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Probably heard this news that there is a russian convoy about 40. miles long. and it is making its way and approaching the capital of kyiv. >> i'm getting ready and my resistance crew is getting ready for that. there has been six days when we realize that every night could end up badly for the city and could end up badly for us. so right now, it is just, wearing it in. our army is ready and to be able to push them back. and we understand that the stakes will be raised more and more again. the sanctions have started working. putin will need to show to his citizens, for why did this war even sta...

Doesn't yet. i think nato is still going to stay on the sidelines of this, precisely because they don't want a direct military confrontation with russia. the thing that everybody has been trying assiduously to avoid. but what happens, for example, if vladimir putin uses chemical weapons in kyiv or in mariupol. we have seen him and his allies in syria do the same. they're clearly preparing something, because they have been making a lot of noise at the u.n. and in the media that kremlin-controlled media that the ukrainians are -- have all these biological, chemical weapons, and that they're goin...

Horrible humanitarian catastrophe in syria and joined by african refugees fleeing the persecution and hardship in africa and the hardship there. all of these refugees ended up fleeing, taking boats across the ocean to greece and turkey and coming up into northern europe and at that point, angela merkel although she was under pressure not to do so opened the doors in germany. there was a lot of xenophobia and racism and the comparison is the ukrainians going over the border into poland were welcomed with open arms. why? because ethnically, they look similar, their languages are similar, they're...

And about. >> yeah. we have to put this in perspective. if there is urban combat, and if the russians want to take kyiv, it will be the largest urban combat in history. three times the size of aleppo. three times the size of stalingrad. the russians are going to have to take 350 square miles of territory. question is do they have the troops, do they have the capability, do they have the skill to do that? but it would be huge. >> and what -- the resistance that they're facing is stiff. do you doubt they can do that? >> it is up to a number of factors. number one, will president zelenskyy allow ...

Have these prime ministers of three nato countries, poland, the czech republic, and slovenia, and they're going to kyiv, they're going, susan, into a war zone, to meet with president zelenskyy. >> it is pretty remarkable. this is, again, talk about off the script, this is a dramatic moment of eastern european solidarity against putin and, remember, that's exactly the reason why many of these countries decided to join -- wanted to join nato in the first place, a long, long history and memory of russian aggression in the neighborhood. and just to the point about putin and nato and the meeting ri...