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Increasingly frustrated by his military struggles in ukraine and he may see his only option is doubling down on violence and brutality. that's according to what current and former u.s. officials briefed on the matter have told nbc news. as russian troops try to approach kyiv, russia's shelling of ukraine's second largest city, kharkiv, continues. ukrainian officials say this explosion at a government building killed at least ten people. russia has attacked nearly every region in ukraine. a senior pentagon official says they have fired more than 400 missiles in the last week and as attacks cont...

People with anti-tank weapons of all kinds. pow, pow. they have got a defense in depth. if putin gets to kyiv, he will have to go street to street. remember the battle of stalingrad? he'll have to fight for every street in kyiv. for the russians, it's a prospect of continuing war. even if they think they've secured it, they don't have an occupation army that is close to big enough. in essence, they need three times the forces they've got there now if they're going to try to occupy the country. in a sense, the problems just get worse for putin if you draw this out. it is one reason to be carefu...

>> just like mika said, she saw people that reminded her of her eastern european mother. a russian soldier, is she going to lift a gun and shoot a grandmother who looks like his grand mother? it is different, david ignatius. >> this is the dilemma for putin. clint's map shows so clearly this desire that they have to carve out a new empire, the russian lands. the problem is that the people who live in those lands, certainly in ukraine, hate them. they will fight them. they're fighting them every day. every hour, as katty's video shows. the tank rolls through, and they get out in the streets. th...