In March of this year, retired U.S. colonel Andrew Milburn founded the Mozart Group, a private military company that trains Ukrainian soldiers and distributes humanitarian aid to civilians. The name is a reference to the Wagner Group, a Russian...
looks like ukrainian advances. heard rumors especially on social media, it be had fallen to ukrainian, liberated from the russians but actually heard from senior people in the ukrainian government actually that it looks as though the ukrainians are on the outskirts and haven't actually managed to take crimina but no rest in fighting throughout the chris mission holiday. you mentioned, acts of resilience in that drone attack that targeted engels air force base in russia, deep beyond the border of ukraine, that was the second time that's happened in a month. what we can expect after that, if the last time that happened is any indicator, that russia will likely retaliate. this is something that russia likes to punish ukraine for. these attacks inside russia. and you know, this is going to be an embarrassment for them and we're already seeing chatter on military bloggers, pro-russian
in the united states and across europe. >> we were talking last week about how on russian state tv they mentioned supporters of president donald trump and republicans. and more sympathetic towards them in their discussion of the midterms. obviously republicans have been associated with more hawkish foreign policy, internationalist pursuit. can you unpack that a little more. why would the russians see it as beneficial? >> the trump element within the republican party is perceived certainly by the ukrainians a good deal more pro-russian. we saw that during the trump administration. those weird encounters between himself and vladimir putin. the fact he would have meetings with the russian president without any american officials, for example. there's deep suspicion about that relationship in and of itself. more widely, it is the republican effort to kind of win support by saying, look, we need to focus at home, not abroad. similar things going on in the united kingdom with a lot of
Many Jewish men and women say they left their elderly parents behind in areas under Russian control because they refused to come or were unable to; now, it appears any serious Jewish life in the area is a thing of the past
it's faulty for a variety of reasons. most of all because ukrainians would never accept it. we've all seen the horrors that have happened. in places infamous, bucha, and irpin, and the victims have come forward to share the horrors. so ukraine knows any territory it trades away to russia the people on that territory would be consigned to these horrors. so why would ukraine trade these people away, when ukrainian forces are winning on the battlefield. perhaps a better way to bring peace to ukraine, in my opinion, is that ukraine should be given the weapons to keep liberating its territory. that's what we've seen already that works and seems like a better strategy than trading the people away. >> we'll have to leave it there, doug chain with the atlantic council in london. thanks so much. russian officials have declared three public figure foreign agents over the
burning for a long time. and then, of course, parts of that structure also did collapse. russian authorities saying that bridge is closed to traffic until the end of the month. and as you mentioned, vladimir putin said a commission has been put in place to find out exactly what happened. and, of course, to make sure that bridge starts working as fast as possible for the russians once again. and, you know, it's hard to overstate how important the kerch bridge is to the russians. it's not just a prestige project for russian president vladimir putin. it was built very quickly. it also links crimea, the annexed peninsula of crimea to the russian mainland and certainly made it a lot quicker and faster not just for people to cross and also for military hardware to cross as well. a lot of that military hardware for trains crossing on those tracks but on the roads as well. one of the things that the russians have said to stave off
machine stored in the midst of pig stalls. you were deceived and betrayed, ukraine's defense minister said kraefg russian troops in the video. you promised an easy walk but you were sent into a trap. you pay in blood for someone's fantasies and false goals. and the kremlin's goals appear increasingly out of reach, as ukraine continues to make progress taking back territory from vladimir putin's army. and, of course, they want to deep that progress up. they want to keep up with the pace of that as well, kim. one of the reasons why it's so urgent for the ukrainians, they obviously understand as well that the russians are mobilizing, as the russians themselves have said, hundreds of thousands of russian men, of course, only a matter of time before those are sent to the battlefield as well. kim. >> thanks so much, fred pleitgen really appreciate it. so with us now from london to discuss all of this is doug
losing. even though the u.s. has not seen a change in russia's nuclear posture. the russians hitting back, seizing on remarks from ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy calling for tougher action against russia. moscow claiming zelenskyy is trying to drive nato into a nuclear conflict with russia, even though the ukrainians have clarified that is not what zelenskyy meant. yesterday, zelenskyy called on his western masters to launch a preventive nuclear strike against russia for minister sergey lavrov said. by doing so, he has given the world more proof of the thoughts emanating from there. and a village captured from the russian army found russian troops seem to be living in a pig shed. food closed and a washing
celebrate. i think the ukrainians are watching very closely to what president zelenskyy will say today. >> absolutely, we've been seeing a lot of crowing from the ukrainians. let's go to the growing fear of nuclear confrontation in the news recently. why do you think that putin has increasingly resorted to nuclear intimidation and blackmail? >> so putin's nuclear tlits at this moment are really an act of desperation. russia is losing this war and ukraine peace forces are making significant gains. the war is not going in putin's favor so he's resorting to these nuclear threats. just this week, u.s. president joe biden warned that the risk of russia using nuclear weapons is very real and should take it seriously. but important to recognize that nuclear threats are a tried and true tactic that russia uses to scare the world away from helping ukraine. so we can take the threats seriously without letting them set a new precedent that nuclear