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In molitapol. if they could continue to cause problems, i don't know how they build up enough combat power to extend to the west. >> clint watts, thank you very much. greatly appreciate it. and richard haass, it does appear that ukrainians are making advances in the don bass region and doing well in other areas. still, it is a brutal war of attrition right now. i'm curious, your thoughts on what president zelenskyy said this past weekend that the only way this war is going to end is through diplomacy and a grand victory on the battlefield. >> well i think that is right. but the battlefield, as...

This area north and west. they would like to try and link up and surround donetsk, that is the town where you hear about the intense battles going on right now and that is the lead in to our discussions today. but these encirclements are much shawler and every day the ukrainians are pushing forward and the m-777 making its way out on to the battlefield. that will be a game-changer for the ukrainian military. and the thing to watch is here in the south. over the weekend several pro-russian ukrainian politicians were installed as leaders for two regions. the two regions to watch for is this. the...

And unite it over time and may not be able to do it. the ukrainians heard the story before. when vladimir putin says let's stop and negotiate that's pausing to rebuilt and never stayed true. the ukrainians believe they need to advance back to the territory that was once theirs. >> where's the point on the russian side and if vladimir putin said to the commanders i need to declare victory and go home whaesz the best way in the east? >> in the east provinces. rather than going for kyiv and surround the country, if russia had poured into this region he would have had it in two to three days. all ...

Pretty much all they have got. we assess they are probably down to about 80 now and that is including the forces that got hit quite hard and were redeployed and had to constitute from different ones. they are pretty much in terms of the combat power on the ground, they are pretty committed now. they have not got a lot left. in terms of actual capability, missiles and that sort of stuff, a lot of talk about air strikes, but a lot of those are actually long—range ballistic missiles. they must be getting reasonably short of those. they are using some very strange weapons in very strange ways. a...

To claim any part of ukraine? >> i think he's run out of ideas. it's an astonishing strategic failure. the whole notion of him increasingly micromanaging the battlefield from moscow is astonishing. you know, mika, generals can lose wars but they can't win them. they're won at the combined arms, joint action, the integration of electronic warfare and artillery. and that kind of problem can be fixed is going to take the russians years. their logistics system doesn't work. generals are not going to fix that overnight. they're rail dependent. they can't distribute their ammunition and fuel across ...