to get out. so it does not appear that much progress was made in the third round of talks, anderson. reporter: a u.s. defense official said the russians are increasing bombardments of major ukrainian cities including kharkiv and kyiv and as well as mariupol in the south. what is the latest on that? well, this was a significant fear. here we are more than a week into this war and russia has not made much progress on the ground. so the concern was to make up for it, that they would start stepping up their aerial bombardment and that is it does appear what they re doing. we re hearing comparisons to places like aleppo, to grozny and that means it is starting to look like russia wants to bomb ukraine into submission. they are starting so lay waste to civilian areas. they ve been claiming since the beginning they re only going after military targets. we know now that it is absolutely not true.
well, there is going there can be a negotiate way out of it, when moscow decides it doesn t want to bludgeon ukraine into submission. progress is made, no indication what the terms are. zelenskyy has made clear he s willing to give up nato membership. moscow is asking essentially to control ukraine s foreign policy, and i don t think ukraine is willing to accept that. we need to wait and see, and in the meantime, we need to provide all the military equipment that zelenskyy is asking for. how much of a difference would that make, colonel, in your mind? the military equipment is vital because militaries that are in tense combat like ukrainians go through supplies and weapons at a very high rate. continuing to supply what we have been doing allows the ukrainians to keep the fight going, and puts time on their side. the russians are not getting
ukraine s cities with tanks and armoured vehicles to be now going for this approach we have been seeing in mariupol of shelling it and effectively obliterating it. that is possibly the future that awaits, for example, kyiv, the capital city. we have seen kyiv targeted by the odd missile every day or so but it could be a lot worse. russia could be targeting the central part of the city and everybody knows that. president zelensky, the fact he has been calling for talks, he knows that russia s attention could turn to other cities and if the tactic has shifted from trying to occupy to trying to bomb ukraine into submission, bomb it into making concessions, well, that is very, very serious news for the people who are living in those major cities. that is why marie that is white mariupol is being watched closely. taste
area with artillery. those are the voices of the soldiers on these intercepts. so, it s a very, very dire situation right now. it s really horrendous what they are doing to these populated areas, leveling these apartment buildings where men, women and children are located. god knows how many are killed the russian minister sergei lavrov claims negotiators have resolved sovereignty issues over crimea and donbas cre juvenlt president zelenskyy says, i am quoting him now, we will not give anything away. do the russians really think they can simply create their own reality? absolutely. that s what they re trying to accomplish. so they believe that they can bombard ukraine into submission. so they recognize that the original thrust, in many directions, six or seven or eight to attack ukraine and many ukrainians failed.