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That he may be willing to concede some things for peace, including possibly nato membership, possibly recognising crimea as russian territory. what compromises do you think ukraine could make in order to achieve peace? well, firstly, president zelensky is 100% right. whatever is the outcome of the war, the war would be ended with the peace talks. even world war ii ended with peace talks, but it was peace talk about the conditions of capitulation of a fascist germany. and that would be the same, ...

South theyre trying to take over the civil leadership there putting in some kind of government with scant success. in after melitopol they put their own mayor and trying to get into the break way states south of crimea. >> translator: russia is suffering from brain drain. it is losings talent and money. they intend to repeat the notorious experience of creating pseudo republics. they intend to create committees against the legitimate government on our land and people who take to the streets to p...

In recent days, weve heard that russias focus has shifted there. heres one expert explaining why. yeah, i think they have had to in light of the logistical problems that theyve had and the fact that, you know, many of their forces need to now regroup. i think theyve had to scale down their operations. now that theyve failed to take quite a lot of key cities and we are now a month into the war, it makes sense that theyd had to revise that down. so, those attempts to kind of encircle and bombard k...

Entirely or at least partially, not because it necessarily wants to take them, although he says that still may happen, he said the purpose here is to tie down ukraines forces so that russia can focus on what it really cares about, which is, he says, the even donbas region, where russia has formally recognized the independence of two so-called breakaway people, republics. now, all of this is really different from what much of the world, governments, experts have been saying and do believe russia ...

Its just a way of continuing the struggle on another battlefield. >> and, susan, add to this that the fbi says putin is receiving bad information on how russia is performing, but theyre too afraid to tell putin the truth. what do you think about it? >> i think what the general said, sadly, is the situation were in right now which is to be very distrustful of the russians. and remember that vladimir putin is a very isolated leader who has launched this war not because of some popular outcry in ru...

No matter how long this war goes on, how it ends, it is going to get very, very dark in russia, i think, as vera says, repressions, the economy that weve talked about, all this kind of stuff, until this regime is removed, things are going to get dark. i have no doubt that this war is the beginning of the end for vladimir putin. it is a question of how long the end takes to come to fruition. i think, you know, at the end of the day, all wars end in a negotiated settlement. and i think, this week ...

Refugees. it will send a powerful signal and symbol to the rest of the world and to putin in particular that america is a generous country, and america is obviously siding against this horrible russian aggression. >> rick, we also mentioned this new stage of the war, russia perhaps in the process of reducing its war aim, some further detail from the "new york times," with ukraine putting up fierce resistance and russia having failed to seize key cities in the early days of the war, fridays state...

Prop propaganda. ukrainian parliament member kyra rudic tweeting: it is so important to deliver our message. russia has been pouring money into international media to support its narrative. she joins me now. thank you very much, but first, if i could, i want to begin with reports of russian forces having kidnappedded a second mayor. can you verify this? what more can you tell us about it, and what is your plea to nato and u.s. and european countries? >> hello. thank you so much for having me. so...

Its a movement. with xfinity, its a way better way to watch. welcome back. im hala gorani reporting live from lviv, ukraine. a major shift in russias stated goals for its war on ukraine. just as its advances on major cities stall. a top russian general claims that the first stage of this invasion is complete according to russia and that efforts will now focus on eastern ukraine and, quote, the liberation of the donbas. that is the region with the two russian-backed self-declared republics. tha...

As russian territory. what compromises do you think ukraine could make in order to achieve peace? well, firstly, president zelensky is 100% right. whatever is the outcome of the war, the war would be ended with the peace talks. even world war ii ended with peace talks, but it was peace talk about the conditions of capitulation of a fascist germany. and that would be the same, what would be happening here. the recognition of crimea or recognition of the so—called peoples republics is not on the...