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Representative for ukraine and former u.s. ambassador to nato. we hope it was a slip of the tongue by the president, saying you will see that. >> i think the key thing the president needs to be doing for the troops is to convey their mission, like this is important to the united states, ukraine's survival is important, protecting nato is important, those are the key messages. >> john: i wanted to start off with this is the pier and this is the russian warship hit by ukrainian missiles yesterday. we saw the footage of it on fire, and here you see the ship there, then another one that was hit ov...

Can no longer get into the port, this is a beach in here, so the only way that you can bring supplies in would be through mariupol, and that's a real hot bed of conflict going on, not sure you want to bring anything in there. i mean, they could resupply through over here, but then up into this area, that's a long trek. where are they here in terms of resupplying forces in the south? >> logistics are a nightmare for russia and the russian military has never really cared much about logistics and sustainment and support. they are not like the u.s. or nato that has great options with airborne and ...

A very hard fight for the russians, and there's also going to be a tough fight in the donbas area, so the focus is going to be on the far east of the country and the south right now. if they're successful there, they may then turn their attention again to kyiv and other cities further west. >> a retreat, not really. a pushback. and new comments today from pope francis on the war. the pope on a trip to malta implicitly criticizing vladimir putin for the first time. saying he's considering also a trip to ukraine, to the war zone. nbc's claudio lo vango was on that plane. what did he tell you? >>...

Recognized that they made some pretty egregious strategic errors, not to mention just the tactical errors when they came in originally they split their forces in four different directions, basically making sure they didn't have enough to succeed anywhere. they've now recognized that . and now that they see that the best chance they have tactically is to potentially surround a pocket of up to 40000 ukrainian soldiers opposite the donbas area. so that has been probably the highlight of the last two weeks for the russian military as they basically put a freeze on all the other areas for the most ...

Are leaving some of these areas, frankly they're retreating from some of these areas, right, around kyiv specifically, the northwest axes going into the city. the russian troops have been moving up into russia, belarus, and the belief is that they're sort of refitting, they are restructuring, getting their act back together for what is believed to be another large offensive in the coming days or more likely in the coming weeks. they're more likely to move in from the east down towards donbas area. and why that is so significant, chuck, is that the problems that the rugs have been plagued with,...