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Then apparently the ukrainians had the ability to counterattack. i just wonder, based on the soda straw view that you and i are getting of that battlefield, what is your assessment of where russian efforts stand in the east right now? >> they -- the russians continue to be disorganized from a component of combined arms operations. indirect fire, direct fires, and aviation assets. so it is a largely artillery based army, mass fires, less frequent use of precision weapons, and when we talk about m...

Russia is pinpointing all of those facilities with precision weapons, which is interesting because theyre using nonprecision weapons, so-called artillery and dumb bombs at cities targeting civilians. theres an effort by russia to interfere with the reinforcement and the supplying of ukraines force coming in from nato country skand the west. >> you think thats more effective, the russian foreign minister said the nato weapons coming in will still be targets of russian forces. do you think its mor...

About this saying were just using precision weapons not targeting residential areas or shooting or hitting civilians. >> yeah, its pretty surprising, yet when you look back at the russian playbook it makes a lot of sense. when you particularly think of this new general or relatively recently appointed general, known as the butcher of syria and the tactics we saw in syria, the targets of hospitals and schools and the powerful message that sends to people that you cannot have any sense of normalcy...

Russian forces will be able to indiscriminately launch unguided artillery bombardment attacks, but they will not be able to pinpoint high value Ukrainian targets

Critically important to that. so youre seeing a back and forth on both sides. russia using precision weapons on some military targets while using arbitrary weapons against civilian targets where they can kill as many as they possibly can. so it will be a tough fight. i continue to believe that ukraine will put up the effort to conduct hasty attacks and a hasty defense against the incoming russian troops. >> and we have these brand-new satellite images showing a russian military convoy. its about...

James, explosions already being heard? , ., �* , ~ heard? yes, thats right. we have heard _ heard? yes, thats right. we have heard five _ heard? yes, thats right. we have heard five or— heard? yes, thats right. we have heard five or six, - have heard five or six, probably up to eight novels very explosions out of view that resemble a faint thunderclap, if you like. we have had a statement from the russian minister of defence. they claim they are not attacking cities with rockets or artillery...

Predawn hours and there were more attacks in the past hour. we could hear a sort of rumbling in the distance. its a foggy cloudy day here so you can hear just sort of muffled thunder in the distance. there have been no reports of mass casualties from any of those attacks. russia is saying its using precision weapons and they are not targeting civilians. its likely they are targeting air defense systems. russia is saying it has knocked out the entire air defense system of ukraine. we cant verify ...

And theyre now employing their highly destructive capabilities. precision weapons, thermal barrack weapons, indiscriminate bombing, cluster bombs, cluster munitions, those things. so now theyre going to embark on a campaign of immense destruction of first off the infrastructure that supports government control of the people, you get the word out, command and control, and all elements of society. they have attacked museums and burned them. they have blown up government buildings. theyre going aft...

From targeting military installations, communications, now appears to be stalling and they are turning a veriable firepower, particularly in kharkiv and mariupol onto the civilian populations, using, in particular, multiple rocket launching systems, sometimes barrack bombing. these are all intended -- theyre called area weapons. intended to kill everything over a wide area. not the sort of precision weapons that you would want to use if you were trying to avoid civilian casualties. these are the...

One of its biggest crises in decades. but for the very latest from ukraine lets go live with steve. they break, what you see? >> try to give you a sense of the mood here, it is certainly a terrifying warning for the 3 million people who live here. im just watching cars right now pull out. a lot of people who live here didnt believe that this would ever happen. they didnt believe that ballistic missiles would be exploding inner-city, that is what is happening we have heard two dozen explosions an...