is taking its toll. you only have to look at the soldiers faces here to know how tough this battle is. they all look worn. they say morale is high, but their faces are telling a different story. we move on towards other positions and stop as the shelling increases. we ve just been told that the place we were going to is under heavy shelling. we ll pull back and go somewhere else. in the battalion bunker, the commander tells us the russians have ramped up shelling on his troops since they advanced. tons of ammo, shrapnel, tanks firing, everything. he unit s drones recorded their recent successes, but now the russians have regrouped, and in a moment of candor following losses the previous night admits morale is flagging.
3:00 livestream and on there answer your questions. world tonight, president biden banning all oil imports from russia to the u.s. another blow to vladimir putin, what the president said to the american people about how this will effect them. gas prices already at the highest level in u.s. history. all of this amid the images coming in tonight from ukraine. people by the thousands evacuating cities during a fragile, temporary cease-fire. video posted online showing the red cross helping them. tanks firing nearby. nearly two dozen people killed when their city was shelled overnight. and tonight, poland s major announcement, saying it is willing to transfer all of its soviet-era fighter jets to u.s. forces in germany to give them to ukraine. the immediate question late today, polish jets on a u.s. base for ukraine? what the pentagon just said about that tonight.
yeah, thank you for having us. the last time we spoke to the children was with our perspective adoptive son about three nights ago when they were heading to the bomb shelter in their building yet again. and he said, mama, i can hear tanks firing. we re going to the bunker. oh, my goodness. leo, clearly they re 14 and 15 years old so they fully understand what is happening. they hear and know these tanks are firing. what have they shared with you as far as what this experience has been like for them? you know as this is not the first time they ve had to evacuate from a war. they were brought out of their original hometown of donetsk in
ukrainian tanks firing, fighting back against the russians on a mariupol street. tomorrow, president biden travels to europe for this emergency nato summit. what s expected already from the summit? and abc s james longman from lviv, ukraine, again tonight. reporter: tonight, ukrainians claiming a key victory in a strategic suburb of kyiv as russia s advance stalls. ukrainian troops retaking control of makariv, driving out the russians during a fierce battle. new video showing the aftermath. ukrainians now blocking putin s forces from surrounding the capital in the northwest. after now 27 days of fierce resistance, a senior u.s. defense official saying for the first time russia s military has lost 10% of combat power in ukraine, and troops are running low on food and fuel, and some lacking gear to protect them from frostbite. they either didn t properly plan for logistics or sustainment, or they didn t properly execute to their plan, but they are still having problems. reporter: n
is trying to get across that border. and israel said they re just not going to allow that to happen. they ve used tear gas when they were moving close. when they got closer to that border fence, that s when they started opening fire. it was easy to see how that death toll could rise so quickly, because at times we heard almost gunfire. we heard tanks firing, which the israeli army said were at hamas positions. also there were a couple of air strikes in the northern part of gaza. the u.n. has come out and urged restraint from the israeli side. but when you talk to these people, you get a real sense that this is a grassroots movement, that people say they want to go across, they want to return to lands they say that were lost to israel during the 1948 war. but here s the thing, erin, these protests, big, violent today. we re expecting the same thing tomorrow. ian, thank you very much. and as ian points out, when it s grassroots, it s much more