Volunteers willing to put their lives down. so important to get all of this documented, jim, we ll be back to you later in the hour. yeah. straight ahead, the battle for donbas. we ll speak to a reporter on the front lines of the war. we ll talk about that is at stake if russia takes over that region. that s up next. it s still the eat fresh refresh, and subway s refreshing their italians. so, we re taking this to italy. refresh. because subway n has italian-style capicola on the new mozza meat and supreme meat love the smell bof italian food. has italian-style capicola subway keeps refreshing d refres-
Remember of our war and about our children. they try to learn and study but it s very hard to do now. arena lilia, thank you so much for your time, we see you, we hear you and we re praying for you all. that is tonight s last word, the 11th hour starts right now. e 11 tonight, the battle for donbas is underway as russia continues its renewed assault on eastern ukraine. it s renewed assault on eastern ukraine, and we re learning tonight there is another u.s. military aid package in the works. here at home, the president hits the road, in a key battleground state, hoping to sell his infrastructure plan, and help his party. and masks on or off? the confusion over reversing days old cdc guidance. the department of justice now says it may appeal a judges mask mandate decision, but not right away. as the 11th hour gets underway
It s very hard to do now. arena lilia, thank you so much for your time, we see you, we hear you and we re praying for you all. that is tonight s last word, the 11th hour starts right now. tonight, the battle for donbas is underway as russia continues it s renewed assault on eastern ukraine, and we re learning tonight there is another u.s. military aid package in the works. here at home, the president hits the road, in a key battleground state, hoping to sell his infrastructure plan, and help his party. and masks on or off? the confusion over reversing days old cdc guidance. the department of justice now says it may appeal a judges mask mandate decision, but not right away. as the 11th hour gets underway on this tuesday night. good evening, i m chris
it is. russian forces according to president zelenskyy have started today the battle for donbas. what does that battle look like? obviously, you know, we heard a lot about it being much more heavy artillery, tanks over long, open plains. some people compared it to a world war ii-style battle. it s going to be far more conventional than what we ve seen to date up in the kyiv area and certainly kharkiv where the russians tried to walk into issue terrain and got completely waxed. this will be open terrain, and it will come in phases. the russians are not unlike the soviets in that when you see artillery, you can t get enough of it from the russians. they will pound and pound and pound and try to shake the conditions for the movement of their heavy units, which is their tank units and their infantry units. that s going to come. the ukrainians have some capabilities they ve demonstrated to engage tactically with the russian
You have something like 40,000 ukrainian troops according to president zelenskyy who are already dug in. they re in trenches, garrisoned. they are battle hardened. that is going to be a hard mass for the russians to surround and essentially try to pound. so what the ukrainians have to do right now so they can get access to all of this weaponry that 30 countries are rushing in, they have to keep the supply lines open and when oeurope goe into that area that is being contested, they can get a lot of that equipment to their forces and then it becomes force on force to pound each other and see which one has enough supplies and the will to survive. kimberly, president zelenskyy saying now this war for donbas, the battle for donbas, this