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What is your decision to strike near this facility tell you about vladimir putins intentions at this point? >> well, first of all, i dont know if it was intentionally attacked, so we want to confirm that. it will be hard to confirm, of course. we shouldnt assume we know that to be the case. obviously, if they were trying to attack a nuclear plant, that would be really scary. the fact that they didnt, we should be thankful for. they most certainly have that capability. number two, though, i think...

Nuclear command if there is no longer a capability to do that from the ground in the u.s. why? why was that done? what is the concern? >> yeah, im not going to talk about our nuclear postures with any specifics or details. what i would tell you is the same thing that secretary austin said, were comfortable with our strategic deterrent posture now. we review it every day. we look at the situation every single day. and every single day if we need to, we make appropriate adjustments. secretary has ...

Information tells the ukrainians where the russians are moving at any given point, making an assessment of what the capability of that russian column might be. so information is critical, we have to continue to provide it. and i think thats one of the things why they have been so successful today because theyre relying upon western information getting to them. we need to continue that and make sure we stay with it as long as we possibly can. but really, where is the end in all of this? and my ow...

Achieve. its al possible what they are doing in the east is o could be an effort to fix ukrainian forces in the eastern region so they cant come through. they have not achieved success in the major population centers to date that we see them trying to move on. >> the international treasure centers, what are demonstrating seamless combined capability by the russians? >> i dont want to speak too much on russian operations,

Russian invasion of ukraine, the russian air force has yet to commence large scale operations, inactivity in the first few days could be ascribed to various factors but the continued absence of major air operations thousand raises serious capability questions. sounds like maybe russia is not as scary as we thought. what do you think? >> well, it has been really astonishing the failures in confidence of the operational level of war, the couple hundred thousand troops, air power, sea power, amphib...

Now we _ that aggression we are seeing now. now we are — that aggression we are seeing now. now we are in the situation where we are so— now we are in the situation where we are so we _ now we are in the situation where we are so we must react to what is happening _ are so we must react to what is happening and i must say there is a very swift— happening and i must say there is a very swift and prompt reaction from our nato _ very swift and prompt reaction from our nato partners in strengt...

Fires a very large shell thats very good at destroying a single building — that is what is optimised for — about a5 km out. it can also fire nuclear rounds. there is no indication it has got those, but has that capability. of course, russia will use battlefield nuclear weapons as part of its escalation. we talk about escalations, it is worrying, because theyve many places to go, and this is one of them. one of the rounds of this, a nuclear round, is probably twice the size of the explosion w...

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Ukraine has, it had 40 million people in it. a lot of them were situated in the eastern part of the country. our view sometimes is skewed by -- we in europe and maybe asia, the only built-up areas, but this part of eastern europe is very, very buildup, its very urbanized. youve got 40 million people, in an area the size of texas. so its very concentrated. its going to take a long, long time to evacuate people, particularly from this part of the ukraine. im afraid its much longer than even the ce...