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Its one of multiple breakaway in conflicts within the european footprint. it is another place where russia has stoked -- theyre attempting to give back terrain where they say so-called russian speakers are still part of the population. and truthfully, beyond just the fact theyre even considering going as far west as that which i agree with you, theyre not going to be able to do, certainly not with the forces or capability of the leadership they currently have, but it sends a signal to other nato...

>> well i think his goal is pretty clear. hes trying to build a land bridge from eastern part of ukraine through mariupol, across the south, through crimea, and then on to odesa. frankly, i dont think he can do it. hes also, of course, talking about some of his commanders talking about taking a piece of moldova at the end of that long strip of territory. i dont think he can really do this for at least four reasons and i would sum them up as logistics, command and control, manpower, and distance....

So i am not so concerned about that. and, the russians are in trouble! the russians do not have the capability, right now, they dont have the people. they dont have the mountain power the soldiers to do what he is talking about doing. that is why you hear matt bradley talking about the suffering that he is seeing. because they have been tied up in mariupol. and theyre gonna take those people away move them into the real effort, which is in the east. exactly as admiral kirby just said. so this bu...

Youre showing right now, the distance between odesa and mariupol doesnt jump out but its about 500 -- close to 500 miles. mykolaiv is a city of 500,000 in terms of population. odesa has 9 00,000. so, youre talking about repeated battles as weve seen so far where the civilians of various cities are going to be challenged with artillery strikes and russians murdering them. but i dont think were going to see the russian capability of obtaining their new objective. >> kim, you asked a senior europea...

Odesa and then the greater goal that youve been describing, potentially, is the move toward moldova. those are the necessary steps. russia has the capability right now to at least, and theyve demonstrated it, to level and annihilate anything that happens to be in mariupol. if they want to claim that victory, i imagine they can do that, its necessary then to make those additional steps happen and theyve been demonstrating some success over the course of the last few weeks. >> and killing a lot of...

I dont think hes got that capability. but if he is able to take odesa, what he has essentially done is made ukraine a land-locked country. and ukraine is so dependent upon its agricultural exports through the sea to feed their treasury. but that would be a strategic loss in the long run for ukraine. >> a very big one. i want to ask you about the russian warship, alex marco was giving us an update on. one died, 27 missing, the remaining 396 were evacuated and rescued. one, do you believe it? and,...

Nearly 150,000 rounds, artillery rounds. this is what this next battle in the donbas area is going to be -- largely look like, is a battle of artillery. the russians have a tremendous amount of artillery arrayed around that area already, both inside russia and inside the russian-occupied areas of ukraine. this is the united states effort to get the ukrainian military the ability to not just push back any russian onslaught but potentially keep them from taking any new territory inside ukraine. in...

I was struck while reading about this story that the pentagon, the united states, they say the test was not perceived to be a threat to the us or its allies. do you think thatis us or its allies. do you think that is a reasonable response to what we have seen happen? i think so. it is important to keepin think so. it is important to keep in mind that this icbm, even though it is the first test of its kind, is certainly not a unique capability that russia has similar missiles that can do similar ...

Made that clear today. he said that this missile would provide food for thought for those who in the heat of frenzied aggressive rhetoric try to threaten russia — threaten russia. this from a president who sent his troops into ukraine, who is attacking ukraine. vladimir putin still trying to create this alternative reality, turning everything upside down, making out that it is russia that is under threat from ukraine, from nato, from britain, from america, and making out that he is acting in s...

Almost the same capabilities as what we see here, so it is really not a new capability. i mean, it is to be sure, one of the most destructive weapons ever created, but it doesnt really change the nuclear balance between the united states and russia. and we have little to gain by making a big deal about it or seeming like we are somehow intimidated. so i think the pentagon is perfectly reasonable. also, this missile that was fired from a site in russias north—west and reached a target nearly 60...