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A degree and everyone will be okay but who knows when. >> trying to get to bucharest to friends in poland. one story of millions. families now being torn apart in ukraine and across europe. >> we will see people who are without capabilities, without possibilities, financial possibilities who are running from war. >> transformed into refugees increasing exponentially as russia continues punishing attacks on civilian and military targets alike. >> we dont know what is coming and how many people ar...

It doesnt feel that way to the civilians on the ground who are being attacked, the 2 million ukrainian who fled across the board. what is the pentagon assessment of the military state of affairs right now? >> we would agree with you, calling it a stalemate doesnt seem exactly the best assessment here. obviously, theres a lot of fighting going on. its not a static conflict. the ukrainians are fighting back bravely, but heres the thing, theyre fighting back in the places and at the times and with ...

In that they fire in a general direction and i think we will be likely to see more of that as nick was also saying where he is down in the south. >> and, nick, if you could just talk a little bit about the -- the theater that was struck. how many people have, so far, been -- been pulled out? and what do we know about -- i mean, what are the capabilities for them to actually keep digging through the wreckage? >> in mariupol, to the other side -- other side of the crimea peninsula farther east of ...

View, of that? >> fred, what youre seeing, look, this is an army, this russian army thats been trying to modernize over the course of the last couple of decades and its done a fairly good job of getting the right equipment and capabilities, but they are poorly led. theres nothing worse in any organization than crappy leadership and thats what the russians are displaying. their soldiers are not motivated. they havent been able to get out of their vehicles and really kind of exercise and maneuver ...

Change our deterrent posture at this time. i think thats really about as far as i could go. on the chem-bio thing, i dont want to get into intelligence assessment. we are watching as closely as we can. i dont have anything to report with respect to specific russian chem-bio capabilities inside ukraine, i would only say two things. one, this is a country that has a reputation for using those kinds of weapons on people, and we know they have a program, and two, we continue to watch for the potenti...

Made bake in 2014 with the european deterrence initiative. these additional rotational deployments. i can tell you the secretary wants to preserve his options to unilaterally continue to bolster the eastern flank. were not sure where this is going to go. but the secretary is convinced that wherever it goes, the security environment has now changed. we have to think about it in a different way. no matter how this ends up. so i think he wants to preserve as many options available to him so he can ...

Surprising and beyond russias apparent capabilities, and i think the worst is a lot of strength and advantages, which we have to use in the situation and one of them of course is the economy and our sanctions regime and the fact that the russian economy is very vulnerable to it, clearly. second source of power and ability to communicate with people, i think ultimately russia, as i have said, has been a mismatch historically between its intent, if you like, which of course is to create a great em...

Ukrainian military. but, again, i think this is a time when, again, as it gets more complex, my bottom line concern is that it escalate to a point where out of russian playbook where they escalate their combat capabilities to deescalate the situation, if you will, on their terms. so i think now its getting to be very difficult, and it will be more so for the next 7-10 days. arthel: so that said, if putins already -- he already considers himself in an economic war with the u.s., is and now that s...

Robert costa, thank you. >> reporter: thank you. >> odonnell: lets turn now to north korea where leader kim jong-un told state media hes preparing for a long confrontation with the u.s. after launching north koreas largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile today. the missile drew international condemnation, and experts believe north korea is capable of hitting the east coast of the united states. cbs david martin has more from the pentagon. >> reporter: for the first time sthiness launch m...

Against humanity. its a war against -- against the freedom, against the country which decided and maintains to maintain freedom, to be ruled by the law, to be ruled by democratic standards and so on and man dictator putin decided that it should belong to him. and so its much more than the regional conflict. its much more than even a ukrainian war or a war of russia against ukraine. its a war against principles on which the modern world is built. and the biden speech reflected that. so what i wou...