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And ambassador, for what? for what? >> that's -- don, that's exactly right. what is this for? how can he justify it? as we've said, he looked for a justification to be able to answer the question you just asked, for what. he couldn't find one. he couldn't get one. he talks about de-nazification. and you pointed out the president of ukraine is jewish. there is no rationale. he couldn't even get the ukrainians to give him a rationale. he couldn't provoke them. they were disciplined and didn't fall into the trap. so there is no answer to that question, why. there is no answer. the russian people ...

Civilians seeking shelter from russian bombs in what vladimir putin says is partly a campaign to rid ukraine of a nazi leadership. the absurdity of this claim lost on no one, here heading to the basement of a synagogue. the jewish population of ukraine has suffered terribly over the last few hundred years. it's had programs inflicted on it. it suffered miserably under stalin and, of course, the jews here were murdered en masse by hitler. the a rabbi is a pilgrimage site for thousands of jews. now the streets of its jewish community are almost deserted. the result of putin's so-called de-nazifi...

>> reporter: putin needs it, but he's having real trouble getting it. drive to the last ukrainian position outside the port city, where you can see a mess made of the kremlin's plans. even the z russian propaganda says the de-nazification is charred. occupants captured or dead. their missiles on display. along with their names. further down this road are the rest of the russian tanks. one was left behind. and now farmers, pensioners, bemused locals are picking it over. president model may be newer, but the empire it seeks to restore is long gone. [ speaking foreign language ] he's saying it go...

He's motivated by his own particular ideas, but they're not our ideas. the part we have underestimated and miscalculated is tolerance for risk, because we assumed he thinks like us. he doesn't. but he made three giant mistakes. one, he underestimated the ukrainian fight. i want to underscore what ann said. even if he does, everything he told us he was going to do, eliminate the ukrainian military and de-nazification, then what? he does not have a military to occupy all of ukraine. i don't think he has the ability to cleanse, i hate to use that word, ukraine of all the ukrainian people. so i do...

De-nazification, total surrender by the ukrainians. now the kremlin is saying there could be more limited options if ukraine accepts russian sovereigty over crimea, accepts russian sovereigty over donbas and promises never to join the eu or nato, they would stop the war immediately. the ukrainian government has said it is willing to dismiss and make compromises but it is a far cry from total annihilation and regime change. >> still some conditions the ukrainian government may not be willing to accede to. richard, thanks so much. joe and mika, the convoy we have been looking at for more than ...