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terrorists. the idf in heavy armor and tanks now reportedly taking out hamas targets and terrorists overnight. [explosions] >> harris: as you can see it went on long enough for day break. new video shows israeli troops raising the jewish nations flag in the palestinian territory for the first time in 18 years. im harris faulkner and you are in "the faulkner focus." prime minister benjamin netanyahu announced the second phase of the war with the israeli forces reaching built-up areas in...

Counter—offensive was a success. im joined now by military expert retired colonel brendan kearney who served thirty—one years with the us marine corps. hes also worked extensively with nato in europe. how would you describe and analyse the strategy ukrainians are employing? i the strategy ukrainians are employing?— the strategy ukrainians are emlo in? ~ , ., employing? i think it is a brilliant use of snipers. _ employing? i think it is a brilliant use of snipers. its _ employing? i think ...

Threats on weapons being supplied by nato? >> sure, well, i think what is interesting is that every move by russia, you know, actually at the end causes the united states and the west to provide weapon systems that even weeks or months before would not even have been fathomable. at the beginning of the world, i dont think we would have sent hello kitty backpacks with mres in them, but now weve supplied himars. youre seeing the russian use of these iranian suicide drone which is is a terror weapo...

Make of the drone strikes? >> well, chris, thanks for having me on. first of all, this is a terror weapon designed to kill civilians and its tragic what is happening inside ukraine. the significance of this militarily i think is questionable and more of a sign of russian desperation. the fact that russia is reaching out to iran is quite extraordinary. theres certainly some talk that russia should be designated as well. i would like to see the biden administration do exactly that. this only stren...

Different than what many people envisioned when they think of nuclear conflict. they think of the cold war. so how exactly do you see this potentially playing out? if poot wutin were to take that? >> first of all, i think theres a slim possibility that he will do that, but i suspect in the low probability he did yoon practical nuclear weapons with a small yield, attacking logistical depots or perhaps command centers, even perhaps the capital of kyiv. they dont really have a lot of military value...

Complained so bitterly about? we dont know. i note one further thing that really is troubling in the last 24 hours, putin has repeatedly made reference to nuclear weapons. one of his justifications for invading ukraine i think is a completely manufactured argument, that the ukrainians might soon have nuclear weapons that they could use, but theres no evidence that ukraine has a nuclear program. that was manufactured. and, secondly, putin and his war announcement overnight warned that any country...

Occupied. so for example, in the luganst and the area in donbas, there are villages being burned down and women and children being killed according to reports im getting out of ukraine. so it is not just in kyiv. this is a campaign to terrorize the people, thats shots that we saw falling in kharkiv, that is a terror weapon. theyre not hitting military targets, theyre trying to obliterate a city. this is putins way of war. it is talk and fight and persuade zelensky to turn himself over to russian...

System is not only incredibly devastating but its also a terror weapon. it should be banned by international law and it probably will be if it gets used hire, never used again, once people see it, human rights activists are already against, if this thing is going to create a huge wall of flame that sucks the air out of peoples lungs, its a weapon of terror. i think he would use it if he cant get what he wants in kyiv, and this is the problem. we havent hit the main force. you know, in the united...

Targeted, hit a building and hope we get the guy we want as opposed to going in surgically with troops to accomplish that same goal? >> mike: russians have sophisticated armerment. those armorment are very precise and they are using precise womens and use what we saw in kharkiv. what that was, grad rockets. weve seen grad rockets uses a terror weapon because they are not accurate. you fling them in general area of population you want to terrorize. if you use it ethically, you soften the battle f...

Something as you all know very well is very much a part of russias playbook. theyve used those weapons against their own citizens. theyve at least encouraged the use in syria and elsewhere. so it is something we take very seriously. >> so, richard, as russia continues to flail theres bad information out from one of the embassies from russia saying coronavirus was created in a lab in the ukraine, the united states was involved. theyre trying to find some way in. how real is this concern about the...