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>> i don't think putin is ever been serious about negotiation at this point his power depends on victory. i do think zelensky has made somewhat of a confession on —- a confession he is rethinking nato but that's not enough for putin he wants the black sea and t11 a change of government and the eastern part of ukraine at a minimum and he is all in. we need to stop wringing our hands and provide the eggs and the f3 hundreds and the russian air defense systems and provide a lot more arms than what we are doing. we have been slow walking and it's just not enough what we're giving the ukrainians ...

That everything is reactive. to putin, that is a carte blanche. reactive doesn't work. if we say, as vul san said, if president putin did xyz, we would consider certain military steps or serious consequences, it's not how to deal with an adversary of this kind. >> general, do you see this as putin is going to just keep pushing the envelope until the west, until the u.s., nato do something even more to stop him? >> well, clearly we're at a point where putin has moved to his primary military target, terrorizing the civilian population. he understands he must seize kyiv as a political headquarter...

Limits of our ability to influence events inside the country. watching this horrific scenario play out over the coming 90 days, i don't believe putin is stupid enough, nor does he have the military forces to continue by attacking nato territory, not at this time. not even the baltics, never mind poland, romania, the west, which clearly in every sense overmatches russia. but we're in a position of great desperation with very few tools left to wield. >> hagar, i want to ask you about these reports that russia has used some chemical weapons. we haven't heard from the administration about that yet...

And this decision, or rather the purported announcement that the kremlin has given out, focusing on stage two of its invasion and that being in the donbas, in the eastern part of ukraine, how, what is the significance of that and does it look, from what we are seeing, as though that is actually what they are doing or does it not tally? this is an interesting one, actually, one to watch. i think the most significant thing about it is that it wasn't actually putin that made that announcement, it was the deputy chief of the general staff. now, what that allows putin to do is to disavow himself fr...

President backed out of a co—operation deal with the eu. huge protest followed, as would a crackdown and in time he would flee to russia. this was a challenge to putin's ability to influence ukraine and he retaliated. first, russia annexed crimea and then it backed separatists in parts of eastern ukraine and this is where the story connects back to the far right, because in 2014, the ukrainian military was much smaller than it is now, it was struggling and brigades of volunteers joined the fight against the separatists and some of them had far right elements, the most high—profile was this...