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Secretary whether the fact russia struck two air fields in the west of the country, whether it was broadening the conflict or a message to nato and poland. >> your assessment that those fields were targeted because theres been so much talk of these mig-29s and that would have been air fields the migs would have flown from. >> we dont know. >> what will the u.s. do if russia uses a chemical weapon in ukraine. >> i dont want to get into speculating. i think you heard the president clearly today sa...

Vladimir put and the enemies of the free world must be stopped. quite the title there. winter has certainly come to ukraine. you say that putin doesnt want deescalation. the world now sees him expanding the attacks into western ukraine hitting two air fields, at least and this military base near the polish border. do you think he wants a conflict with nato? >> he doesnt want a confrontation because he knows hell lose but he believes nato will duck. nato will waffle. nato will awalk away as they ...

Couple of air fields in the west. its not like there has not been any airstrikes in western ukraine since the beginning of this operation 16 days ago. its just that we have not seen that as a routine matter. so now you have two in one day, thats notable. what it means, where the russians are going we dont really know. we believe the targets were air fields, so from a military perspective, you can see a certain logical sense to deny the ukrainians the ability to use air strips in the western part...

The program. start with the mix. if there is bipartisan support, why is president biden sitting on his hands while people die. >> president biden is more interested in not offending putin. we should facilitate transfer of migs, we have to make sure we are careful not getting engaged in this conflict. there are many ways to fight the russians by cutting off the oil supply and releasing what is available in united states. we have to just say no at some point. >> carley: i also wonder and im concer...

In the western part of ukraine. this is the international peacekeeping and security center here, northwest of the capital city of lviv. whats really interesting is this area from here to here, the polish border is only 11 miles. its unclear what significance that base had in this current conflict that was where nato troops were working with ukrainian soldiers prior to this conflict. any idea what the russians were after when they fired all the cruise missiles and killed 35 people? >> it was a tr...

End. >> neil: so this idea that the russian soldiers are sort of being moved around towards western ukraine, other points, is it just to confuse ukrainians, to confuse us? >> in western ukraine, there was a couple of attacks on air fields. they havent seen much activity in that part of the country. by and large in terms of ground forces, theyre all located in the eastern half of the country in the south coming infrom crimea. we assess that they have made progress in getting closer to kyiv. some ...

Significant increase in the numbers of atatacks and the typs of weapons being used in kharkiv especially. and then we had these two strikes against air fields in the west of the country, not that far from where you are, which clearly indicate as you were saying in the intro there, a possibility or i think frankly a certainty that the russians are trying to interrupt the ability of the ukrainians to resupply, firstly, and secondly it use air fields for military purposes, a lot of their air force,...

To send a signal not to send the mig 29s. that would be in air fields where they would fly from the western part of ukraine. the u.s. is working to get more air defense systems on the ground. russia is flying an average of 200 air sortees per day but most of those are not in to ukrainian airspace where they could be shot down. heres what the dia told the senate intelligence committee. >> weapons like stingers have been moved in and used with effect. the ukrainians will continue to use those in s...

For us, live there in lviv. lets begin with eye on your null and ana recipient, jack jacobs. hes an msnbc analyst. also with us, general ben capri. hes also an msnbc national security commentator. evening to both of you. gentlemen, lets start with this. ali, reporting for us, last three nights, aerates going off. what does this tell us about potentially, with the russian forces are thinking in dealing with lviv, so far east? >> apparently the war has widened. the center of gravity is still the c...

I worry about a miscalculation or misjudgment on both sides. i am glad we set up a technical channel. second, he also said that he is going to go against supply lines and it is clear that supply lines providing nato equipment into ukraine goes through the west, especially their air fields. so theyre reaching out, trying to cut off the supply lines of the ukrainians the way that we are trying to, or the ukrainians are trying to cut off russian supply lines going into russia and belarus. >> all ri...