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ukraine. focussed this time on artillery and ammunition. we re covering every angle of this war across ukraine. let s begin with cnn correspondent matt rivers, he s reporting in western ukraine, from lviv. matt, what more are we learning from those intercepted communications involving a russian commander? reporter: yeah, this was some unique insight, i think, into what we re seeing on the ground from russian forces. this not first time that the ukraine security service has released what they call unencrypted communication between russian forces on the ground, but this is the first time we have heard from russian soldiers, russian forces about what s going on in mariupol. you played a little bit off the top there when the russian ground commander talked about how they re going to, quote, level everything. we can play you another bit of that conversation in which they talk about how they re going to do that. we are expecting surprises from russia here. what kind of surprises?
and germ. certainly they are going it use chemical weapons. it wouldn t surprise me if they were to continue and russia were to continue to fail they might go nuclear which would be the last resort. right now putin has taken his favorite division the bbd 76 division which is a infantry armor and he is throwing his best trained, best equipped, best led troops in this thrust towards kyiv. they are prepared to go in there and they are trying to try level everything in their path to take that country. that s the center of greafs that gravity they want to go for. topple the government by taking kyiv. the ukrainians are laying in wait and let s hope we can do it. as of right now we have a bill passed and the president has yet to sign it and release those billions of dollars of aid to ukraine to be able to allow them toe defend themselves. jess you got to get the money out right away as you heard our reporter say, the russians are just 10 miles outside the capital. all right. kirk, chuck, tha