it cannot be higher, that is, technical water from the highest class, and yet, basically, dnieper waterl be used for irrigation. this year , several agricultural enterprises expect to return to breeding. rice almost already forgotten in the crimea culture of mikhailandtropov alexander solovyenko. igor romanenkov and victoria orel the crimean bureau of the ntv television company in our meteorological studio on polyakova street has thawed a little, but still the weather is not at all like spring for a long time. we have to be patient, right? today i was asked more than once when the winter will leave. and she hasn't really come back yet. she will still have the opportunity to be surprised. we will have the opportunity to be surprised, we are waiting for new serious snowfalls, but so far it is essential now in our atmosphere of the process, diametrically opposed to the european one. territories of russia from north to central areas. that's all blue. this winter south is set to almost a real summer in fairness this first summer will be short 2-3 days. well, in the rostov region and in the c

lead along the north crimean canal after the russian military unblocked the ukrainian dam on the dnieperady received 35 million cubic meters of water. this means that the entire water supply system of the crimea is changing; there will be enough water not only for the needs of the population, but also for land reclamation. industrial production. even for the resumption of rice cultivation with details. yana shcherbade was waiting for this for 8 years for the first time after the start of the blockade, the north crimean canals are completely 100% filled with water, and it is everywhere from armyansk to kerch in one part of the canal, dnieper water in the other, extracted from underground sources, but more under land will not have to extract water from the dnieper closes the needs of the crimea by 85%. now the main channel of work has been completely filled up. they too parts of the north crimean structure. now the connecting channel is filled with water. it is he who feeds the western and central regions of the peninsula. including simferopol, now the water has already reached the first p

that is the west side of the dnieper river moving into kyiv. russian forces have been pushing down from the west side. the big convoy came down and they are parked somewhere on the west side ready to make a move. on the east side of the dnieper river russian forces moved down and the allegation that belarus forces have joined their ranks. to the east side the border are russia you were talking about city of kharkiv. russian forces have moved in toward kharkiv. it got hammered yesterday with artillery and rockets and the allegation of cluster bombs and russian paratroopers have moved in and taken up position in kharkiv. if you move around the country to the south and the east the russian backed region, they've been moving up from the crimea peninsula. a town of kherson where the battle is pitched over the last couple of days because there is a bridge spanning the dnieper river to connect crimea to the mainland. the russians say they have dominance in that town. ukrainians dispute it. the town of mariupol, they're out of water and been without he

he will not cross the dnieper river. >> brian: dnieper river right there, right? >> right. and if he can't get across the dnieper and go to the west and by the way if he went to the west i think the elimination of his army. they will just eat him up in the western approaches. if you look at what is happening right now, he has got a major problem on how to settle this fight, okay where is this back door. how do we let him off the hook or give him an escape route? this week when biden goes to talks to nato allies. better sit down and say how da we give this guy an escape route. the second thing is i have no idea why we are not pushing this equipment faster. >> brian: i know. to the western part of ukraine. you saw those attacks going on lviv and other places. iron dome, air defense iron dome over those cities. i'm shocked they are not there yet. go out to the three nato allies that have the s 300 system that the ukrainians are trained in. go to bulgaria, go to slovakia and go to greece and say give us those systems. we will help you withing is else later on. >> brian: i have

as the situation worsened, again there was a dream that they would be able to sit out, what of the dnieperll break through to them or from nikolaev, that they will be blocked, it turned out that now the ring is deaf, but it is shrinking and they urgently need to be taken out, and there are americans and british plus everything there. again, a group of curators of the british worked at the local sbu, in total, according to the data here, who flicker there, that there is a group of about 18-20 people who need to be taken out of there. as a matter of fact, that’s why they handed the pasta, how to try to conduct an operation to the world peacekeeper himself, but i don’t think it’s explained there, the fact is that 18-20 people are people who, in general, are professionals part of the service, which is in the fact that they can die, so to speak, these are people who know something like that, that they need to be brought out here. well, because a special secret for ours. there are some british french there, and so then they will die only to cross themselves and reward. but if they hit, it means

beyond that, looking to the city in the south with a bridge over the dnieper river river where it is ongoing. carol how far away is that 40-mile-long convoy and will the weapons get to ukraine in time? >> >> mike: we don't have update as far as the convoy headed to kyiv. we know they have to go through a choke point, that will create a traffic jam, advantage for the ukrainians, if nothing else they have time to set up. stands to reason that it would be an opportunity to strike that convoy as they get slowed down. in terms of weapons getting to the ukrainians, you don't see presence of many to the -- where refugees are going out and weapon consist come in. >> carley: have you been reporting on the area of mariupol, this area is in southern ukrainian near the black sea, if russia gains access to them, they would be able to use the black sea to ship in equipment, supplies, everything they need to continue this battle. didn't turkey say they would prevent russian airships from entering the black sea or has that change? ed >> mike: turkey said that and got praise out of ukraine's presiden

