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Organizational issues, supply issues with their military. they've known that for a long time and have never been able to fix it. i would just say one other thing. segueing from the conversation you were just having. getting ready today to hear president biden speak to congress. speak to america. speak to the world. meanwhile, here in russia, what we're seeing is president putin clamped down on people's ability to hear what's really happening in ukraine. so radio echo moscow has been taken off air. you can hear it online, but you can't hear it broadcasting. the russian wikipedia page says it's ...

Alternative to the official narrative. a few independent russian media outlets who are still operating have been banned from referring to what's going on in ukraine as a war, as an invasion, as an attack. as you mentioned, echo moscow, one of the really prominent independent radio station, was taken off the air at the kremlin's orders and has shut itself down. so that is permanent damage to what's left of the independent ecosystem in this country. another popular radio station splits its time 50/50 between music and the news. one of the anchors went on the air yesterday and said we're going to...

Missiles hitting residential district, snow coverage of russian casualties, but the ongoing protests taking place inside of russia. in fact, yesterday, the last independent radio station, echo moscow, was shut down. the last independent ev station, tv rain, broadcasters final news. this warning, russian block sites like radio free europe, voice of america, and of course, the bbc. all while the russian bbc language, new site alone, reaching 10. 5 million people alone. more than triple its usual average. today, they went even further, blocking access to both facebook, and twitter. the russian du...

Least seven interviews with russian speaking out lets on the independent media spectrum here. echo moscow radio one of them. closed down. another station closed down here tv rain closed down this week. i entr viewed an anchor a few weeks ago. she was telling me how worried they were. they were living under the spectrum of being shut down any minute. that has happened now. what the independent stations trying to do and take off the official air waves and now hoping to pop up on the internet and places of young people i spoke to here said they'll look for the independent out lets on other intern...

Some protests and the russian president cracking down on those protests. but how far can he go in terms of russia and russians putting up with some of the things we've seen? >> you've just returned. you're a veteran of being there. you have seen the past crackdowns. "a," anything like this? "the new york times" is out, cnn is not broadcasting there. that's a symptom of the larger issue, the putin crackdown within russia for the russian people. what was your sense, is this different? is putin still fully in command? >> it is completely under -- i shouldn't say it -- the russian media, state-con...