The lead negotiator as he cautioned because their stark message to the insurgents to John Nickelson has made clear, reconcile or die. Ruben said this is not the way to start a dialogue with people whos entire culture is organized around personal and collective honor, which by the way is a much bigger factor in this war than socalled extremist islam. He added its obvious that this conflict has no purely military solution, even maintaining the current Military Involvement requires better political ties with afghanistans neighbors. Look at a map, ruben said, afghanistan is land locked and America Needs supply roots. The three countries that could help with access are pakistan, russia and iran. And we have bad relations with all three. Rubens chief advice is to work hard at diplomacy and recognize other countries have an interest in afghanistan and engage them, a successful outcome is entirely
dependent upon involvement from india, pakistan and russia and iran. So washington cannot keep fa
already working in this region of syria that s affected by the earthquakes and they themselves have family members that they ve lost. we lost one of our colleagues in the rubble in his home at the time of the earthquake who died and so they are themselves shattered seeing what their community is experiencing with all the description that you just saw there. for us the key priority is to make sure we can keep the supply roots open because the way to bring in supplies through the one u.n. official route, there is one road from turkey into that region of syria that is approved, got to make sure that that s open for the supplies to be able to come in and then obviously, it s to maintain a level of security for the medical teams to be able to work to do the distributions, obviously, right now, in the hours ahead, it s shelter. it s blankets.
and bring in melissa bell. they have beenroffensive for mo. what are they telling cnn about the advances overnight? reporter: well, what regional officials are saying is that for the second day the fighting continues, that counteroffensive continues with fighting in several towns they say along the frontline. but also just as we ve seen during the preparation phase also continuing to tax beyond it. so things like ammunition depots and infrastructure across the bridge over the river, of course one of the targets of the ukrainian forces and it has been throughout the phase of this preparation of the counteroffensive to try to cut off kherson from the other side of the river and the supply roots that allow russian forces to bring in weapons and men. and so that counteroffensive continues. but there is of course something we re hearing from ukrainian officials and we ve been hearing from the ukrainian president
russian planes. ukrainian officials stopped short of claiming responsibility for either explosion but have taken out russian ammunition hubs and supply roots in the last week. russian president vladimir putin is accusing the u.s. and britain of helping ukraine plan the attack. the nato block is moving east, building up its military infrastructure, deploying missile defense systems and increasing the strike capabilities of offensive forces. tension between moscow and kyiv only building outside of the zappa region nuclear power plant. europe s largest. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy warns continued shelling could have catastrophic consequences. any incorporation at the nor evacuations and rescues underway in the hard hit donbas region today after renewed russian
do is they want to go after all the supply roots that are coming in from the west. if you take a look where lviv is here next to the polish border 40 miles from the border. what the russians did was they attacked points to the east, the south and the west of lviv. so those areas cut roads and railroad lines and power stations associated with those facilities right there. so that makes the difference. so they want to keep the supplies from reaching the east, which is where as you pointed out the main fight is at the moment. didn t we have this conversation a couple weeks ago they would start doing that? yes, they did. that s what they re doing. the playbook is unfolding, at least parts of it are. we re getting a look at drone footage showing ukrainian forces knocking out a number of russian military vehicles near kharkiv.