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Tactics. thats something that defense officials told me is something theyre actually going to be doing, you know, just using essentially a harassment campaign against an occupation force by the russians. thats the bottom card. and its the main option that the ukrainians have to defend against a russian incursion. jose? >> matt bradley, thank you so much. and with me now from frankfort, germany, is ben hodges, now persian chair for european studies. its a pleasure to see you. i understand that yo...

Attack to relieve some of the pressure thats in the east and maybe get some of those forces to move away to make it easier for his limited attack. but still they are not the main effort forces he has in the east and south right now. when you analyze who the troops are, theyre a hodge podge of unites and east and other parts of russia not a coherent main effort attacking force. they could cross the border and demonstrate the potential of something like that but unlikely to be used as an occupatio...

Several days. this is phase one. we are formally in it. phase two would be air missiles, cruise missile strikes, artillery fire and tanks and mechanized units coming across the boarder. phase three would be a potential occupation. would russia actually have some large scale occupation force. thats one thing we dont really know yet. theyve been calling up sop national guards or reservists but nobody in the area of the 100,000 to 200,000 people it would take to occupy ukraine. >> you just laid out...

He will just focus on that eastern half in the beginning. and when they go in, the assessment is that he will and circle some of these large cities. kyiv, odessa in the south, circle them, isolate them, and then they will move from there. he has a tremendous amount of personnel around the border right now. it is enough for not only for the initial invasion, but for an occupation force for sometime. >> and i want to show you a little bit on the map here of white courting was just talking about. r...

Up the russian reserves. we were told to look at that as an indication that he would need an occupation force if he went with the invasion. we see him standing next to lukashenko of belarus. theres indication that putin will move military equipment behind the exercises, the so-called exercises that were supposed to end with 30,000 russian troops in belarus, 60 miles from kiev on the border in belarus. we saw that pontoon bridge that was -- that appeared in satellite images on a river that is nea...

From world war ii, talking about their experience back then and how it mirrors today and sending the message of putin to leave. for putin, its probably relatively straightforward, or it was before he started this for. his military objectives, he is unlikely to achieve them now. it is to, it was to decapitate, to replace a leadership of ukraine with a puppet regime. clearly, the will of the ukrainian people is to resist. it is an indomitable will and they are not going to tolerate a regime change...

The coast and this, were told, is under siege. and then what? then what happens? obviously the people who have stayed behind, the ukrainians who have stayed behind dont believe they are now under russian occupation. so now what? soldiers stay there? what happens in these places? >> this is going to be the so-called $64,000 question, alisyn. is it going to actually work the way the russians want it to? if the russians maintain control of these cities, they will have an occupation force, in essenc...

Reinforcement. you put your finger on exactly what they need. theyre calling up reinforcements. listen to this, jesse, from a far away fast east of russia. takes almost a week by train according to the people that know more about this than i do. but it gives you a sense now they -- another thing to watch here, jesse. they have only brought up a limited amount of reserves and they are in belarus, some of them may have moved. in we initially thought that would probably be used as an occupation for...

Allied supreme commander and alexander vinman retired now works with the new democracy initiative. lieutenant commander, when you look at the state of affairs on the ground, putin says its going to plan, we saw some of the devastation, whats your assessment? >> its going far from planned, frankly. i think putin can no longer achieve his military objectives, not the one initially, to roll into cities unopposed, to topple the ukrainian government and replace them in a puppet government, relatively...