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Back to where they were before they started the war. how much is the war won or lost on mariupol, general? >> i dont think its won or lost there and i think even the ukrainians have publically admitted its going to fall. its beyond their capacity to shift enough forces down there that they can literally drive a rescue column in. you know, this is the bastone of this particular war. theres no patton coming to the rescue in this case, i think. it would be wonderful if they could. and never rule th...

Against civilians and children are taking place. why cant we give them whatever it is that makes kyiv slightly more impenetrable for the russians? >> well, kyiv hasnt been completely impenetrable, nicole. they have hit kyiv very hard from the air. in fact, we still assess that even though their forces are withdrawing, and moving away from kyiv, that kyiv could still -- and still is under the threat of long-range air strikes and the russians continue to have that capability. theyre also using it ...

It is significant in that if, and i will not -- i dont have confirmation either, but if ukraine did do this, it is significant that they have made the strike. i think the real story is that people are wound up about it. russia is firing from the black sea into ukraine, they are firing from russia into ukraine, and they are firing from belarus into ukraine. so i think that i do not understand the flurry about the fact that ukraine may have fired into russia. >> well it is not so much about the th...

Ukraine, nato and u.s. as i mentioned have supplied the ukrainian resistance with weapons. but we are going into months number two of this conflict there is growing concern that this stockpile of our own capability of our allies is quickly depleting. lawmakers have now expressed concern that the biden administration has not put forward a plan on how it will replenish those weapons. you are in a position to know what capabilities we do and dont have. do you share that concern? how long are we pre...

Clearly, they have the capability. they were months ahead of everyone else about the plans for russia to invade ukraine. how do you assess how the biden administration, overall, has communicated around this war? and more importantly, its policy, overall, what do you make of this administrations handling of this crisis so far, from start to where we are today? >> well, there are different aspects that. and the aspect that were talking about right now, which is the information space. taking intell...

Targeting supply lines on roads to the west near the border with poland? >> i think thats highly likely that the russians would try to do something like that. if they dont, they of course risk affecting their own forces. now, of course i am looking at this through a western lens, where we try to make sure we protect our troops and do everything we can to make sure that the enemy doesnt get to a certain point in -- in their supply or resupply efforts. now, having said all of this, i think the rus...

Waged an eight yearlong assault against kyiv and soon they could be outflanked and surrounded. of this seems to explain the urgency among western nations to supply more lethal, more effective military aid to ukraine. sources telling cnn the u.s. is now helping with the transfer of soviet era tanks from the czech republic. armored vehicles are coming from australia and germany. britain sending long-range artillery. without that increased capability for ukrainian fighters experts believe the russi...

General what are the implications on the battlefield and im curious how you think this is different from providing ukraine with old soviet mig-29s that poland offered? >> well, first of all, i think we should get out of the habit of calls weapons defensive or offensive. these weapons can be used in either kinds of operations. we shouldnt get hung up in what kind of operation they will be used in. i think there isnt that much difference, which yactually between providing aircraft and tanks in tha...

>> so, fredricka what it looks like is that they are moving into try to work an invasion or an amphibious ending of some type in odesa or the odesa region, which fits in line with some of the things weve seen them do. deployed amphibious ships as well as surface combatants have the capability of firing missiles in odesa as we see on the screen the right now and that is something in line with the russian strategy to in essence xwsqueeze ukraine as tit as possible and retake the port as an economi...

As i said, the magnitude of russias cyber capacity is fairly consequential, and it is coming. it is notjust your interests that are at stake with the potential use of cyber security, it is the national interest at stake, and i would respectfully suggest that the patriotically obligation is for you to invest as much as you can in making sure that — and we will help in any way — that you build up your technological capacity to deal with cyber attacks. so, as president biden said, the russian c...