And they have miscalculated in ways that have left some of their armored forces in some pretty tough places. Putin and his leaders made some bad assumptions. PHILIP BREEDLOVE (RET.), FORMER NATO SUPREME ALLIED COMMANDER: Well, very similar.

The numbers of civilians killed and wounded, the humanitarian consequences will only grow in the days ahead. And the United States secretary of state announces sanctions on Belarus and Russia`s defense industry, with more warnings for the coming days.ĪNTONY BLINKEN, U.S. President Biden says Putin does not know what`s coming at him, with more sanctions against both the administration itself and also targeting his allies, his rich Russian oligarchs. There are also these images coming out of Ukraine, hundreds of citizens forming a blockade on this road, doing whatever they could courageously, in the hopes of stopping Russian advances from seizing control of a nearby nuclear power plant. The Pentagon, still, though, reiterating warnings that Russian forces could escalate and get more aggressive.

We have reported on this for several days. Twenty miles outside of the capital city of Kyiv, there was 40 miles of a Russian convoy. Today, there was a strike at a school in Kharkiv that killed at least 21. Ukraine says more than 2,000 civilians have now died.

The Russians increasingly hitting what many view as clearly civilian targets. Also more devastation just outside Kyiv, targeting civilian locations, an apartment building destroyed by Russian bombers. Their mayor says there`s no Ukrainian army here, and the city is surrounded.

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