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>> reporter: those attacks monitored 24/7 in this classified command center more than 70% of military satellite communications come through here everything from nuclear command and control orders, to presidential communications, down to coast guard cutter, submarine even tactical units on the ground >> if they dont have communications when they need it, things can go seriously wrong. >> reporter: as the navy has sailors, new space force has guardians, many with engineering degrees and training f...

To the north first. so that could be case. very hard to tell at this point in time, wolf. >> fred, stay safe over. there well be in tough. earlier in the day, u.s. intelligence officials were calling talk of a russian pullback major strategy shift. meanwhile, the white house and pentagon taking more of a wait and see attitude. lets get some perspective from not one but two former nato supreme allied commanders. wesley clark and philip reid. thank you for joining us. general clark, what are we se...

Leg off with a stolen shotgun. so then, we were two days in the basement, she said, we started stopping the blood flow and giving first aid. we had got two medics. i am a midwife and there was a nurse with us. she said two russian officers later admitted that they didnt support putins invasion, and others helped her evacuate her husband to ukrainian lines. maxim, a professional ukrainian soldier, was shot in the shin during a firefight a few miles from the hospital. he shares xenas contempt for ...

Clean water, no power, people really having to shelter in bunkers, as intense fighting has taken place, we never like to say happening until people have got out, because in the past, this sort of corridor has looked like it was going to happen and then at the last minute, either the commanders on the ground havent let it take place or there has been shooting which has stopped people getting out but tentatively it looks from both what the ukrainians and the russians are saying is that more people...

Their advantages. theyre not engaging russia in the fields in big battles where russia has the numbers to overwhelm them. theyve stuck mainly to urban areas where they have the advantage as the home team, they know the terrain. theyve moved in small formations and theyre waging a war of attrition quite successfully as reporting on the deaths of senior russian commanders attests to, picking off russian troops one after another undermining morale and it will quickly undermine moscows ability in th...

Focus will turn to east ukraine. and first casualty update in weeks. but ukraines president and some nato officials dispute the figure and believe the actual russian death toll is much higher. >> translator: the number of russian casualties in this war has already exceeded 16,000 killed. among them are senior commanders. there have not been reported about killed russia colonels, generals or admirals yet, but commander of one of the occupying armies and deputy commander of the black sea fleet are...

Feeling the pain their city is being bombarded and what they asked for to continue, lets not forget the u.s. and western countries have done a good job of getting singers and javelins and dont forget the intelligence that allowed ukrainians to target and decapitate russian military commanders. vladimir putin is losing his generals in the battlefield at a rate of two and three a week, thats horrifying if youre running a campaign particularly the russians on warfare so the ukrainians resistance on...

Russians want to go in freezing their operations, i dont have great eyes on that. i have great eyes on the generals that were killed, so i think theres -- >> william, let me ask you about that because im going to read a line from your piece i think is fascinating. it is just one more line and it is the reported high attrition rate from russian commanders in ukraine underscores the problem of invading the country on a false set of assumptions, expecting to swiftly topple ukraines government and i...

Support thats helping ukraine win this war continues and increases. eric: and what happens if those migs arent, you know, ever sent? i mean, enough is not done? are you concerned about the ramifications of that? >> well, one thing weve seen is that ukraine is doing very well with their tactics. they are smart, they use technology well, and they hit and run. russia, on the other hand, they tonight is air superiority -- dont have air superiority, and they use dark tactics. i think they can go on a...

Community didnt do more when he took crimea, when he did the things he did in aleppo, in grozny, theyre saying they should have put their foot down there and maybe we wouldnt be in this situation that we are today. >> ali, while i have you, i want to kind of take a turn here and talk more about what weve been seeing as this strategic change, it seems, from the ukrainian side, talking, of course, about the helicopter strike of a fuel facility inside russia. a senior ukrainian defense official cla...