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>> ambassador, president bidens speech came hours after putin addressed the russian parliament and claimed this war will not end any time soon. a longer, drawn-out conflict is what ukraine is trying to avoid right now. isnt that true? >> thats exactly right. thats exactly right. and as several people have said, the ukrainians want a fast end to this war. they want to strike decisively. exactly what you said. and that can happen. theyre preparing either to hit back as an offensive or even to take...

To focus on his economic agenda. so its safe to assume that there are some around the president that are annoyed of the shadow this now casts around an address that they still want to focus on a slate of legislative achievements and the economy. >> general marks, you mentioned the 2001 incident within the ep-3 collided with a chinese jet, brought it down. there were a lot of analysis at the time that china was making a show of strength saying were going to come up close and challenge those surve...

And give more. could we just cut to the chase and get to the bit where the faucet really opens ant the weapons start flowing. because they see this as a decisive moment and they want to be able to take russia on and to really finish this and theyre saying even beyond the tanks, they need long range artillery and f-16s. there is no indication that those might be coming imminently. but definitely there is a sense of growing urgency here that they really need these weapons in order to finish what t...

They need to be able to effect the battle before the battle comes to them. >> thats what is desperately needed, ukraine says, right now, all of that capability. general marks, putin was at a military industrial plant today. he said that the people that work there, military industrial workers, might be exempt from the upcoming spring draft, which is he literally said -- and ill quote him -- as for conscripts who are called up for military service, considering that the defense industry is currentl...

Clarifying the number of russian troops killed. its earlier estimate was higher than what russia conceded to. one russian lawmaker said there should be criminal liability over this. hes not talking about ukraine. hes talking about the russian military who allowed so many troops and equipment to be concentrated in one area, making it an easy target. >> scott mcclain in kyiv, thank you, stay safe. joining us for analysis retired major general james spider marks and the former u.s. ambassador to uk...

Manifestation of a lack of leadership and lack of understanding of what warfare really means. >> ambassador taylor, lets follow up. even pro russian military bloggers are slamming the incompetence of this loss. what does this do to russian morale? >> just as general marks said, its a big blow to the military. its a big blow to putin and his folks are watching the decisions hes making and theyre losing confidence in those decisions. theyre losing confidence that hes picked the right folks to lead...

Fighting. general marks, you heard the soldier in the call intercept complaining that russian military has stopped paying wounded troops. and he went on to say theyre being thrown to the wolves, and its basically all bad news on the battlefield. what does that tell you about their will to fight? >> well, if what we heard is accurate, and theres no reason to believe that its not, what that talks to is the collapse and the decay of a military organization, whether its isolated to that very unit wh...

City of kehrson but acknowledges they dont know if hes alive. >> he wanted to go out there and try to help. >> reporter: all three of the missing americans having served in the military puts them in unique danger if captured by russians. >> you routinely are swimming or immersed in these kind of sensitive programs. im not certain the level of that exposure, but i can guarantee you the russians are going to try to extract that information. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> and joi...

Another country, putting yourself in harms way on the battlefield is not -- these soldiers are not considered c combatants under the laws of land warfare. and in fact they could be described by russia and probably will be as saboteurs, insurgents, mercenaries and all sorts of other things. i suspect russia will not look favorably on freeing these individuals as spider just said. they will exact a very high cost, and i also would suggest the capture of these individuals may hinder the u.s. gettin...

Was in ukraine, 90 days ago when we understood that there were multiple plans by the russians to actually assassinate president zelenskyy, that hes now every day, every evening coming out with these statements, it shows that certainly the situation has changed dramatically from what it was just a few weeks ago, wolf. >> good point. ben wedeman on the scene in kyiv. thank you very much. lets get the big picture right now, where the war stands 100 days in, brian todd is joining us along with cnn...