uh, the railroad that's through dnieper, we also broke the railway station in pavlograd, but there isilway transport plus, but a highway. that is, now there is even they will try. if they have something left, they simply will not reach there. this one said general kalashenkov. it is also very important to break out with one of the segla-signals, when it is time, uh, there, to move on to a new mode of operation, to concentrate here here in this dark drink, it is already smaller. by the way, yes less, because we conditionally understand all these of our television cards. you know, i would also be here, everything is conditional. you see, it has decreased a little and it starts all the same, even in terms of the number of people. after all, when the operation began, they said that there were 76,000 people there. well, so the estimates say, after all, 62, not 40. yes, well, now there are fewer of them somewhere , just like mariupol has decreased. yes, that is , after all, work is going on and they are decreasing. of course, because there the war itself does not stop for a second 24/7. she

you've got west of the dnieper river.essuring from command and control seizure standpoint and kyiv the russians are. meanwhile they are taking their time to attack and seize the cities in the east of ukraine to consolidate that. then tighten up their logistics and continue to move. it's clear to me he is on a scorcher policies got information or keeping nato on its heels. and what he is saying about the mercenaries treating foreign fighters as mercenaries. somewhat unified here then get more unified on the economic sanctions piece. and i think sending u.s. troops is the right move. this is a tinderbox right now and is deliberately putting it on the eye of nato and united states because of perceived weakness coming out of afghanistan. >> in general, on that point is you know the german chancellor and the french president both had conversations with president putin they're basically chasing their tails. is it a mistake to apply western sensibilities to diplomacy here? to someone who actually laughs in the face and it doesn'

kherson is one of the bridges that goes over the dnieper river.he dnieper river flowing in from the black sea all the way up, to the center of ukraine. and if they can get through and over that western site, they then have the ability to move all the way to the moldovan border, essentially, stealing of southern ukraine, and all of the port access, which would allow them, if they want to, two to start landing military force in places in and around odessa. essentially creating a southern front. let's jump to the big picture real quick to finish off, which is what the strategy is. their original strategy is what i call three friends and a coup. they were trying to come in in three directions, one, from here, and one from here. neither appears went really well. here in the south, they're starting right through, but their original gamble was to essentially a political coup in combination with airborne rates and assassination, of president zelenskyy. that has failed, however, if you watch weather doing today and listening to press secretary kirby from t

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this is dnieper. they took an air side on the eastern edge of the town. we showed you the building, a shoe factory. there was debris on the ground in that area, too. it could be now that all this area here that's been under fire for the last two weeks now there could be some movement up to the north. we'll watch that as we go. what's going on with the convoy? a satellite image from 12 days ago. you see all these trucks and supply units lined up? it is pretty significant. march 10th as of yesterday, this is the road now and it's empty. just dirt and mud now in the early days of march now in the country of ukraine. where have they gone? it's hard to see on this image. however, jimmie, come in a moment here and i'll circle this line. it looks like the pump back of elephants you would see in africa as they stick out among these trees. a few over here that you can locate as well. so a little bit of concealment on behalf of the russian army. maybe they're learning. if you look at the video east of kyiv yesterday the story of the day. ukrainian air fire taking o

it's a provincial capital at the mouth of the dnieper river.s video, we can't tell you which side's vehicles you're seeing here. in many cases they're using the same equipment. here's a picture of the second round of talks between russia and ukraine. previously the russians demanded e-militarization of ukraine. the u.s. sending ukraine anti-tank javelins, stingers and anti-aircraft missiles. putin and macron talked a little while ago. the french readout says macron warned putin that the invasion is threatening relations. the white house and treasury announced new sanctions on what they call vladimir putin's putin's cronies including his press secretary and wives and secretaries as well. the main point is to put pressure on putin. but the main question is do the rich oligarchs keep putin in power or does putin keep the oligarchs rich? in which case they're as going to support him. >> good question there. we'll keep following this. thank you. >>> now to the worsening toll of the invasion. the people of ukraine fleeing the country by the hundreds

this is done, among other things, in order to exclude all possible provocations with the supply of dnieper water to crimea. to make it easier for zelensky to make a decision, the russian ministry of defense is reducing their military activity in the kiev chernigov direction . fire is a direct quote from the statement of the medical speech, we are listening to the statement of the assistant to the president of russia we received from the ukrainian side. uh, written proposals that deal with the neutral status of a good the status of deployment, foreign military bases renunciation of this renunciation of the deployment of foreign troops on the territory of ukraine renunciation of the storage of weapons of mass destruction, including chemical bacteriological. well, some of their approaches, as they consider compromise in relation. that, which part of the territory that ukraine considers its own, we do not think so, is covered by international guarantees, this is in fact. the first concretely articulated written desire of ukraine saw a compromise. such a step. we also formulated, for their part

