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Russians will want to pivot. they'll want to move their forces from mariupol to the north, towards the donbas area, and specifically to the ukrainian army elements that are facing them in that part of the donbas. so, what they could be doing is they could move those forces from the south into the center part of the country, to join with forces that they have coming from the north and the northeast. so that would be the goal on paper, whether or not they can actually do that. of course, is another question. >> so much of what we will learn about what happened won't be learned immediately, right...

Cnn of course but were you nervous about being there? were you in fear of their safety and security there? >> we know there is a risk. we know we were in a war zone when you're driving around in kyiv, you would see you're in the war zone but you can also see the individuals, the ukrainians would prepare to defend themselves and in fact, the russians couldn't succeed to take over kyiv. and so now that's one of the things we talked about, that there is a war that is going to a different stage and different types of weapons that they need and that's part of what this $33 billion is so that as it ...

This new drone. >> we know it's a big mystery right now. this phoenix ghost drone is believed to be in some ways similar to the switchblade drone which we've talked about before. this is small, it can be carried in a backpack, troops can launch it in a minutes notice. it doesn't go that far, it doesn't hang in the air that long and doesn't move that fast but it can be used to drive down upon a target, a tank, anything they want to, an artillery position and blow it up and they have been used with great effectiveness. so what is different about the phoenix ghost? the pentagon says it requires s...

Continue to face morale problems. this offensive, it's begun now self-weeks ago, but the russians till have not moved far out of izium into the donbas area. >> so andrea, you have an update on the diplomatic picture and how russia may be consolidating what they have. the u.s. ambassador said russia wants to hold mock votes in areas they control in ukraine. >> including the osce, where i work as ambassador, has been very clear that such referendum, fabricated votes, will not be considered legitimate, nor will any attempts to annex additional ukrainian territory. but we have to act, we have to a...

>> you're probably going to see a couple of things happen on the political and military front. they are going to try to achieve goals in the donbas, but their ukrainian forces have been excellent in terms of repelling all of the attacks there. you may also see the political ploy of designated kherson blasts as another republic that has voted on its own to separate from ukraine. that will be a false vote just like it was in donetsk and luhansk, but it will allow separatists to say we control this province as opposed to ukraine. so what i would be watching closely is the movement in the south in...