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With tehran. russian troops continue to struggle as they attempt to capture ukraine and big cities there. so now they are looking for some help. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon tonight with the latest. good evening, jennifer. >> good evening, bret. pentagon press secretary john kirby confirmed reports the russians are recruiting syrian fighters experienced in urban warfare to help them in ukraine the end quition of the setback russian troops many con scripts are facing. >> they are having morale problems. it is not clear to us that all of the soldiers t...

They were told the nazis had taken over the government. is there's been dis-mays among the younger con scripts. they have called home to their parents. some of the phone calls have been intercepted. that's why the pentagon has said that they have some indications that morale is flagging. the russians themselves have admit they have taken serious losses. that doesn't mean that they're inflicting huge damage and losses and now as benjamin reported, they're using that artillery and long range fire that is not accurate and firing into city centers where there's civilians cowhering for their lives ...

Setting a no fly zone. u.s. officials confirmed the administration is looking at ways to back fill and provide f-16s to poland so that the poles can fulfill a request from president zelensky or the dozens of mig 29 fighter jets that ukrainian pilots know how to fly. no decision has been made yesterday adding that president zelensky still has most of his fixed wing aircraft intact. most of their air defenses have not been destroyed by russia. neil? >> jennifer, there's been some confusion about these russian soldiers that are in ukraine now. they're all exclusively russian soldiers or that some...

Ukraine is currently winning. listen to general jack keane. >> i don't like saying this. the facts are we don't want putin to lose. we don't want putin to lose becauser with afraid if he loses there will be a provocative action on his part. it explains why we're not all in on helping zelensky with win who is begging for that help. >> the only new revelation today is the administration declassified intelligence showing that putin did not know if he's thinking of losing conscripts in ukraine. the belief that putin is being misinformed about his advisers by about how badly the military is closing...

Kirby just wrapped up. he said russia sent 1,000 mercenaries to the donbas region to fight the ukrainian forces. a past acknowledgement how poor his forces have done in ukraine. >> a couple of things. they have used contractors in the donbas the last eight years. this is an area where the wagner group is experienced. the point is that it's just another example of how mr. putin is going to throw more energy in to trying to occupy the donbas. >> nato estimates russia has lost up to 15,000 soldiers in five weeks of war. that's how many the soviets lost in afghanistan over a decade during the 80s....