way to the reality of what they ve left behind. power is out with plants suffering heavy damage. that has residents forced to leave kerr schon before the plummeting temperatures. russian troops moved to the western bank. maria is a disinformation and security expert. she joins us now from odesa to give us a firsthand account about the situation in kherson. thank you so much for being was. before we get to kherson, you re in odesa like many people across the country dealing with power outages, water outages. what s the situation there? the situation is quite critical because still the electricity is off for most of the day for a lot of residents in odesa, and that means that the people cannot get heat and cannot get water, and this is the russia tactics to put ukraine into submission by
missiles from russia as russia is losing on the ground incrementally. there s fighting in the east, but in the south, around kherson, they have been pushed backing and they ve reacted by trying to break the back of the energy structures in the country to undermine the military effort and also try to thump the civilians of ukraine into submission. there s no signs of them bending much less breaking so far, don. sam kiley in zaporizhzhia, ukraine for us. thank you very much, sam. in the wake of these attacks on ukraine s infrastructure, it s critical infrastructure, the european union voted to declare russia a state sponsor of terrorism. poland is calling on germany to send air missile systems directly to ukraine. and the hungarian leader said his nation s parliament will vote to ratify nato membership for finland and sweden early
that. russia has intensified bombing, trying to bomb ukraine into submission. they re going from south, largely an exposed, as a story we re about to publish. we just got reports that troops are approaching the nuclear power plant in, i believe it s let me double check. separate shia, and that is a frightening prospect. so they re just trying to hold them off, and maybe as more weapons and sanctions come from the west, maybe from more horrors unfold, the west will finally be compelled to do more and more to try and stop putin. and help ukraine survive. i want to put that map back
make your business future ready with the network from the most innovative company. comcast business. powering possibilities™. this is cnn breaking news. hello and welcome to inside politics. i m john king in washington. thank you for sharing your very, very busy news day with us. the russian strategy to bomb ukraine into submission is working. slowly but working. intense shelling this morning in mariupol on ukraine s southeastern coast. homes there reduced to burning concrete husks. on cnn, mariupol s deputy mayor says they cannot count all the dead. the russian playbook is to starve its 400,000 people into surrender. we do not have electricity in
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