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Could only get worse from here. ed lavandera live in kyiv, thank you so much. now, all those poor civilians sheltering there. let's speak with cnn military analyst, retired army general spider mark. general, always good to have you on. i've been told to brace for visions of world war ii in the east, large armor formations, artillery, even worst bloodshed, if you can imagine it, than we have seen already here. u.s. military forces saying the russians learned lessons up in north around kyiv, about supply lines, et cetera. do you see that? and do you believe that they might have more success as...

And then pushing with armor formations as quickly as possible. but i would say at the same point, you have the ukrainians launching counteroffensives in other parts of the east as well and i expect this to be a tough fight and one where both sides make incremental advances and get pushed back in different spots in the coming weeks. >> and clint, i'm curious, a senior defense official says they're considering training ukrainians to use the howitzer. how is that going to work? we're talking about real time things are happening right now. how does this occur? >> yeah, so what i would assume, and ...

There, you see luhansk. that's where president zelenskyy was talking last night, essentially the war had kicked off. you're seeing the russians across all of those towns from izyum all the way down to the luhansk region starting to advance in terms of indirect fire. it was almost synchronized indirect fires starting yesterday. they're going to use those massive fires for several reasons. it levels and topples any static defense position. two, it incited fear in the audiences there, the ukrainian populations. and three, it opens up opportunities for them to advance their armor formations across...

Something it has shown throughout this war since the start of the invasion, it can strike, bomb with missiles, with artillery, from the air virtually across the country. that said, we're seeing the bulk of the forces concentrated in the east and the south for what u.s. military officials tell me will be an intensifying campaign over the coming days, a bigger one-and-one, kate, they say will resemble world war ii battles in some sense. large armor formations, artillery and the expectation of greater loss of human life. >> jim, thank you so much. really appreciate it. "out front" for us now, s...

Threat. the major armor formations, we thought the russians would degrade them, they would have to fight in much smaller groups than they are, that's not happening. command and control is in place, they're communicating. internet is functioning. electronic warfare has not been in play. some of these things are really kind of puzzling as to why the russians wouldn't have spent the time at least the first 12, 24, 48 hours to try to achieve these effects and then fight a less capable ukrainian military. they have not, they have paid the cost. some of these reversals are really quite meaningful. t...