right? he s going to keep pushing, but it s also not clear, don that russian forces are capable of achieving what putin wants and certainly not quickly and that adds up to sort of a depressing conclusion and that is that this war could drag on for some time, with a lot more fighting, a lot more bombing, sadly, a lot more civilian casualties, and really a world war ii-like battle in the east. this has the potential for a long, hard, and deadly slog. jim sciutto, see you get some rest. thank you for your coverage. this is don lemon tonight and we have new video which shows the brutality and indiscriminate destruction of vladimir putin s war. here it is. take a look at that. new drone video devastated town, the ukrainian forces there in nearby irpin and bucha were key to stopping putin s march to the capitol and chilling warning from the president of ukraine tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other cou
dangerous but even president zelenskyy said today, listen, they re arming us now with what we need to push russia not just back to the original before the war back to russia. wow, let s talk about mariupol because it s been under siege a long time but russia has struggled to take places like mykolayiv, so, you know, beyond mariupol. what major cities in the south and east could become major flashpoints for this new russian push, major? yeah, i mean they need isium fully under control, krematorsk, natural choke points of lines of communications, road intersections, hearts of political and population resistance. so they need krematorsk, they need izium, fighting as we speak over poposna, they don t own anything. don, they don t own mariupol after two months. you know, cnn spoke with
ina says, i have nowhere to go. i have no friends, no relatives. again, that was in kramatorsk, that s here. and now we re learning about what happened here in poposna where russian troops opened fire today on at least one bus evacuating people out of this city. this is in the luhansk region. somehow, no one was injured and all 25 people are now safe. we also learned some refugees from mariupol did make it out and have arrived in western ukraine, but thousands of others still remain trapped in this port city. including those taking shelter at a steel factory here in mariupol. they are now surrounded by russian troops. russia says it will not storm this plant but instead choke it off with a blockade. i want to bring in retired u.s. army major mike lyons. today russia publicly confirmed