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Just made. the u.s. has been watching this build up for months and had an assessment on the types and numbers of forces russia would need if it were to conduct an all-out invasion of ukraine. a senior defense official saying that roush yeah is near 100% of the forces needed and in position to conduct that invasion, an all-out, not just trying to take done has or l luhansk or donbas, but in kharkiv, the capital itself. the defense secretary said he thought tanks rolling into kyiv was hikely likel...

On the peripherys and actually penetrate into the urban terrain. once they get in there, hopefully they face a wall of concrete and basically every street being enemy zones, snipers and windows, ambushes. the urban terrain is called the great equalizer for a reason. it doesnt matter if youre the best military, and russia is far from the best, urban terrain breaks of military formations, it doesnt allow them to use all of their capabilities, like firepower, highest are. they need those tanks, tho...

Biden also said theres going to be new sanctions targeting russian elites with close ties to vladimir putin. well learn more in the coming days. obviously its a key part of the sanctions plan. we dont yet have more details yet, do we? >> reporter: well, they have released the name was of the russian elites. coming from the treasury department, of course, in charge of the sanctions. it will basically the main extent of these sanctions that president biden announced today that the white house has ...

>> i wanted to ask you what we heard from john kirby at the pentagon late today, when pressed, what has the u.s. seen inside eastern ukraine, has the u.s. seen russian forces move into the donbas region? he said that we certainly believe that additional russian military forces are moving into that region, but we cant confirm the numbers, the capabilities, but that we certainly believe thats happening. so, just to be clear tonight, the u.s. believes russian forces have moved into eastern ukraine,...

Out to zelenskyy, this is a very strong leader, regardless of his acting background, hes doing incredible job solidifying the ukrainian people to get them together to fight. as far as what they need to do, couple major factors. similar to israel, this country is being invaded by a larger force. the will of the people is important, the ukrainians are bonded, as the rest of the world. the russians are holding back in terms of their strategic capabilities. they have air superiority, they have battl...

China now has more time to do additional penetration for additional systems so they do any kind of attack to use part of this is a playbook to say that we will lock the cyber first is a hybrid warfare. and then will follow with the troops and forces and kinetic capabilities. >> what you think right now was the biggest for you have of russia doing to the united states? we see whats going on right now in the grind ukraine at some of these other regions. when you think the biggest cyber threat righ...

On ridge anti tank, with air defense capabilities, and with aerial vehicles, to strike deep targets. thats how we get through this. >> so, i cant underscore the degree to which you are an expert on this. you are not only an expert at the national security council. you are in that room where, you know, a precursor to this event took place, when donald trump tried to deny congressionally approved aid to ukraine. but, you are also from here. you are from ukraine. i want to read it just a little bit...

Anything out of it. and so what putin stated he wanted is reassurances that there wont be nato troops in ukraine by ukraine joining nato and reassurances that where we do have offensive capabilities in nato countries, he either knows about them or pulled back. those are two things in our own national security may not look good on an international stage to say that we gave to him. so finance up to our president and his cabinet to either through back channels and signaling or posturing resolve thi...

That are done. from an intelligence perspective and a military support perspective there are things to bolster ukrainian forces and allow the paramilitary and civilian forces to see more of to allow them to have greater capability against the russian war machine. i think theres more to do to bolster the capabilities and the effectiveness of the resistance forces. >> madame ambassador, the ukrainian resistance is -- i think the piece that seems to have surprised everyone and vladimir putin and th...

The will of the ukrainian people. they are showing their fortitude, theyre putting up an incredible fight, theyre making it extremely difficult for the russians to resupply their forces. this is turning into a logistics war in some respects and that it is a race between our ability and natos ability to push forward supplies such as the 17,000 missiles that have been recently approved, to get those into the hands of the ukrainian war fighters before the russians can regroup and get their logistic...