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All of that augers very well for a sudden clarification in the russian mind. heres the problem, the problem is vladimir putin. he is so personally invested. he is so deeply angry. he still has other weapons at his disposal, chemical weapons. god forbid nuclear weapons. the latter extremely unlikely. the former, not out of the range of the imagination. and he could use cyber as a very significant capability. so youre showing his face now. he is an angry, bitter, frustrated man who is personally i...

>> my pleasure. >> i want to bring in now the former defense secretary that is william cohen. loud and clear now, right? >> right. thank you. >> good to have you on. so between general milley warning of a threat to the entire world order, general austin exhorting the west to have ukraines back and germany pledging heavy arms, is there a shift here in the sense of urgency? >> oh, i think so. we have seen the level of destruction that the russians have leveled against the people of ukraine. and i ...

Thats the small country just southwest of ukraine. why is that so significant? >> significant stephanie, they keep saying theyre going to go all the way to moldova. they say theyre going to cross the south, that means theyre going to go through odessa. odessa is the last big port, its the large port there on the black sea. so their ability -- the russian ability to go all the way to moldova would be a challenge, would be a problem for ukraine. it would cut them off from the black sea. however, i...

Let me show you where they are. it includes an attack on an ammunition depot allegedly in belgorod but you can also see a great distance further into russia, this may be 200 kilometers inside russia at this other site which would indicate an increasing capability if true of the ukrainian reach, of the ukrainian military. i want to bring in serhiy leshchenko senior advisor to president zelenskyys chief of staff. thank you for being with us. reports from the russian side of strikes inside russia, ...

Could be human -- could be human attacks, i dont know, and ukraine s in fact, as you said, being very clever about what they say on this. >> general, what do you think -- how do you think that russia and vladimir putin are viewing these attacks? >> i think they probably expected them somewhere along the line. they are not happy about it for sure. what it really does is it creates an operational dilemma for russia. as russia is attacking ukraine, they have had a free pass so far. now the ukrainia...

Strong lean of strategic blunders by the president of the russian federation. this only decelerates the departure of his commerce looking for alternative sources and thanks. so he was only hurting himself in the long run. as far as germany goes, obviously, this is important. i live in frankfort. so im aware of the debates going on inside the coalition government of germany. theyve made the decision to do this. the gephart represents a very good capability against helicopters and drones, affect, ...

Invasion should be anything like a surprise to them. >> okay. you dont agree the language is stronger? i accept that. i want to talk about the point is the point to keep russia from having the capability to conduct a an attack like this again. whats the u.s. doing to achieve that and is it something that secretary austin will discuss with his counter parts in germany tomorrow? >> its really twofold. number one is to continue to supply arms to the ukrainians they can use to take on russian milita...

John, it will be harder for them to replace some of this capability as they go forward because of the sanctions and the trade restrictions that have been placed on them. and so we would like to make sure, again, that they dont have the same type of capability to bully their neighbors that we saw at the outset of this conflict. >> next question goes to ute spangenberger from ard. >> how can we go into a safe and secure ukraine in the future? is it possible that ukraine becomes a member of nato? >...

Provide real capability for ukraine. in terms of what else germany will do going forward, thats a sovereign decision, the one that german leadership will make. i dont want to speculate on that. i just believe that based upon everything that ive seen in my interaction with the minister of defense and how intently shes been focused on making sure she can do everything that she can to help and work alongside her partners and allies, that shell continue to look for ways to be relevant and provide go...

Mean secretary austin said, you know, they need to weaken russia and strengthen ukraines hand, perhaps ahead of the future negotiations so how do they do it? >> i think, yeah, theres an element of addition and subtraction in that equation. certainly, the sanctions on technology going to russia will help limit russias ability to rearm whenever, you know, this phase of the conflict ends but i think most of that equation will be on the side of addition to ukraine. obviously, were seeing that in rea...