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>> very good to be with you. >> thank you. coming up for us, children in need of life-saving surgeries and treatment now forced to hunker down in basements. their parents, their doctors desperate to keep them safe from putin's war. we'll take you inside ukraine's largest children's hospital next.
Anyone how difficult it is and how long it takes to prosecute and hold accountable anyone who has committed war crimes. with these crimes happening now, these potential crimes happening now in realtime, how do you think putin can be stopped before more of these atrocities are committed? >> well, i mean, obviously, it's difficult when somebody is all in, committing criminal acts to stop them. we hope to deter them from making it worse, and certainly send a message to others, but clearly, the fact that the icc is now opened this investigation with the referral of 49 icc states, including the uni...
Experiencing right now. they don't deserve what they're getting and we need to show as a world that we're united behind them. >> there has been a wave of u.s. companies that are cutting ties with russia over this war from boeing to exxon to harley davidson, a whole graphic on the screen of how many companies. do you want to see more american companies move in this direction, cut ties, take a stand? >> yeah, it's not what i want to see. i think we see more american companies cut ties and more worldwide companies cut ties with russia. nobody can understand what russia's doing, what putin's doing...
Be? >> i think it's a significant tactical setback. their timetable and you could look at those tracks in the soft ground beside the road there as vehicles have tried to maneuver around the stalled column. you can see that this is farmed land, it's not frozen. it's soft. this is a real obstacle. this is what held up the russian attack on kyiv. it is very significant. and i suspect at this point, some of these vehicles are out of fuel or maybe inoperative. the people driving them have gone away. it's a real mess and it's really set back putin's timetable. >> interesting. general, thank you for ...
So it is a threat that if something really went wrong with putin's operation and he had to give up on it, angry, maybe blows up the plant and causes the nuclear problem, it is just a fact that there are other nuclear reactors in ukraine. they're all the same and ukrainian military has to decide whether to defend him, maybe the united nations could come in to declare some kind of a protected zone if the russians were left to do that, maybe there's a way to handle this in a stable way but until that time, you have to recognize this is a risk and it's just part of the risk that's ongoing conflict...