they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
given how close they ve been, they have no ride to accuse the united states of propaganda. do you have concerns that the politics around the origins of covid complicate the ability of scientists to communicate openly? does this make us more vulnerable in a future pandemic if people can t even offer a hypothesis without people jumping on them? it does. this is why i think we need a very nuanced, thoughtful policy towards china. on the one hand making sure we re beefing up the defense in taiwan to prevent a military invasion. at the same time, engaging and trying to make some progress on public health, on transparency. ultimately the pandemic that took 7 million lives doesn t know borders. exactly. democratic congressman ro khanna of california, thank you so much. always good to see you.
bell in kyiv. russia launch add fresh wave of drone attacks, but ukraine says they were able to shoot down a majority of those drones over kyiv. southwest of kyiv it was a different story. tell us more. reporter: that s right, jake. it was the case of the notorious russian double-tap, the kamikaze drones launched overnight and into this morning. one landed in an area a few hours southwest of here. firefighters went on the scene to try to see what the damage had been and then lost their lives. three people injured. more broadly, the onslaught of drones. the air raid sirens in moscow sounded for around 5 1/2 hours. 14 were lunched, 11 taken down, including nine by defense systems in kyiv, jake. melissa, we re seeing new videos from bakhmut where
be retrofitted to be used for military hardware, it s a much different thing to provide the weaponry to russia. if, indeed, this is what china is contemplating, it will be pretty revolutionary. it will mean that china is going to come under greater sanctions from the united states and its allies around the world. this could really hurt china s economy. this move is not a small move for china. obviously we all can hope china doesn t do this. obviously we re going to provide more weaponry to ukraine to try to give them the upper hand. anything china throws into the conflict will only result in a loss of more lives. the commander-in-chief of the ukrainian armed forces says he spoke to general mark milly today, the chairman of the joint chiefs and staff and reiterated the desire for f-16 fighter jets. you say you re hopeful the u.s. will send them. we heard the argument from u.s. officials that training will take a while.
preserve their lives because it s their lives are his pro property. their lives are his property? yes. reporter: while progress is hard to come by, us president vladimir putin shows no signs of backing down, instead proclaiming the ukraine war to be a conflict with the west. translator: they have one goal, to break up the former soef vet union and its main part, the russian federation. for what? push the remnants around and put them under their direct control. reporter: jake, today we re hearing more such things from vladimir putin. today is special operations forces day here in russia. vladimir putin obviously congratulated his special operations forces. he told them, first of all, they re masters of their weapons, but they re defending the russian people and russian lands from what he calls ukrainian neo-nazis. we expect to hear more from