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move that could change the trajectory of the war. lets bring in retired four-star general jack keane. hes chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, welcome. so lets, weve got a year into the war. what lessons have we learned, and what to do they tell us about what comes next? >> well, certainly we all welcome success that ukraine has had, and i think the center of gravity for that success has been the iron will of its soldier...

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That will strengthen the united states and the europeans and democracies writ large and also give us, i think, encouragement to stand up against chinas aggression in the indo-pacific region. thats what they see. but it will not be militarily deicive on the battlefield -- decisive on the battlefield, in our view. a. paul: all right. so given more weapons, especially long-range weapons, and they have a chance to push russia even out of crimea, very briefly, general. >> yeah, absolutely. they have ...

Of artillery and they seem to be willing to take enormous casualties. so this is now a destructive war that is going mile by mile, village by village, with russian forces bombing a location. then advancing a mile or two, if they can. moving up their artillery. then firing onto the next position and with this step-by-step approach, walking their artillery forward, they have been able to squeeze a lot of the donbas and theyre moving heavily out to thecy of severeodonetsk. theyve taken half of the ...

Obviously trying to do this with a, comparatively in warfare, a light touch, which is to use relatively light forces to rush into key cities in ukraine, assuming, ithink, that they would be at least kind of welcomed or at least that the population stayed indoors and would accept what is happening and they are now faced with the dilemma of how rough are they going to be? the russians have shown elsewhere, certainly in chechnya and in syria, that they are prepared to be completely and utterly ruth...

Russian troops are no closer to kyiv tonight, but behind the lines, that theyre moving more long-range artillery into position. what does that tell but their next moves? >> so this goes in line with what we just talked about. as they move artillery up, that indicates they are preparing to pound the cities into submission. specially kyiv. kyiv is still the center of gravity. in other words, the main point. the major objective of the russian thrust. and when they do that, when they move artillery ...