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as we mentioned a local official in the russian city of belgarad is reporting powerful explosions there overnight abc's marcus moore joins me live now from keeve with more on this marcus what do we know at this point about these possible strikes in russia well we we know that the extra the strikes there have been powerful explosions there and it does speak to the unpredictable and the very volatile situation that's unfolding in the east where the heaviest fighting has been taking place that is a part of the country particularly the donbass region in the east of ukraine that the russians have been focusing a lot of their resources and their attention is they try to achieve strategic and military goals there ahead of the may 9th victory day celebrations that many observers say the russians will be trying to establish some type of win before that date now a lot of the fighting as we've said has been happening in the in the east there have also the diane been air