he is in lviv. ukrainian forces say that they have repelled many russian attacks. it s a long front line here, lots of different things happening in different places, but what is the latest you re hearing this morning? reporter: hey, jim. yeah, i think there are two central questions. number one, are the russians making any inroads to actually taking, physically, the territory of that steel plant to force the ukrainians into surrendering? and number two, i think, is much more important, which is, is there any progress in actually getting people out? the ukrainians, as you mentioned, say that they have managed to push russian troops back, who have been trying to storm that facility from the ground. the russians strongly deny that they have tried to take it by force on the ground. and we are also learning today that or last night, excuse me, i should say, that the russians sort of extended this olive br branch, saying that they would allow civilians to get out. they would pull their tr