our team of Newsy correspondences covering the st
both at home and abroad. Jason Bellini leads us off
from Kiev tonight a weapon system designed to insti
fear. Russian video of a powerful Iskander missile
launcher that they claim is now inside Ukraine. But at
the start of the third month of a war where Ukraine has
devastated Russian units. The fear factor cuts both
ways now. Both sides are preparing for a brutal and
bloody war of attrition on the eastern front. The
Ukrainians are fighting back. Our artillery is very
effective because it can hit them from a big distance.
As Ukrainian fighter, they're scared of it. 100%. They
used to feel much safer. He says, Ukrainian forces are
also digging in, digging huge trenches around the
eastern city of Zach Parise OSHA The Ukrainian milit
leader says these fortification are meant to save the
lives of our soldiers as they defend the city. It's
another sign of the reality setting in this is a nasty,
brutish stage of the war. That could also be long. The
destruction includes critical infrastructure that
Russia wants hope to control, but instead now tries to
destroy, As evidenced by Russian strikes, Monday on
five railroad stations in the central and western parts
of the country, far from the front lines. Those front
lines now extend 300 miles not just in the east, but to
the two major cities on the sea. In Mario opal
Ukrainian forces released video they say, is of the
1000 civilians, many of them Children sheltering under
the vast steel mill pounded by Russian bombs. The head
of those forces pleading for safe passage saying they
cannot hold out much longer. And now there are fears
that Odessa could be the next Mario people. After
Russia struck apartment buildin on easter, a father
posting a photograph of his wife and three month old
baby killed in the strike. President Zelensky
responding with anguish and anger. Among those killed
was a three month old baby girl. How did she threaten
Russia He asks, it seems that killing Children is just
a new national idea of a Russian federation. We will
identify all those responsible for this. Strike, those
responsible for Russia's missile terror. He says,
everyone who gives these orders, everyone who fulfills
these orders, No one will be able to hide. Music
correspondent. Jason bellini is in Kiev Ukraine tonight.
Jason you were at that unusual press conference w
President Zelensky on saturday night. What more can you
tell us about it Hello Bianca, it was unusual and one
of the reasons was the location. It was down in the
subway. And I'm talking deep down we had to go through
multiple escalators. One of the longest escalators I've
ever been on. Was this for safety reasons That was
probably a factor. In fact, they didn't even tell us
that it was going to be a press conference with
President Zelensky. We suspecte but they put us on
the list along with the others to be there. And they
were literally trains going through and you can only
imagine what people must have been thinking who were on
those trains who are going through the station and they
saw their president in the middle of a press conference.
But the other thing I should say is what Zelensky was
like during that press conference and we've seen so
much of him over the over the recent months but I've
never seen him so angry and so passionate and he used
words and described Russia that I had never heard him
use before. They apparently hasn't used before. He was
calling the he was throwing the rhetoric back at the
Russians saying that they were the nazis and his level
of anger over the atrocities that have been commi
here. And he just expressed that in the most passionate
of terms Bianca. Well earlier in the war we were
hearing so much about javelin antitank missiles being
sent by the U.S. To help Ukraine. What kind of weap
is LNC asking for now That's right. Well that was the
this is now now new type of war on the eastern front
and this is a war that involves heavy weaponry an
Ukrainians won't just be able to knock out Russian
tanks. Be able to target Russian thanks. That's w
those javelin missiles before now they need heavy
artillery And so that's what they've been asking for
from the United States and the U.S. Is obliging sending
over how it serves the long range artillery. So they
can try to fight back against the Russian artillery a
Russian tanks. This is going to be more traditional
type warfare. The question is whether this artillery
and whether the this new heavy weaponry will arrive in
time, the weaponry the U.S. Is sending is not weaponry
that the Ukrainians know how to use, so they have to
get trained on it first. So they're actually being sent
out of the country. Being trained by americans and
americans aren't going into Ukraine. They're Ukrainian
are coming to them getting trained, coming back in and
our understanding is the artillery is starting to come
into the country heading to the eastern front for the
battle that is heating up right now Bianca music
correspondent Jason Bellini. We appreciate your time.
Thank you so much.