taylor. ukraine is making significant gains on the battlefield taking back territory near kharkiv. we were all what putin would do on victory day, but there were no surprises. do you think this war is at a stalemate? it s certainly in a new days, don. they lost the first phase, the russians. the ukrainians won the first phase. and now they re moving around to the east and they re mounting an effort. they got bombardments going up and down the line in donbas. as you say, the ukrainians are now pushing back around kharkiv, just like they did around kyiv. so they ve got some momentum going. the russians are pushing some places and the ukrainians are pushing others. so we re in a new phase. the first russian civilian killed inside russia, ukraine haven t confirmed or denied being responsible, but what kind of impact could this have on the war? so the ukrainians have been
roman abromovich is the person people know the most in terms of oligarchs because of chelsea. the white house has refused to comment on its support leaving him off the sanctions list. so abromovich has not been sanctioned. there s a bunch of reasons potentially for that. one of the big ones is this this is a steel mill in colorado that he owns a piece of. a large piece. the wall street journal reported back in march, by the way, that abromovich, that ukraine wanted to hold off sanctioning him because he might acts as a go-between between russia and the united states. russia and ukraine haven t seen it yet. i want to focus on this drew griffin reported this. the reluctance to sanction abromovich may have something to do with this plant in pueblo, colorado. a massive steel mill that employs 1,200 americans. now abromovich made wait for
evidence of some banks being attacked and the defense ministry. what is your sense of what these tiger teams look like, having participated in exercises like this? sure. so, tiger team is a concept i m very familiar with. it s a rapid kind of response team pulled together probably representing every single kind of relative relevant branch of government. it s going to be state department. it s going to be treasury, the intelligence community, defense, anybody that has something to contribute would be involved in this effort. and the reason that they have to do this is because in fact, russia s objectives with regards to ukraine haven t changed. the only thing that s changed and the only thing that may drive a us to avert this particular confrontation is that the opportunities have closed off. all the things that putin typically does with regards to probing and testing to figure out where the vulnerabilities are, those have, in a lot of
looking. to when, yeah, it s pretty surreal. in our wildest dreams, to be honest. after two days of action it is the hosts, china who are top of the winter paralympics medal. china have six gold medals, sixteen medals in total. ukraine haven t been able to add to the seven medals they claimed on the opening day and are now in second place. great britain and northern ireland are in joint seventh along with the united states of america and france, all with three medals each so far. that s all from sportsday. the russian invasion of ukraine began eleven days ago and initial expectations in some quarters that the russians would quickly overwhelm the ukrainian forces have been repeatedly confounded. the uk s chief of
our eyes. you can call up on the internet, publicly available satellite images and see that 17 to 40-mile long convoy. different estimates of it. wheeling its way down towards the capital in slow motion here. you know, another piece, john, being talked a lot about is what is putin s state of mind and so on. but one thing that s clear and consistent is that putin is willing to use these weapon systems. that does not require guess work because he s done it before. the play book, if you go back to chechnya, for instance, 20 years ago was to level grozny, weapons. no concern for civilian life. no hesitation. and that s the concern, that we haven t seen the worst of it yet. and more importantly, that the people of ukraine haven t seen the worst of it yet. look, targeting civilians, whether it s a rational choice or irrational choice, it s an evil choice.