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>> right, well what the russians are going to do is go into these population centers, take them, force the mayors to capitulate to save human lives, sort of what happened, and then tell local ukrainians who are affiliated with the russian parties or otherwise sympathetic to russia and put them in charge, leave security forces behind and move on and the ukrainians of course, fight with territorial defense forces, use the police to help you, and then stay global. we don't want to see the ukrainian forces east of the big river, fighting against the donbas area, we don't want to see them caught in...

When part of a downed missile hit that building. russia continues to deny it is targeting civilians. kyiv's mayor having none of that. >> they destroyed -- they killed children, women, civilians. for what reason? >> putin says he's only targeting military targets. [ bleep ]. sorry. where is military target? this building is not a military target. >> the mayor's brother, flood mere klitschko, will join us soon. for the first time president biden calling vladimir putin war criminal. much of the small city lies in ruins, destroyed by russian strikes. here's what this residential area and a chur...

Here but there are so many different fronts in the war right now. do you think russia is being effective in their strategy, as you said, whatever just happened to lutsk, that you didn't see a strategy, it didn't make sense to you, there's a difference between power and effectiveness when it comes to military, right? >> no, you're absolutely right, don. and one of the principles of war, i hate to get geeky on you, but one of the principles of war is mass. you have to put the mass of your force on specific targets. and what has confused me from the very beginning, right now russia has four lines...

Children. and we have here where i am now, four families, all of us settled from the donbas area. and this house is where i am now is where my wife have to be ever created. i have here good children, and we will not leave kyiv, stay here until the end. >> serhiy, thank you so much, so much for speaking to me. and for sharing this such deeply personal loss. thank you. >> thank you. >> you know, i think it's so interesting that he says that image, because it's hard to watch, he says that image is important to be seen because need to know what's going on. he talks about these kids being normal, c...

Make sure that you have forces that can come up this way or this way and either cut off the russians by doing something like this or in a very dramatic move, potentially something like this. the other thing they would have to do is of course get rid of russian forces that are threatening them in this area. this is potentially tough. if you have the right kind of weapons, motivation, it's possible to do something like this. that's what the ukrainians are banking on. . >> they are high on motivation. we were speaking with one gentleman in kyiv. certainly morale is very high. cedric, thank you so...