right? he s going to keep pushing, but it s also not clear, don that russian forces are capable of achieving what putin wants and certainly not quickly and that adds up to sort of a depressing conclusion and that is that this war could drag on for some time, with a lot more fighting, a lot more bombing, sadly, a lot more civilian casualties, and really a world war ii-like battle in the east. this has the potential for a long, hard, and deadly slog. jim sciutto, see you get some rest. thank you for your coverage. this is don lemon tonight and we have new video which shows the brutality and indiscriminate destruction of vladimir putin s war. here it is. take a look at that. new drone video devastated town, the ukrainian forces there in nearby irpin and bucha were key to stopping putin s march to the capitol and chilling warning from the president of ukraine tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other cou
dangerous but even president zelenskyy said today, listen, they re arming us now with what we need to push russia not just back to the original before the war back to russia. wow, let s talk about mariupol because it s been under siege a long time but russia has struggled to take places like mykolayiv, so, you know, beyond mariupol. what major cities in the south and east could become major flashpoints for this new russian push, major? yeah, i mean they need isium fully under control, krematorsk, natural choke points of lines of communications, road intersections, hearts of political and population resistance. so they need krematorsk, they need izium, fighting as we speak over poposna, they don t own anything. don, they don t own mariupol after two months. you know, cnn spoke with
thanks for that and i ll see you tomorrow night, anderson. all right. be safe. this is don lemon tonight here in western ukraine in lviv and our breaking news. intense battles in several directions just outside of kyiv as ukraine fights to push back vladimir putin s forces. this is stunning drone video 12 miles west of the capital in the erpin area. smoke, flames, blown up buildings the mayor saying #80% of the city is now controlled by the ukrainian army but the russians are firing rockets against the town. that as cnn s team in the capital is hearing air raid sirens, booms, and fire fights all day long. in the east, what looked to be ukrainian soldiers surround a russian tank. on a day of major news across the region the president of the united states joe biden meets with european allies in an emergency summit. and vows the u.s. and nato will respond if vladimir putin uses chemical weapons. would the u.s. or nato
footage that is so horrifying and yet so remarkable from the erpin district where we were in touch with the mayor today and he did tell us yes they are still in control there. the ukrainians about 80% of erpin but are getting shelled at the same time. he was saying one of his associates was killed today but he also said right now yes the ukrainian national police is back in there but they re not really able to patrol the streets simply because the area is under fire in such a heavy way. we can see some of the video on our screens right now of the massive destruction and really fire still raging because of the incoming the area is still taking from the russian forces. then toward the east there was another push by the ukrainians as well into a small town about 35 to 40 miles away from the ukrainian capital toward the east, very important there, also. the ukrainians trying to start that push. another one of those axis from where the russians are trying to get toward the ukrainian capital
russia needs the equipment and the supplies and the ammo that is on that landing ship transport. ukraine needs to prevent that from going forward because it will allow whatever is on that ship, the ammo, fuel, will allow the russians to continue their attack to the east, toward the east beyond mariupol. so they are looking at this base as a resupply base. if the russians can t get resupplies into there, and most importantly if they now know the ukrainians can attack at will any of these places they ll be much more concerned. as i think it was fred pleitgen told you, this was a relatively small naval base with only a few ports in it and it looks like not only the one ship was damaged that is on fire and blowing up but it appears like two ships on each side were also damaged. so they ve basically locked out the capability of that port to receive new ships for resupply.