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And putin has been trying to convey the impression he really will invade ukraine and and putin has been trying to start a war. even if his actual intent was just to get concessions on things like european security. what has the biden team been doing endlessly? briefing the press are they really think he is serious and the war starts on wednesday actually in the sunday actually it is monday. [laughter] they have been confirming the message that putin wants to stand and now it seems they are getti...

Kyiv. here we are hearing that ukrainians have tried to target this convoy. whats the best way to -- >> you would hope. >> -- to attack it. >> the best way to attack it is from the air. they dont have any capability to do that. they may have some drones that are armed. that could be the case. the ukrainians were given some drones from the turks. they may have gotten some from some of our other allies. im not certain. but thats the best way. top-down attack is best. but also if there are forces o...

Ukraine. and the challenge there for putin is that the ukrainian forces would fight a war of inurgency and resistance against an army of occupation. >> my -- my -- my next question and quick, if you will, given the imbalance between the two militaries, a, what sort of fight do you expect from the ukrainians now? and do you expect that insurgency to eventuate going forward? >> i think the ukrainians are better prepared than 2014 when russia invaded and annexed, um, the crimea and also launched th...

Positioning now following putins declaration of the two self-declared republics in eastern ukraine. its number itself, 190,000. the capabilities there, air, land, sea, cyber and more as well as russian naval forces in the black sea. the threat, officials say, is absolutely real that putin could order and asked for permission to order forces outside of russia and that could lead to the full scale invasion that many are concerned about. russia pulling its dup emiploma staff, not a sign this is goi...

Comes next, where they go from here, and what their place, if any, is going to be in this new ukraine. jim? >> clarissa ward in a subway station where people are sheltering from the ongoing bombardment and, bianna, one thing that is clear from this, as we have observed it, in the last really less than 24 hours, is that anywhere there is a potential target in this city, whether intended or not intended. ive been told leading up to this that russian -- russias air capabilities are enormous, missil...

Aggressive. >> yes, i agree completely agree, ali, i actually ask people about that. because, you know, most likely, when hes saying things like that. its a message of deterrence. its to say, look, im drawing this line, this is a capability that we have, and in case anyones forgotten, im gonna remind you about it. there have been some other recent deployments that are so been similar determined surges from vladimir putin. he has sent some bombers, there are reports that he has some attack fighte...

Similar assessment. u.s. intelligence believes a major city in ukraine is of particular concern, but so far, ukrainians say there are no plans to evacuate. >> and despite the mounting sanctions against russia, putin continues to escalate this crisis. pentagon officials say russian military capabilities are near 100% of all forces and the pentagon has anticipated putin would move into the area. any moment now, we can expect an update. but were beginning with erin burnett who is in ukraine. lets s...

Remember, this is someone who has invaded his own territory in chechnya with a brutal war. he has assassinated his own forces and illegally expired people in certain ways. >> its lessons of impunity that hes carrying forward. its lessons of the economy hes carrying forward. were in a more dangerous position because we didnt have the nerve to push back. now were at this crisis point and we have to push back because there is nowhere else to go. once we get past this point, well address this in a m...

The days go on, that were able to do other things as well. and maybe, again, its not as a nato thing. maybe its a coalition of the willing. maybe its something else that we might do, and im not talking about invading ukraine or this type of thing. but i think -- and some of the offices certainly in the pentagon and other western capitals where you have special forces and others, they might have some ideas that can help us up our game, but i think its getting tiresome now, i think, for a lot of t...

Easier to launch. at this stage, it is a very dramatic sounding development and it certainly does increase, i think, development and it certainly does increase, ithink, the development and it certainly does increase, i think, the tensions here. it is not the first time, of course, that mr putin has referred to russias nuclear capabilities around this particular invasion. he has talked about russias nuclear capabilities before, during the launch of the invasion. he has of course also warned any c...