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I certainly dont think you can rule it out. and im quite surprised by some people who do, because this is about the entire way that putin understands russia. russia in his understanding is a sort of a great power, that comes that has this 1,000 years of history linking back to kyiv and rus. it doesnt make sense if they cant control kyiv. that doesnt have to be literal control. it could be having sort of a pro—russian politician in charge. but essentially they need to be a vassal state. they ne...

Because this is about the entire way that putin understands russia. russia, in his understanding, is a sort of great power, that has this 1,000 years of history linking back to kyiv and rus. it doesnt make sense if they cant control kyiv. that doesnt have to be literal control. it could be having sort of a pro—russian politician in charge. but essentially, they need to be a vassal state. they need to be what he calls a colony because only russia can be sovereign. so i dont think we can rule th...

I mean, youre basically saying theres no real light at the end of the tunnel in the near term. i cant see it and i desperately want to, but i cannot see any light at the end of the tunnel. is there a risk that russia is going to have another go at kyiv, the capital, and try and do a second invasion? i certainly dont think you can rule it out. and im quite surprised by some people who do, because this is about the entire way that putin understands russia. russia in his understanding is a sort of ...

And russia or the former soviet union never fired a shot at each other. is this the opportunity where were going to engage directly against russian forces? i dont think so. so i think what putin understands, with all this calculus, hes not going to invade kyiv, he doesnt want to break kyiv, he doesnt want to control kyiv. if he put rubble in keyyiv, he would have to rebuild it and he doesnt have an economy to do that and he doesnt have the forces necessary to occupy ukraine. that would take clos...

The other map, if we can. if russia invades, kyiv is right here. i do not think putin is going to use the forces and invade kyiv. if he were to create rubble and try to control kyiv, he doesnt want to do that. because he would have to rebuild it. he doesnt have an economy that can accommodate that. also, these forces here would have to go through the chernobyl exclusion zone, the worlds worst nuclear disaster back in 1986. i dont know that he wants to push forces through you that nightmare, if y...

Many hundreds of vehicles moving through the country. weve seen many of those convoys parked on the side of the road simply because they ran out of gas. the reason is they were planning for this to move quickly, it hasnt, so theyve gotten ahead of their supply lines here. >> jim, obviously theyre bracing for a major russian assault in the capital kyiv right now youre in lviv. what is going on where you are? >> well, kyiv is the target, because kyiv is the capital, of course, its the seat of gove...

Said. we have the forces from kyiv, the northern part of russia, and up interest the crimean peninsula, and well-trained forces in crimea. kherson they have entered but according to ukrainian officials have not taken control of. so you are suggesting, jennifer, that the plan is to bring these forces down and really kind of cut off this whole slice of the country here and box it off from the west, take control of that, and move westward. >> what they will do, once they control the east, once the ...

Could he stage an attack? >> well, if he were going to go to kyiv, he would need -- if he wanted to go to kyiv and hold and control kyiv, he would need far more forces than he has deployed right now. he does not have the fire -- he can do a lot of damage. but he is not going to cut off ukraine. hes not going to go to kyiv and try to control kyiv at this point. he would rubble it. he would ruin it. he doesnt want to control it. he wants to convince them that the path forward is through moscow. it...

But i think there could be an invasion that is more limited in scope in the donbas region. i do not anticipate that the russians will go to kyiv. thats more than they can -- if they chewed that up, they wouldnt be able to swallow. they dont have the forces to control kyiv. what they want to try to do is to convince kyiv that the path forward for ukraine is through moscow, not through nato. and thats what this deployment is all about. nato has progressed over the course of the last 20-plus years....

>> this is what happens. i want to look at this wider map of the area. we dont know what putin is going to do. but what is the next level of aggression if he decides to take a much larger piece of ukraine, possibly even kyiv or -- how could he stage an attack? >> well, if he were going to go to kyiv, he would need -- if he wanted to go to kyiv and hold and control kyiv, he would need far more forces than he has deployed right now. he does not have the fire -- he can do a lot of damage. but he is...