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our correspondents are standing by in ukraine with war refugees in estonia. we want to welcome our viewers from the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com we begin with russia s escalating offensive in eastern ukraine as top ukrainian officials are confirming that the battle for the don baas region has begun. let s go right to our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto in ukraine for us. he is reporting from lviv. president zelenskyy is now speaking out about this new phase of the war. reporter: that s right. u.s. intelligence reported a major strategy shift by russia to stop focusing on its failed attempt on capture the capital kyiv and focus on the east and the south. we ve been seeing the forces move over the last couple of weeks. now they are there. and now that battle, though it never quite stopped there, but that battle intensifying to a degree we have not
hundreds of thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border. or next to the sea. i don t know where to stay, ahmed says. people are fleeing from rafah and i have my children with me. gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israel s latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. translation: after what we ve witnessed, they ve said - multiple times that there will be a ceasefire. but we re frustrated and we have no hope. there s no big hope. only a small one. for aid agencies already struggling to cope, the prospect of a full scale israeli operation in rafah is alarming. as the operation will progress, we will lose progressively more areas to the fighting. and i m afraid that this will also affect our warehouses, health facilities, hospitals. and there are very, very few sites where we have the ability to give medical support. for the families of israeli hostages, these are also moments of acute
the sounds of approaching war echo among the displaced. hundreds of thousands of palestinians living in the sand against the egyptian border. or next to the sea. i don t know where to stay, ahmed says. people are fleeing from rafah and i have my children with me. gazans have been on the move since yesterday morning, heeding israel s latest warnings, not knowing if the coming days will bring relief or despair. translation: after what we ve witnessed, they ve said - multiple times that there will be a ceasefire. but we re frustrated and we have no hope. there s no big hope. only a small one. for aid agencies already struggling to cope, the prospect of a full scale israeli operation in rafah is alarming. as the operation will progress, we will lose progressively more areas to the fighting. and i m afraid that this will also affect our warehouses, health facilities, hospitals. and there are very, very few sites where we have the ability to give medical support. for the famil
and north korea help each other in the event of aggression against either country. north korea s leader called the agreement a new high level of alliance , sparking concerns in western countries. but the full details of the pact and its consequences remain unclear. our correspondent shaima khalil reports from south korea. vladimir putin s pyongyang trip was choreographed to a t, with some surreal, made for tv moments, like this one of him driving kim jong un on the streets of pyongyang. earlier, kim il sung square, at the heart of the north korean capital, was buzzing with crowds and colour, as the two globally isolated leaders revelled in each other s company and what mr kim described as a new level of alliance. translation: we highlyl appreciate your consistent and unwavering support for russian policy, including the ukrainian direction. i mean, ourfight against the hegemonic imperialist policy imposed for decades by the united states and its satellites. since his war on u