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Forces coming this way from donbas. these are the russian separatist areas and forces coming in there. and encountering a lot of resistance from ukraine forces and there. the third main entry point came from here, belarus. remember that russia had training exercises in belarus. they never took those forces out. then they entered across this borderline. this particular area was heavy fighting and we were told hours and hours of fighting, excellent this one area, which is chernobyl. the power plan...

Have tried to explain to successive ukrainian presidents, but zelenskyy seems to have taken this on board, no nato country is going to agree to ukraine joining or any country joining that is partly occupied, especially by russian troops. the moment they join, they can use that article 5 to turn around to nato members and say now you all have to help us drive those forces out. for the foreseeable future, decades, zelenskyy knows nato membership is off the table, but maybe he could join the eu lat...

A lot of push among republicans and democrats to do that months ago. the pentagon did not do it. i see, given that we are where we are now, if you were in your old role, or any other role in the administration now, what would your priority? what would you try to do? in addition to getting americans, and those who also worked with other us and nato forces out, i would do two things, prepare for what is likely to be a humanitarian crisis with internally displaced persons and refugees. the second w...

Start earlier in the spring evacuating american citizens bit by bit and other translators and those who have worked with us and western forces. that wasnt done either. in the us congress there had been a lot of pressure from republicans and democrats to start doing it months ago and the pentagon did not do it. given we are where we are now, if you were in any role in the administration, what would be your priority? in addition to getting americans and those that worked with us or other nato forc...

Americans did in fact defeat the isis terrorist state, president trump is wanting to pull those forces out, knowing, being told, numerous times, what it would do to the allies who fought against isis. the military put pressure on them. brett mcguirk, who was the special envoy put pressure on them. secretary mattis resigned over this. but now, president trump is doing what he wanted to do, previously, and he is apparently unchecked. so this is not a surprise that president trump wanted to do they...

Sitting back, agreeing, pushing those forces out. pushing those issues out. making, literally putting the pressure on russia. so, again, the -- our government is really working all together for this russian piece. its a good piece for us. pete: certainly indeed. you mentioned military as one of the lines in operation in this. in syria we have diversification interests than vladimir putin does. any concern this eventually leads to an aspect of a shooting war or shooting conflict. >> well, i think...

Command to stop. everything cannot be spoken taken yus. so i do believe they called in the right folks, but it just takes time. the other factor here obviously is once you start shooting, its ticket to get the forces to kind of pull back. and the third factor, overall the operation against taliban in kunduz was successful. they have been able to excel the forces out. so the one bit of good news here, i dont mean to put a happy face on it, but the fact is the afghan forces did not collapse like a...

Fate could await palmyra should isis draw forces out. >> i dont know what will happen in palmyra. i am very worried, alarmed by what is happening. lets hope that this wonderful monument will not be destroyed. >> the battle for palmyra has been going a week. now it seems isis is closer than ever to seizing this ancient city and possibly erasing this cultural treasure like it has done with others in the past. to the united nations now, and police have identified a suspect in a quadruple murder a...

These tanks strewn across the desert. we saw the aftermath of that. at least 13, 14 damaged tanks appearing to have been abandoned. others clearly hit by an air strike. the force of the blast turned them on their turrets. theyd been blown to pieces. opposition fighters telling us after the air strikes took place they were able to push their front line forward acquiring whatever weapons they have and eventually driving gadhafis forces out. what we are also being told, though, is that gadhafis for...

Some appeared to have been abandoned. others clearly hit by an air strike. the force of the blast has turned them on their turrets. theyve been blown to pieces. opposition fighters telling us that after these air strikes took place, they were able to push their front line forward acquiring whatever weapons they have and driving gadhafis forces out. >> we are also now hearing about new shelling in the city of misrata. government tank lobbed shells into that city. the opposition casualties are mou...