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Manifestation of a lack of leadership and lack of understanding of what warfare really means. >> ambassador taylor, let's follow up. even pro russian military bloggers are slamming the incompetence of this loss. what does this do to russian morale? >> just as general marks said, it's a big blow to the military. it's a big blow to putin and his folks are watching the decisions he's making and they're losing confidence in those decisions. they're losing confidence that he's picked the right folks to lead the army. he's definitely got a problem, wolf. >> certainly does. general marks, president z...

Fighting. general marks, you heard the soldier in the call intercept complaining that russian military has stopped paying wounded troops. and he went on to say they're being thrown to the wolves, and it's basically all bad news on the battlefield. what does that tell you about their will to fight? >> well, if what we heard is accurate, and there's no reason to believe that it's not, what that talks to is the collapse and the decay of a military organization, whether it's isolated to that very unit where that soldier was a member, or whether it has spread throughout more organizations and more ...

City of kehrson but acknowledges they don't know if he's alive. >> he wanted to go out there and try to help. >> reporter: all three of the missing americans having served in the military puts them in unique danger if captured by russians. >> you routinely are swimming or immersed in these kind of sensitive programs. i'm not certain the level of that exposure, but i can guarantee you the russians are going to try to extract that information. >> reporter: barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. >> and joining me now to discuss cnn military analyst and retired generals james spider marks and mark hurt...

Another country, putting yourself in harms way on the battlefield is not -- these soldiers are not considered c combatants under the laws of land warfare. and in fact they could be described by russia and probably will be as saboteurs, insurgents, mercenaries and all sorts of other things. i suspect russia will not look favorably on freeing these individuals as spider just said. they will exact a very high cost, and i also would suggest the capture of these individuals may hinder the u.s. getting other citizens that are being held in russia for criminal charges or trumped-up charges, getting t...

Was in ukraine, 90 days ago when we understood that there were multiple plans by the russians to actually assassinate president zelenskyy, that he's now every day, every evening coming out with these statements, it shows that certainly the situation has changed dramatically from what it was just a few weeks ago, wolf. >> good point. ben wedeman on the scene in kyiv. thank you very much. let's get the big picture right now, where the war stands 100 days in, brian todd is joining us along with cnn's military analyst retired major general james "spider" marks. >> how have they gained more groun...