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Artillery, thousands of troops according to the analysis were seeing from the pentagon. >> cert anly the thing that jumps out at you -- now, ive commanded large formations of armor and vehicles. this is the most bizarre and confident looking invasion in the history of war fare. this looks like a parking lot. its simply astonishing. it indicates bad planning at the operational level. and even when were watching at the battalion level, they look tactically intaump cant. day frooiv of the invasion ...

John. >> im glad you clear that up. in deconfliction in no way is meant to be any kind of deterrent, right? >> reporter: it is not. and i think in this current environment, as i say, one should be very careful about being optimistic about it. it is not a deterrent. from the pentagon point of view, it is to keep u.s. troops safe. look, that is tight airspace. the russian jets, the ones that drop the bombs, fire the missiles, the russian ground attack, that can edge very close to the border of nat...

Very loud as they roll along here. >> remarkable amazing video to see. 7:30 a.m. eastern time this morning, those are russian heavy artillery guns rolling past our correspondent fred pleitgens live location. right toward the ukrainian border. overnight, further evidence of russias full scale air and ground attack on ukraine. air strikes, explosions and fighting reported across the country including the capital of kyiv where we also are seeing gridlocked streets as people try to flee. i want to g...

Weve always said that putin is isolating himself. the hope and some of the sanctions and the sanctions against the oligarchs, the publishing does turn out. i dont know if i would put in quite the colorful way that lindsey graham did, have to be a bit more professional. but as they say. to be clear, this drumbeat, this willingness to push us closer to a conflict with russia, its bipartisan. today democratic thomas homan chrissy houlahan called on joe biden to transfer ground attack chats to ukrai...

Tension between the nations and between one nation at, they decided to let the leader in lane west instead of east and im being sarcastic, what you wanted to take a look at, what is happening inside of that country we have arrows coming from four sides, in general, where is this attack coming from and why. >> will ahead them take stuff off the map so that we can focus on the scale of this campaign. there russians much to my surprise i selected the most ambitious and complicated campaign plan to ...

To defend the city from any kind of ground invasion. the reason i raise that is because one of the elements of the u.s. intelligence has been passed on to the ukrainians according to the ukrainian officials that ive spoken to is that the russian attack which has been -- which was talked about by this intelligence which now seems to be sort of coming to fruition involved not just airstrikes but also an element of ground attack as well, ground skirmishes it was described to me, sort of both in kyi...

40 million people, a gigantic country being subject to basically barbaric terror, artillery fire, bombing, rocket fire. the ukrainians are source e forced to fight and they are doing very effectively an asymmetric battle. its too late to give them a tank force, to give them a conventional ground attack air force. u.s.-european command is organized very effectively the shipment of thousands of smart munitions that can be man carried, both javp lin and stinger in particularly. the ukrainian milita...

Safe. its very simple. the best way to defend nato is to assist ukraine to defeat this russian ground attack. >> general clark, stand by if you will. i want to go to cnn scott mclean in lviv in the western part of the country. scott, give us the latest, particularly if you can, the situation going on in kyiv right now with this extraordinary two-day full curfew. >> reporter: yeah, exactly. so that curfew will start this evening. it will go right through wednesday. and then people will be allowed...

There is nowhere to hide. in kyiv, were getting different attacks from putin. we already tour ground attack. we are ready to fight him back. we are training. we are preparing. we are being organized. we are ready for a siege in preparing the food, the water, the supplies, but there is nothing, absolutely nothing you can do to prepare to this, to the missile going into your home, to the missile hitting like neighborhood and then the buildings being destroyed. so the word is armageddon. and you ca...

Russians that have been put in, and they had all the infrastructure they needed. and yet were talking about a stalemate now. what does that mean? and what does it say about this? >> well, first of all, it says 44 million people, these are not just the ukrainian military but also territorial defense units, armed civilians. theyre fighting in urban areas. theyve done extremely well, aggressive tactics. the kinds of support, military support by nato countries have been effective, smart munitions, b...