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Base. jen, good afternoon. was that international peace keeping base near polish border targeted because thats where nato weapons were flowing into ukraine? >> reporter: well, thats what the russians have said, mike. shortly after the white house announced it had authorized another $200 million in security assistance to ukraine, assistance that goes over land into ukraine from a variety of border cross toings from nato article v countries, russias deputy foreign minister warned that russia would...

Strike on the ukrainian training base near poland, it may disrupt shipments after russia warned it will view any weapons deliveries as, quote, legitimate topic -- targets. jen or if griffin is at the pentagon with more on this. jennifer, is there a sense at the pentagon that the russians were after nato resupplying the ukrainian government? >> reporter: well, certainly a symbolic target, and it hasnt been a secret that the u.s. and nato have used that base for years going back to 2015. it was ve...

Ukraine, assistance that goes overland into ukraine from a variety of border crossings from nato article v countries. russias deputy foreign minister warned that russia would target these convoys, those shipments of weapons. hours later, at 6 a.m. local time, a barrage of russian cruise missiles struck the international peacekeeping and security center in car vi about 12 miles from the border. >> translator: rockets started to fall 10 kilometers from the border with europe with. tomorrow they ma...

It stalling, you tell the people that in some of these towns where the bombs keep falling and their loved ones keep dying. >> and that as much as anything is why volodymyr zelenskyy is calling for face-to-face talks, that the destruction is that being wrought on his country is such that, if it continues for much longer, if we have another four weeks of this, how much of ukraine will generally be left? >> reporter: yes, and he sees on the sidelines that the big grand plan that he would like is to...

Forward if they are targets? >> well, it depends how we define legitimate targets. if the russians have the temerity to put a missile or something into systems in poland or wherever in eastern europe within nato, then the -- then that is a -- that is an act of war. and were going to move into article v and nato land. i want to make one point, joe. when we talk about u.s. and nato, this isnt just that. its europe. and there are other -- there are eu nations and neutral nations that also have a ma...

Country is that its not just about ukraine, right? it is about the danger that -- to the nato countries that are around ukraine. it is about, as the president says, democracy versus autocracy, depends on what day of the week, he says both. so, hes pushing that, because there are effects of this war here at home. we talked for weeks and weeks about inflation, most importantly, gas prices going up and the american people are behind this president. weve seen his numbers tick up over and over in pol...

Joined now by retired lieutenant general steph twitty. thank you for joining us on this. i appreciate it. a first question to you is, give me your assessment of that speech. a powerful moment for the president directly addressing vladimir putin calling him a criminal and a liar. what do you make of it? >> so first of all i thought it was a great speech by the president. probably the best speech that i heard from him since hes been in office. there are three things that i think that we should all...

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That those two leaders needed to meet in order for there to be a viable peace, a viable cease-fire. meanwhile, we are hearing from ukrainians. they are talking about the kind of agreement that they have been asking for, and saying that they would adopt neutral status, so that is, i think, partly, an agreement not to join nato. they would adopt neutral status, but what they want is a new security framework, guaranteed by nato countries like the u.s., the uk, turkey, here, of course, france, and g...

S to donbas, where they have been enjoying relative success, militarily. because in kyiv, theyre losing, losing badly. so they need to sell it to their domestic audience, as well. thats why theyre pretending to negotiate. thats how people understand it on the ground in kyiv. >> how does moscow, how does russia guarantee security in these negotiations. we know thats one of the asks coming from ukraine. how do you expect that to happen? what do you expect the ukrainians want, the zelenskyy governm...