Cnn,son ukraine. israel and russia have long and complicated relationship but it is it syria where they have a shared cooperation . reporter: the position on rush ha is heavily influenced by what s happening over there.
Let s not forget sweden and finland are soon to put their nato applications in. there s a will the of ways that this could potentially widen. the risks of that are low. it s still what i m looking for and what gives me pause in the coming months. what do nato member states need to do at this point in time and is there a window of opportunity that s closing? they need to keep supporting ukraine as they are. they really stepped up and supporting it with more weapons but the risk of escalation is they are including the nuclear and chemical weapons escalation. we heard the threats from putin and other russian officials. nato has to hang together, which it is and keep supporting ukraine but be weary of not g getting into direct conflict with rush ha.
yeah, we got a briefing from a senior u.s. official who did knowledge russia was making progress in the east. this is the focus point of their new come pain trying to secure the donbas region but not making a lot of progress. calling it incremental at best with this u.s. defense official saying the russian forces are taking quote several kilometer or so on any given day because just because don t want to run out too far aahead of their logistics and sustainment lines. these are problems we saw russia have in northern part of the country during their failed attempts to take the capital city of kyiv and it does appear some of the issues continue. we re hear frg this official that there s low morale because rush ha is using conscripts. people drafted into the army who are being fed russian state propaganda before they get here and when they arrive, they are seeing the real situation on the ground.
It s not surprising if do you live that close and pick up the broadcast and you re inclined that you sort of buy into these things. is there any surprise, are you surprised that russia did invade, they are shelling these cities that the blame falls on the u.s. who was sending in support for other ukrainians. haven t spent the amount of time, russia, the balkans, you see the twisted conspiracy theories really quite consistently. the russians know this much better than we in the west understand it and they leverage it. it doesn t surprise me. there s so many themes that the russians will put out there. rush ha is doing the right thing an if it weren t for the aggressive west, the expansion of nato as though they were
Noncombatants. 50 people killed. that includes five children that we know of. 100 plus were injured. some missing arms and legs in that brutally effective attack. officials say russia used short range ballistic missiles. one of the missiles featured writing on the side that said, quote, for the children. consider that a kind of heartless and disgusting reference to intentional war crimes. the controversy that rush ha is in as this has been played out on the world stage. i should note that for its part, russia denies its behind this attack. here is reporting on the scene from sky news. you can see some of the damage here.