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Members in the military, really don't have a strong sense of how many young russians are being lost on the fronts, here. this is a conscript army, there are professional soldiers leading the charge, but there are also a lot of young men who have been conscripted, and a lot of where it russian families at home, thinking about what is happening to them. yasmin? >> raf, just thinking, you're always find it fascinating, and you are always watching the local television there, because we tend to learn so much when you're covering the, stories and watching how they portray it. i wonder if vladimir pu...

One of the things in terms of researching my book was covering the military reform that's taken place in russia between 2008 and 2020. russia has professionalised its military, it's battle hardened, it is no longer a conscript army. it is modernised with modern weapons and they're ready also financially. i want to bring you up—to—date with other news from around the world now. an international investigation by reporters into the banking giant, credit suisse, appears to show that its accounts held assets worth billions of dollars on behalf of clients with links to crime. the journalists fou...

Pace. it's interestingly here, at the moscow bureau, we have been watching russian state television, there's a lot on there trying to link the ukrainian government to the cia, to neo-nazis. weather is not as any detailed information that, as an ordinary russian citizen you would want to know. and one gaping hole is that there are no official numbers on how many russians servicemen have been killed in this war so far. the russian army is partly a conscript army, there are a lot of young men who have been just recruited to fight in that army. and they're a lot of worried families here in russia ...

This. >> john: quick, we are running out of time. we have satellite pictures up of the convoy, the 40-mile long convoy, these look like transport vehicles, not combat vehicles. this satellite image they look more like they are probably fuel tanker trucks. why are they bottled up and how soon do you think they could get moving? >> they could get moving at any time. they are going very slowly. they have run out of fuel and in fact, we have reports that some russian soldiers are puncturing their tanks so they run out of fuel, they don't want to move forward. so that's interesting in terms of mora...

That is russia is planning to deploy up to 1,000 more mercenaries into the country and is planning to bombard cities into submission. joining us is john mclaughlin, a former acting director of the cia and now a distinguished practitioner at merrill center of johns hopkins school of advanced international studies. good to see you. so let's start with that influx of mercenaries first. what does it mean for this conflict? who are they? >> well, these are private contractors, although they do have a connection to the government. the use of mercenaries is yet the latest example, i think, that putin...