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"the atlantic" anne a applebaum >> i what's your take away? >> it's a remarkable turn of events. the ukraines managed to achieve near total operational security, achieved a strategic surprise on thinned out russian forces, and it looks as if many of these russian tactical units have literally come apart are fleeing in chaos, leaving behind masses of equipment, prisoners, ammunition, just astonishing. most of this is the courage and tenacity of the ukrainian fighting units, but it also reflects $17 billion worth of security support to the ukrainians, and more than a decade, i might add, of trai...

Age are not allowed to leave the country. the president has invited people back. you and i have both run into people in kyiv or lviv who had come from other countries to fight. they maybe have ukrainian heritage, some more canadians or americans why would anyone join the azov battalion as opposed to the open invitation to join the ukrainian military or national guard? >> that is a very good question. a clear answer is that this is one of the most at the fighting units in ukraine right now. they are considered to many ukrainians heroes especially because of what their special forces units are d...

They hit a command post. the whole idea here is regardless of what is taking place on the ground, russia has this ability to degrade the support networks that are keeping ukrainian soldier's morality up. >> are there any indications it's hurting their morality? >> the ukrainians don't say that. what the ukrainians are not admitting this is having an impact, but it's very difficult to see how it wouldn't at some point in some way be impacting the way the ukrainians are at the very least responding to this. they have to be anything about how they resupply their fighting units, how they get fuel ...

>> that is remarkable. so you're surprised, general, at the fact that they've been able to establish these reply lines. why surprised? is it because everybody is coming together bringing these supplies? the safety of getting these supplies across the border into ukraine? why does it surprise you? >> look, largely this is always a year process with bureaucracy, permitting, and diplomatic permission to bring them into poland and move them across borders. it happened in a matter of weeks. a remarkable outcome with a scratch team, with other nations, that didn't take months of political wrangling ...

Units trying to get into kyiv, they don't look very good. part of it may well be a lack of morale. i don't believe some of the stories coming out. they said one of the parent troop commanders trying to seize the airport thought he was on a training exercise, didn't know he was in ukraine. i don't believe that. by the way, i'd be skeptical of that 5500 dead russians, too. that would imply 35,000 casualties. there hadn't been that level of ground combat yet. there will be if they plunge into kyiv. so i think the russians got a problem. their command and control looks like it must have been come ...