For 17 of Galen and climbing, the lead starts right now.

After days of targeting towns, shelling homes, slaughtering civilians, the Russian government

is now proposing a new ceasefire, one that would start in just a few hours in some of

the Ukrainian cities that they are pummeling.

Then, Vladimir Putin claimed it would take only days to complete his quote-unquote operation

in Ukraine, but almost two weeks in, the 40-mile Russian convoy hasn't really moved.

The US intelligence says between two and 4,000 Russian soldiers have been killed.

So where does the Russian invasion of Ukraine actually stand?

And, banned, President Biden blocking all Russian oil and natural gas imports to the

United States.

Could this send the record-breaking gas prices in the US soaring even higher?

Welcome to the lead-on-jake tap, where we start today with breaking news and a quote-unquote

ugly next few weeks unquote ahead for Ukraine.

That's the warning from CIA director William Burns today.

And does night fell on Ukrainian cities in the last few hours?

New shelling, Russian shelling.

This time in the crucial port city of Mikhail Ayev.

The city's mayor, saying Russia has also been dropping cluster bombs as its forces approach.

Earlier today Russian airstrikes devastated parts of the northeastern town of Sumi, leveling

these homes you see.

Local Ukrainian officials say that 21 innocent Ukrainian civilians were killed, 21 including

two Ukrainian children.

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