If this is indeed Russia failing, as the Biden administration now says, I would hate

to see what Russia winning looks like.

The lead starts right now.

No signs of Putin relenting as a CNN team is forced to take cover in Ukraine witnessing

heavy bombardment way too up close.

Plus, the standoff in Mediopol, as Ukrainian shelter in a steel plant, I'm going to speak

with the CEO of the company that owns that plant, also ahead, a CNN exclusive more than

2,000 texts revealing what Trump's inner circle analyses were really saying behind the scenes

about the big election lie and the deadly Capitol riot on January 6th.

Welcome to the lead MJ Tap, where we start today with our world lead and the intensifying

Russian assault on targets full of innocent Ukrainian civilians.

Ukrainian officials say Russian forces struck five train stations in central and western

Ukraine, all within the span of an hour earlier today.

This is the aftermath of one of those strikes, thick, billowing black smoke, filling the

air in western Ukraine, not far from Laviv in the town of Krasnaya, where an electrical

substation near the train station was also hit or told.

The country's railway company says, casualties have been reported, although we do not know

as of now exactly how many people were killed or injured, Ukraine's train system has of

course been vital in the country's war effort, transporting millions of innocent civilians

to safety and bringing in essential life-saving supplies.

The situation is also further deteriorating in Mediopol in the south, where one Ukrainian

official says Russian forces are continuously attacking a steel plant where hundreds of

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