translator: in the donetsk region in general, and in the reengs in general and kharkiv and the surrounding areas, the occupiers are trying to achieve a goal, to kill as much as possible and destroy everything they see. also ahead this hour, still can cultural wars, governor desantis signs law punishing disney which affects black voters and putting restrictions on how schools, businesses can talk about race and gender. i want to get straight to the war in ukraine now. live for us there in lviv. hello to you. what is the latest on the situation on the ground tonight? reporter: good evening to you, don. what we have been seeing in the last 24 hours or so has been the push and pull of battle. the fighting has intensified in eastern ukraine as ten of thousands of russian forces have amassed in the region and continue to unleash quite frankly a fire storm of artillery and air strikes. this is when we know for this hour in the east for w that new offensive. in the donbass re
transalantic political military alliance that has imposed harsh sanctions on its country. genocide and to treat mr. putin. a scorched earth approach would probably win him a limited military victory. so what should the world brace for? since i wrote that piece, today the german chancellor actually made another point in that regard. he said we will do nothing in germany that will risk world war three. kind of like what biden is saying. there s not much more you can do. you re not going to do a no-fly zone. you re not going to send your troops to directly fight against the russians. that mean russia doesn t have much to fear. if they take all the donbass, they ll get it and maybe they sit for a while. but if they don t, if the