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Have felony. flown its our oldest jet most ubiquitous. we dont have to send american troops into ukraine and why do people think that this coward, putin, who is hiding on some bunker is going to use nuclear weapons? i dont get that if he was going to use nuclear weapons, he doesnt need us to provoke him. he is use nuclear weapons tomorrow. he is use whatever he wants tomorrow. he hasnt and he is not going to. first and foremost they dont want to die. they want power. bryan brian here is the thin...

Weeks. the advancements on kyiv just part of russias expanding and brutal offensive there. the city of dnibro, which had so far escaped russian attacks, was hit. and in western ukraine, russia struck airfields there for the first time since the war began. the number of refugees from ukraine now reaching 2.5 million as evacuation attempts are still very much under way. ukrainian president zelenskyy said that as many as 100,000 civilians have been brought to safety over the last two days. as russi...

>> well, fred, it has some merit. there are about 23 mig-29s in poland right now that could be used for this. and the only big thing that stands in the way of this is the fact that the airfields that mig-29s or any other aircraft would use to defend ukraine are being attacked right now by the russians. so its a tenuous issue. its going to be a touch and go, literally and figuratively in this case. but we have to do something. and this might just be the one thing that might work. >> thats a big o...

Evidence putin has committed war crimes. >> brian: do you think so? >> steve: it is 1:00 in ukraine and ben hall leads our coverage from ukraine early this afternoon. >> brian, steve and ainsley good morning. russia has aflowfns tud will wil open a corridor from for cities. there was immediate backlash their plans entailed taking people straight to belarus or russia. and of course over the last few days, russia has also pretended to have humanitarian corridors out in the city of mariupol, the re...

There are airfields. there is a factory a few miles from where im talking to you. there still is concerned with people. they are not comfortable staying here. they want to go to the polish border, a neato -- a nato nation. >> bret: getting word that two u.s. officials are saying with direct knowledge, that two russian isle 76 transport planes have been shot down by the ukrainians. theres other reporting from the ukrainians about that. there is this urban legend on social media about the ghost of...

Flying around, and then, on the battlefield, its likely they have service to air, mobile service to air missile systems that are moving around, so establishing the no-fly zone, while it is pretty straightforward, would have some complications and risks to the aircrews of the tankers, the awacs, and the writers that are there to enforce it, so it is easy to do in terms of actually executing it, but it is complicated in terms of getting all the pieces in place and making it happen. >> bill: we had...

Sense of atrocities. but im going to caveat this with these very ferocious and indiscriminate attacks. take the example of the mayor kidnapped this morning. or the paternity ward that was horrifically bombed. we saw bloody pregnant women, it makes people feel that no one is safe, kim. >> absolutely. salma abdelaziz, thanks so much. russias ononslaught, has n taken a new turn opening fronts of the country that so far have escaped much of the violence. cnns oren liebermann has that. >> reporter:...

Ukraine. whats your assessment of their advances thus far? >> so the russian force has not performed up to expectations. partly its a function of weather, but more its a function of the lack of training, motivation and education of the russian force. nevertheless, theyre a superior force and they do have air superiority and they are now bombing airfields and making sure the remaining few ukrainian aircraft are hobbled and kept on the ground if they can do that. so what they are doing is still ky...

Steve: lets go to lucas tomlinson in lviv. you have the latest intelligence assessments. a number of russian kelty so far in this war. >> that is right. a new intelligence assessment since over 4500 russian soldiers have been killed fighting in ukraine since the start of the war over ten days ago. >> is has a lot about the russian. steve: keep going. >> it says a lot about the russian strategy. weve seen attacks on airfields in civilian areas. with really interesting we sell videos in advance ru...

And machine guns and sniper rifles from the checks. joining us now is eric schmidt, senior writer covering terrorism and national security issues at the new york times. and retired army major, john spencer, and airborne where for expert and chair of the urban warfare studies with the madison policy forum in. eric schmidt, lets begin with this delivery of weapons coming in on the safe side of the border. and then being transported overland into the battle centers of ukraine. what more can you tel...