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Brutal russian force. thats not stability going forward. >> especially 35 million people who hate the occupier and i mean with a burning passion, understandably, and seem more than capable of maintaining an ongoing guerilla fight, whether its in cities or in the countryside. >> seem more than willing. and of course a big part of the problem is that information warfare, which is being won in extravagant fashion by zelenskyy all over the world. so, theres going to be an enormous amount of willingn...

Is not afraid of anyone, and he conjured up what it will look like when the war is over, saying this, quote, the hatred that the enemy brought with themselves to our cities will not stay there. there will be no sign of it. hatred is not us, so there will be nothing left from the enemy. we will rebuild everything. we will make our cities that the occupier destroyed better than any city in russia. zelenskyy was the focus of "time" magazines latest cover story, where our next guest wrote about his ...

Jay collins. scott, start with you. it looks like the cia since 2014 has been teaching them guerrilla war tactics. how would you define that? >> really what it comes down to, brian, and its good to see you again. is the ability, the resilience of the ukrainian people who stand up against an outside oppressor like that, an outside occupier and resist. to mount a collective resistance at every level of warfare. and i guarantee you that is happening right now. it has been in the works for a while. ...

The attack coming not just from the land but the water as well. russian ships in the sea of azov now joining in the bombardment. the deputy mayor estimating 90% of the citys infrastructure is now destroyed. >> the city does not receive any humanitarian needs. food, electricity, water, the bombing, a lot of death, a lot of crying, a lot of awful war crimes. >> reporter: the ukrainian military says this was caused by a russian attack as new satellite images show the city is crumbling while russian...

Your city under ukraines control? >> we have been proving that for the last two weeks. weve been gathering the forces. it is much more than 18,000. kyiv is a city of millions. many of them have left. we have plenty of more joining the defense forces, ukrainian armed forces, joining patrols, guards, so the point is all these structures of the ukrainian army are showing its capacity by pushing back the russians the last two weeks out of kyiv and keeping those supply lines to the west of the countr...

Schools, and churches are already being blasted out of existence. i want you to take a look at this. its devastation in the northeastern city of sumy. local officials say at least 21 civilians including two children are dead now. everyone who could fleeing today when a temporary evacuation route was opened. now russia is announcing a new cease fire in sumy, kyiv, and other cities starting in about four hours so well be paying close attention to that all evening long and morning long here on cnn....

Exception. northern city of sumy, those evacuations today, those humanitarian corridors particularly in the south eastern city of mariupol, were not exactly what had been advertised or proposed or claimed that they would be by the russian side, wolf. >> what was the ukrainian reaction to that cease-fire proposal? >> reporter: so we just had word from the ukrainian armed services from one of their telegram channels, you know, what they said essentially, it is difficult to trust the occupier. and ...

Work. >> if vladimir putins forces do occupy kyiv, occupy kharkiv, you know, there was that old saying in iraq by u.s. forces, if you break it -- i think it was colin powells phrase -- you break it, you bought it. its going to be a huge drain on russia to have a -- suddenly now be an occupier in ukraine, let alone a guerilla struggle against the occupier, just economically dealing with what do you do with ukraine once you take charge of it? >> i think its pretty clear that putins original intent...

Theyve had significant losses on the ground. >> translator: the enemy is sustaining unprecedented losses. some of the occupier units have been 80% to 90% destroyed. in the areas where heavy fighting took place, the frontline of our defense is littered with corpses of russian soldiers, and the corpses, theses dead bodies are not being picked up by anyone. new units are sent to advance right over them. some reserves that the russians are gathering wherever it can. >> reporter: now what president z...

Russias losses. >> translator: the enemy is sustaining unprecedented losses. some of the occupier units 80% to 90% destroyed and the areas where heavy fighting took place, the front line of our defense is littered with corpses of russian soldiers. and the corpses, these dead bodies, are not being picked up by anyone. >> im joined now by retired major general james "spider" marks, cnn military analyst and head of geopolitical strategy at academy securities. general marks, thanks for being with us...