Israel. This is very close to gaza city. Israel is continuing to ram up up its strikes this evening in gaza. Its 10 00 p. M. In southern israel. The country extends its Ground Operations this evening. What a possible Ground Invasion might looks like. At this point its unclear. It has felt imminent the last 48 to 72 hours, really. Israeli officials today telling us that the world should expect to hunker down for a long war. They have two missions. The first is to eliminate forever the threat that hamas can present to the country of israel. So that they can never be threatened or hurt again. They say that too many of their children live in fear, go to sleep in fear at night. They want to erase the threat of hamas and the threat of what they watched unfold on october 7th. Now, secondly, and not particularly in this order because these two things obviously are very interwoven in terms of what they face right now. 229 hostages. You can see some of their faces here. We will take a look at th
troops in the east and south, quote, launched offensive in all directions and claim resistance held despite the stepped up attack, several russian military commanders say trying to block the portions of kharkiv to aid advancement, clarissa ward, more from inside kharkiv, ukraine s second largest city. reporter: there s no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks, ukraine s second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day, do you see the full scale of the destruction the neighborhood of pavlovopoya hit repeatedly last week as russian forces try to push into the city, no site was spared, not even the local nursery school. so it looks like this was some kind of a dormitory.
completely reconstitute the forces that were damaged and destroyed in some cases in the kyiv area, so there are some significant areas where they really might have some difficulties. but the key thing to remember is the ukrainians have to be careful not to get encircled in this region. that is the key area that they need to really watch out for. colonel leighton there. and clarissa ward has a close-up look at the damage. reporter: and there is no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks, ukraine s second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day do you see the full-scale of the destruction.
an adviser of president zelenskyy today said russian troops in the east and south, quote, launched an offensive in all directions. separately, top commanders say the russians are trying to block the city of kharkiv to aid their advancement. clarissa ward has more from kharkiv, ukraine s second-largest city. reporter: there s no rest at night for the people of kharkiv. flares light up the sky as artillery thunders through the air. for nearly nine weeks, ukraine s second-largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day do you see the full scale of the destruction.
flares light up the sky as artillery thunders. ukraine s second largest city has been shelled relentlessly. only by day can you see the full scale of the destruction. the neighborhood of pavlova was hit repeatedly last month, as russian forces tried to push into the city. no site was spared, not even the local nursery school. so it looks like this was some kind of dormitory. you can see children s beds here all around. and the next door room over there was their classroom. their shoes still litter the locker room. mercifully, the school had been evacuated so no children were killed in the strikes. the mayor of kharkiv says 67 schools and 54 kindergartens had