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Round could spark a greater war. in terms of his speech, we expect for him to maintain a sense of calm. something hes been trying to do for weeks now saying panic is an enemy of ukraine but i can tell you, i have been speaking to ukrainians and theyre extremely concerned. i was speaking to one former advisor to president zelenskyy who said he feels like today is 1939 all over again and listening to president putin in that hour-long address earlier today, he said its very clear to him president p...

That will attack a democratic ukraine and if all the predictions that we have, all the intelligence is right, tens of thousands of people are going to die and mr. pompeos comments he made yesterday or today and mr. trumps comments he just made are going to look really, really silly. theyre going to look bad when it was good and evil, they stood next to evil and the next thing they dont get. we talk about bidens weak, bidens weak. what makes us weak in the world is this kind of division. this is ...

The world order, how we think about the dominance of different world leaders and world order is at stake. democracy is at stake and we should be clear that not only is president putin doing what president putin does but president xi is also watching so i think that asia is also in peril as well if were not careful with how the rest of this unfolds and im grateful that the biden administration is doing a really good job at this point, could possibly even be doing more to frankly share the intelli...

Coming next. and particularly with president zelenskyy, i was just in touch with somebody who is very close to him a few hours ago. and we are strategizing about exactly the answer to your question. what happens next. and talking about a particular, would it be better or worse for the resistance if he was alive in lviv. or if he was captured or dead in kyiv. and we had a kind of abstract conversation about pluses and minuses of those two things. and at the end of our conversation, he said mike, ...

Chance of pulling it off. but all of europes teeth are on edge. they remember 1939 to 1945. it devastated from the euro mountains all the way to [inaudible] they are gonna let that happen to them again. >> general, thank you so much for the great detail that you bring to. this barry mccaffrey, we appreciate your time. still to come, reverberations on the attack. including here at home. where ukrainians are watching and waiting and praying for loved ones. weve got that story next. loved ones love...

Strikes an emotional chord with russians. >> to evoke the very memory the russian people have of the horsors through which they went in world wore ii losing 20 million civilians. >> reporter: but its putin, analysts say, fighting the war the way hitler did when he invaded his neighbors justifying it in part by implying his neighbors borders were irrelevant. >> translator: ukraine has never had a consistent tradition of being a true nation. >> that is straight out of hitlers playbook 1938-1939, t...

Are we are not serious. what is your view of the action _ are we are not serious. what is your view of the action that _ are we are not serious. what is your view of the action that president - view of the action that president vladimir putin has taken in the donetsk and luhansk regions in the last 2a errors? do you think he is stretching the idea of coercive diplomacy to the limit? is there still room for a diplomatic track to work or have we gone beyond that? abs, work or have we gone beyond t...

Military experts here, former ukrainian defense minister, he said hes extremely concerned given the president has been -- about the prospect of a further escalation. alex. >> you say that panic is the enemy,, erin but the presidents giving remarks in a two-way ad. is there a palpable fear that there could be further westward push from these russian troops? that the people of kyiv have something to be worried about, do you feel that is that something that circulating at all among the citizens? >>...

Ukraine. >> trying to help. protect freedom. simple as that. >> what is your biggest concern? you are also here, are you going in how many people, whats your biggest concern and where are you going? >> we dont really know right now. >> there are six men total. they say they are strangers who met here in poland. mike is from clear water, florida. aj from south dakota. matt from england. >> what does this remind you of this time in history? >> 1939. fascism rose in spain. a lot of people went over...

>> reporter: analysts say putins nazi references here are not only inaccurate, but disturbingly ironic. but its putin, analysts say, who is fighting this war the way hitler did when he invaded his neighbors, justifying it, in part, by implying that his neighbors borders were irrelevant. >> translator: ukraine has never had a consistent tradition of being a true nation. >> that is straight out of hitlers playbook in 1938-1939 to claim that the democratic-neighboring state is some kind of artifici...