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Missile defence, reinforcing our cyber defences, and holding more and larger exercises. i expect we will task natos military commanders to our options in our madrid summit in june. major reinforcements of defence will require major increases. i welcome that germany and other allies have already announced they are stepping up, and i encourage all allies to spend a minimum of 2% of gdp on defence. we must do more, so we must also invest more. to protect peace and freedom and uphold our values at t...

Civilian areas of the city into submission and force them to capitulate but its likely going to take them some time. find capitulate but its likely going to take them some time.— take them some time. and the russians are _ take them some time. and the russians are able _ take them some time. and the russians are able to _ take them some time. and the russians are able to carry i take them some time. and the russians are able to carry out i take them some time. and the i russians are able to c...

Again, other theories suggest they were there to raise morale and push some of the younger troops that were pretty demoralized forward. either way a big coup for the ukrainian armed force, taking ous senior commanders and what that does for the command structure and also in the propaganda war and dont underestimate the value of the propaganda war, and to that end, we must, whenever examining claims of small victories and small scouts on the other side, be aware that you do have the propaganda of...

By local battlefield commanders. now we have great intelligence and a great understanding of the command chronologies. a lot of these units and these characters from the general staff, head of the general staff, general grapheme up all the way down to the colonel. the lower general and colonel ranks. we need to make those names public. we need to say if you participate in a nuclear release, were going to make you famous. youre not going to be able to slink back into obscurity or plead that . i w...

Establish a no fly zone is the delivery of weapons and systems enough to stop the russian military? >> well, you know, you see a lot of commentary from more real military experts than i am. i think the thing that is concerning right now is that russia is a superior military force. they obviously have not able and have not executed the plan that they have. we can say that. so far pretty conclusively. but, again, there have been battles in ukraine before. in world war ii. and it took some time eve...

In 48 hours. even this battle hardened separatist figure wanted for shooting down of malaysians flight 217 in 2004 admitted the kremlin got this war very wrong. commanders assured no serious resistance once more a defection the side of the russian troops just like they did in crimea. >> ground in ukraine was clearly not primed for that. two officers of the division of the sfb the old kgb charged with getting people on russias side recruiting and paying networks and former soviet republics are re...

Communicate with him. communicate that you dont want to escalate it further. >> part of the reason that there is that communication is because his current plan is not proceeding as he would have liked. the new york times reporting on problems with russias operations. how someone putin circle are questioning this war, quote, failure -- of mr. putins campaign are paired in the striking number of senior military commanders believed to have been killed in the fighting. ukraine says it has killed at ...

Are counter—attacking. our security correspondent, frank gardner, has this assessment of the russian military campaign and the problems its troops have encountered. so just why has it gone so badly for russia in these first few weeks of the war? well, there are a number of reasons. there is a strength of the ukrainian resistance. most of the population has rallied round their government, with troops using western supplied weapons like javelin and stinger missiles. and when it comes to getting ...

This is bbc news — welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im lewis vaughanjones. our top stories... 10 million people have now fled their homes in ukraine since the start of the war — more than a quarter of the population. among them, children who escaped from besieged mariupol — but are left with life—changing injuries. all of these are victims of russian attacks. it isntjust the physical injuries though, many of these children have deep psychological trauma that ...

Personnel ambushed by ukrainian forces who say they took out several of those russian vehicles. president zelenskyy of ukraine saying to russian soldiers, go home or face death. listen here. >> you can still save yourself, if you just go home. do not believe your commanders who say you have a chance in ukraine. nothing, but prison and death ark waits you. you are taking our lives and will pay with yours. >> john: weve been talking a lot about the large convoy outside of kyiv to the north. we got...