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Facing shortages of food and fuel and that the russians are looking to re-group before a major offensive on that city. kyiv is home to nearly 3 million people. the pentagon also adds they have indications that some russian troops weren't even told they would be in combat. the prospect of an escalation of a war is leading to a rapidly growing flow of refugees out of ukraine. and thousands packed into kyiv's train station hoping to get to western ukraine and many from central europe. at this critical moment with thousands displaced, the russians potentially on the verge of unleashing more devast...

The northwest of the city earlier on today. >> right within the past few hours there has been a ferocious battle here on the outskirts of kyiv. this is the frontline, the battle for the ukrainian capital. the russian column that has come down here has been absolutely hammered. trucks and armored vehicles reduced to twisted metal, as ukrainian forces dig in, catching the kremlin and its invasion force off guard. >> look at this. i mean, what kind of munitions does it take to do that to a car, to a vehicle? i know i've been speaking to the local ukrainian commanders here. they've been saying tha...

The globe will be astonishing and the collateral damage to the infrastructure of kyiv will be enormous and the loss of civilian life will be devastating. so putin's got a real problem. he's got an incompetent military going on. they're going to be firing -- not 25 or 100. so he's on the verge on further sticking himself into a perric victory in ukraine. >> general, what is the sort of nuanced analysis of the ukrainian soldier? i mean, i understand the fuel shortages and those seem like failures in planning, but there also seems to, and have been reports, that those soldiers that we've been cov...

They were going to ukraine for training, they were going to the border for training exercises. pentagon official said this morning that part of the reason why this russian convoy that we've heard so much about, these three access lines that they have going into kyiv and kharkiv and even in the maripol where russian marines did an amphibious landing, they did so, and they still haven't reached maripol, which has given the ukrainian military time to set up for defending that city. but there's been -- the pentagon officials have been surprised at russian troops who have not surrendered but laid d...

They do know at the end of the day the russian military does outpower the ukrainian forces that are fighting there. i think that's the concern they're paying attention to. you are seeing the united states and other countries still agree to send security assistance, military assistance to ukraine. but it's getting a lot harder to get that assistance there. just in january and in december, we were seeing it being flown directly into the airport, into kyiv. and now of course it's a lot more difficult for them to be able to get that to these ukrainians who obviously so desperately need it. >> is p...