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Duels which will decide this. and they are not manned and equipped and have the personnel to do the massive operations outside of the motherland. theyre built for territorial defense and for defense in depth. theyre out of their league as weve seen month after month here in ukraine. and what youre going to see is plotting russian movements forward while they continue to take hits from the ukrainians and they are going to continue to stumble as they attempt to gain ground. and what youre going to...

To do things they havent done in a long time, what comes up short is that the slaughter of civilians in bucha was sponsored in part by the international community that has remaining contact into russias economy. what is your sense of the atrocities becoming more public in bucha and what we know we dont know in mariupol and the question about russia being a state sponsor of terror? >> were going to have to do a serious reckoning here, nicolle. that was captured by a man they call bidens shadow se...

Rescued. eitherway 500 plus crew struggling to be rescued. either way the cause doesnt really matter, either side can claim their side of the story, and that can affect morale elsewhere on the battlefield?— morale elsewhere on the battlefield? thats exactly ri . ht battlefield? thats exactly right you _ battlefield? thats exactly right you can _ battlefield? thats exactly right you can be _ battlefield? thats exactly right you can be sure - battlefield? thats exactly i right you can be sure no...

Of the most experienced combat troops, working against them is geography. they are much closer to the russian border than they are to the russian border than they are to the capital, and to their support lines, so getting supplies to them will be tough, but this is where the battle is going to be decided. moving further south to mariupol, the besieged portadown on the sea of azov, incredibly, it is still not completely in russian hands, despite nearly 50 days of intense shelling and assault by t...

And that home was going to be in the west. >> russias war against ukraine has already rocked the world order. general milley described it. he said it is the greatest threat to peace and security of europe and perhaps the world he has seen in his 42 years serving. should the u.s. and west consider getting more directly involved, or is that exactly what putin wants? >> no, i believe we are at a stage where we do need to get more involved now. that does not mean sending combat troops. but let me pu...

For planes. the united states has raised the alert level of 8500 combat troops preparing to deploy them in europe at short notice. the british army leads the nato battle group in astoria and if russia invades ukraine we would look to contribute to any new nato deployments to protect our allies in europe. and every contact with russia, the uk and our allies stressed our unity and adherence to vital points of principle. we cannot bargain away the vision of a europe whole and free that emerged in t...

Position, nor do the russians, to go to war with russia. no one would win. the world would lose should that be the case. the minute you start talking about face to face with the russians, that can go up the escalatory ladder very quickly. so we take a move and put combat troops in. he then puts his combat troops facing and firing at us. and then all the sudden, it becomes a subconventional to conventional to possibly nuclear. so, we have to be careful as how we are calibrating our response and w...

Deliberately ratcheting up tensions in order to stretch concessions from the u.s. and its allies. the u.s. gave ukraine nearly half a billion dollars in military assistance last year and president biden has threatened sanctions if russia invades but has ruledded out sending american combat troops. jericka? >> duncan: a story we continue to follow, holly williams, thank you. straight ahead on the cbs weekend news, its return season. well show you what happens to all those unwanted gifts and the i...

Accountable if it invades and it depends on what it does. its one thing if its a minor incursion and we end up fighting about what to do and not do ect. maria: joining me right now is arkansas senator tom cotton who sits on the senate judiciary and armed services committee. good to see you. good morning to you. >> thank you, maria. good to be on with you. maria: are you expecting russia to invade ukraine? >> maria, vladimir putin is set to invade. this is the most dangerous time in eastern europ...

Ukraine, but here we are, what is the reason for our troops to be in these nato countries if thats the case? >> in one phrase, article five. we have a serious commitment to the nato alliance. attack on one is an attack on all. they are getting the attention of our european and nato allies and partners. it is of concern and we want to make sure that the alliance stays united and that the alliance is able to defend itself particularly on the eastern flank. so what this is, if we did send troops ov...