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I mean, i encountered special force troops from russia much closer to to kyiv than that. maybe, about 10, 12, 15 miles away at at an airport. an airbase that they had at that time taken. they were choppered in, and they they battled ukrainian forces to establish control over that airbase. it is not clear what the status of that of that position is now. but clearly, there are a growing number of russian forces in various strategic positions around the ukrainian capital and i can tell you the residents of city and officials in the city are bracing for some kind of next step in this russian plan. so, bracing for an assault on the capital. let me ask you because in the pictures i have seen, it doesn t seem as if this is necessarily a ....
Give credit to the will of the ukrainian people to fight and we should give them the capability to do it. it s not easy. we ve had a number of guests on tonight saying even if they take out the leadership one way or another of ukraine and go after other elements within the country on kill lists or imprisonment lists who they believe could be behind an insurgency, or they believe it s potential future problems for them, it s still occupying a country for a long time. yes. as we ve learned, as we saw in iraq, as we saw in afghanistan that is a difficult thing to do. yeah, i mean, i fought a seven-month insurgency in the anbar province. and i actually had, you know, iraqi allies on the ground with me, and it was still extremely difficult. i think russia is in a worse situation where they probably have no allies on the ground that actually want to kill them considering the fact that they ....
The ohm other thing i would add is in addition to the russian operatives already in ukraine now coming in with the russian forces, there have been a whole bunch there for a number of years operating much more covertly but still doing the same type of work. identifying where the primary points of resistantnce are. and zelenskyy might indeed be number one on that list. it is a really interesting decision. um, that putin is going to have because on the one hand, as you pointed out, anderson, if his intention is to move into ukraine in force and stay there, sort of annex like he already did with crimea and, i don t know, make it part of russia or effec effectively do so. that is going to be really difficult. it is a large country and how are you going do that with a bunch of ukrainians who just got just got attacked? on the other hand, if you are going do what people are calling a decapitation move, going to do ....
My family as target number two. they want to destroy ukraine politically by destroying the head of state. we have information enemy-sabotage groups entered kyiv. meantime back home, the u.y. security council set to take up a resolution condemn being russia tomorrow. russia is expected to veto it is in moscow, in hennen grad, a small but significant number of protestors came out against the war and were met by police presence and arrests. cnn s matthew chance in kyiv. cnn kaitlan kolent at the white house. cnn sam kiley in kharkiv. and near black sea, nick paton walsh. i want to start with matthew chance and what he saw and heard in the capital tonight. how has it been so far, matthew? actually, up until a few seconds ago, it has been a relatively quiet night compared to the night we had before. um, we had a big explosion that was heard a few hours ago. um, followed by some other smaller explosions, as well. it s now emerged, according to ....
In charge would require oh a long occupation by the russian military. yeah. given what you know about ukraine, it is a large country and you have if you have a russian puppet in place, you know, securing the rest of the country is as as the u.s. has learned, is aer have difficult thing to do. yes, and i think the ukrainian population i mean, let me start by saying nothing has done more than russian policy over the last eight years to push crane toward the west and to antagonize ukrainianings. not anti-russian people but the anti-russian government. and i don t believe that this assault is changing that. uh, and there are a large number of civilians or army veterans who are prepared to take up arms, and go out and defend their country and that s going to be, i think, a very difficult problem for the russians to deal with if they intend on occupying ....