Page 3 - Control Kyiv News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Entire part of the region in order to have control over this incredibly strategically important area. and yet at the same time, they are still struggling up in the north around kyiv. we are hearing that they are still trying to encircle kyiv from the north and really struggling with that. do you think that that is still a military priority for russia, and will they be able to actually achieve it? >> abby, it is a military priority, yes. it's the capital city. if putin cannot control kyiv, he's not going to be able to control ukraine. frankly, if he controls kyiv, i still doubt he's going to be...

Know, that'll change the dynamics at home in mother russia, too. >> it really is, willie, i think it is hard for us to get our arms around what a disaster this has been militarily for the russians. you look at those numbers. you can actually look at it this way, too. twice as many russians have died in three weeks than american troops died in combat in iraq and afghanistan combined. >> again, the hubris of vladimir putin thinking he was going to make a decision, roll in there, go through mariupol, control kyiv in a couple of weeks, and now he is being pushed back out of kyiv now, less than a m...