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Equipment, and more equipment to help them repair the new-crippled power system. >> appreciate the updates. thank you so much. it seems no coincidence that on friday, which is russian mothers day, president putin met with mothers of the very soldiers hes sent to the battlefields of ukraine. he put on a sympathetic face, but as fred pleitgen reports, mothers groups who are critical of the war were conspicuously absent, some implying that the event was stage managed. >> reporter: the russian pre...

Acknowledging the deadly death toll of his forces in ukraine. he met with the mothers of russian soldiers who have been fighting there and also dying there. fred pleitgen has more on that meeting from moscow. >> reporter: the russian president meeting those he knows are a backbone of the combat effort in ukraine. soldiers mothers, many of whom have lost their sons. >> translator: my heart bleeds and my soul freezes. dark memories cloud my mind. i cry and cry, and i hear my son saying that we wil...

Capabilities right now. to build it up to take planes in and out of there would take a significant amount of combat effort as well as any other airport. if i can address the intelligence comment that jim talked about and jim made some very good points. you know, when you do course of action analysis in the military, you come up with a most dangerous, most likely/least likely situation. i think the most dangerous was probably, hey, the government is going to fall very quickly maybe a month. the m...