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Based on the information that they have available to them. and it is their assessment, one in which the secretary concurs that the transfer of combat aircraft right now could be mistaken by mr. putin and the russians as an escalatory step. as i said, we need to be careful every decision we make, that we arent making the potential for escalation worse. because thats not only not good for nato and it is not only not good for the united states and our national security, should this conflict escalat...

With us this morning. were seeing things changing and evolving in ukraine. assuming that president biden does go to this meeting, what is the goal that he needs to ach achieve? >> i think hell have three big ideas hell want to push forward, brianna. first will be solidarity amongst the alliance in terms of weapon systems, capabilities that we can provide the ukrainians. were very focussed on mig 29, s300. dont forget, its intelligence, its cyber, its day to day ammunition. its a very wide range ...

With maybe only a couple of exceptions, the russians have picked up on the other end. and we know that they know what the ring tone is and theyll pick up and answer. and so we know it is functional. i have no conversations between secretary austin and minister shore good to spoeak to and i have no expectation that that is going to change any time soon. and then on the helping coordinate, i dont want to get into too much detail here. i think the coordination is in two planes. one it is in the con...

>> we know quite a bit, being very careful at all stages of this about overstating the russian problems. thats because were quite surprised to find ourselves in the position where they seem so great. i think theres two big consequences. first, you can see the russian commanders are very nervous about trying to take ukrainian cities. what we were expecting was forms of urban welfare before this time, and it just hasnt happened. i dont think theyve got the troops that can go into these well-defend...

Be us? >> yes, absolutely. that is absolutely and strongly happening. you have poland not only suggesting the mig 29s but theyll announce if a nato summit hearing the next couple of days they want a peacekeeping mission to go into western ukraine with nato forces which is im afraid a terrible idea because that increases the chance of escalation and direct conflict between nato and russian forces. but i think the best view comes from the estonian prime minister who said we have to keep this from ...

Once or twice a day and that continues and thus far maybe only a couple of exceptions, the russians have picked up on the other end and we know that they know what the ring tone is, and theyll pick up and answer, and so we know its functional. i have no conversations between secretary austin and the minister to speak to, and no expectation that thats going to change any time soon. and on the helping coordinate, i dont want to get into too much detail here, i think the coordination is in two plan...

Salma, thank you so much. meanwhile, u.s. officials have confirmed to cnn that russia launched hypersonic missiles against a military ammunitions warehouse in ukraine on friday. and the u.s. was able to track the launches in real time. >> sources say the launches were likely intended to not only test the weapons but also send a message to the west. cnns kylie atwood has more. >> reporter: russia used hypersonic missiles against ukraine last week. and this is the first known use of these type of ...

Capabilities as somebody who understands technology? >> actually were organizing online groups and those groups are really decentralized. a person can choose what and when and how he or she can do to support the army and we have many volunteers. coordinators working directly with our government body, with our armed forces to kind of meet those needs and the people who want to help and also a lot of humanitarian support people are providing in their region. several cities that were taken hostage ...

That convoy slowly sort of, you know, trudging toward kyiv, of this dynamic of fuel shortages and jeremy and others have made the point that military-to-military, tanks to tanks, soldiers to soldiers, ukraine is outmatched 100 days to 1. but there is this dynamic of this sort of incompetent, halfhearted effort on the russian part. or is that a complete misread? tell me how you see it. >> well, i dont think its a misread. i think its clearly, you know, we appropriately give a lot of credit to the...

So that north korea can resume the talks with the us. because things are going really badly? things are very bad. covid has not helped at all. the north korea border has shut down very tightly and strictly in the last two years, and because the trade has been shut down, mainly with china, and due to the imposed sanctions, strict sanctions from the international world the economy has been going down and down and down. so this is essentially kimjong—unjumping up and down, shouting, saying, "take...