right? he s going to keep pushing, but it s also not clear, don that russian forces are capable of achieving what putin wants and certainly not quickly and that adds up to sort of a depressing conclusion and that is that this war could drag on for some time, with a lot more fighting, a lot more bombing, sadly, a lot more civilian casualties, and really a world war ii-like battle in the east. this has the potential for a long, hard, and deadly slog. jim sciutto, see you get some rest. thank you for your coverage. this is don lemon tonight and we have new video which shows the brutality and indiscriminate destruction of vladimir putin s war. here it is. take a look at that. new drone video devastated town, the ukrainian forces there in nearby irpin and bucha were key to stopping putin s march to the capitol and chilling warning from the president of ukraine tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other cou
tonight, volodomyr zelenskyy, watch. translator: comment by russian commander shows russia wants to invade other countries. an attack on ukraine was only the beginning. only the beginning, and now we know what vladimir putin wants. he wants full control, not just of eastern ukraine where his forces have been pounding the region, but southern ukraine too, giving him a landbridge directly to crimea the peninsula he annexed back in 2014. but don t forget, putin thought he could take kyiv, he failed, leaving a trail of destruction behind, civilians dead in the streets of bucha, he has been battering mariupol for weeks but ukrainians hold up at that city s massive steel plant, they are holding on. that, as the mystery grows over the deaths of two russian gas executives in 24 hours this week, the circumstances strangely similar, one found dead on monday with his wife and daughter in their moscow apartment, the other found dead tuesday with his wife and