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move that could change the trajectory of the war. let's bring in retired four-star general jack keane. he's chairman of the institute for the study of war and a fox news senior strategic analyst. general keane, welcome. so let's, we've got a year into the war. what lessons have we learned, and what to do they tell us about what comes next? >> well, certainly we all welcome success that ukraine has had, and i think the center of gravity for that success has been the iron will of its soldiers and its people. and certainly the u.s.-led western coalition has been providing all the arms a...

protection to defy those orders and went in. that's according to two senior federal law enforcement officials. but by that point, it had been so long, some of the families say their wounded kids bled out. leaving them forever asking the question, what if they went in sooner? was there still time? the chief was supposed to be sworn in to the city council today a. position he was just elected to hold. uvalde's mayor says he is free to assume his position on the council but that the ceremony to welcome him is postponed. joining me is nbc news koempt liz mclaughlin and nbc news' tom wint...

That will strengthen the united states and the europeans and democracies writ large and also give us, i think, encouragement to stand up against china's aggression in the indo-pacific region. that's what they see. but it will not be militarily deicive on the battlefield -- decisive on the battlefield, in our view. a. paul: all right. so given more weapons, especially long-range weapons, and they have a chance to push russia even out of crimea, very briefly, general. >> yeah, absolutely. they have the equipment, they have the will to be able to do that. the russians are weak. once we break thro...

Of artillery and they seem to be willing to take enormous casualties. so this is now a destructive war that is going mile by mile, village by village, with russian forces bombing a location. then advancing a mile or two, if they can. moving up their artillery. then firing onto the next position and with this step-by-step approach, walking their artillery forward, they have been able to squeeze a lot of the donbas and they're moving heavily out to thecy of severeodonetsk. they've taken half of the city. it is believed about 12,000 people are still trapped in the city. so if russia is able to ca...

Obviously trying to do this with a, comparatively in warfare, a light touch, which is to use relatively light forces to rush into key cities in ukraine, assuming, ithink, that they would be at least kind of welcomed or at least that the population stayed indoors and would accept what is happening and they are now faced with the dilemma of how rough are they going to be? the russians have shown elsewhere, certainly in chechnya and in syria, that they are prepared to be completely and utterly ruthless and brutal and target civilian areas and what they are facing now is the question of do they br...