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Putin wants russia to know hes running this war. in a rare visit to a base outside moscow aired on russian state television, putin seen firing a sniper rifle and visiting troops, a strong show of force from the russian president as his offensive shows no signs of letting up. >> nbcs cal perry with that report. joining us now, columnist and associate editor for "the washington post," david ignatius. david, my first thoughts are to the looming winter, given the damage that has been done to ukraine...

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Referendum, the annexations, the illusion of gain against the reality of loss. you have the sabotage against the pipelines, you have a return to what we call indiscriminate shelling or intense personal shelling of civilian areas. the russians cant win military on military. so theyre turning to an entire other set of tools or responses to try to change the narrative at home, to try to weaken western support for ukraine, and thats where the threats of nuclear use come in. so this is, i think, what...

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He, of course, will urge europe to stand with kyiv, even as it begins to stare down a potentially cold and dark winter. expect some chiding from the president to countries that have not joined the effort, who have not fully condemned what russia is doing, namely the likes of china and india. and certainly, while he will touch on the other things that have stemmed from this war, including a food crisis and fuel crisis that have gripped much of the globe. so there will be a number of topics the pr...

Mika actually brought up some hard right groups in washington, think tanks are starting to try to pressure republican lawmakers to vote against the next ukraine funding bill. that stands little chance of gaining much momentum right now. i think most republican leaders, elected leaders are firmly on the side of freedom, firmly on the side of pushing back against russian tyranny. what about europe? are you starting to pick up in your reporting and the bbcs reporting perhaps some hesitation in stay...

Skis. i think its a little bit dangerous to extrapolate as much as we would like to for the military success in the kharkiv region to the rest of the country, odessa, crimea and the rest. we have a long ways to go. theres three months before winter. i think president zelenskyy was explicit at this meeting i was at, its important to do things like this, to gain momentum. the feeling is this will help lock in european support. theyre very worried if the europeans go through a dark winter, the wint...

Expecting. and of course the good news from the ground, the news from around kharkiv will help reinforce that. i mean, i think, of course europeans are worried about whether their homes will be heated this winter, but i think there is beginning to be finally a broader understanding of the nature of this war and the significance of it and i think that is reflected in the conversation in kyiv, too. so they dont seem to be worried. the ukrainians are not worried about losing support. >> and just on...