They re going to take the rest of donetsk and the rest that have region. if they do take these cities, they re here, right, can ukraine get them out? no, i don t think so. they still are outmanned, outgunned. russia has a better air defense. we re seeing, for example, russian air defense platforms are improving, what that s going to mean, it s going to knock out the drones, going to knock out the eyes of this western artillery that hasn t gotten there yet. it s late. it s not been able to be effective. if they can control a better portion of the air with their air defense platforms the ukraine military is in real trouble. even as the bulk of the fighting is taking place in the eastern parts of the country here, there are reports of new russian shelling on kharkiv in the more northern area, an area where the russians have backed off their advance. we hear that the ukrainians are trying to take some offensive measures down here in the south. kherson, for example, we have what are
Ukraine. and the other stories we re following this morning, the number of migrants at the southern border hit a 20-year high and new concern about the supply chain and rising consumer prices. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this monday, april 18th. i m jonathan lemire. russian forces continue their offensive in eastern ukraine, stepping up up attacks in kharkiv, and a barrage of russian rockets hit the city center yesterday, setting fire to several apartment buildings and a market. a day earlier, russian missiles hit a community kitchen that was run by chef jose that was being used to feed refugees. four of the staff members were injured in the attack. in the nightly address, president volodymyr zelenskyy called the bombing of kharkiv, quote, nothing but deliberate terror. he also said at least 18 people
Place of safe passage for displaced ukrainians fleeing the fighting from the east, coming here to lviv, either seeking shelter here or heading further on west to europe, that sense of calm really shattered by this morning s missile attack, and it comes as you said, as more and more missiles rain down on kyiv, on kharkiv, on other locations all across ukraine. a reminder that nowhere in this country is out of range for putin s forces to strike. the russian defense ministry has said these attacks on the city, with missiles, are retaliation for what it calls ukrainian attacks inside russian territory, and ukraine is not commenting on those alleged attacks but a lot of people suspect, what is actually going on is, this is putin retaliating for the humiliating sinking of the russian war ship on the black sea. certainly an expectation that the fighting will be focused on the east and it does seem
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Now with the potential invasion, but certainly there is a ratiration i ratcheting up of tensions and concerns across the white house and administration what the russian president may do in the coming hours and days. absolutely. jeremy, stick close. let s get back to eastern ukr ukraine. alex, i was just handed this little additional new reporting on top of this intelligence that s been given to the ukrainians. this reporting is now nato allies have also been given a similar intelligence assessment warning of an imminent attack according to a nato military official. this official cautions, as we ve heard all along, alex, no one know what is putin is going to do. one thing i think is different and interesting about this, you tell me, the focus on kharkiv as matthew chance was talking about. reporter: yeah. that is a city that is right up against the russian border in the northeast and we have seen a