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Will now turn to eastern ukraine. the general also said some 1,300 russian troops have died in the fighting so far. that is the first casualty update in some time from russia. however, this does not square with the figures were hearing from ukraine. ukraines president as well as nato officials believe the actual death toll on the russian side is far higher. >> translator: the number of russian casualties in this war has already exceeded 16,000 killed. among them are senior commanders. there have...

Paired in the striking number of senior military commanders believed to have been killed in the fighting. ukraine says it has killed at least six russian generals. the times also -- this audio of russian troops radio transmissions as they try to take the town of makariv. take a listen. >> -- -- (speaking foreign language) you can hear them they are saying, i urgently need food, refuelling, water, and how do you assess the russian military offensive right now? >> they are failing in three ways. n...

In russia -- im sorry. one of the things to keep in mind that general min mccaffrey brought up, and suggested, was the inability of the russian army to operate effectively. and one of the reasons we believe is that the middle level management, the brigade commanders, the general officers, division commanders and so on, are very poorly trained. they did not have very much idea how to operate with our forces, in that kind of environment. they didnt take the simplest kind of precautions that a litt...

Commanders. at the same time, i think there is a desire to try not to alienate putin as crazy as it sounds, more so if you intend a peace deal with him. >> the white house has set up so-called tiger teams for a response if russia were to use chemical weapons, biological weapons, worst case a nuclear weapon, and another type of team to work on long-term responses. europe, nato, and the u.s. have to think differently about the future after whats happened now. pull back the curtain. what does this ...

He did stop just short as well of asking for nato membership. he said that ukraine has more than proven itself. its military has more than proven itself to be capable of joining the nato alliance. but that nato now has to prove itself and we are also hearing more from jens stoltenberg, the nato chief who gave a press conference here earlier today and he was asked, you know, specifically about the idea that nato is going to put additional forces on a more permanent basis on that nato eastern flan...

Our cameras were the first let inside >> find out. >> reporter: here they keep watch over americas military satellites and gps network operating in an increasingly hostile environment. >> it is a truly war fighting demand. our adversaries are fielding specific weapons systems in the domain we need to view it as such. >> reporter: the pentagon says russia and china are the chief adversaries. in november, a russian satellite targeted and blew up another russian satellite, creating a debris field. ...

This is bbc news. welcome if youre watching here in the uk or around the globe. im lewis vaughan jones. our top stories... ten 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 they will p...

Chief. >> jeremy fleming has been trying to do what we have been trying to do for weeks and months really, to get into the head of putin and figure out why he carried out this assault and based on the intelligence that he has at his disposal, very well informed there, is he is miscalculate and badly advised by generals who dont have the courage to tell limb -- him the truth. plan a doesnt seem to be working out. plan a seems to be a blitzkrieg invasion that would be so quickly over that it would...

The most important naval base in sebastopol and it has been an armoury for russia and the forces of their and in the east so it is no surprise they are doing better, they have what the ukrainians for eight years and have been operational, forces from belarus thought they were going on exercises and found out they werent and they are very much less experienced in working together and they have taken longer together and they have taken longer to get going. we together and they have taken longer to...

And especially in the southeast around the city a of mariupol. and theres some speculation as to why russia is doing this. one, it might be easier because its closer to the russian border and could be that russia hopes to consolidate its gains there, hold territory so that if there are peace negotiations, it could present facts on the ground and try to hold on he areas which are very close to crimea. ive been told that the battle commander in the south are more effective than the commanders in t...