the territory to the west of the dnieper was for a long time part of russia's neighbors, austria-hungary and poland, its population differed not only from the great russians, but also from the little russians until the seventeenth year in the police territories were not ukrainian. this is the illusion of the eighteenth year. they were just rusyn and there, uh, the majority was not in ukrainian, but in russian on the territory of the golitsa or galina at one time there was a russian province. that is why the inhabitants of these places were called russians or rusyns at the end of the 19th century. there was even a social movement. they called themselves wakeners dreamed of creating a single pan-slavic nation from the carpathians to kamchatka revived ties with the russian intelligentsia, first of all with the slavophiles from this movement, then russophilia arose. the local population, but perceived itself as part of the large russian world on an equal footing with the little russians and great russians belarusians, when, with the money of peasant communities, monuments to pushkin were ere

must reevaluate what he wants to do, and he may decide to leave everything to russia east of the dnieperas no ukraine for hundreds of years of land, there were mongols, tatars, then became russian. there are ukrainians much russian. i think it will have to be done. we don't know, but it's not an unjustified exclusion, especially if he decides he can't trust anything. what are ukrainians doing or saying? given zelensky's day, resistance to any reasonable outcome. maybe he will decide, let zelensky speak, and we will just continue to do what we have just described , let's get into the eastern part, but there is another side to the situation. it is very dangerous. this is a constant stream of supplies to military equipment of weapons, coming, mostly from poland, i won’t be surprised if he does something to stop it, he hit, rocket them in places where he knew they trained ukrainian forces and foreign mercenaries, where they could arrange operations called false flag, in which they accused russia, as it was already in syria, they made it clear that they would tolerate these opponent’s stands

the focus is a bridge that stretches over the dnieper dnieper river.importance because it connected the mainland with the crimean we anyones rah. peninsula. this would be an attempt to get weapons and supplies up across that river and held north where they can make contact with other troops. key importance as are all the coastal towns that really seem to be in play because they create access to the water and access to the supplies. beyond that, all eyes are on this convoy now said to be 40 miles long, coming down from the belarus border to the capitalty of kyiv. not much new information, we just know that the convoy is many in motion. also we have heard that helicopter, attack helicopter units are to the north across the border nor belarus as well as -- in belarus as well as supplement elemental infantry. maria. maria: mike, tell us more about that tool, that weapon. an international criminal court launching the investigation because of of that illegal vacuum bomb during the invasion. what is it distributing in the air? >> reporter: well, what it does

as for our bass, firstly, if we do not agree on an uninterrupted supply of dnieper water. of crimea, remember the high- precision blow. this is the first stage of the second stage of this agreement. it still needs to be fixed on paper with the index side, so to speak forever. the first stage, yes indeed solved. yes, well, i would say, even extremely successful, because the engineering troops. they solve their tasks very effectively, but now it remains to fix it on paper. this is the first stage, as far as the berdyansk base is concerned, it is still the sea of ​​azov. it's extremely sensitive. here is the water area. well, extremely sensitive to the security of the russian federation, under no circumstances can we have, for example, uh, any warships enter there, for example, the same nato countries or what? we control the entrance to the sea of ​​azov, in principle, unconditionally, but nevertheless , again, again, these positions must be strengthened, and therefore the question is raised. and berdyansk, so that this introductory space is the sea of ​​\u200b\ u200bazov. we

filled with water for the first time in 8 years of the blockade, in the first place, the long-awaited dnieper received by the farmers of the northern regions, the peninsula, the supply will begin by the irrigation season on april 25 in the fields that have stood lifeless again for all the years will grow rice, the first harvest will receive this year. another stage of filling the reservoirs will begin. a month later. i'm on the grinder. andriy terentiev is not takayachenko news, crimea now the footage that we received in just a few minutes back from the kremlin, vladimir putin today held a working meeting with the head of the presidential grants fund, ilya chukalin, for 5 years of existence. more than 20,000 non-profit projects, covering the entire spectrum of public life, received grant support from the foundation. the president paid special attention to social initiatives. the fund started 5 years ago and we are celebrating the 5th anniversary of the fund, starting from 4 billion. volumes. yes, yes, and now it's already 10 billion. yes, uh, and, of course, it's especially nice when uh there

cut it from below and close it from the side, not about petrovsko well, the one that they call the dnieper after we managed to block the grouping, under the raisins we cut the north there big cities, such as from severodonetsk motorsk, slavyansk, but we are already leaving, as they say on the range of direct shots. so methodical work is also going on there, and in all other areas. uh, it should be noted that we are talking about a fortified area built to the full depth, underground city. but how did they take it, when they took the syrian version, when they took uh, here is the fortification, who found out that, for example, the thickness of the vaults under which they hid in some places is up to 4 m, that is, they concreted it there and in these rat holes. they wait out all the shelling and with renewed vigor try, as it were, to shell. uh, donetsk gorlovka and in other cities, but at the same time our high-precision weapons, krasnopol, work, other complexes work, as soon as such objects enter the affected area according to air time. and it is immediately destroyed, so they transport thems

