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You for being with us. i want to bring into the conversation retired u.s. army colonel jack jacobs, he's a recipient of the medal of honor forest service during the vietnam war. colonel jack, as always, thank you for being with us. only take a minute to respond to what mr. syringe only said there about this actually being interest attack, your thoughts? >> it's easy to conclude that it is. we use that term reckless, i can't think of about a term too used it's absolutely perfect. russian forces are fully trained, but they are poorly trained, the leaders are poorly trained, and they've demonstra...

Information to ukrainians on the ground. in terms of what the russian troop movements look like. and in terms of what the russians next move will be. i think that's going to be very difficult. don't know what communications are like on the ground. and i don't know what communications we have open right now with our sources and assets on the ground. >> colonel jack, if you look at the streets of -- what, 5000 year old city, kyiv? and as vladimir putin's forces try to, as you're just describing, i bifurcate that city, describe to us how difficult it might be? just because this is not a great typ...

And the world. joined now by colonel jack jacobs, msnbc military analyst. colonel jack, this is enough for a one hour program, but i want to start with this, we just got a satellite picture over the weekend. today seeing more forces, russian forces, now closing in to kyiv and the areas that at the moment have been unable to take and or hold. what do you make of this satellite image that we have recently received? >> there's a lot of analysis that the russians thought it would be a lot easier than it turned out to be. they were right. there is no doubt about the fact that armored vehicles are g...

Principal objective. and that is to take kyiv and install a puppet government in kyiv. even if he does that however, he then has the problem of trying to find a guerrilla war inside of the rest of ukraine. this is not going exactly the way that putin had promised. was promised. and it is likely to be long and drawn out. we've said many times earlier, and it is a cliché but it is worth remembering, this looks more like a marathon than it does a sprint richard. >> all right, colonel jack jacobs, thank you so much, have a very good morning, appreciated as always. we are going to be right back wi...

Ago. so, he's been emboldened to carry on. now, late in the game, everybody is going to try to get some equipment to ukraine, but it's good to be extremely difficult. especially if the russians then chopped the country in half by joining up forces coming from belarus in the north, and up from crimea in the south. if they link up, is going to be very difficult to get any kind of weapons or equipment to ukrainians, richard. >> tracy, as you look at that timing what colonel jack was just saying, why no are we getting these headlines coming out of other eu countries? is it about an intelligence is...