Good evening. I'm Omna Nawaz. And I'm Jeff Bennett. On the news hour tonight, NATO countries promise more weapons to help Ukraine defend itself after Russia launched one of its largest aerial assaults in months.

New restrictions on student loans raise questions about education access and how borrowers can pay

off existing debt.

And the conservative effort to curtail reproductive rights turns its focus toward birth control.

The more people in legislatures are willing to acknowledge that they are changing what abortion

means, the more space that creates to include contraceptives

and the definition of abortion.

Welcome to the news hour. It is a pivotal moment in Ukraine. Kiev announced today it'll hold

another round of peace talks with Russia on Wednesday, the first such meeting in seven weeks.

And NATO leaders met today to try and answer Ukraine's desperate call for more weapons, as Moscow

launched one of its largest ever aerial assaults.

Here's Nick Schiffen with more.

In Ukraine's capital today, damage, destruction, and more death.

It's days like this where nowhere feels safe.

Not the Kiev apartment building hit by a Russian drone.

The school kids' bedroom inside, burnt black.

Not the nearby kindergarten engulfed in flames.

Not the bomb shelter, otherwise known as the metro,

where a drone hit at the entrance and filled the tunnel built to withstand nuclear blasts with smoke.

The metro usually where Ukrainians spend the night to protect their children.

But these days there is precious little protection.

46-year-old Vadim Volkov survived where his apartment did not. I can't even describe the emotions I had when the whole apartment was destroyed.

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