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Scale back operations around kyiv, the capital. also they are using longer range weapons for artillery, perhaps to reduce the high level of russian casualties so far and of course, a third change could be in russia's arsenal, they could decide to escalate, using either a chemical weapons attack or even a tactical nuclear weapon. >> if russia is pushed to the point where the campaign becomes extremely disastrous and unable to achieve the goal of fully demilitarizing ukraine, a hub for nato forces sees as a critical goal, which is -- which there is clear indication it is not willing to abandon, ...

On a negotiating table with the ukrainians. the russians will not want to give that up at all and i imagine zelenskyy will want them to give ut up. >> john: one other point general in the minute that we have left. when we look at the overall ping tur. so, we have weapons that are flowing in here from nato countries into ukraine. we have russia under pressure here in the kyiv area. they have not been able to surround kharkiv. even here in sumy, they have not been able to surround it. how much longer can putin's forces hang in before they say you know what, this is not going anywhere, let's thro...

There, they have been trying to reconstitute their forces because of the sheer losses in terms of people and the combat equipment and bring some other forces in, and the ukrainians have seized the moment, and that's when they began to take back some of the towns, and the town they just took back in irpin the last 24 hours is pretty significant. and also they withstood an attack in the vicinity of brovary in the last 24 hours. and the russians are doing the right thing from their perspective. they have to get the damaged units out of there, some are not combat effective and get replacements and...

>> negotiations between russia and ukraine ending in turkey today. russian delegates saying the negotiations will conclude this round of talks. and russia announcing it will fundamentally reduce the military activity around kyiv and the chernihiv direction. the key word here is reduce. this is a deescalation, not a ceasefire. we have continued to see attacks in city after city today here in ukraine and the ukrainian government says as many as 60 religious buildings have been destroyed inhe last month, and up to 700 educational buildings. these are colleges, these are elementary schools, now tu...

And violence in burma following last year's military coupe. reversed a decade of economic progress for the people of burma. singapore and the united states agree that the military regime must urgently implement the five point consensus and return burma to its path of democratic transition. we also discussed the war in ukraine. last week in europe the world saw the strong unified response and resolve among the nato alliance, g7 and the european union. today with the prime minister's visit and singapore's strong leadership it's clear putin's war is unacceptable in every