for an assault on the capital. russian troops advancing towards kyiv have been slowed down by attacks from ukrainian forces and hampered by serious logistical problems. civilians who ve been trapped in besieged towns and cities have been scrambling for safety after a temporary ceasefire. 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. 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.
at the moment, i do not know that s the casualties. we know many people have been wounded by that. but this particular situation shows us the whole, the approach that this war is growing dirtier and dirtier. because what putin did not managed to achieve was victorious. goals within couple of days. and we know that they experience a lot of logistical problems. and they received a strong rebuff from the ukrainian army. and also, resistance on the national level. they are going after people. they are going after civilian infrastructure. and this of course, the toughest blow on ukraine. because children, women, we cannot protect them. svetlana, just on that
of ukraine, is there anything russia could do that you are aware of that could have that not come true? i mean, and it could be a frightening prospect. yeah, sure. i m not sure i love the word prophecy. that has a connotation, but yeah, i m willing to put it out there and say that i do believe my professional assessment is that russia is going to culminate, the culminating point, within the next five to six days because they have serious manpower shortages, serious logistical problems. the rumors are flying around about the head of the fsb being arrested, clearly, the crepe ln is starting to look for scapegoats. you have six generals killed so far. these are indicators of a lot of different problems. so what does the kremlin do? of course, they could use chemical weapons. putin has used poison, a nerve agent against his own people, both in the uk and of course
especially on the south, eastern and northern fronts of this country, but they have been plagued with mechanical problems, with logistical problems, and they haven t advanced on the cities as they had hoped to, but they re still battering these place, as you mentioned earlier, a mall in kyiv was hit by shell, possibly seven or eight people and they are using the same tactics in kyiv as they had in mariupol encircling the city and if they re not advancing on land, they may try to flatten the city by air with shells causing an even greater humanitarian disaster but the ukrainians have been fighting tooth and nail. they have shown incredible resolve and resilience, and they re in no mood to give up any of their cities, especially
nato allies, the eu/western allies can do in addition to what you listed there. on the ground, to help ground forces because the the russian troops are taking some absolutely huge losses right now. what what do you make of what s going on, on the russian side, first of all? the russian side, we know that there are morale issues. um, there are logis logistical problems. there are command and control issues. you know, 20 years ago, commanded a brigade, multinational brigade in kosovo with russian troops and one thing that was very noticeable was that their junior officers and their noncommissioned officers like their sergeants did not take the initiative. so they were always waiting for orders from higher officers. and many of those officers and leaders are being picked off and killed by ukrainians, which is causing some of this malaise on