this reactor is right on the dnieper river.ite reactors on the river because they require a lot of water, but that would mean the nuclear radioactive material could flow into the black sea so it could be a very serious disaster. 50 sea so it could be a very serious disaster. ., , sea so it could be a very serious disaster. . , ., disaster. so a big risk here that an hinu disaster. so a big risk here that anything happens _ disaster. so a big risk here that anything happens to _ disaster. so a big risk here that anything happens to stop - disaster. so a big risk here that anything happens to stop them | anything happens to stop them calling down, but it is still unclear it was a deliberate target, the nuclear plant, is that right? that's right. when i first heard the news last night, i wondered if the russians were intentionally trying to cause a nuclear disaster. it seems that as there campaign has slowed they have turned to the deliberate targeting of civilians and this would certainly be an act of terror. even just the fears

clearly we blew up and the water went to the crimea now the water from the dnieper has already reachede crimean armyansk and to the dzhankoy, and the canal itself near the dam was chosen by the swans a good sign sergey pikulin sergey polyansky ntv ukraine nikol pashinyan reported this in the press service of the armenian cabinet of ministers in on thursday, the unrecognized republic announced that the azerbaijani armed forces had violated the line of contact in the zone of responsibility of the russian peacekeeping contingent. the prime minister of armenia called the situation tense and stressed the need for our peacekeepers to return the azerbaijani armed forces to their original positions of leadership. agreed to make efforts to resolve the crisis urgent meeting of the un security council asks saudi arabia due to attacks by yemeni rebels, the houthis subjected territory of the kingdom, a massive rocket attack on the eve of saudi arabia was hit by about 20 targets. and so the rebels become key targets. energy. a fire broke out at oil storage facilities in jigde, the houthis intensifie

i was told that they brought a man who had served here for 14-15 years, a battalion, the dnieper wasoms were from captive devay captive people who did not like it. the battalions were brought here, in one room they kept men in the second, which contained women in a smaller one, and the so-called prison, which was called the library, is located in a neighboring building at the moment. it has already been converted to fit . they already lived there 14-15, there was prison, which was called the library. how were we told? so the people who were there. and andrei vitalyevich marochka, lieutenant colonel of the people's militia of the lpr, joins us on a direct line from lugansk. hello, we have just shown footage from mariupol, but we know that there are many such prisons in the liberated territories, including in lugansk. you personally, what can you tell us what you saw? indeed, we have the so-called torture chambers - it was in the swatov region that we had the so-called aidar battalion, who redid the industrial zone in the same way. the so -called torture chamber has a lot of personnel,

filled with water 100% for the first time in 8 years of the blockade, first of all, the long-awaited dnieper received by the farmers of the northern regions, the peninsula, the supply will begin by the irrigation season on april 25 in the fields that have stood lifeless for all the years, they will again grow rice, the first crop will receive this year. another stage of filling the reservoirs will begin in a month. i'm on shcherbatov. andrey terentyev is not such a kalchenko news, crimea doctors are preparing a new package of counter-sanctions against unfriendly countries mikhail mishustin said this today at a meeting with representatives of the communist party of the russian federation the prime minister continues a series of meetings with parliamentary factions. on the eve of the government’s annual report, the state duma discussed the production of domestic goods to replace those supplies blocked by the west, the head of government stressed that the state would expand concessional lending, import-substituting production of products, the priority action plan included a measure under the ca

then the right sector came, the dnieper alone, azov on january 27 i was taken prisoner.ople with machine guns in balaclavas broke into the break house in the subway door, all such big, tall, hefty men. oh, of course i was scared. they immediately took away my phones, said documents and said dress. i dressed up. they didn’t wrap my hands with scotch tape , they pulled a hat over my head, they also tied it with scotch tape and took me out into the street. and they put me in the car and took me. there is such a mine-russia, and they brought me there in vytush on the way, of course, they beat me. well, like blows. like this, to the side. it turned out on the ribs on the liver hit. in general , when they brought me to this mine. they started pulling me.

costs a fairly powerful grouping from the dnieper are reinforcements. true, all this is being tracked and our intelligence and our aviation strikes at them, nevertheless, it is assumed that this is a group. e, severodonetsk e, can be strengthened by about 30,000 more, and in addition, we get about 70,000. these are large, very large. e military associations. well , information is already coming in today that a powerful artillery preparation is underway from the direction of the raisins. this is nothing more than preparation for the beginning of hmm per uh, the completion of the environment and the destruction of this very group, but this is completely different military operations, this is not what we are talking about, uh, some kind of silent uh operation with weak breakthroughs. and this will be a strategic battle, they are already talking about it openly, after which ukraine itself will have nothing left to resist at the gate. the northern donbass is absolutely fixed, including by american experts, that we, of course, after taking this must be said t

