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Commanders of the ukrainian armed forces down to their forward battle front in donetsk. and i met people that i knew here, people who were graduates of defense language institute, a school im a multi-language graduate from. i couldnt believe russia was going to commit this multitrillion dollar miss taj of savaging a very western, modern country. its really not a question of nato that they attacked for. its a question of democracy. this was a relatively well off, you know, east -- western europea...

Say rosy. i would say its positive, optimistic, but, you know, based on what theyre seeing, right, of what russias capabilities are and what changes theyve been able to make. now, that is not a nunanimous view. you heard the british prime minister say its possible russia can win this war. i dont think anybody eliminates that possibility. were only two months in today. it is remarkable for them to say that publicly because that puts your marker down on the table in effect saying ukraine may have ...

Was among the dead in that residential building there. and ukraines defense ministry says it hit 17 air targets on saturday, including three russian aircraft, five cruise missiles, and nine drones. and it reports a strike on a russian-command post in the southern kherson region took out two russian generals. russia, not commenting on that attack. moldovas foreign ministry has summoned russias ambassador following comments made by a russian general. on friday, tass quoted the officer as sayin...

Fighting vehicles, and also heavy artillery thats highly mobile. they also need air power. now, theres only so much that the west can do in that regard. but really the ability for ukraine to maneuver quickly to deliver decisive firepower and to hold any russian capture offensive in place is what is critical now. and the americans do need to come to the table offering those sorts of capabilities. >> and while, like you pointed out, russia hasnt made any kind of significant gains, one of russias c...

You taking from the latest images? >> it demonstrates that while the rest of the world has moved on from the brutality of 18th century warfare, and in fact, 20th century warfare in the fight of the nazis and the soviet union, while we have put into place a geneva conventions laws of war and respect for civilian populations the russians are still fighting the way they did in world war ii which is everywhere is a battlefield, and every person is an enemy, and they have not changed from that philos...

People of mariupol are asking for at this point. but russian leaders, commanders, showing no interest in doing so. a russian general came out clearly today saying why even that bare minimum of humanity will not happen. vladimir putin wants, his general said very publicly, total control of southern ukraine. sam kylie is live in the central part of this country. how, sam -- and youve been covering this country for a long time and observed this war for a long time since the beginning, this latest i...

>> well i think his goal is pretty clear. hes trying to build a land bridge from eastern part of ukraine through mariupol, across the south, through crimea, and then on to odesa. frankly, i dont think he can do it. hes also, of course, talking about some of his commanders talking about taking a piece of moldova at the end of that long strip of territory. i dont think he can really do this for at least four reasons and i would sum them up as logistics, command and control, manpower, and distance....

Quite different if you talk to ukrainian commanders like either the chief of staff zelenskyys chief of staff he reset needs a lot more than what john kirbys willing to give him. >> griff i am a 100 this latest package that was passed to send weapons over, obviously zelenskyys essentially begging for this kind of help from the united states. there arent logistics with respects to gain the weapons theyre making sure people are trained to use them in the proper way before they actually practically ...

But i think what we now need to start doing is supplying the sort of weaponry and matériel so that the ukrainians can look to win, and that has started already with tanks from some of the european countries and also from artillery systems from the usa and lots of other things. >> yeah, and weve seen that announcement from the u.s. in the last 24 hours or so. stuart, i want to play to our viewers and yourself what president zelenskyy said in his nightly address. have a listen to this. >> transla...

Believability of these recordings, the sbu, intelligence service in ukraine, is very good at intercepting these things. they are good at what we are doing now, getting the intelligence out there quickly to show people whats going on. it is unconfirmed. there is a possibility, although i think it is relatively low, that the ukrainians are making all of this stuff up. i think these conversations are actually going on. even more disturbing is whats going on in the conversations. you have russian so...