they re trying to hold every inch of territory in that city. how has that changed the way they re fighting this side? reporter: it s made it on the russian side, dirtier. on the ukrainian, more desperate. the last few days as the offensive gains in intensity, as the conditions on the ground worsen, those images geolocated by cnn that showed the conditions around bakhmut pretty grim with mud, making the roads pretty much impassable. what ukrainian authorities and president sens has said tonight is things are getting more and more challengichallenging. what we re seeing are a series of intense attacks, but it is the battle for the town of bakhmut that gets worse and more intense by the day with ukrainian officials describing it as the epicenter. there have been today hundreds of artillery barrages and rocket strikes by the russians as they try and encircle the town, and specifically the areas of settlements to the west of it. desperate pleas on the part of the ukrainians once
Protected. Peaceful protest is. Its against the law when violence occurs. Threatening people, intimidating people, but is not peaceful protests. [chanting] do you think the National Guard should intervene . No. Sandra President Biden speaking earlier today condemning the protests on campuses nationwide as the chaos spreads coasttocoast. The latest conflict in portland, look at this life picture right now. We have been watching this developed and we are watching it as we begin a whole new hour hello and welcome i am sandra smith the new york. John i am john roberts in washington this is America Reports another two hours of all of this ahead of us, a live look we saw in portland but now ucla after a violent confrontation between protesters and police and antiisrael mob defying orders to leave after the school declared their encampment illegal. Sandra Law Enforcement finally moving in after hours of warning these people to leave using flash bangs and forced to clear the area and arrested
Preserve their lives because it s their lives are his pro property. their lives are his property? yes. reporter: while progress is hard to come by, us president vladimir putin shows no signs of backing down, instead proclaiming the ukraine war to be a conflict with the west. translator: they have one goal, to break up the former soef vet union and its main part, the russian federation. for what? push the remnants around and put them under their direct control. reporter: jake, today we re hearing more such things from vladimir putin. today is special operations forces day here in russia. vladimir putin obviously congratulated his special operations forces. he told them, first of all, they re masters of their weapons, but they re defending the russian people and russian lands from what he calls ukrainian neo-nazis. we expect to hear more from