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General, it seems really risky to be shelling a nuclear power plant, what is the objective here? >> yeah. its absolutely insanity when it comes down to it, jesse. i mean, their intent, likely, is they want to take these nuclear power plants so they can shut the power off in the major cities and the rural areas. 15 nuclear power plants in ukraine at four different sites. but the conduct combat operations in and around nuclear power plants with the obvious safety issues that took place, which were...

At the unit level. when it comes to the order that combat operations or offensive be resumed in all directions, that really means, farce the orders are cn was they were having logistical issues. with that, the feared russian war machine may have some problems that werent anticipated. general, what about putins mental state? he seems like hes off his rocker, it seems like hes launched something that essentially amounts to biting off more than one can chew. hes united so much of the world against ...

Ukrainians andrei and nikolai heading back to help their homeland fight. "were going home to defend our country," he says. "this is our duty. "we didnt do anything wrong to russia. "putin is trying to capture the whole of ukraine." from wherever they came, they have one destination — safety. yesterday, they were residents. today, refugees. mark lowen, bbc news, on the poland—ukraine border. before we go, lets bring you some pictures, live pictures of independence square, this is in central c...

Gone into syria, crimea, invaded the eastern part of ukraine, seized a good bit of georgia, had combat operations in moldavia, he has a history of killing people in his own country and abroad, so this fellow is now turned a new page. the next people up online is poland, romania and the baltic states. were going to see a new environment, political and diplomatic and military in europe in the coming years. >> michael crowley and general mccaffrey, i want to also point out, we just got this -- some...

Aleppo. they will then turn to level those cities. those cities turned into rubble as part of russian combat operations. so we could see, really, the beginning of the partial destruction of kyiv if this gets intense. >> again, something that would be unfathomable, incomprehensible and now we cant use those words to describe anything that might happen here. general marks, if russia does take control of kyiv, which at this point seems inevitable, barring some sort of a miracle because they just ha...

Combat operations. the ukrainian armed forces came to have shut down the six fixed wing aircraft and seven helicopters. in a portable hundred and 37 ukrainian service personnel have been killed in action as well as 57 civilians, hundreds more have been injured. 450 russian service personnel have been killed in action. as you have heard over recent days we will explore all be can do to support the ukrainians themselves over the next few days but we must all in this house be clear that british and...

The advanced parties that went to war with france and great britain in the air in particular before the united states declared war during world war i. i see an opportunity here for the nato nations to do like, to insert forces of varying types. under no flag and perhaps under the ukrainian flag, and conduct combat operations in support of ukraine. >> let me ask you this, major paul eaton, major general. there, the tactical concerns of this battle under way and then theres the larger strategic on...

Taken down into the basement of that building. there were sandbags everywhere. there were military forces everywhere. machine gun outposts, really defending it very, very carefully. its just one of the locations, apparently, where he can be located and he moves, were told, to various places around the city. but -- she appeared, of course, in military fatigues, in the khaki sort of t-shirts and trousers weve seen him in so often in social media posts. he looked very tired. he looked quite stresse...

Nicole, is that the president, first of all, has said very clearly that he is not going to insert u.s. troops into ukraine, on ukrainian soil, nor will he engage our troops in combat. we reiterated that in a letter, 43 of us, to the president indicating that we were pleased that he made that decision and that the war powers act requires an authorization to use military force, and if anything changes, then thats what he would have to comply with. we dont expect that to change, and so the presiden...

Cities are buying from the center of ukraine, which has not seen active combat operations, ground combat, there have been rocket strikes in areas around here, but has so far been spared the brutal violence that we have seen in other parts of ukraine. as you pointed out, yes, im at a checkpoint. this is a village outside of the city. and were getting a sense of how the local population has been mobilized by russias invasion of ukraine. so all of this has been erected in the last two weeks. and it...