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Keeps doing it over and over again, whether he will use this as some soft of a pretext is up to him. trey: is putin trying to rally support at home by claiming he was the target of an asas assassination plot? >> i dont find myself agreeing with john kirby that often but we look to be on the same page tonight. they know the spring offensive is coming, they know it will be rough, the russians may be able to hold land, i believe that ukrainians will make a advances, this is probably an effort to to...

Attempt on president putin, i think the real problem, neil, the russians over the years and particularly since they invaded ukraine illegally, theyve put out so much disinformation and so many attempts at false flag, nobody knows whether to believe the russians. neil: very few do, but again, to the ambassador here to the united states from britain, karen pierces views, just ignore them. but in the meantime, many people are wondering whats going on amid growing divisions within the russian milita...

General, you mentioned ukraine waiting for ammunition. we saw the us announcing it is sending ukraine another $300 million in weapons ahead of the spring offensive. if those weapons arrive, do you think the ukrainian forces will be able to push back russian fighters? well, the ukrainians have shown that they are capable of doing anything they put their minds to, you know? take a look at kyiv, take a look at what they have done in kherson, and what they are continuing to do in bakmut. the conditi...

Counteroffensive. my assessment is that they are probably not initiated this counteroffensive for a couple of reasons. number one, the weather, it is still raining there, so youve got muddy terrain and so forth. number two, they are still waiting for much of the ammunition that has been promised from the west, and also they have new recruits coming in, and much of the equipment still coming in. so i think, as these conditions start to mature, we will see the ukrainians conduct this offence, whic...

Because both are social democratics. and if you compare the situation now with one year ago, its really different. its true the chancellor was very, very... you know, it needs time, always discussing what could come, what is possible and this is not possible. and, you know, it was so boring after a while. you called it at one point a pr disaster. yeah, yes, its a disaster because the ukraine is waiting, the world is waiting, the european union is waiting, nato is waiting, everybody is waiting......

And if you compare the situation now with one year ago, its really different. its true the chancellor was very, very... you know, it needs time, always discussing what could come, what is possible and this is not possible. and, you know, it was so boring after a while. you called it at one point a pr disaster. yeah, yes, its a disaster because the ukraine is waiting, the world is waiting, the european union is waiting, nato is waiting, everybody is waiting... for ukraine, if i may say so, with a...

A second train derailment caused by an explosive device has occurred on the Russian freight train in a region bordering Ukraine. This is the latest in a series of attacks in Russian territory and Crimea, annexed by Moscow in 2014.

Were struck down around the country. including every missile directed at kyiv. its the latest news out of a war preparing for its next chapter, with ukraine readying its forces for a possible counteroffensive. lets bring in right now editor in chief of "the atlantic," jeffrey goldberg, and chief staff writer at "the atlantic," anne applebaum. jeffrey, extraordinarily busy time, obviously, in ukraine. you have attacks on crimea over the weekend. you have the spring offensive reportedly coming up....

In there. the spring offensive and what the secretary is saying about that, are they encouraged about what they are seeing? it seems like there is -- and you talked about this in the interview. a stalling of the operations. >> ben: yeah, there has been a stalling. everything including secretary blinken himself talking about the spring offensive. we think that will start in the next few weeks. some of the papers that were released from the pentagon recently showed they only expect the ukrainians ...

I am not ready to say in detail when it will happen and how. but i will say yes, many things depend on this. but there are many nuances in the supply of certain weapons. >> reporter: apologies there, kim, it seems that we rolled the wrong quote. but you hear president zelenskyy speaking about the counteroffensive. that was the second point i was going to bring to you, ukraine on the two-front war here, civilians being attacked far from the front lines meanwhile, ukraine is preparing for the rush...