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Of ukraine that mr. putin can claim as victory after he was so thoroughly defeated to the north of kyiv in the first couple of strategic objectives that he has. so they are forcing their russian army into that area. what id say, as i told you the other night, they are going to have a problem in terms of -- they, russia, is going to have a problem reinforcing those attacks, because truthfully they just dont have the capability or the force to do that. it will be ugly at first. they will push some...

Russian combatant and am fed ships. thats how the logistics of getting the support russian army fighting mariupol. so this is a big hole, knocked in their capability. the rest of the fleet has now withdrawn 80 miles away from the coast. so this is a real military setback to the russian -- putins forces. >> nbcs molly hunter rice and lee talked to ukrainian about russias -- excuse me, russias navy efforts to take the city of odessa. we have seen videos for days of those ships sort of trolling the...

As just from both russia and ukrainian civilians of large russian column, moving from the northeastern ukrainian border, down into other key russian city, supporting those operations, in eastern ukraine. and the issue though is that a lot of these units were badly chewed up, in fighting around kyiv, and in sumy, the areas in northeastern ukraine, that russian forces had to abandon in the last couple of weeks. they have not really had the time to reform, replace lost equipment, restore morale, th...

Warfare capability to identify the signals, to make sure that the target is positively identified, and then it takes continued electronic capability to suppress the ships anti-missile system, the intercept. so theyre having to do this because, remember, in 2014 the russians took the cry mean pennies law, which is where the ukrainian navy was stationed and flipped all of the ukrainian navy ships into russian vessels. theyre largely manned by ukrainians still. so the russian naval fleet and the ca...

General in australian army, former commander of the australian defense college and author of "war transformed, the future of 21st century great power competition and conflict." general ryan, thanks again. its good to see you -- good to see you again. um back in 2015, cnns matthew chance actually reported being used back then as part of russias offensive in siryria. i want you to listen to part of his report. here it is. >> standing on the missile cruiser, moskva, ask it is a key vessel because i...

Up the military capability for long-range fires in that region. it is something that is being watched so carefully because vladimir putin wants to declear clare some sort of victory, its widely believed, sometime next month. he is looking next may to score a win in his mind. this is the place hes going to try and get it. because he feels he has the capability in him to do it. the troops that will move in are likely to be russian troops that left from northern ukraine around the capital of kyiv s...

Was about 60-65 miles off the coast of odesa. so certainly, within the realm of possibility there. >> meantime, russia is adding command and control and aviation capabilities to forces in the east as it prepares for a major offensive to take part in the donbas region. a senior-u.s. defense official says the first russian troops, which retreated from northern ukraine, are now appearing in the east. but ukraine claims it has stopped at least one advance in the kharkiv region. special operations fo...

Lost, and we heard it might have been hit or it was somehow damaged for some reason, we heard a lot about how that would have a morale impact, that that would boost the morale of the ukrainians and flip the morale of the russian, know morale is a practical thing in war time but how important is this loss in practical terms for the russians? >> sure, it is certainly more important in terms of the morale swing, the ship was very infamous as the russian ship involved in the snake island incident in...

Russians were forced off the coastline, will still enable them to maintain that blockade. i think the big issue here is with the threat that the russians have demonstrated that the russians have demonstrated that they appear to have in terms of amphibious landings. in truth, the russian amphibious capability even though it has been reinforced within the black sea, is not incredibly significant. it is not very large scale. russian amphibious tends to use fairly small amphibious landings in concer...

That official says youukrainian will pick up the shipment at the border. >> lets discussion with steve anderson. lets start with the air bridge thats been set up to expedite the deliveries to you ukraine. walk us through how that works and when they need the weapons now, its so important. >> one of the reasons were winning this war is logistics. this is a great opportunity for us to demonstrate our power as a national power. our ability to project military power of long distances. whats going to...