She says i have nowhere to go. i have no friends, no relatives. with the shelling intensifying, volunteers are finding it hard to deliver food. as russian and ukrainian forces fight for control, there are people down there. praying as hell rains down. and right now, wolf, we re hearing the air raid sirens yet again, but in that town, there are no air raid sirens. it s half controlled by the russians. half controlled by the ukrainians and there are innocent civilians caught in the middle. wolf? you re absolutely right. ben wedeman on the scene for us. thank you very much. let s get more right now on all the breaking news. joining us, the former ukrainian
Have they made any progress since then and how much land does russia control in the east? our view is wolf, today, that they have still not really achieved any territorial gains in the donbas. there have been offensive operations conducted by the russians, particularly in the north part of the donbas, but they haven t succeeded in actually taking much territory and the ukrainians have been able to hold them off, to defend and push them out of some towns and villages, so our assessment today is that they really have not made any territorial gains in that part of ukraine. it s interesting. the president, president biden said today the u.s. won t always be able to advertise everything the u.s. and its allies and partners are doing to support ukraine. the ukrainian military. has publicizing that military aid given russia a certain advantage? we are being very careful about what we re putting out into the public. we have an obligation to explain
Ukraine and at the request of the ukrainians. and they re pretty similar in capabilities to the switchblade drones that were included in that package last week, wolf. it makes it easier to go after targets without being as close to them of course and that is something the ukrainians have said would be very helpful to them. it wouldn t necessarily require a ton of training in order to figure out how they work. he really gave his overview of where he thinks things stands as they approach this two-month mark of this invasion. as we approach the two-month mark, we know putin has failed to achieve his grand ambitions on the battlefield after weeks of shell of kyiv, kyiv still stands. president zelenskyy and his democratic government still remain in power and ukrainian armed forces joined by many brave ukrainian civilians have
We re following the breaking in us as russia claims victory in mariupol and the u.s. sends more weapons to ukrainian forces. joining us now, the pentagon press secretary, john kirby. thanks very much for joining us. this new package includes more howitzers and a brand-new drone system designed by the u.s. for ukraine. how will these weapons specifically enable the ukrainian military to repel the russians in this new phase of the war? we believe these additional systems that we re sending here in this latest package are very well suited to the kind of fighting that we think we re going to see in the donbas that the ukrainians are going to face from the russians in the donbas. this is an area of ukraine that s flat, wide open. not very urban and lends itself well to mechanized warfare. you can see the russians already believe that just by what
There to kyiv since the russians retreated. some people are even going farther east to areas that are more dangerous. you hear a lot of the same reasoning over and over. people couldn t find work. they didn t know the language. they were feeling isolated. one family told us they didn t want to take advantage of the generosity of their hosts in germany. the reality is that getting people out of the country is often the easy part. the hard part is integrating people and setting them up for success in their new countries. wolf? heartbreaking, indeed. the whole situation. scott mcclain in neighboring poland for us. thank you very much. let s get more on the breaking news right now. russian president putin claiming victory in the key ukrainian city of mariupol. brian todd and retired u.s. air force colonel, cedrick layton, they re working the story for us. show us what s going on. putin claims victory. ukrainians say the city has not fallen yet. the city mostly in control of