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Their will to fight. let alone his incompetence, he actually attempted an invasion plan a la, you know, the invasion of iraq, what the west can do. clearly, he underestimated the capability of his forces in and what he could do and so now hes changing strategy. >> the question, though, is -- and ive been asking this question all week now. how long ukrainian forces can hold them off. hence, one of the reasons why they keep asking for this no-fly zone, because they feel eventually as if the russia...

The alert level of the worlds largest nuclear arsonal. >> translator: a third world war can only be nuclear. >> only nine countries have nuclear weapons. hopefully never to be needed in battle. according to the arms control association, russia has the largest number of warheads at just over 6,000 while the u.s. isnt far behind, no other country, not even israel or north korea, has anywhere this type of capability. now most of russias warheads are not currently on missile bases. just over 1,400 o...

Stock market remains closed for the eighth consecutive business day with the ruble in free fall. oren liebermann, cnn, at the pentagon. >> joining me now once again, malcolm davis, the senior analyst in defense strategy and capability at the australian strategic policy institute. its always good to get you on, sir. the pounding of civilian areas continues, but as we were just discussing there in jims story and earlier, it would appear the actual advance of russian troops in terms of achieving ob...

Killed enough people. okay, you can have my country. president zelenskyys not likely to do that. and so, what putin is doing is he is buying time. offering these humanitarian corridors is going to be coughed up in some future war crimes trial, and he is going to say i gave them a chance to leave and they wouldnt leave. and there is kinds of arguments will fly out. but one thing about him, he is watching us very closely. >> yeah. yeah, you are right. and when we look -- when we look at what is go...

Concerned, this is the stinger missile and a stinger is basically a manned portable air defense system as it says here. its five feet long with a maximum range of five miles and can reach an altitude of 5,500 feet. this is the key thing. its a heat seeking anti-aircraft missile. so as a heat seeking missile, it goes after things like the after burners of an aircraft and can find that the aircraft because its hotter than the surrounding atmosphere and thats why these missiles are so important and...

Yeah,ng i said were giving them javelins. were giving them stinger missiles. why cant we give an approval for fighter jets? why notwhy? >> well, heres what president biden says. thatss an offensive weapon. my god, how many americans are worried about giving the ukrainians the ability to go on offense? takeidea they will a squadron of mig-29s and invade russia. ukraine would do that is stupid and crazy and its just a reason tond deny them the help that they want because videses afraid ofen heres ...

That theyll use this to target supply lines that are coming in from nato allies. theres been a big push this week to get new air defense systems into ukraine, so thats all part of their potential use of this weapon, which again, right now, were relying on the russian ministry of defenses sourcing on whether or not they deployed it but we know from ukraine that the target was struck. >> okay. so, couple things there. obviously, theyre sending a message and thats to your point. but when you say th...

About ten days ago germany decided to make historic investments in the country and denmark made an historic choice, deciding to ask the people if they wanted to come back to the european security and defence project. you can see that everywhere around the european continent, historic choices are being made and this is a major turning point. we need to have the organisation so we can build this giant ambition in defence and this is what we have asked the commission to do, so when we will no doubt...

And about. >> yeah. we have to put this in perspective. if there is urban combat, and if the russians want to take kyiv, it will be the largest urban combat in history. three times the size of aleppo. three times the size of stalingrad. the russians are going to have to take 350 square miles of territory. question is do they have the troops, do they have the capability, do they have the skill to do that? but it would be huge. >> and what -- the resistance that theyre facing is stiff. do you doub...

Is because the city had been reduced to rubble, and it made it much easier to defend, against the movement of the germans. so, they want to make sure that if they possibly could, the russians, that they left the cities intact. but, the resistance of the ukrainians does not permit that, and thats now why you are seeing the shelling in the cities by the russians, there are? >> and colonel, just a timeframe here. in order for the russians to possibly be moved over to the sea, and then move up as th...