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
settle for biting off pieces of ukraine? that s a great question because the the threat levels where the president made that comment, they re right on the front line. this is the belarus border right here. this is the russian border, and st. peters sberg right there. so all of these areas are really at risk from the russians going in and actually trying to take over some of these areas. it s not far to get from here all the way to the baltic coastline of estonia or lithuania, and these are all nato member states. so if that happened, article five of the treaty would be invoked, and that means all of the nato countries have to defend this territory right here. that becomes the big issue, are we ready to do this and are all