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American military analysts say those forces are continuing to make advances in eastern europe, but strong resistance from ukrainian troops slowing their progress. according to the "times," russia relied on tanks when it first invaded ukraine in late february, but that strategy failed. the "times" reports military analysts from the institute of the study of war, a washington thinktank, say in their recent assessment on tuesday, quote, russian forces adopted a sounder pattern of operational movement in eastern ukraine, which is allowing them to bring more combat power to bear in their narrower g...

Be some sort of prisoner exchange. what i think we're going to see more focus and potentially a naval effort coming from the sea to cut this off. it's also curious that vladimir putin was lying in discussions with turkey essentially saying he's not attacking, they clearly are. if you look at what's happening in the south, they would burn up troops again just trying to take the remaining areas. what they would like to do is reposition, and they're starting to do this, some of these troops here from mariupol to donetsk. they want to reproduce that combat power and move it north. that brings us h...

Weakening -- to go back to jonathan lemire's great point and lloyd austin's quote -- what is weakening russia is the money and the sanctions. that's longer term. it is less glamorous. it is less visible. but i feel janet yellen and the treasury kind of hovering between those two pillars you see right there. so when i put it together, it's a good week. having said all that happiness, joe, we have to focus on the fact that russia has immense combat power in place. they've been degraded but not destroyed as a military. putin still has options. but it's been a pretty good weekend. >> yeah. i think...

Weapon systems here. the russians have telegraphed what is coming. we are in a quick race of suspicions to get the weapons in the hands of the ukrainians. and there are no better weapons in the world than those of the united states and their nato allies. full stop. and the number, three jonathan, is the diplomatic piece of this. which is going to continue to push back against the russians. when i put it all together, despite the fact that russia still has immense combat power, it is very concentrated in the southeast, you are correct, the flat terrain gives them more of an advantage. i would n...

Creating this land corridor to moldova's breakaway region. what does that mean in reality? where does this put putin strategically here? >> good morning. well, i think that the land corridor, if we can deal with that first, is a longer-term aspiration. and i don't think the russians have the combat power at the moment to be able to achieve that. however, as your correspondent put it so nicely, it is a distraction for the ukrainians and probably designed to fix some of their troops around odesa and kherson so they don't join in the general fight elsewhere. i think we all know what the backgroun...