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Ferocious battle here on the outskirts of kyiv. and this is one of those russian soviet-era vehicles which is completely burned out. you see, this is a bridge. an access point to the northwest of kyiv, the ukrainian capital. and the russian column thats come down here has been absolutely hammered. obviously still very exposed situation right now but if we can just bring you along here. this is debris everywhere. the twisted metal of these vehicles. this is obviously just a truck carrying supplie...

Administration approved last weekend. and within 48 hours, the first planeloads were arriving in places like you described. airfields in poland, romanian, and other countries to neighboring ukraine. these are all weaponry that youve listed, theyre coming out of existing military stalks. probably out of germany. they were flown to these air bases near the ukraine border and theyre put on trucks, shifted western ukraine where the ukrainian commanders can pick them up and distribute them within the...

Clash. joining me now is reporter for the nbc news investigative unit. dan, good to see you. so this was the question, what happens if there is an accidental clash between russian troops and u.s. troops, what then. and as i mentioned, it seems as if the u.s. is trying to head this off. are the russians open to it? >> this is a really difficult scenario. at the moment there is not an established sort of communications channel with the russian military, with russian commanders so that that kind of...

Have agreed in principle to hold talks with the russian delegation without preconditions on the border without preconditions on the border with neighbouring belarus. in another development, vladimir putin has ordered russian military commanders to put the countrys strategic nuclear forces on special alert, their highest level. he says it is in response to aggression from the nato military alliance. the move was quickly condemned by the white house, nato says putins threat is dangerous and irresp...

80 miles north of the capital, kyiv. and this is war. explosion. this is a residential area. and heres another. russias military did this to whole communities in syria as well as chechnya. their commanders have form. chernihiv lost 22 of its citizens in this attack. the governor says two schools were also hit. make no mistake about vladimir putins desire to colonise this land. ukraine says russian targeting is indiscriminate. welcome to the town of borodyanka, population 12,500. parts of it a wa...

That were seeing amongst russian troops. is there any precedent historically that back up when you dont have a mission it does not work? >> well, we saw it in vietnam after a long period of time when it turned out that, in fact, we didnt have a clear idea of exactly how we were going to accomplish this strategic mission. you saw debilitating lack of morale, defeatism and so on. you will see this individually in individual battles if people are not properly led. there is some evidence that leader...

If theres any way to negotiate and have a diplomatic solution. the fact of the matter is as most experts say, in the end, this can only be resolved diplomatically. but it is unlikely that that time is now because president putin thinks hes on a roll. he keeps going on television and telling his people that things are going according to plan, which, of course, theyre not. you can see on the ground that the convoy north of kyiv has been stalled for days. you can see that they obviously have not gi...

Installing a 40-mile caravan into kyiv but the next guest says do not underestimate russia. senior fellow at the foundation for defense of democracy and infantrymen in the u.s. army, bill. great to talk to you this morning. there has been a sentiment and there has been a lot of conversation about russias failures in the past ten days going into ukraine. is that your assessment? are we watching essentially incompetent putin and russia failing in ukraine? >> i disagree with that. i know that is th...

Has some 12,000 soldiers, killed some 12,000 soldiers, 335 tanks destroyed, 1100 armored personnel carriers destroyed along with 81 helicopters and 49 planes. president zelenskyy appealed to russian soldiers to go home. >> you can still save yourselves if you just go home. do not believe your commanders who say that you still have a chance in ukraine. nothing but prison and death await you here. you are taking our lives and will pay with yours. >> benjamin: russia says it has destroyed almost 3,...

Thats never happened before. thats totally unprecedented. so theres an official investigation. and its usually hard and war crimes cases. to identify the very top commanders having commanded the commission of the war crime. because you have to work your way up the chain. they dont usually put things in writing. in this case, vladimir putin on an almost daily base is incriminating himself. publicly. as being directly associated with all of the military assaults on civilian populations. and so it ...