Russa steps up attacks in Eastern Ukrane

"first of all let's turn to Ukraine where president zilinski has once again been asking the outside world to come together to face Russia saying that his War aim is to kick Russia out of Ukraine including Crimea well he's recently had words of support from Spain where he received a pledge of military aid but what is happening in Ukraine itself well Russian forces

have made some progress and we know that they've been making advances towards the Eastern Ukrainian city of H in recent weeks and in the early hours of just this morning a series of explosions hit the Russian held Ukrainian city of Lin reportedly targeting a military Aviation school and also a repair plant well let's cross over to our International editor Jeremy bone who joins us live from harke and Jeremy you were at the DIY Center in harke that was targeted over the weekend seemingly Ukraine's Second City is defenseless against Russian attacks that's certainly how it feels here yeah

uh that particular uh shopping complex I think the death toll is now up to they're still uh looking for missing people uh and you know the it's a strange atmosphere here in h because behind me there's a busy road people are going to work but only about kilometers from here there's quite a major battle going on between Ukrainian and Russian forces in in uh a Border Town Called V Chans where I was in the area uh just a few days ago I didn't go into the city it's way too uh lethal

for that to be there but uh you could see I could see massive plumes of smoke coming from big fires clearly it's an inferno and uh as well as that here in the city this is the second biggest city uh in Ukraine it does feel pretty defenseless uh when it comes to uh various kinds of Russian missile attacks because uh they're so short of uh missile defenses and

they what they have to do is make some difficult choices about what it is they protect and JY we've been seeing president ziny he was in Madrid over the weekend just talk us through what he wants because I know of course he's always calling for more arms but he also wants to Target locations within Russia what's the reality of the International

Community even agreeing to that well the thing is it's it's the Americans basically it's Joe Biden uh President Joe Biden in the White House who is very reluctant for the ukrainians to use some of the sophisticated weapons that the Americans have supplied to hit targets inside Russia that is because of the fear that he has that goes way back to the start of the full

scale Invasion more than two years ago in February uh uh when a eventally as Biden said at the time we do do not want to get too engaged in this directly uh because that would be World War I so he is worried about escalation he's worried about the fact that President Putin does from time to time rattle the nuclear saber and while a lot of analysts say look

that's just Bluff I think President Biden is cautious and he says well let's not take that risk but uh especially with the pressure now and this border fight that's going on uh the ukrainians are saying why can't we hit say concentrations of Russian troops on the other side of the Border even the the head of NATO Yen stoltenberg has come out and said that

that should be allowed and it's pretty unusual for the head of NATO to be directly pressing the most important and Powerful member of NATO the United States the leader of NATO to change its policies but that's what he's doing yes a fascinating really interesting uh turn there from Yen Stenberg Jeremy as always to you and the team stay safe thank you

so much Jeremy bone there our International editor in h where Russia is stepping up those attacks on that part of eastern Ukraine hke uh Ukraine's second largest city lots more on our website as well"

first of all let's turn to Ukraine where president zilinski has once again been asking the outside world to come together to

face Russia saying that his War aim is to kick Russia out of Ukraine including Crimea well he's recently had words of support from Spain where he received a pledge of military aid but what is happening in Ukraine itself well Russian forces have made some progress and we know that they've been making advances towards the Eastern Ukrainian city of H in

recent weeks and in the early hours of just this morning a series of explosions hit the Russian held Ukrainian city of Lin reportedly targeting a military Aviation school and also a repair plant well let's cross over to our International editor Jeremy bone who joins us live from harke and Jeremy you were at the DIY Center in harke that was targeted over the

weekend seemingly Ukraine's Second City is defenseless against Russian attacks that's certainly how it feels here yeah uh that particular uh shopping complex I think the death toll is now up to 18 they're still uh looking for missing people uh and you know the it's a strange atmosphere here in h because behind me there's a busy road people are going to
work but only about 30 kilometers from here there's quite a major battle going on between Ukrainian and Russian forces in in uh a Border Town Called V Chans where I was in the area uh just a few days ago I didn't go into the city it's way too

uh lethal for that to be there but uh you could see I could see massive plumes of smoke coming from big fires clearly it's an inferno and uh as well as that here in the city this is the second biggest city uh in Ukraine it does feel pretty defenseless uh when it comes to uh various kinds of Russian missile attacks because uh they're so short of uh missile

defenses and they what they have to do is make some difficult choices about what it is they protect and JY we've been seeing president ziny he was in Madrid over the weekend just talk us through what he wants because I know of course
he's always calling for more arms but he also wants to Target locations within Russia what's the reality of the
International Community even agreeing to that well the thing is it's it's the Americans basically it's Joe Biden uh President Joe Biden in the White House who is very reluctant for the ukrainians to use some of the sophisticated

weapons that the Americans have supplied to hit targets inside Russia that is because of the fear that he has that goes

way back to the start of the full scale Invasion more than two years ago in February uh 2022 uh when a eventally as Biden said at the time we do do not want to get too engaged in this directly uh because that would be World War I so he
is worried about escalation he's worried about the fact that President Putin does from time to time rattle the nuclear
saber and while a lot of analysts say look that's just Bluff I think President Biden is cautious and he says well let's not
take that risk but uh especially with the pressure now and this border fight that's going on uh the ukrainians are saying

why can't we hit say concentrations of Russian troops on the other side of the Border even the the head of NATO Yen
stoltenberg has come out and said that that should be allowed and it's pretty unusual for the head of NATO to be directly pressing the most important and Powerful member of NATO the United States the leader of NATO to change its

policies but that's what he's doing yes a fascinating really interesting uh turn there from Yen Stenberg Jeremy as always to you and the team stay safe thank you so much Jeremy bone there our International editor in h where Russia is stepping up those attacks on that part of eastern Ukraine hke uh Ukraine's second largest city lots more on our website as well"

• President Zelensky urges international support against Russia, aiming to drive them out of Ukraine, including Crimea.
• Russian forces advance towards Eastern Ukrainian city of H, with recent explosions hitting Russian-held Ukrainian city of Lin, targeting military installations.
• Ukrainian city of H feels defenseless against Russian attacks, with casualties rising and limited missile defenses.
• President Zelensky seeks more arms and wants to target locations within Russia, but faces reluctance from the US due to fear of escalation and nuclear threats.
• NATO head Jens Stoltenberg supports Ukrainian requests to target Russian troop concentrations across the border, urging a change in US policy.