were to send the tax to ukraine. germany manufacturers the military hardware and usually asked to give permission if it can be re exported. but poland prime minister says warsaw make its own decision, even if berlin doesn t permit the move. the something mother called allah test them up, we will apply for consent. but this is a secondary topic. even if we do not get this consent as parts of a small coalition, we will still hand over our tanks together with others to ukraine. the condition for us at the moment is to build at least a small coalition for states. and on this issue, we are contacting our partners in western europe or shes for mrs. sagel ever has been meeting his south african count by in pretoria, san africa s government has maintained what it says is a neutral position on the conflict in ukraine. na
in january 8 attacks. that s when former president, julia boston, our supporters stormed government buildings with the famed tourist site of much repeat you has been closed as anti government protests spread across peru. the demonstrators are demanding the resignation of president stint boulevard. and you search at the residence of us president joe biden has uncovered more classified documents. a total of 30 have been found since november. mike hannah has more from washington d. c. according to the personal lawyer, bob bower and bowers said as well that these documents appear to come from a time when biden was in the senate, as well as some documents that were associated with him while he was vice president . so not clear exactly what these documents were, but this is yet a nother drip drip in the ongoing process of finding these documents, the bye didn t administration has attempted to take the heat out of it and it s largely succeeded by giving an open door to the departmen