i was told they brought a man who used to serve here for 14-15 years, a battalion, the dnieper stoodere about captured prisoners of people who they didn’t like. the battalions were brought here, they kept men in one room in the second, which they kept smaller women were kept, and the so-called prison, which was called the torture library, is in the next building at the moment. it has already been converted to fit. they already lived there in 14-15 , there was a prison, which was called the library. how were we told? so the people who were there. kimakovsky, igor didn’t just hear about it, igor was in prison in mariupol, and there you need to understand, these rumors spread quickly among the prisoners. they don't have any basis. this is an absolutely creepy place. where were the people drawn? why does the library of people like books, so they folded and buried them, and when olesya speaks, again about the fact that they are trying to cover their tracks. that is, i understand that they are going to gather. maybe they already did it, or maybe they did it partially to dig it out, so that

i was told they brought a man who had previously served here for 14-15 years, a battalion, the dnieperwere from captured prisoners of people whom they did not like. the battalions were brought here, in one room they kept men in the second, which was kept smaller women kept, and the so-called prison, which was called the torture library is located in a neighboring building at the moment. it has already been converted to fit . they already lived there in 14-15, there was a prison, which was called the library. how were we told? so the people who were there. the greeks of makovsky igor didn’t just hear about it . igor was in prison in mariupol, and there you need to understand, among the prisoners, these rumors spread quickly. they don't have any basis. it absolutely creepy place. where are the people drawn? why the library of people, like books, means they folded and buried it, and when olesya says, again, about the fact that they are trying to cover their tracks. that is, i understand that they are going to. well , they got together, maybe they already did it, or maybe they did partiall

that now he has to reevaluate what he wants to do, and he may decide to leave everything east of the dnieper. well, this has not historically been ukraine for hundreds of years these lands. they were the mongol-tatar yoke, then they became russian. there are ukrainians there, but a lot of russian ukrainians. i am i think he might decide he's going to have to do it, we don't know, but that's not an unjustified conclusion, especially if he decides he can't trust anything they do? ukrainians, they say, given zelensky's behavior and resistance to any reasonable outcome. maybe he decides, let zelensky speak. and we will just continue to do what i have just described, we will take the entire eastern part, but there is another side to the situation. this is very dangerous. this is a constant stream of supplies of military equipment and weapons, coming mainly used and i wouldn't be surprised if he did something to stop it he was rockets to places where he knew we were training ukrainian forces foreign mercenaries where we could set up false flag operations that would be blamed on russia as already i

that would put them on the west side to the dnieper river. take it as kherson and you look left to odesa, they could take the population centers by the water and lever the river as natural barrier leave the west alone. the problem with the plan would be, the resistance could refly with free flow over the polish border. griff: all right, mike tobin live, great reporting, stay safe. breaking down war raging in ukraine we have conservative union foundation mercedes schlapp and kevin walling: mercedes, let me start with you, there's some news that we just learned in the last few hours and that is the american female basketball player, wnba star britney greiner apparently in custody in moscow accused of having a vape pen with something in there, that, if, indeed, is going to be a growing issue, we now have a russian plane coming here to pick up their un mission folks. what do you make of that situation and what do you think the president and the administration should do about this situation with this basketball player? >> right. well, i have to te

this comes down at the bottom of the dnieper river at the mouth of the river, if you can choke off thiser avenue here and take control of the entire black sea, you created yourself an entirely new entry into this war for the russian military. what is the objective over that were after that? about one many people, we are told that is the next target, difficult to confirm right now but what makes sense if you want to occupy the southern part of the country. take you up to the north, this is what we are picking up right now what we think is happening, according to senior defense officials and movement on the ground, they believe in large part the russian military installed in the north and rise that? they are making such advances up until about saturday or sunday you could argue and reports about fingerprinting military fighting back is to be the line held for a couple of days. whether this changes tomorrow or overnight tonight, we can't say but it seems to be as far as i've gotten toward the city of kyiv. come forward here, here is the city and airbase and you hear about this convoy, the

kherson has a bridge over the dnieper river connecting the peninsula with the mainland. >> carley: that 40 miles long convoy hasn't moved. is it stationary? sitting target, why isn't ukrainian taking it out? they have tube bomb drones we've seen them use before, seems like something that could do significant damage to the 40 miles long convoy? >> mike: well, you answered part, gave the answer with your question, it is 40 miles long, can each carry four smart weapons each, they can do significant damage to a piece of armor when you have a 40 miles long column. you need a big unit, a big fighter pilot unit like a-10 war hog that the u.s. has would be effective in an environment like that. when you talk about a couple drones, you can make a couple strikes and get out, otherwise you are putting your equipment at risk. you need more air power than the ukrainian have right now. their air power and air field suffered significant damage in the early stages of the invasion. >> todd: mike tobin setting the stage. thank you. let us bring in nigel faragi. it is the question, should nato be doing mo

