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Impossible to say. but i do want to know how you think it will go in the next couple of days given what were seeing in the russian advance on kyiv, given what were seeing around odessa? >> i would expect a methodical approach from the russian forces. they are in it now. and have to make the best of the situation. so i would expect them to proceed more carefully, and he less judicious use of fires, artillery fire, and missile strikes against the city of -- as well. if the russians are beginning t...

Of that, i believe its very likely he is going to continue to escalate his war against the civilian infrastructure and civilians inside ukraine. part of that may have already started by russian officials claiming, falsely, that ukraine or the united states has been working with chemical or biological weapons. this may be a precursor to an actual russian use of chemicals against civilians in ukraine itself and then blaming it on the ukrainian.— the ukrainian. yeah, that so-called _ the ukrainia...

Capabilities that the north is trying to develop. and so again, we feel it was important to make that case and to lay it out there. and as for whether its a lesson learned, i would be careful drawing a direct bright line between the revelations about this program and revelations we made early on, even before the invasion of ukraine. when we believe that information should be in the public, we are going to put it in the public, we are going to state it as best we can. obviously theres some stuff ...

Theres no play back as to how this might go. the focus i think on both sides has been in terms of developing strong offensive capabilities, we have not been as good at defense as we know from great costs that have been inflicted on our economy by cyber attacks of various kinds from various as far as offensive capabilities, we have them. im sure the russians have them, the chinese, the israelis, the iranians, the northern koreans. those are the countries that have the strong offensive capabilitie...

Must be the targets of hackers from around the world? yes, certainly, there are activists who might be involved in this. in fact, ukraine has actually called on hackers to go after russian targets. the us has its own capabilities. we are considered by a think tank last year, the international institute for... i forgot the name! iiss is the name of the think tank. theyre ranked the us number one in terms of its capabilities on cyber. and then in the next layer down, included russia, included chin...

Of years, theyll be sending trainers to the united states. >> lauren, i want to underscore something that betsy said, the act of not ramping up military capabilities while based on this hope that putin could be diplomatic, french president macron, german chancellor scholz did speak with putin this weekend. based on your reporting, how alive are your hopes for diplomacy between the west and putin? >> i think the west wont give up hope of diplomacy because they need to see an off-ramp to this beca...

About long-term, comprehensive enforcement. theyre steadying themselves for what will be a long fight in ukraine. then you have to tackle the worst contingencies, and you go into a room, a situation room, and you undertake an exercise where you consider what might different chemical weapons attacks look like and what might be the menu of responses that the united states has at the far end that might be nato military action, that might include more intermediate steps like trying to create safe zo...

Now the kremlin claims the missiles destroyed a military warehouse friday in western ukraine. we dont know if yesterdays launch was from a plane. but these images were showing right now, they are from last month. multiple sources say fridays launches likely were meant to test the weapons and also send a message to the west about russian capabilities. hypersonic weapon bes are difficult though detect, travel at five times the speed of sound and at a lower trajectory than high afternoons ballistic...

Military aid being shipped into ukraine, but here at the pentagon u.s. officials assist the security assistance is goino keep flowing and even today just another $200 million got approved which will eventually make its way into ukraine. however, the u.s. is not giving everything the ukrainian government is asking for, its rejected calls to set up a no-fly zone over the country, and theres been this big back and forth all week long about the u.s. rejecting polands offer to send those mig 29s into...

Been accepted to nato back in 2008 when we had the chance, this war wouldn�*t have happened today. so, whether neutrality is a form of security guarantee for ukraine, i have very strong doubts about that. you are in charge of business and economy here in lviv — what will happen after this war, and maybe even during this war, to the economy 7 even during this war, to the economy ? it even during this war, to the economy ? , even during this war, to the economy ? it is probably clear today for...