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Forces. and the u.s. ambassador to nato, serves as president of the chicago council on global affairs. jason, what goes through your mind, when we listen to what hannah was dedescribing? southeast, and west of that country is under direct threat. what goes through your mind as you watch the advancing of russians in ukraine. >> hannah gave a great report. on the ground, what is happening, deal with that first of all. she broke this down well, in the case of air defense, versus ground artillery. h...

Driven by people who are not in a position really to do it. >> and yet, again, i come back to this assessment by the u.s. that there have been no major territorial gains for russia since the start of this new push in the donbas region, and all along weve been reporting that they were much more positioned to succeed in this area. so what do you think is russias problem on the ground there? are you surprised that they arent making more progress more quickly there in terms of their objective? >> su...

Will continue in phase two. theres a good chance given the fact the russians still have logistics problems. they suffer from terrible morale. the united states and nato is ramping up the effort, but its far too early, i think, to call this one for the ukrainian military. its a long way to go, and i think it will be four, six, eight weeks before we have a better sense of where the trajectory is going. >> so how discouraging is it when you have u.n. nations from china to brazil to india and 21 oth...

The war down to the east and attacking to the donetsk, and the hluhansk region, the donbas im not sure they have been able to reinforce those regions. it will be several weeks before they get any kind of capability to reinforce the actions. they are certainly showing activity in the east but it isnt significant right now. not only do they have personnel problems, but they also have logistics problems. youve seen the line of russian vehicles that are lining up in the north and people are making a...

Ammunition carriers within the ship and that caused the damage and smoke on the ship, but if reports are to be believed that that ship has leaned toward star board or port, i dont know, im not a navy guy, but its sinking fast. it has a crew of about 500 people. it had a lot of equipment on board, and it certainly was capable of reinforcing any actions that russia was perceived to have started in the odesa region. >> general, we saw the report showing us how tense the situation already is in east...

Russia. >> general, last question to you. it seems pretty clear the russian military has had to recalibrate their efforts. now senior defense officials believe that russia is actively trying to recruit some 60,000 new troops. intelligence forces shows they have not solved some logistics and sustainment problems how do you read in in the context of the russians and their capabilities? >> i think the intelligence is fairly accurate. the russians have had morale problems, theyve had logistics probl...

Force. it is like those resisting the german occupation in world war ii. so a quick aside. but what the looting is telling me is again, the point that i kind of made about logistics. these russian forces have been sent out, strung out on a long line of operation, as the general would say, without sufficient resupply. they dont have apparently, not only do they not have fuel. they know these vehicles are breaking down already in russia. they dont seem to have sufficient food. that would really im...

Airborne troops have landed in kharkiv after the days of artillery fire on that city, the second largest city. how significant is that, and what does that mean, do you think, in terms of putins for trying to take over the whole of the country? it to take over the whole of the count ? , , u, ., country? it is significant, and i think country? it is significant, and | think putin _ country? it is significant, and i think putin is _ country? it is significant, and i think putin is trying - country?...

Timothy, and he was also a former minister of economic development and trade in ukraine and i asked about the damage done to ukraines economy because of this crisis. heres what he said. >> well, even if there is none, there is already a lot of damage, access to capital markets, capitalization of companies, logistics problems, insurance costs going up, gdp forecast couple of weeks ago revised down about 1% and there are estimates produced by our analysts and others that at blockade, say theres a ...

Coming days, whether these troops continued advancement to the ukrainian capital. if they do, the understanding that they will try to encircle the city. i think thats going to be the thing people focus on in the coming days: is this convoy moving? if they are not, why? it could be for two reasons: they are regrouping and preparing to launch an assault, or they could be having logistics problems in the form of food, fuel, or supplies. >> dana: one of the things president biden continues to say th...