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Those forces began weeks ago so it is perfectly possible that, during all those days of diplomacy when the leaders were coming backwards and forwards to moscow in talking bout the window of diplomacy, the ground invasion plans had already been laid. this is not something you can just suddenlyjust like that. there were blood bank stock, field hospitals, pontoon bridges. artillery. the entire russian military doctrine is one of shock and awe law so what they tend to do is they reorganise themselves into what is called the italian tactical groups or tactical battalion groups. of between to, heavi...

>> okay. a lot there. on the convoy, i don't have a lot of additional context here. our assessment is this was largely a resupply convoy. our assessment is still that it remains stalled and is not moving. it's been attacked by ukrainian armed forces with success and they have not come to relief of those in kyiv. i have not and will not get into estimating the length of it and how many vehicles and what kind of vehicles are in it. we don't have that level of detail. on conscripts, we certainly -- we've been talking about this for a while. we certainly have seen that some of the initial battalio...

The use of 31 tactical battalion groups. ukraine says close to 13,000 civilians were evacuated from the areas affected by fighting on saturday. but that, sadly, seven people, including one child, were reportedly killed by russian fire while trying to flee near kyiv. mr. zelenskyy says russia will be held responsible for what it's doing in his country. >> translator: we have to stand firm, and keep on fighting every night and every day we should be fighting for ways to destroy, to harm the enemy, in aught directions. we will achieve and we will reach what's ours so that all the occupiers and al...

Trying to amount a counter offensive campaign. that's why he's asking the united states and nato for advanced weapons. not just the stingers and the javelins and those kinds of weapons. what he wants is long and midrange air defense systems. he wants combat aircraft, the migs. he wants tanks, armored vehicles and counter battery radar. that would assist him in what he sees as an advantage here. there's a stalemate around those cities. it was accurately reported what is taking place in kyiv. he wants to take advantage of this. he knows that the russias have been hit hard what is happening in ky...

Ukraine when he speaks with putin. this comes as there's u.s. intelligence showing that russia could invade ukraine in just a matter of months. now, on top of this, the white house is expected to announce that boycott -- a diplomatic boycott of the beijing olympics in february that would not impact american athletes but certainly two crucial tests for the president going forward. >> appreciate your signs of kicking us us. with me in studio to share their insights julie hirschfeld david and cnn's eva mcken and susan glasser of the "new yorker." these are snapshots. this is part of what's been g...