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Near a steel factory under assault. that steel factory sheltering the last ukrainian troops. and civilians. this is day three. so far no major territorial gains according to a new u.s. assessment. pentagon officials, though, believe russia is moving slowly, metho methodically, on purpose trying to learn from lessons made at the beginning of the war. in kharkiv, two people were found dead. they stayed back to care for animals amid heavy russian shelling there of the city and of the zoo. those workers had been missing since last month. back to barbara starr at the pentagon with new reporting wha...

Established, which hadn't happened in many days, it did not work out as planned. >> matt rivers for us there in lviv. thank you, matt. for more on russia's missile test, let's get more information now because the state media reported that putin says this launch will, quote, give thought to those who are trying to threaten russia. >> cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr with us now. barbara, what's the view from the pentagon? >> reporter: well, here at the pentagon officials are saying they knew the missile test was coming, that in fact the russians had correctly and appropriately notifie...

United nations could be involved, but victoria nuland said if the russians allow it. you're talking about in the middle of a combat zone. usually when warring parties come together and they act under pragmatic and humanitarian rules, they will allow for these kinds of things to happen. but we're seeing russia do anything but act under humanitarian rules. they are in fact using those kind of rules. it's like putting a meal in front of a starving man and then saying, no, not so fast, we're not going give it to you. it is again part of the information ops, the psychological operations to crush th...

This period of heightened tensions, maybe not such a good idea, not great timing for the russians to decide to do this, well aware of putin's constant escalatory behavior. but the u.s. cancelled its own intercontinental ballistic missile test earlier this month because it did not wanting it to be misinterpreted by the russians. it didn't want to give the russians any excuse to say that the u.s. was escalating things with what was another routine test on the u.s. side. now we're going to have to wait and see if the u.s. decides to put future icbm tests back on the calendar and have them happen....

Quite frankly, if i may, it should be ignored, it should be answered with the reply that the united states is now going to be training ukrainian air force pilots on the f-15 and f-16 and a-10. the united states leadership has to change around this deterrent equation and get out of the reactive mode of being deterred by putin and have us start to deter putin himself from taking the kind of heinous actions that we is see day in and day out. >> neil: to your point, general, we don't know much about this icbm test. do you think vladimir putin if pushed and shoved into a corner would lash out with ...