stepped-up attacks on civilians in the south and new strikes on cities in the west. ukraine is bracing for what might be the bloodiest part of the war so far, a brutal offensive to take the eastern part of the country. the government has warned it could resem bble some of the wot battles since world war ii. general anderson, an ultimatum has been issued in mariupol. it has expired. what do we expect to happen there? i think the ukrainians are going to continue to fight. and i don t see them surrendering. i know that s what the russians want to play this as. i don t see it happening. they re too tough, to resourceful. they realize it would be a psychological and political victory for vladimir putin if they did surrender. urban warfare is incredibly difficult. it s going to take, i think, more time to root them out there. they ve been there for six weeks
think at the polish government that fled even after hitler invaded in 1939. he has chosen a different path, to stay in kyiv, and he is watching, as you just reported, as those trucks begin to move around the city of kyiv. they are going to do, they are going to try to do what they are trying to do against mariupol, and against kharkiv, that operation seems to be moving against kyiv, this time with the president of kyiv in the middle of the city. i don t see them surrendering, i don t see them running away, it sounds like they re gonna fight to the bitter end. so, u.s. intelligence says it might take ten days to two weeks to completely surround kyiv, we re not sure how that will play out. and then intelligence officers told congress, the other day, that maybe there are ten days to two weeks of supplies in kyiv, because it will be a city under siege. when you said they re gonna fight to the bitter end, what does that mean? are we going to watch, every day, as they strangle the
and there are reports of lots of desertions. a few hours ago, we heard reports that some of the soldiers were stuck in kunduz airport, which is a city in the north. and the city has been captured by taliban. most of the forces have gone into the airport, and they have surrendered and the taliban have issued a video showing some of them surrendering. but we have no way of independently verifying that video. at least 4,000 civilians have been injured over the past ten days, with thousands displaced and hundreds of national projects destroyed. eileen mccarthy is from the afghanistan branch of the norwegian refugee council. she s in kabul where many people from the surrounding countryside are coming to seek refuge from the fighting. since the beginning of the year, we ve seen nearly 390,000 afghans displaced by conflict, and the last three months have seen some of the highest numbers of displacement since 2016. and i think as we are seeing the conflict and the fighting reaching provincial
armed suspects wearing tactical gear flee into the woods. a manhunt forced police to shut down part of the freeway and issue a shelter-in-place order for the surrounding area for nine hours. paulo sandoval is here with more. what two we know about this so-called militia group. this story is unusual. early saturday morning one of their troopers noticed a vehicle where occupants were fueling up that vehicle, pulls over hoping to help and finds himself face-to-face with a group of militia men. they were arrested without incident eventually after that nine-hour standoff with police. this is some video that one of the members of that organization, that extremist organization actually recorded and live fed on youtube. again, all of them surrendering