reduced to rubble. it is difficult to imagine anyone could have possibly survived that, though the rescue crews on scene say that they actually have managed to make contact with two people who are trapped beneath there. it is not clear how many more there might be, it seems like 30 or more than 30 is the worst case scenario, but remember this happened in the evening, so it is possible that not everyone was home. it is also possible given the rest of the building looks to be largely intact that some people may have survived if they were in other parts of the building or if they were in the basement. you will remember that strike on the theater back in mariupol in march, it took a direct hit and yet you had people who emerged alive from the basement. now, this strike is in an area that has taken a real licking from the russians. they have struggled to move the frontline forward into donetsk,
so they have been shelling and bombing everything that they possibly can. yesterday the russians claim that they hit a warehouse containing howitzers that are used by the ukrainian military. they also say that in that same set of strikes, that they hit at least 30 ukrainian soldiers who had been shelling the russian side of the frontline from residential areas. as far as we know, these are completely separate incidents. it is not clear it is not clear how many soldiers may have actually been killed. all we know from the ukrainian side is they say the russians actually struck a rail station or a piece of rail infrastructure, kim. all right. and then scott, turning to the wider situation across the country, what is the latest? reporter: in the donetsk region, it seems that the russians are by and large in control of luhansk. and so now local officials there
over how much longer this ar will last? or will that decision ultimately come from the man who launched this brutal ingvation, namely vladimir putin? well, wolf, i don t think there is any one party who will have the ultimate say in how long this war lasts. obviously, hasman made of russia s momentum in aen ukraine. they have made significant progress there but at the same time, it has been plotting, it has been incremental and a high level of attrition. it s not clear, while they have taken the vast majority of the region of luhansk. whether they could push into donetsk, whether they could encircle major cities lbut thin the reason you are seeing zelenskyy come out of with this sort of timeline, if you will, is he understands the crucial nature of this moment with all the nato leaders meeting together this week. the west coming together deciding how they are going to handle this coming forward but also because he understands
that they didn t hold in one of the two oblasts, the two regions that made up a wider donbas. so, this is significant in that. but what they are going to carry on doing, we would imagine, is try to take the rest of the luhansk oblast, the region. that involves taking the city of lysychansk but then they will carry on trying to move into the rest of the donbas, into donetsk, they have in their sites sloviansk, a town that they are looking toward, and kramatorsk, there are a number of key targets that they are already pushing towards, and i think that what this will allow them to do is to redouble their efforts in the cities of the donbas they have not already taken. meanwhile, president putin says moscow will supply belarus with a missile systems capable of carrying nuclear weapons. at a meeting with his belarusian counterpart in moscow, mr putin said the technology would be handed over in the coming months. minsk had previously expressed concerns about the aggressive policies of its ne
russia will do for you, all you have to do is look at donetsk and luhansk. that s why communities like top of it, even closer to russia, are now moving more west, moving more to ukrainian nationalism because they see russian dominance means a grim stalinist future. so it is an invasion, and not just a recognition of puppet states, but now we hear of russia moving more military assets into donbass, into donetsk into luhansk, and it is unifying ukraine, and it is is unifying ukraine, and it is unifying nato. yes, it s an invasion, it s not an aggressive posture from the biden administration. it s an acknowledgment of a reality. yes, it s an invasion, it s not an aggressive posture from the biden administration. it s an acknowledgment of a reality. my colleagues in the senate,