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Of those buildings. and there is a secondary building that i think is a little bit further out. it is difficult to say without sort of standing there on the ground what civilian exposure there is to those buildings. but this is a densely populated city center, so the minute you start bombing city centers, there is a huge risk of civilians being killed. the russians did say in this statement from the defense ministry given to task that they are going to be using precision weapons, though, you kno...

Dont think the goal was to destroy this plant. but this is classic russian military playbook. the classic russian military playbook of being completely reckless around very dangerous things like nuclear plants. >> and we just got word moments ago that the fire has now been completely extinguished. that is an enormous relief. peter, whether or not the fire is extinguished now, what does this attack tell you about the kremlins strategy for war now? where theyre going? >> well one thing it reminds ...

The russian aircraft have not been able to fly significantly. they are dropping some bombs. they are dropping some caliber missiles, cruise missiles from high altitude aircraft, as peter said. but its not a lot. they are running out of those precision weapons quickly and theyre using most of those to go after military targets. what youre seeing in terms of the catastrophe in ukrainian cities are primarily being caused by missiles and artillery shells and its hard to stop those. you cant close th...

To launch precision weapons when they want to hit a target precisely which to me reinforces the criminality of the russian force if -- in using area weapo in the civilian population. there are none in mariupol, kharkiv, any of the places where they have continuously struck arbitrarily civilian targets without precision weapons. so this just makes a case in my view that they are committing war crimes. >> and it makes you worry about the escalation in this, especially toward civilians. this viewer...

Strong. that is the lesson. >> sean: do you see any strength out of joe biden? he wont even give them a migs. hes the one that vetoed that. >> no, hes the problem. hes done some things right. he has started to supply ukraine, he has helped ukraine in many ways, but not enough, not all, and his weakness in afghanistan was part of the problem that sent the signal to putin that he might be able to get away with this. the decision on the migs is a terrible decision, he should be helping ukraine with...

Hitting that base with cruise missiles, with their caliber missiles, which are precision weapons, and hitting the building with precision weapons against a military target versus the area of fire weapons that theyre using against cities like mariupol and kharkiv and kyiv tells me that, as general clark said, the terror approach to the citizenry is very different than the precision approach to the ukrainian military. >> and -- and general clark, we have seen just that continued just shelling of r...

They blew up buildings. they frightened and killed a lot of people. and that is the sort of russian way of war. on top of that are these precision weapons. but youve got to have a targeting system for that. youve got to have an intelligence system that works on a realtime basis. and the only thing weve seen is this one strike really thats effective against this base, which had a bunch of people in it. i guess they were the people that had come across the border trying to help the ukrainians. im ...

Using long-range fires, cruise missiles, artillery and theyre directing it almost indiscriminately. >> i was talking to a former military official who said, just look at the way theyre doing this on the ground. no night vision goggles, no position, dumb bombs rather than precision weapons. it tells you how degraded their training is and equipment. >> indeed. i spent four years shall we say closely observing the russian military, and i watched them gradually improve, improve but over the last few...

Russian air force, they do not get the same number of flight hours that the u.s. air force gets. they dont have the same kind of precision munitions. one of the things the cia director confirmed today is that they are dropping dumb bombs, very few precision weapons. thats why theyre not hitting the targets. they may be aiming at civilian facilities, but theyre hitting things with 500-pound dumb bombs that have no precision, so they may have an excuse for why theyre not violating war crimes. its ...

>> well, at this point they either may be low in that inventory because they just never produced it, or it could be that theyre saving their good stuff for a little bit later. look at the focus of their bombing campaigns and their artillery campaigns right now. these are not key military targets. these are strikes in cities and infrastructure to basically cause panic among the civilians and get them to evacuate and to demonstrate what theyre going to do when they start the big fights around kyiv...