translator: in the donetsk region in general, and in the reengs in general and kharkiv and the surrounding areas, the occupiers are trying to achieve a goal, to kill as much as possible and destroy everything they see. also ahead this hour, still can cultural wars, governor desantis signs law punishing disney which affects black voters and putting restrictions on how schools, businesses can talk about race and gender. i want to get straight to the war in ukraine now. live for us there in lviv. hello to you. what is the latest on the situation on the ground tonight? reporter: good evening to you, don. what we have been seeing in the last 24 hours or so has been the push and pull of battle. the fighting has intensified in eastern ukraine as ten of thousands of russian forces have amassed in the region and continue to unleash quite frankly a fire storm of artillery and air strikes. this is when we know for this hour in the east for w that new offensive. in the donbass re
ukraine. that s more than just donbass. they want their land blij, but will they try to take odesa? i think that s the big question. let s take a look at this map right here which shows southern ukraine. right over here is mariupol where of course all the big fighting is going on, and we have the siege which in essence is getting into its final stages. look how close this is. this is the closest point of approach i should say to odesa. it s not far. it s less than 50 miles. the russian troops on that little peninsula there. so what the russians could do is try to go to mykolyev and from there go to odesa. the other thing they could do if they re brave enough to do this, they could try to go in from the sea with an amphibious attack. having said all of this, this would be under ideal conditions from the russian point of view.