united states. and if the speed keeps accelerating as they have promised. if they are stepping aside with their words, as an indecent person should do. today is the 16th day of the war in ukraine, all from the widely observed religious holiday orthodox easter, celebrate the cross the region in ukraine and moscow, even president putin was in moscow today taking part in president celebrations. but bombardments are unrelenting. or accusing the russian military of discussing russian tanks with ukrainian flags and then opening fire on civilians. they ve not yet been able to independently confirm this. there are clinically struck 26 of facilities in the last several hours, destroying weapons that had been sent to ukraine by western countries. again, nbc news is not able to independently confirm that. also new this hour, a long time