in odesa, a russian strike hit an airport, continuing a trend of russia targeting supply lines and transit infrastructure this week. jaw dropping footage shows ukraine forces striking russian armor in the east as russia claims it has retaken kharkiv and downed a ukrainian aircraft. nick paton walsh, great to see you as always. what do we know about this small group that apparently got out of the mariupol steel plant? what can we say about more vacancies that cevacuations that be on the way? our previous guest was talking about how this may simply be kremlin propaganda to show they re being humanitarian to some extent. what do we know? reporter: that report about the 25, including six children, is from russian state media so it comes with that enormous caveat that it may be fictional. but it does fit with some other signals possibly suggesting that there may be the possibility of
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and around the world, it s tuesday, february 8th. i m brianna keilar with john berman here in new york. it s great to have you here. it s wonderful to be here. under way this morning, frantic diplomacy on two different continents as the world tries to avert a russian inversion of ukraine. moments ago french president emmanuel macron arrived in kyiv. meeting with president zelensky a day after his face to face with vladimir putin in moscow. on monday, president biden had a key ally in europe, issuing a big threat. he vowed to shut down a crucial gas pipeline in russia invades. biden hosted german chancellor olaf scholz at the white house. the 745 mile natural gas pipeline built but not yet operational bypasses ukrainian transit infrastructure to deliver russian gas directly to