the battle for mary jo bull has consumed that city day and night fires rage across the horizon, fueled by some of the most brutal urban combat she'd in years. but the end is in sight. if you can climb high enough, one of the tallest buildings in the city of mary opa, this is the 14th 14th floor, but exactly, for this reason, it is so an unsafe it officer, a spectacular view of the city. hm. unfortunately, it also means everyone conceive this used to be ha, a hard pointer, a position for ukrainian snipers before they were. they were driven back. you've got to stay low, you can't shoe yourself. it's safer, safer here. now that with in the dark they will be able to see us this far into the interior. but again, because heavy sir, because this building is so tall it is also used has the look up post to tank shells yesterday. landed here, destroying this apartment from a tank over there in the as of seal block, which is where ukrainian nationalists are making their last stand. that is the territory of the plant itself. and that is where the last of them, although thousands, has still based j

the battle for mary jo bull has galvanized the russian public support for the special operation. now that the horrors and depravity of ukrainian nationalists have been laid bare galvanized and horrified in equal measure. more. i'd gazda of tea from mary jo, po that's all for this our join us again and just about 30 minutes for more of your world news stories. ah, ah, it will be long debated whether the warren ukraine could have been avoided. what is not really opened in debate, because how centers of power i've been shifting to the east, the rise of asia as it were, the war in ukraine. his only accelerated veteran ah needs to come to the russian state to narrative. i've studied us on the most landscape, div hammock ingles, all sons, and that for a week within the 55 we did. okay, so 9 is good, fun speaking one else calls about this, even though we will fan in the european union. the kremlin. yup. machines. the state aunt, rush up to date and spoke. archie spoke neck, given our video agency, roughly all band to on you to send me to school the 25th. even close with mm. with a gray

the conflict from the ground with most of mary jo, bull's urban areas liberated, that these apartment blocks and suburbs housing fire here has changed civilians out of the way. artillery has let loose with abandon here on the outskirts of variable a battery of so proposed how to the far in the way it ukrainian military positions or masses positions inside the as alpha iron and steel works block, which is where thousands of nationalism are making their last stab as off militants have lost their capacity for count a battery. far. these russian and allied forces no longer have to maneuver off to each volley, which gives them an advantage. accuracy that i bought them for thought we are launching, strikes on his av steel factory on the nationalists, the as av battalion. we use pinpoint strikes. we don't put local residents or infrastructure in danger because these are our homes in our families. while artillery shakes the ground, the very air vibrates from a very different sort of weapon. behind my back, ah, the dazzling wasn't multiple will, it will to system of just thought it's ukrainian

of mary jo, blue, ironic, given that they themselves have held tens of thousands of civilians hostage in mary . you bull, as human shields shooting, had any who they saw fleeing due to her. we put our share, casey observed with here. i asked them give me at least a can of food, half a loaf land. and one of them said, maybe you want me to feed you. well, i said not me, just the kids, there's a basement, a bomb shelter in the next house. so they threw in boxes, barricading people. they sat there and would knock it out and tell the dentist republic forces came. they force people to make a molotov cocktails. if they were not able to do it, they drove them to an apartment and shut them since a think a little in they were, hadn't in the seventy's had house in the basement on the 1st floor. who was hiding their knots is not his r a's of i don't know which one of them it was did they have chevrons? some kind of symbols. right, well i'll ukraine military has these ravens and everything else. i dont know as of national guard to someone else, did they offer you the chance to evacuate where you used as a human shie

bulls as fellow countrymen and women. but as fodder, human shields expendable bodies for the glory of ukraine. or i'd gazda of r t for mary jo pal. what's more, it's been revealed, the canadian military has held to train soldiers from the nationalist as of battalion. it's led to condemnation, including from human rights organizations. we'll be covering that in more detail later in the program. but meanwhile, we go to soldiers from the captured ukrainian, 36, the brigade they have claimed they were threatened with execution. if they didn't go to the battlefield, more than a 1000 soldiers have been captured according to russian defense, ministry, and injured service. men are now said to be receiving medical care in the didn't ask republic, and they say they're being treated well. some of the soldiers say they were abandoned by their command. a warning though, their words may have been made under duress. no good. we were abandoned by our command. we were abandoned by every one. we didn't want to fight. the high authority said we will leave. they will shoot immediately. we wanted to leave mario paul. he has of didn't accept us.