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Scraping the barrel here to get forces in from georgia and also from eastern russia. and i think they'll be challenged to bring in effective combat units. after all, the first units that arrived in ukraine were supposed to be there very -- arthel: the best of the best, yeah. >> -- and they've been pushed back. right. here's zelenskyy's issue, he's got an opportunity here and listen when he says he wants victory, he's got to martial his forces and reorient them and, certainly, drive these forces out of the country. that is what he wants. and anybody that starts to underestimate certificate end ...

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0 official, i asked him if president putin is directing this himself. and he said yes, that is how it is going. that is not surprising. we know that president putin makes all of the decisions. in the end, he will have had advice from that small clique around him, that ultimately he is the decision-maker. and another element of his televised address, which to reiterate, if russians will be stunned by. waking up and seeing now, another man from that televised address, which is chilling frankly. is that president putin requires russian's nuclear capability. and clearly, openly threatens western l...

Cnn's nic robertson joins us from moscow this morning. nic, good morning. why would troops leave now after ratcheting up tensions were ukraine? >> reporter: well, russia's perspective on this is that all of those troops are not there to ratchet up tensions with ukraine. they've been there for regular routine military exercises on russia's territory, which they say is their prerogative, and is not designed to send, you know, a threatening message to ukraine. so what russia is saying right now is 10,000 of those estimated 70 to 100,000 troops have now done their military exercises, have trained ...

Estimated to be between 70,000 to 100,000 troops relatively close to the borders of ukraine within russia, this reduction of 10,000 includes motorized infantry units, combat units, special forces units, all returned as you say to their normal long-term bases. so, you know, in the context of these talks coming into line now and seeming to be established in terms of this apparent reduction, the white house doesn't confirm that it can see 10,000 troops have gone back to bases, this does seem to meet what russia has been really requesting in a very urgent manner to have its needs for its national ...