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Ground maneuver and air assets, that is the essence going all the way back to 1939 and they have not been able to achieve those effects from accusing armor together with infantry and engineers, with indirect fire, artillery, drones and all the rest of that. we have not seen any of those kinds of operations. we take for granted and are just normal standard and even catching the column out tanks the other day filmed by a drone at attacked by ukrainians destroying armored vehicles, they were just s...

People all around the world. we met refugees, mostly women and children, fleeing this country now for their lives. weve met ukrainian soldiers, young and old, men and women, as well as volunteer fighters from around the world. ukraine may seem far away but the people here share our dreams and our hopes and fears and they are being tested now in the most horrible ways. we are being tested as well. this is a 1939 moment for europe and the world. we at cnn will continue to cover this war as only cn...

We saw it unfold from september of 1939 [inaudible] i think the way i have been watching this is that during this fascinating combination of this being a classic great power war, where the rule of the strong, vladimir putin, a stronger than ukraine -- or at least he thought he was. and he wants that land. he wants that country. and of the rule of law, whether explicit or implicit, the notion that sovereignty is more important than subjugation, that in fact there is an order to the way the world ...

The russians in recent time, there aim isnt that great, and x so you could have that. putins got four things left, chemical, biological, nuclear and cyber. i think the cyber is probably reserved for going after our own financial institutions, and in retaliation for the sanctions, but the range of those other tradition, more traditional weapons of mass destruction, i think hes going to be careful but not that careful. >> yeah. lets talk about europe for a second. a lot of people today are talking...

>> an adviser to president zelenskyy described natos response to russias invasion as an appeasement. do you agree with that characterization? >> definitely i believe in this 1939 moment and i think we all have to understand that, you know, its not only about ukraine and the reason why putin attacked ukraine is of course because he wants to eliminate us as a free democratic neighbor, but its also because he hates everything that is democratic. that he would like to destroy anything that is not au...

Born marie jana corboleva to a check slovakian diplomat, they fled the former czechoslovakia after the nazi invasion in 1939 and later found safe haven in the united states in 1948. she became a u.s. citizen, married media tycoon joseph patterson albright, and had three children, all while working on her ph.d. and learning multiple languages. in 1982, albright took a prestigious position as professor of international affairs at georgetown university. but it was the shock of her husband asking fo...

Christian nationalists here who identify with what putin is doing in russia. >> well, thats right. this is whats so extraordinary and why i say that it is destroying ukraine in order to save it. he is saying that these are our brothers and then he is ordering his troops to kill their brothers, number one. number two, i think we should point out, the unbelievable and outrageous rhetoric of de-nazification. a country run by a jewish president fighting a right wing fascist movement that has come to...

The russian intent in 1939, to dominate all of finland. the fins were ready, i think the ukrainians were ready, weve helped them. i think thats probably how this ends up with some kind of neutral status, but weve got a long way to go. weve got to continue the fight. above all, wolf, we, the west, need to support the ukrainians so they can create the conditions for a sensible settlement here. >> youve got to give the ukrainians a lot of credit over these first 33 days of this war. admiral james s...

Including the donbas region? >> finland historically face add similar situation in about 1939 where the russians invaded and basically at the end of the invasion the russians said give us a big chunk of your country, finland, and well let the rest of it remain a state. if thats what putin is thinking will happen again it will be interesting to see. zelenskyy has right now said, no, it has to go to a referendum and the territorial integrity is important. thats where the negotiations are going to ...

This. when you consider the full context of who this president is, do you expect those meetings -- do you expect him hearing directly from these refugees to really change the trajectory of where this is all headed? >> i would hope he does have the opportunity to meet refugees and as you said, alicia, hes good at empathizing with people, but the scale of what he has to empathize with here is just extraordinary. i mean, its the largest displacement of refugees since world war ii. were not even tal...