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End. >> neil: so this idea that the russian soldiers are sort of being moved around towards western ukraine, other points, is it just to confuse ukrainians, to confuse us? >> in western ukraine, there was a couple of attacks on air fields. they haven't seen much activity in that part of the country. by and large in terms of ground forces, they're all located in the eastern half of the country in the south coming infrom crimea. we assess that they have made progress in getting closer to kyiv. some of those advance elements by the airport to the northwest of the city did move a little further do...

Significant increase in the numbers of atatacks and the typs of weapons being used in kharkiv especially. and then we had these two strikes against air fields in the west of the country, not that far from where you are, which clearly indicate as you were saying in the intro there, a possibility or i think frankly a certainty that the russians are trying to interrupt the ability of the ukrainians to resupply, firstly, and secondly it use air fields for military purposes, a lot of their air force, the ukrainian air force, amazingly, is still able to fly and still involved in combat against the r...

To send a signal not to send the mig 29s. that would be in air fields where they would fly from the western part of ukraine. the u.s. is working to get more air defense systems on the ground. russia is flying an average of 200 air sortees per day but most of those are not in to ukrainian airspace where they could be shot down. here's what the dia told the senate intelligence committee. >> weapons like stingers have been moved in and used with effect. the ukrainians will continue to use those in small tactics with great effect. certainly additional assets and resources with uavs and aircraft i'...

For us, live there in lviv. let's begin with eye on your null and ana recipient, jack jacobs. he's an msnbc analyst. also with us, general ben capri. he's also an msnbc national security commentator. evening to both of you. gentlemen, let's start with this. ali, reporting for us, last three nights, aerates going off. what does this tell us about potentially, with the russian forces are thinking in dealing with lviv, so far east? >> apparently the war has widened. the center of gravity is still the capital city of kyiv. people are still there. it will be the primary objective. the russians are ...

I worry about a miscalculation or misjudgment on both sides. i am glad we set up a technical channel. second, he also said that he is going to go against supply lines and it is clear that supply lines providing nato equipment into ukraine goes through the west, especially their air fields. so they're reaching out, trying to cut off the supply lines of the ukrainians the way that we are trying to, or the ukrainians are trying to cut off russian supply lines going into russia and belarus. >> all right. general mark kim i will, thank you for the insights. we appreciate it. sure. >> coming up, a...