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Issued a threat saying that any of these shipments are legitimate targets for the russian armed forces. anderson? >> ivan watson, appreciate that. fascinating to hear from his perspective on the ground. scott mclean here in lviv, thanks so much. back to you, pamela, in d.c. >> thanks, anderson. today president putin talked up russian troop morale and heroism, but the truth in the trenches could be far different. this is from the commander of u.s. central command. >> we can all make our judgmen...

Officials are actually reportedly surprised by the risk averse or protests that russia has taken with its vast air power against ukraines much mueller air force i. as one retired three star general told void ors, the russians are discovering that coordinating multi domain operations is not easy, and that they are not as good as they presume they were. what should we expect to see in the coming days is putin continues his siege against the people of ukraine. joining us now for more on that probab...

Supreme court nomination that i think you will be talk about later tonight. it appears that ketanji brown-jackson could be headed for confirmation soon. >> rob, i saw three that caught my eye. lieutenant general russell honoré, irregular on our air, send this tweet out. where he rice, ive observed over the last few days experts contributors, basically giving opinions on why the russian attacks are successful. please stop it. youre telling russian high command we need to be fixed. okay, to my si...

Thousands of russian troops have been killed in ukraine, this is according to the latest analysis who report sagging morale among russian troops. the nsa saying that the death toll was much higher than anything that has been reported. it comes as secretary of state antony blinken issued a warning that russia could escalate a war in ukraine in a devastating way. >> we believe that moscow may be setting the stage to use a chemical weapon and then falsely blame ukraine to justify escalating the att...

All of ukraines coal, corn, and steel is shipped across the world from mariupol. if theyre not going to be able to do that, thats all going to economically strangle the city. so, i devastating situation, not only from a humanitarian point of view, but from a financial point of view for this country, as well. >> ali, what a thing to hear them make a suicide pact if they didnt think they would make it out of the city. thank you for your amazing reporting. ali arouzi is live for us in lviv, this la...

Today on day 27 of russia invasion of ukraine. joining me now is rob lee, he a former marine corps infantry officer, and an expert o russian defense policy he is currently a senior fello at the foreign policy research institute, mister lee, thank you for joining us, its goo to see this evening. i want to ask you about senior pentagon official telling reporters, today, that the russian military has los more than 10% of its comba power that was sent into ukraine, there is no indicatio that reinfor...

Former cia officer. i told you were ringing in the experts, and we certainly have. tonight, rob, i to hear about the conflicts, that russia is determined to gain momentum. i said it before, the pentagon says that the kremlin is still failing to achieve its objective. given all of, that work in this conflict going next? >> it appears russia was trying to basically use force to try to raise the pressure on zelenskyy to force him to make concessions. theyre trying to do count regime changes. that f...

In mariupol, we know a lot of the people who say behind the elderly. the red cross has not been able to get into the city. the same is true for kharkiv. so one of the really horrible things thats happening, as theres quite possibly any number of children who are alive in these buildings, who their parents have died. on thats the reality of war. theres not so much information. boy do these kids come from? where these parents? we have seen some children crossing into poland without identification....

And we cant do that effectively are now, because ukraines air defenses still attacked. also because ukrainian air force is still operating, and still contesting the environment. all that makes it more difficult for russian air force, and really key part of this is that introduction missions, a really key mission that the russian air force would like to take part, it would include preventing ukrainians from reinforcing locations, resupply in cities, all this kind of things. its clear that not abl...

Please. lets bring in our experts. richard, rob, and john, a former cia officer. i told you were ringing in the experts, and we certainly have. tonight, rob, i to hear about the conflicts, that russia is determined to gain momentum. i said it before, the pentagon says that the kremlin is still failing to achieve its objective. given all of, that work in this conflict going next? >> it appears russia was trying to basically use force to try to raise the pressure on zelenskyy to force him to make ...