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I don't think anybody has a real good answer on that. there's nothing that could help us get to a peace plan of any type. i think he's hard on the 9 may date, which is victory day over nazi germany. he's not making any real gains. the ukrainians are making advanced. we are providing him enormous amount of armorment. it's an attrition fight that he won't win. he's going to hold what he's got. the question to ask if you're putin, how do i get out of this quagmire i'm in. i continue have a real victory. i don't think he can get to odesa, which is the largest part on the black sea.

Declares this a war then the russian legal position changes. so, for example, he can keep the conscripts that are currently serving, whose time is about up. he can keep them in and he can mobilise more reserves, more resources and more of russian industry. but what it would indicate is that this is now a long war, it's not a special military operation. it's something that president putin will cast as an existential fight for russia, to protect all russian—speaking peoples. there was an unexpected visitor to ukraine yesterday. hollywood actress and un special envoy angelina jolie arrived in l...

Increasingly want it bad because they've got 9 may victory day coming. >> the pentagon says it's keeping a close eye on the situation in moldova as explosions rock the break away region of trans nits ya. that republican has see multiple attacks in recent days, raising fears it could drag moldova into the war. the government is saying it's a planned provocation by russian official forces. perhaps it's a strategic distraction to go into moldova, what are your thoughts? >> i believe there is an aspirational aspect of transnistria, moldova where it

Southeast. they have said, you know, phase one is over, achieved all our objectives, which actually they withdrew from, again, the main effort originally which was kyiv, they didn't topple the government, replace president zelenskyy with a pro-russian figure. so now they're putting it all into the southeast. what they'd like to do of course is by 9 may they'd like to have a success so that when they celebrate world war ii victory day they can also say that they have now denazi if i had the southeast part of ukraine, that's all they really wanted to do all along. again, they would love to have ...

Intentions about how he anticipates this war proceeding. >> yes. when he came into syria autumn of 2015, that expeditionary group restored the situation for assad and the syrians. they were six weeks away from being driven into the mediterranean. i think he's coming in to restore the situation and try to carve out or grind out a success first in front of the 9 may victory day events from the end of the second world war, which is a big deal to moscow, big parade. but, yeah, to get order and to get -- yes, come in there, ideally grind out donbas, inflict grievous losses on the ukrainian forces. ...