seems that they struck a shopping center in this downtown district just on the western bank of the dnieper river in the center of the city. at least four people have been known to have been killed, 19 injured, as you can see, the city is in complete devastation as missiles continued to strike the capital. now president vladimir zelenskyy says that he thinks is rome could play a crucial role as a mediator during peace talks. he's been speaking to the people of ukraine just a few hours after he addressed his -- >> [interpreter] today, i spoke in knesset before all of the deputies and government officials. but first, i spoke on your behalf. on behalf of all ukrainians. i talked to the air is eerily people who i am sure understand us as free people. of course, israel has its interest and strategy to protect its citizens. we understand all of it. the prime minister of israel, mr. bennett, is trying to find the path of negotiation with russia. and we are thankful for that, for every effort. so that sooner or later, we will start talking with russia. baby in jerusalem. that is the right place to

a battle is underway in kherson, focused on control of a bridge that stretches over the dnieper river. this bridge is very important because it connects crimean peninsula, where russia have been fortifying their numbers and give russian ability to have free flow between the crimean area. that is where the marine engineer gave his own life taking out the area. he elected to sacrifice himself. beyond that, all eyes focused on this 40-mile convoy, russian weapon, troops and armament and armor has been headed south from belarus border in the direction of kyiv. obviously an ominous harbinger what could lay in the future. carl and he todd. >> carley: french president emmanuel macron had a call with valz vladamir putin putin and putin said he would not target civilians or infrastructure, that does not appear to be the case at all on the ground. >> mike: if you say you don't target civilians issue but fire into the urban area with little care for who you hit in that case, where do you draw the line? if targets are assassination or military targets, you open up, we talked last hit, about firin

other thing that they could do, don, is they could use these troops right here to try to cross the dnieper at this point and link up with troops from here, and that then would serve to encircle kyiv right at this point. now, there are some obstacles to doing this for the russians. water is one of them, this damned area of the river could serve to be a bit of an obstacle. but it's not much of an obstacle. what this means is that the ring around kyiv could be like this of russian troops. >> wow. colonel, thank you very much. we'll see you soon. i appreciate it. >>. >> you bet, don, absolutely. >>> an urgent plea to cnn crews sending them to -- where civilians have been trapped for more than ten days. you don't want to miss that story. that's next. >> please, i beg you, you are my last hope. i very hope you can go and take my mama from your apartment building. we gotta tell people that liberty mutual customizes car insurance so you only pay for what you need, and we gotta do it fast. [limu emu squawks] woo! new personal record, limu! only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, li

the dnieper river, it is wide there is number of bridges that cross. the west side of the river is historic area that was built up. east side is more residential. if you blow bridges and you're the russian army, come from both sides to take the town, no other way to do it in that case. >> todd: zelenskyy is begging president biden for help in securing the sky. >> carley: white house is citing logistical challenges in getting fighter jets to the war-torn country. griff jenkins has details. >> griff: with little hope of no fly zone being declared over ukraine, defiant president zelenskyy sitting in his office is pleading with president biden for combat fighter jets. >> i told him, for us, the most important today is the security in the sky. we cannot allow russia to be active. i am sure that the president can do more. i'm sure he can. >> griff: administration is looking at ways to provide f-16s to poland as backfill to give fighter jets which ukrainians know how to fly. the white house says no decision has been made yet. >> press sect. psaki: there are n

it's also a terrible loss for the ukrainians because it's at the mouth of the dnieper river, the river that effectively dissects the country. but on top of that it's pretty close to the head of a very important water canal that carries water into the crimean peninsula, an otherwise parched patch of land that the russians illegally annexed back in 2014 in their last military invasion of the ukraine. the ukrainian authorities cut off that canal supplying water into crimea back then. and now that the russians have got control or will have control over that area that means that they can continue to or restart water supplies, and that is a very major step forward for them. >> sam, you're in uman right now where people are sheltering in the local synagogue. what are you hearing from them? >> reporter: well, don, i mean, you can see that i'm here with absolutely minimum amount of light. and that's because the entire city of uman is is under very strict blackout regulations. we're being allowed to have a very minimum amount of light. because on day one of the bombing campaign against ukraine c

. >> good morning, maria appeared putin's attacking from three axes, one in the northwest of the dnieperfrom east to west and then one access through the south through the cities of mariupol and odessa. it's going slow. it's probably not going as putin expected it to and thankfully the ukrainians led by zielinski with his great example are defending from internal lines of communication against all three axes of advance which is a challenging aspect. there is one argument russia is dissipating its combat power by attacking on three axes and one is they are stymieing the ukrainian defenses that. it looks like ukraine right now is inflicting about a five to one count on russia with is consistent with combat norms. the perplexing part is at the very beginning the official biden administration position was to offer president zelensky a ride out of ukraine to leave his people stranded. i don't know if he could have-- if he had accepted if he could have handed putin name better gift. we see what an impact president zelensky has had on rallying his citizens and troops. he's a true leader leading

