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Becoming more aggressive, it is targeting -- its targeting might become less precise, resulting in more innocent civilians dying. russian forces are becoming particularly aggressive in their effort to capture the ukrainian capital of kyiv. the damage there is already catastrophically bombing and shelling infrastructure in residential areas. reuters reports one u.s. official stopping short of directly accusing russian troops of specifically targeting civilians. putin and his troops are becoming a...

Coming. suddenly putins forces seem to be cutting the city off as they tried to cut it off in the south and weve seen emasculate his attacks on urban centers, residential areas. a lot of reasons of concern tonight here in ukraine. again, but breaking news, the one we are going to be falling off the top is the attack on the nuclear plant. we know that there was shelling. that plant took a direct hit. the firemen couldnt get to it to try to put it out. in that fire there has broken out. watching t...

The russian products for now. >> bret: is going to be interesting to see how much the iran deal that we are told is just on the finish line in vienna, how much they rely on that for iran to give or fill the hole in oil. it sounds like it may be very close. >> shannon: feels like it raises a lot of other questions that we see the way putin is operating. he has nukes. thats something the entire world is aware of and judge every move they made by that. a lot of people feel like iran has not been co...

We have no evidence of it but hes only got limited reserve cities called up. he may go to a much fuller mobilization, bring out more reserves. he may even go to a full mobilization which would be stunning. i dont have any evidence. im speculating because the separation of the north, which is his main effort, its not going well. putin, we know what hell do. hell pull out all the stops, shannon, to succeed. theres not a weapons system in his arsenal that he wouldnt use except nuclear weapons, in m...

Take out putin. what do you make of that tweet? >> well, i think we are quite a ways from that. we understand that putin is likely more isolated. paranoia may have set in and certainly some of the decisions these making seem to be off. thats sort of a hope and i think weve got to do is concrete, sobering issues to deal with. helping the ukrainians defend themselves. there is more we can do and i think we can use our imagination a little bit better and id like to get into that a little bit if you...

Hours. some reports suggest that putin has had setbacks. do you think he is to change tactics are what are we going to see? >> i think youre going to see a continuation going along with what david said. youre going to see a lot of encirclement of these major cities. what thats going to do is its going to isolate their troops. troops are going to be brought in. ukrainian troops are going to be defending the cities. if russia comes in and encircles them, it contains those trips trying to protect t...

Bret. we speak to so many people who say they wish the u.s. was doing more, giving more weapons that they had acted sooner. what can you tell us about what people in washington are saying? whether that support is coming down the line and whether or not they might get some things that they so badly need? >> its a great question and theres a push on capitol hill to increase whats going in. theyve had some 200 stinger missiles and of common. the flow of weapons going in we are told has not stopped....

Are changed. he will push belarus into war, use chemical or biological weapons, slaughter millions and impose stalinist restrictions and russia to avoid humiliation or the perception that he was forced to back down." minutes ago he writes "it would be a catastrophic mistake to make decisions based on putin of the past, the sense of grievance and suspicions, the hubris of viewing himself as russia, the obsession with control, its all gotten worse and he will do things now he would have never done...

Thats been bombarded. its all visual. this did not happen in grozny. it did not happen in syria. there were horrible things that happened in those places by the russian forces but it was never captured on camera. this is unlike anything weve ever seen. >> benjamin: absolutely. the other side of that media story is how people can get the russian population as he was going on? its well-known that putin controls the traditional media and many of them have heard nothing but putins narrative on this ...

Objective. huge problems with the convoy. logistical, supplies. some people he learned from them he shifted his tactic. the way he had done in previous conflicts and what he has started to do in an ever-increasing manner is target the urban centers, target the residential areas. if you cause chaos among the people, if you can isolate them, then youre already well towards achieving your goal. thats what people here are concerned about. we dont know if the southern part of the citys going to be cu...