fighting has been breaki ing ou in kharkiv as russian troops enter ukraine s second larmgest city. we ve got video from that location where it shows that ukrainians are holding up the city. and you heard alex marquardt who said russians are facing a lot of logistical problems. i mean, how do you see this battle playing out? well, it looks like the russians have gotten into surprising difficulty as alex and you have pointed out, fredricka. this is kind of symptomatic of a military that has a lot of ambition, but does not really have the wherewithal to achieve its mission objectives. and you know, for president putin of russia, that s a fairly dangerous scenario to actually be in because he s gambled a lot on the success of this mission just from a pure operational aspect. and it looks like there is there are at least some
has not yet secured control of the air, that ukraine s air defences are still in one form or another in existence. that is quite an extraordinary thing, you would have expected the russians that did target airfields, radars and muscle sites and so on in the early hours of this campaign would have continued that to the point of which they had full mastery of the skies and it is clear they don t. what is surprising. the third surprising thing is the performance of many of the troops. he saw troops are little while ago in kherson and it is interesting that many of the trips interesting that many of the trips in the fighting are russian parachutists, far more capable troops may be done the average, very distinctive armoured vehicles so you can tell exactly who they are. the run of the mill russian forces have not performed well. there have been lots of logistical problems, a lot
russian troops to heading towards the k have have been hampered by serious logistical problems. civilians trapped in besieged towns are scrambling for safety after a temporary ceasefire. poland says it s ready to put all of its russian made mig 29 fighter jets at the disposal of the united states in an attempt to help ukraine fight russia s invasion. the us state department said it s surprised by poland s decision and a pentagon spokesman said the proposal was not tenable. america has banned imports of russian oil and gas. the uk government quickly followed suit, setting out a plan to phase out russian oil by year end. the eu said it would cut gas from russia by two thirds over the same period.
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senior director is michael allen is with us now. from what you are hearing, is what c.i.a. director burns said yesterday comport regarding putin s state of mind right now and how frustrated they might be it hasn t gone as quickly as they liked. putin is increasingly frustrated for two reasons. one, there is an economic calamity going on in russia and why you see this mass crackdown on media and why you see mass arrests. but also as you are well aware they have tremendous military setbacks. logistical problems. they can t control the air. so they have resorted to and will continue to go for an encirclement strategy to try to absolutely pound ukraine down to the dust so that putin can have some claim it will be a terrible claim but some claim of victory even him standing on a heap of rubble. bill: so the idea then with