into the dnieper river. as those battles, even as i'm speaking to you right now, continue to rage. we are still hearing coming from the north of the city some pretty loud impacts as a fierce fight certainly seems to be going on there, ana. >> fred, thank you for your reporting. >>> i want to bring in retired army general and former nato supreme allied commander wesley clark. general, if belarus joins this fight, is this now russia acknowledging it needs help? >> oh, absolutely it is. in fact, ana, we've been hearing for two or three weeks that the belarusians have been trying to get their military forces in order to be able to join the fight. but the truth is that the soldiers in belarus don't want to be in this fight. and there's been acts of sabotage, resistance, passive resistance and other things that have delayed it. so, yes, i mean, russia is in trouble, and vladimir putin doesn't care about some disobedience in belarus. he just wants those forces in. he wants to finish this fight against ukraine as rapidly as possible. that's his goal. he'll bring in everybody he can, whethe

the dnieper river which goes down in that area, that's really the eastern part of the country. russian speaking, not russian supporting. i think if you want to know the truth he started this operation and made a huge strategic error. he started with five-- five main attacks instead of one. he should have concentrated on kyiv. if you look at a chessboard, kyiv is backing and the queen. is the central part of government, the center of gravity because it is their government and it's where president zelensky is and if you don't take kyiv and get president zelensky you lose. right now it's stalemate. he's probably in plan c so while all of this import on the southeast part of the country where he's connecting crimea with the breakaway republics, he really hasn't got a chance to take the rest of the country. he doesn't have troop and task to go further to the west. he may settle for what he's got and try to go for negotiations. mike: he wants the ports of the black sea and there's great focus for humanitarian disaster with heavy fighting and people running out of food, water and medi

but elsewhere in the country, the russians are still advancing, especially east of the dnieper river.a multi-front war for ukraine. >> general wesley clark, always good to see you. thank you for your point of view. >> thank you, fredricka. >>> all right, still ahead. confirmation hearings from the supreme court judge nominee ketanji brown jackson. how the televised hearings could spotlight the right word trajectory of america's highest court. adding lysol laundry sanitizer kills 99.9% of bacteria detergent alone, can't. just tap and there you have it. your all new personalized weight loss program from ww. it's easy. you take a short quiz, tell us your goals, how you're feeling and what you love to eat and we create a science backed plan that's designed just for you. at ww, we help you build healthy habits, so you can eat better, think better and feel better. getting started has never been easier. get started for just $5 a month at ww.com hurry! offer ends march 21st. your shipping manager left to “find themself.” leaving you lost. you need to hire. i need indeed. indeed you do. indeed

everything east of the dnieper river and vicinity of donbas is what the russians always wanted to try to achieve. so more of the same, really, is -- they're not going to adjust the conditions on the ground. the tactics they've used to date which is long-range fire, young weapons systems -- that's what they've been able to do. so now they're in a -- they had an incredible problem with their logistics. they're moving units off the line to resupply them which is illogical. you don't do that. you push logistics forward. you don't move them away from a line. so you see this violation of these different principles, not try to achieve a strategy, but to change the narrative. >> meantime, talks are set to resume between the two sides tomorrow in an online fashion, but there's been an increase of conversation around potential face-to-face meeting between putin and zelenskyy. steve, could that accomplish what lower level talks haven't, and would you be concerned about zelenskyy's safety if they were to meet? >> well, i am daily concerned with zelenskyy's safety. it's somewhat amazing to me that

some of the russian forces, though, have moved around kharkiv and are making their way towards the dnieper among the u.s. officials i spoke with, that they will essentially try to cut off the entire southeastern part of the city. or the country. that brings us to the southern part of ukraine. that's where the progress has been a little bit more steady. even on a day-to-day basis. the russians have taken the coastline along the sea of a salve. they are really striking hard in mariupol. it's devastating to watch what is happening to the civilians and that city right now. it is isolated, but the russians have not taken it. the belief is that the russian military will try to take mariupol, some of those that have moved out of crimea, up the river, towards the city called nicolas if, that they may turn towards odessa, with the ultimate goal to be able to create an entire land bridge all along the southern part of ukraine, and then the russians would control the entire coast line. that has not happened, though, there were a lot of assessments before the invasion that at this point in the campaig

if they are able to keep moving past izium down toward the dnieper river. they're moving more long-range artillery fire closer to kyiv. we could see more artillery fire on kyiv in the coming days which would be more destructive than we've seen. >> even more devastating if the siege were to continue there. thank you for your report. ambassador mcfaul, let me start with what we heard from tony blinken, personally agreeing that russia has committed war crimes. there's not a formal declaration. explain if in your view and why that distinction is important. >> well, it's a qualitatively new stage and no disrespect to secretary blinken but that the president of the united states said it, that is an extraordinary statement. it's very unusual. it means that direct negotiations between president putin and president biden are unlikely forever. think about that. i agree analytically, by the way. i'm not an international lawyer and, of course, they all understand that those kinds of indictments come from international body, not individual leaders, but that he chose to

