enters its 8th day local residence at fleet, fighting with many finding their homes. devastated by shelly don, yet residence stranded in the ukrainian city of hark of since the war broke out says he fears he could be killed by armed locals as the streets descend into chaos . ukrainians of roving stalls, but it was expected. they were given weapons. and now they are behaving as if everything is committed. but if you challenge them, you just get a bullet. and they say russians that in a russian delegation wait. so for the ukrainian side to begin a 2nd round of peace talks, a supposed to take place within hours on the bell. russian border with a broadcasting live direct from our studios. im also this is art international. let's get right to the situation in ukraine. news just in russia's embassy in australia, says that it was mailed an envelope containing a suspicious white powder. local authorities are reportedly examining the substance while diplomats sage they have received concerning dangerous threats through social media. rushes military operation in ukraine has entered its 8th day with man

residence, leave the fighting with many, finding their homes, devastated by shelly and on the other side of the conflict residence in the don. yes. can lugens republics suffer amid intensive fighting and explosions reported in several cities. a russian delegation waits for the ukrainian side to begin a 2nd round of peace talks supposed to take place within hours on the belly. russian border broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow.

shelly. been at the head of don. yes. people's republic. what did he have to say? fully very interesting interview with dentist per shilling. of course the narrative here and this separatist controlled part of ukraine is that this is a fight against ukrainian nationalists. they call them hair. neo nazis is what they described the miles and that battling mary awful is described as a battle to get rid of neo nazis, a nationalist. now dennis shalean is saying that in morale all the reason it's essentially been destroyed by city center is because people are fighting street to street house to house. he says in the last 8 years, and the groups call the as all brigade he calls and i sort of national group that he's very influential mario. he says they spent the last 8 years fortifying the city. he accuses them of using human shields, human shields, to prevent the city being taken by don't, that course is backed by the russians. he also says that in response to the russian defense ministry saying that it is now going to concentrate its efforts on what they call liberating,

means will concentrate on the main thing the complete liberation of don bess officials and maryupal a town nearly flattened by russian. shelly all than boss they want than ukraine. it's absolutely lie what they say a senior us defense official says russia has lost up to 15% of its combat firepower and is now bringing reinforcements in from a russian occupied region of georgia us intelligence believes as many as 10,000 russian troops may have been killed so far in a new address ukrainian president velodemir zielinsky says ukraine's heroic armed forces dealt powerful. lowes and significant losses to the enemy as president joe biden touched down in poland. he once again called russian president vladimir putin a war criminal. democracy's united in our opposition and effort to devastation that is occurring at the hands of a man who? quite frankly think is a worker president. biden will not tour humanitarian efforts in ukraine, but biden is scheduled to meet with ukrainians who fled to poland in warsaw today ty hernandez abc news, new york and today bay area musicians are going to gather to perform ukrainian songs and other pieces

shelly hengrey, so glad to have you both on. you share the house national committee subcommittee, why bring these group of lawmakers to eastern europe? >> well, the central reason, don, is that we have six lawmakers, three democrats and three republicans. the central reason is to show support, bipartisan support of congress for the people of ukraine. and also, to reaffirm our commitment to nato, you know, we've had great cooperation from the polish people. as you know, we've had over two million refugees go into poland and every single one of them has been placed in a private home. the polish people have welcomed them into their home so we wanted to say thank you for that cooperation and that generosity. and just to strengthen the partnership that we're going to need to get through this. >> congressman, putin has reportedly finally agreed to meet with ukrainian president volodomyr zelenskyy for peace talks. ukraine's president, zelenskyy is warning of world war iii if peace talks fail. but you say now is not the time. do you still hold to that? >> well, as we continue to have these attacks, so i don't have a lot of trust in vladimir putin. remember, this was the sam