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Backed by a population filled with volunteers eager to join the fight. fresh video this morning of the ukrainian army here in the town of lviv moving into position. notice they dont have their helmets on because the fighting hasnt been very intense here in the city, but the rep weapons are in. youll see soldiers moving around without magazines in their guns. the ukrainian regulars out here, the magazines are loaded. weapons are loaded, very much ready for combat. as far as what you see here in t...

Invasion, there is a strong chance i would say -- i live in russia and i have for many years -- they could double down and go in much harder. that is the bigger risk for the ukrainian military. as they celebrate their victories, the big question is what will the response of the russian military and the russian political leadership be, john. >> matthew, these are remarkable pictures. be careful. i am going to try to keep talking to you. we have a sketchy connection here. but these are really rema...

Ukraine. whether you call them peace keepers or not. these are russian regulars crossing in to ukraine. >> theres a finite amount you can do. i think the choice facing western official ss do you do a small amount to show you are serious. but recognize the fact this is not at the stage a full on invasion. and multi-prong offensive. do you say thats it. thats enough. and do everything to make sure theres no further aggression. thats the choice theyre facing. it is possible the kremlin way of tryin...

This duplicity. like u.s. ambassador to the un said we know what they are. they are not peace keepers. they are russian special operations. special troops here to circle and take more ukrainian territory. >> yeah. and to that point this whole issue of the sanctions, the u.s. position seems to be russians were there helping anyway. this is kind of not new. they are putting in fairly mild sanctions in a way. the reality is this is russian regulars stepping foot on sovereign ukraine. should the ful...

Up in that region. theyve been involved in something like trench warfare there the last eight years. its been a static battlefield where very little has been happening. we have to remember, 14,000 ukrainians have been killed in this conflict, not else inially against russian regulars. theyre still essentially ukrainian soldiers, but theyre russian speakers and theyre backed by russia, theyre separatists. these are people who speak russian, use the russian ruble, but, you know, im in a city where...

Between here and kyiv, but i imagine here a lot of these people believe that they are with putin or that putin believes that theyre with him. thats because this is a russian-speaking city, the second largest city in ukraine. and when vladimir putin and his successive speeches has talk ted about the russian identity of ukraine, hes talking about cities like this one. these are places he believes in his warped ideology are going to be sympathetic towards him. but the people i talk to here, theyre ...

City was in a bit of a lull over the past day or so as you were saying before, as russian forces sort of had stalled against ukrainian opposition that they did not intend to face and were kind of regrouping. what i believe that were seeing tonight is the beginnings of another major offensive now that they have reinforced and resupplied and are pushing to attempt to take the city again. >> the government has also said to individuals, make molotov cocktails, arm yourself if you can. theyve given t...

Different curfews on the streets, no one is allowed to leave because of those civilian defense units and the military regulars are searching for russian saboteurs that are trying to orchestrate similar types of attacks that kind of has seen and kharkiv saw yesterday morning. >> jack crosby describing it for us. jack, so happy to see you safe and well. were going to check back in. >> thanks so much. and that right there is going to do it for me today. ill be coming to you from washington, d.c.,...

Mercenary group that was operating out of north carolina. then move to china, the united arab emirates, where i was living here for sometime. and ive seen some of these people. slip through the precursors to wapner. full disclosure, i worked in iraq at one point in the late 2010s, and we provided support to lukoil, and there was this militia styled group that was providing deeper security for lukoil than the regulars security guards. very tactical, very heavy. and they kept popping up in other p...

Doing, but it seems that with an understanding of the fact that ukraine has been at war in the donbas for many, many years, that maybe we shouldnt be. >> the reason were somewhat surprised, nicole, is that in 2014, when the russians invaded the first time, when they first invaded crimea and then invaded donbas, the ukrainian military was not in good shape. it had been hollowed out by the previous president, the previous pro-russian ukrainian president. it had been hollowed out. it was not able t...