. >> woodruff: the city of zaporizhya lies in the southeast of ukraine, along the dnieper river.ry close to the frontlines, and so far remains in ukrainian hands. in the early days of the war, fighting at its nuclear power plant put the entire world on edge. now, things have settled down there somewhat, but zaporizhya has become a way station for thousands trying to escape russian attacks. special correspondent volodymyr solohub is there for us. >> reporter: zaporizhzhia is relatively calm now. but the routine here is anything but routine. the city has become a major logistics center for those fleeing the war in mariupol and other towns in southeast of ukraine. we have evacuated around 112,000 people to central and western parts of ukraine since the beginning of the war. we serve as a sort of layover hub. if all of those evacuees stayed here, tens of hundreds of thousands of people, it would be very difficult for the city. most of the evacuees stay overnight and keep going to central and western ukraine. >> reporter: this is estate's main hub. those fleeing the horrors of war com

kherson it's critical because it is the last-ditch to the south over the dnieper river. there were very drains into the black sea. that is the recent route, and if you can catch that bridge, they can actually push forces over and across that bridge into the west. which then allows them to maneuver all the way over to the moldovan border. they essentially can cut off all of southern ukraine from the black sea, and all water in the sea of azov. and that essentially seals off the southern side. let's take a step back, and they'll look bigger. when you look at what's going on now, they have advanced on several fronts. i think what is key in this is they are starting to make progress through here, sumy, you've taken some photos there. you have some photos of kharkiv. they're also hammering it with interact fires. and this is from a convoy we've been talking about. we they've been stacking up combat power there, and that's really where we're at today. there were moving forces such that they can really bring the klan that they originally started. they can advance now overtime,

. >> jesse: so if they lose control of the dnieper river, they lose the port cities and they are kindf choked off from resupply lines, is there any way we can load them up with these drones because i think the turkish drones were lighting up some of these convoys earlier but i haven't seen them light up any convoys the last couple days. is there anything we can do in that regard? >> well, this is where the russians are very vulnerable, flight you saw all of the satellite imagery of these columns. they lined up on these roads. lined up because they ran out of logistics. ran out of fuel. a lot of vehicles broke down. and they can't get off road. the ground is thawing. he helped out xi jinping by delaying the offensive until after the olympics now he can't maneuver across country very well. if they have long -- more long range fires capabilities generally, including drones and artillery and could lose that artillery without really the chance of almost immediately counter fire by the russians, i think that these forces are in a very vulnerable position. and to concentrate to be able to co

this was a prize fight, putin's losings points, he's never going to get toer the west crossing the dnieper river. i thinkr he's really he'd bettr start figuring out how he negotiates to a settlement because i don't think he can win it. and when i w we talk about genel victor just made a play about you far more about strategic warfare than i do. so d bego, my i beg your indulge here, but if he goes scorched earth and he's like a cornered rat, what will he be capable of doing at that point? that's victor davis hanson. >> i hear that's his concern and i share it. >> yeah. yeah. you know, my concern and that is a concern is there they do have a military strategy. you've escalated escalate and the absolute fear that i'vee got's is he's going to use as an sub kiloton nuclear weapon and they've got him their inventory. we don't have those in oury inventory effect. we have away with in the 60s wel had a system called the davy crockett and he'd do a demonstration. what that means is you shoot ito into the water, shoot it into a a big field and there are some kiloton weapons. but it makes it a demon

and they wouldn't be able to get west of the dnieper river and that would be a huge problem.at the ukrainians are on the cusp of victory, but having said that it is absolutely clear that russia's offensive on kyiv, the capital, the centre of gravity of this russian military campaign, is in trouble. that they have been forced to pause, they had to regroup, they have to find additional forces, they had to regroup, they have to find additionalforces, including syrian mercenaries, members of the wagner group, the mercenary company, russian chechen fighters, and that signifies, i think, russian chechen fighters, and that signifies, ithink, that russian chechen fighters, and that signifies, i think, that they're having real trouble around the suburbs of the capital of ukraine. just help us understand the size of the russian military versus the ukrainian, just give us, give our audience is your analysis of the comparison between the two. weill. comparison between the two. well, the russian — comparison between the two. well, the russian armed _ comparison between the two. well, the

>> brian when you look that the map dnieper river in the middle.center on kyiv and from the russians. and then you have got the russians trying to move from the south and east, west toward the dnieper river to seize the terrain and the key ports and cities that you see on the map there and then eventually do a river crossing and secure the whole country. now, it's not going as putin had hoped what we are seeing is great leadership from zelenskyy, thankfully and good action on the ground from the ukrainian troops. i commanded ukrainian troops when i was a commander in the 101st airborne division. >> brian: pretty tough. battalion working for me. >> we have good troops. they are great fighters. and what we're seeing is that passion right now, that atlantic nickel school playing out on the battlefield and disrupting the russian invasion. >> brian: general, i hear there are strong reports the russians are running out of food and running out of fuel. and they're running out of munitions and armament. a lot of people think you hold out 10 days there coul