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Continue to face morale problems. this offensive, its begun now self-weeks ago, but the russians till have not moved far out of izium into the donbas area. >> so andrea, you have an update on the diplomatic picture and how russia may be consolidating what they have. the u.s. ambassador said russia wants to hold mock votes in areas they control in ukraine. >> including the osce, where i work as ambassador, has been very clear that such referendum, fabricated votes, will not be considered legitima...

Culture of the armed forces is rotten to the core, do you have any reason to believe theyre going to be able to start rolling up victories in the east, in the donbas region. >> no, i do not. joe, first of all, let me just tell you, youre talking about kyiv earlier. i think the optimism changed from the west when all the west saw that kyiv wasnt going to fall. you had ukrainian forces doing a pretty good job protecting kyiv. thats when we started to see this turn in the west with optimism. that c...

Reinvigorated as ever. >> columnist for the "washington post," david ignatius. also professor of history at new york youth, ruth. thank you for being with us. i was talking to richard haass earlier today and general twitty. we find ourselves in this difficult position, i think. i will say, perhaps im being a bit too optimistic for the ukrainians, but just as they get -- russians got ran out of the kyiv area, i suspect theyre going to have trouble because of their logistical problems, because of ...

And our command have all [ bleep ]d off, and they abandoned everybody, and [ bleep ]d off. we dont even know where they are. >> jackals. shoot them and this is it. >> translator: imagine, they did not bring any food stuff. [ bleep ] that. shoot him. quit. >> translator: the first one. >> general, this is suggesting some major morale problems inside of russias army, and that might have something to do with the atrocities that we are seeing. >> well, i think that is right. again, i would go back t...

The russian military has obviously been underperforming, theyve had logistic problems, supply problems, morale problems. their leadership has been decapitated, five to eight generals have been killed. the ukrainians sunk one of their primary asset ships in the black sea. theyre losing a lot of face which puts them in a place of desperation. thats not good for ukraine. thats what youre seeing in mariupol, the pounding and sieging of these cities. to flip that around, zelenskyy and his military co...

Russia was gonna go, in there is gonna be a blitz, theyre gonna take everything and its gonna be over. simple, we all know now that that hasnt happened that way at all. there is an analysis from a lot of western military experts say, this is going to be very methodical now. having said that, are any of the circumstances on the ground really changed. is it significantly different, the will of the ukrainian people, the morale problems within the russian military, and maybe most of all, the organiz...

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...

>> reporter: im barbara starr at the pentagon. biden administration officials say they see recent evidence of continuing poor morale problems inside the russian military that the troops inside ukraine are disillusions. they feel they were not prepared for what they are facing in this invasion. but also that the russia officer corps is frustrated with the performance of the troops and the performance of their own colleagues. we will have to see how this all plays out as thousands of troops are ex...

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...

Pivotal race earlier in 2021. and im looking at georgia to see the raphael warnock race get flipped back to republican hands. whoever it may be, potentially herschel walker, i see georgia as a big pickup opportunity. and certainly other states across the country can galvanize and focus on what we see as low morale problems with the democrats. and also low accomplishment in terms of democratic policy agenda accomplishments. so those are key places and ways we can look at turning over the senate f...