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What is your decision to strike near this facility tell you about vladimir putins intentions at this point? >> well, first of all, i dont know if it was intentionally attacked, so we want to confirm that. it will be hard to confirm, of course. we shouldnt assume we know that to be the case. obviously, if they were trying to attack a nuclear plant, that would be really scary. the fact that they didnt, we should be thankful for. they most certainly have that capability. number two, though, i think...

Heres what secretary-general stoltenberg had to tell me about that idea. >> we have no intentions of moving into ukraine, neither on the ground or in the air space. i think you have to understand that brutal conflict that is taking place in ukraine now. at the same time, we have a responsibility to make sure that this isnt spiral out of control and escalate even further and becomes a full-fledged war in europe, involving nato allies. >> so you can hear there, chris, how much concern there is abo...

Saying nuclear forces are now on high alert. >> it is certainly something that defense officials inside this building are going to be taking a close look at. a senior defense official that we talked with basically said that they didnt know how this was going to play out. but called the step effect la tore and unnecessary, citing the fact that russia has never been threatened by the united states, nato or ukraine. >> colonel, tell me about putins move here, right. thats what were trying to drill ...

Armor and supply lines that extends some 40 miles north of kyiv up to the border with belarus. do you have any idea what is going on and what the intentions may be? >> the intentions are very clear. putin wants to siege the city, the capital where im located right now. the convoy is indeed very long. however, our army is attacking it from the sides, biting pieces of it. so, less and less pieces will come to kyiv. today i was patrolling with my resistance group and we were checking entrances and ...

Certainly in ukraine and kyiv and also in russia there is really crackdown on various forms of communication that protesters in those pushing back against putin have suffered. both the violence today, this targeted attack i think is emblematic of what we are lucky to see more of, this move from thinking of what our putins intentions to seeing he is very clearly trying to disempower civilians, attacking them, attacking important infrastructure that enables people to lead their daily lives. its de...

Near an area where people are trying to get out, where people have been killed. so it does certainly appear that all bets are off, that certainly we cannot believe what the russians are saying when it comes to their intentions here. very clearly not just going after the military infrastructure but hitting civilians as well. >> and that, of course, is alex marquardt, we thanked him for his reporting there from ukraine. for more im joined by kimberly dosier, a cnn global affairs analyst and time m...

Their own weight in this conflict, we allowed ourselves to be in this moment energy dependence on other people through european weakness to arrive at this moment were now we are stuck with lame prudent and the only thing we have left right now is sanctions. we all know the weakness of sanctions. >> what i will say, i definitely think that was to move back to trying to find her way to energy independence and even help in the world and perhaps the french will now depend more nuclear, germany depen...

Nunes. you were talking about russia long before it became fashionable to do so, what did you see that made you wary? >> during the obama and biden administration it was clear that putin was running around the world doing whatever he wanted. we seem to get caught with our pants down so to speak without having actual intelligence we could use, one of main jobs of intelligence community to know what these countries plans and intentions are, basic stuff. we kept dropping the ball across the globe. ...

Ukrainians are telling people to go back home. what does that tell you about russian intentions, general? >> well, earlier you said it looked like annerer print. i think they look like the great picasso print. but what im seeing inside mariupol right now, in that area, that the russians are not moving forward. what theyre doing is sitting back and shelling the city surrounding it, trying to cause as much suffering as possible. theyre not in a hurry to get in that city theyre in a hurry to create...

Professor at the university of california, berkeley. he told me mondays development�*s have made putins intentions clear. well, the mask is off today, isnt it? many of the west hope that all vladimir putin really wanted was security assurances that the uk would notjoin nato. thats always been a hollow hope. ukraine is part of russia. all of ukrainian territories part of russia and vladimir putin has to spend talking this way for some time for the last decade, hes been talking about the russian...