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Had since the beginning of the war of supplying, properly commanding, strategically using their troops on the front time at a time when theyre losing. i should say to you we were at the front line in donetsk just today and ukrainian troops there not remotely troubled by this new mobilization. they are moving forward. their morale is high because they know what theyre fighting for and they feel a sense of victory here, wolf. >> nick peyton walsh reporting from ukraine. stay safe over there. joini...

Might be 30 years old and last served in the military when they were teenager. so this is hitting home for the war in a way that shows russians while the poll numbers have been strong in russia in terms of supporting the war, its something that hasnt affected their daily lives. and i think there is a real risk for vladimir putin just a few weeks ago he said weve lost nothing. the hollowness of those lies is ex exposed. i think the news is trickling down to russian society that its not going as t...

Women and children. and that is implying that is not just the men upset about this, it is their families. this was always going to be a very unpopular move by the kremlin to start drafting people to fill the depleted ranks of those in ukraine. there are gaps because those people have been killed. and just how unpopular were only just now starting to see. >> yeah. and general, katie bell is reporting that vladimir putin is himself now giving direction to generals in the field now. when you hear t...

Hearing about your new reporting? >> reporter: for weeks weve watch ukraine with this counter offensive and there hasnt been a lot that russia has been able to do to push back on those ukrainian advances and part of the reason for this im hearing from my sources is that the russian military is really deeply divided here about what the strategy should be to try to counter ukraines advances. where they should move troops to reinforce faltering front lines for example. were even hearing that intell...

The russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, where they should send reinforcements, for example. so intelligence intercepts are picking up russian officers on the front lines bickering among themselves and campaigning to friends and family back home. what we have learned is that russian president, vladimir putin is communicating with generals on the front lines directly which is unusual for a commander in chief in a modern milit...

The russian defensive lines. there are also intercepts of those russian officers calling home speaking with friends and family and disgusted and angry about the lack of direction coming from moscow. and then, ana, perhaps most shockingly, multiple sources telling cnn that president putin himself is giving directives to russian generals on the battlefield about how to carry out the russian military action in ukraine. this is not something that happens in a functioning army. a commander in chief, ...

Mobilization, that she thinks it goes far beyond just reservists. were learning tonight that putin himself is now giving directions to generals in the field. putin himself. what does this mean to you? >> well, it means -- all this means putin is in trouble and he knows it. i think this mobilization, and i use that with air quotes, is going to be a fiasco just like everything else has been. the image of people leaving town, fleeing russia to avoid the mobilization, i think, speaks volumes. as to ...

About russias military the more we are seeing that theyre severely dysfunctioning and having major command and control issues all of this coming as ukraine made major gains claiming they have taken back thousands of square miles of territory that had been occupied by the russian forces. we are understanding from u.s. officials that there are divisions, there are disagreements among russian generals and officers about how to counter those ukrainian offenses not just in the east where russia had m...

I think the big takeaway, you talked about my generals in the league in, we were surprised at the extent and the persistence of essentially the undermining of u.s. national security from the very beginning of the trump presidency. trump called them at my generals, but he never understood the independents, the nonpartisan ship that is embedded at the heart of our idea of the u.s. military, and there was enormous consequences, i think, in that struggle, as it played out over four years. when we fo...

0 well stay in touch with you. good information to have. >> bill: the u.n. will be on the plate for harris when she takes over in a moment here. this is the leader and joe biden follows him. >> dana: he will be here and harris faulkner is next. "the faulkner focus" is next. >> harris: we begin with breaking news this hour. president biden is expected to speak at the general assembly of the united nations at any moment. he is next on the list there and they have been ticking along pretty expediti...