nearly 5 million people have been forced to flee to neighboring countries. good afternoon. i m garrett haake in washington, in for hallie jackson. nbc news foreign correspondent matt bradley is in kyiv. also with us nbc news pentagon correspondent courtney kube. and we re joined by retired army brigadier general peter zwack, who served as senior defense attache to russia. and matt, i want to get started with you. you re in kyiv. we ve got this new russian offensive really lighting up the east of ukraine while they re still trying to hold on to mariupol in the south. bring us up to speed on everything going on on the ground there. reporter: yeah, garrett, i mean, i don t know if we would call it lighting up the east. so far we ve heard from the ukrainians that the massive offensive that has been much anticipated for weeks and weeks has started in the east in the donbas region. remember, garrett, this is a region that s been at war for the past eight years. so what looks like
down, john bernham in, telling cnn the ukrainian claim that their missile was responsible is believed to be credible. as for just how credible, one other source familiar with the latest intelligence says the u.s. believes ukraine s version of events, which russia disputes, with, quote, medium competence. ukraine s national security adviser speaking to cnn s fred pleitgen tonight had this warning for vladimir putin. translator: that is our gift to him, and this is just the beginning. this is just the beginning. there will be more than one moscova. more on this tonight which has been a galvanizing development in the war, also a nuclear weapons warning for russia in response to finland and sweden now considering joining nato and there are multiple developments on russia s building offensive in eastern ukraine, senior american defense official tonight says russian troops pulled from their defeat in northern ukraine are now appearing in the east. and across the area, the shell
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the gloves are truly off tonight in the republican race for president. john king in for anderson tonight. thank you for your time. even if you re just paying a little attention to the republican race, it is hard to notice ron desantis and the former president openly throwing haymakers. never mind the old 11 d commandment. donald trump, of course, has never bought into that, and now it seems his fellow floridian doesn t either. over the last 48 hours, governor desantis has gone straight after the gop front-runner, most recently today on this conservative talk show. he s been attacking me by moving left, so this is a different guy than 2015/2016. 2 million illegal aliens he wanted to amnesty. we both faced covid-19, and we both responded in the way we did. he responded by elevating anthony fauci and really turning over the reins to dr. fauci. under the trump administration, he enacted a bill, basically a jailbreak bill. as for mr. trump, there s this, and, yes, listen close
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