polonium into his tea. the british investigators found reasonable doubt on evident that two agents of the russian security services poisoned him. reporter: putin s regime has denied involvement in the poisoning. one analyst said the apparent killing of prigozhin could put a target on putin s back. unlike other people that he s killed, this man is tied to other people on the elites, people who might be nervous. and i think generally there is a sense that putin is not in as purchase control as he used to be of events. reporter: despite potential new vulnerability in the way of prigozhin s presumed death, analysts evelyn farcus said there are ways that vladimir putin could manage to survive. doing things that he s very good at. he could spread money around to buy off his potentialen enemiesr divide them so they could not coming to to take him out. he s been very good at that. brian tord reporting. thank you very much. coming up, do any of the
potentially security measures, too, in terms of we re seeing these nato security forces and new weaponry there. what are things that could prevent putin from moving ahead. you know, andrea, evelyn farcus who served the obama administration said we have to make good on our promise to punish russia or they and other countries are not going to take us seriously moving forward. how muss is the biden team discussing this as a factor while they re discussing possible sanctions against russia? . i think that s the key factor. one of the key things in zelensky s speech was the world appeasement. this is pattern we ve seen with president putin going back to 2018, the attack on our election in 2016. his point is that the pushback
specific emphasis placed on the city of karkyiv. we watched a penetration on the east, on the northwest and it s a, do we have a demonstration going on in the east? that s a question mark. the fact it s a large population center. the fact it s a industrial focal point. the fact that it s relatively close to the border, all this makes the seizing of the city a relatively, a relatively easy military event. and again, once done, could be a pause before the russian army embarks upon a further penetration into the country. major general, evelyn, and nic robertson, thank you.
carefully. still warning americans to get out of ukraine and the pentagon will have some military st decisions to make. they are still flying manned reconnaissance flights over ukraine with pilots in the cockpit and if we are on the cusp of russian military action including the possibility of missions being fired, they will stop those flights very fast and make sure there are no u.s. pilots in danger. barbara starr, thank you very much for all of that reporting. with us now to discuss, we have cnn international diplomatic editor live in moscow. retired major general paul eaton and evelyn farcus. general, i want to start with you because as barbara just reported, they believe they re as ready as they can be. there s this new intel warning to ukraine that a large scale
situation dire. mariupol is probably the best example of that. hundreds of thousands of people have been trapped for several weeks. while there s been a trickle of people managing to get out of that city in private vehicles, that is very much a drop in the bucket. president zelenskyy says that yesterday humanitarian corridors simply did not work. there were some people as i mentioned who got out of mariupol, but through unofficial routes and even those, parts of the convoys there were actually hit by russian shelling. scott mclean live in lviv, thank you for the important reporting. let s get insights from the former deputy assistant secretary of defense, evelyn farcus. let s start with the point scott mclean was just making there. and nick paton walsh before him. two things can be true at once. we re seeing russian army incompetence. russian army logistic problems. russian army advance problems and also the very same time, what you might celebrate that if you re on ukraine s side