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Many hundreds of vehicles moving through the country. we've seen many of those convoys parked on the side of the road simply because they ran out of gas. the reason is they were planning for this to move quickly, it hasn't, so they've gotten ahead of their supply lines here. >> jim, obviously they're bracing for a major russian assault in the capital kyiv right now you're in lviv. what is going on where you are? >> well, kyiv is the target, because kyiv is the capital, of course, it's the seat of government. to control kyiv, is, in large part, to control much of the country. u.s. intelligence ...

Said. we have the forces from kyiv, the northern part of russia, and up interest the crimean peninsula, and well-trained forces in crimea. kherson they have entered but according to ukrainian officials have not taken control of. so you are suggesting, jennifer, that the plan is to bring these forces down and really kind of cut off this whole slice of the country here and box it off from the west, take control of that, and move westward. >> what they will do, once they control the east, once the forces meet up and they control that entire line along the river and then fight east, then you expec...

Could he stage an attack? >> well, if he were going to go to kyiv, he would need -- if he wanted to go to kyiv and hold and control kyiv, he would need far more forces than he has deployed right now. he does not have the fire -- he can do a lot of damage. but he is not going to cut off ukraine. he's not going to go to kyiv and try to control kyiv at this point. he would rubble it. he would ruin it. he doesn't want to control it. he wants to convince them that the path forward is through moscow. it would take a large force, an incredibly large force. and this would turn into a nasty fight, as i...

But i think there could be an invasion that is more limited in scope in the donbas region. i do not anticipate that the russians will go to kyiv. that's more than they can -- if they chewed that up, they wouldn't be able to swallow. they don't have the forces to control kyiv. what they want to try to do is to convince kyiv that the path forward for ukraine is through moscow, not through nato. and that's what this deployment is all about. nato has progressed over the course of the last 20-plus years. eastward in the direction of russia. the geography of a nation dictates its politics and that's...

>> this is what happens. i want to look at this wider map of the area. we don't know what putin is going to do. but what is the next level of aggression if he decides to take a much larger piece of ukraine, possibly even kyiv or -- how could he stage an attack? >> well, if he were going to go to kyiv, he would need -- if he wanted to go to kyiv and hold and control kyiv, he would need far more forces than he has deployed right now. he does not have the fire -- he can do a lot of damage. but he is not going to cut off ukraine. he's not going to go to kyiv and try to control kyiv at this point. ...