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Slovyansk, if they can link up the separatist forces, you would have pockets here of the ukrainian military that would be cut off. that's the big question, can they take this force? the ukrainian military is advancing back, taking all this turf, but the question is this can they get here, move forces here as fast as the russians can take these armored unit, come to this area here, belgorod, the location of those two hepts that are hit that oil facility last week, can they come in as fasts? when you look at this from a warfare perspective, you always want interior lines of communication or resu...

Ukraine. ukrainian forces used interior lines, roads, railways, to get to eastern ukraine. so from a strictly military standpoint, what the russians had been trying to do, and it's an illegal war. they should have never attacked ukraine, but from a strictly military standpoint, they are trying to interdict ukrainian forces moving to the east. that includes rail lines and includes roads. at some point i think the ukrainian forces or ukrainian government has to look at the dual use of railways. so that civilians aren't put in harm's way ideally. so what the russians are trying to do is break thr...

To reinforce that bowel they think is going to take place in the east. and at the same token, ukraine military can now reinforce itself on interior lines inside the country, get there a lot quicker and start the attacks and continue to probe and continue counterattacks. so russia does not have any momentum and i don't see how they are going to gain any momentum by doing that over the next few weeks. he needs -- vladimir putin needs to find victory someplace. ukraine wins by not losing and it's just, again, a small miracle from a military perspective that without any really additional troops, t...

Arms operations. the ukrainians have proven to be so much tougher than the russians ever imagined. i believe the logical outcome what we're watching now is reinforcement of the luhansk, the eastern part already contested zones and it will take a while to be able to do that. he has to go around the long way, he has exterior lines. the ukrainians have interior lines. the ukrainians are far more nimble so they are going to be able to set quickly, far more quickly, than the russians to be able to blunt any attempt at going back at kyiv. >> so i pulled up the map of the southeast region because you...

Fight. these are a very tough people, and this is going to be a very, very long tough operation and i think it's a bridge too far for the russians. >> as we look though at what could possibly happen, you have the prime minister of estonia just saying that nato needs to step up its defense of the baltic states. how vulnerable do you think some of these other areas are right now? we talk a lot about moldova as well and is there enough in place in terms of defense should, perhaps, an attack be launched somewhere else? >> well, i've heard various numbers, but i believe that "the wall street journa...