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Essentially around this air base. this is about 20 miles outside of kyiv proper. there are only a couple of ways into the city. it's a choke point, essentially. and you come down a couple of different ways, and it comes to a head where these vehicles are very, very vulnerable. and just getting an eyewitness who said there was two hours of fighting outside of his home, the fighting near my home consisted of a break through of one tank and two armored personnel carriers from the north at about 2:00 a.m. prior to the arrival of a cruise missiles that hit a military academy two kilometers away. th...

When the russian forces get to kyiv? do theyjust encircle it and hope that they can oust the sitting government and replace it with their own puppet regime? but if they cannot do that, do they then actually have to enter kyiv proper? because entering kyiv proper, and if that is defended by ukraine, suddenly you get into urban warfare. urban warfare is slow, it is bloody, it is difficult with huge casualties on both sides. and that is the sort of scenario that the military guys say russia would probably want to avoid if it can. so it is easy to drive military... tanks through the countryside. d...

Reports about this convoy 40 miles long that is stalled, that is currently stalled, but it is just outside of kyiv proper. he you see kyiv, the outskirts of downtown and this is the presidential palace right here. this is the convoy that is stalled break here and it goes back 40 miles. now there is a supply chain that is coming in to reorganize and resupply this convoy, but what happens if this convoy in circles kyiv is yet to be no, right now kyiv is still facing shelling and bombardment from missiles as we speak over the past few hours. sections -- sanctions on roscoe -- sanctions on brosset...

Remember that long 40-mile convoy? the ukrainians have done some masterful work in conducting an active defense. and eliminating that resupply convoy. tanks and bmps of the russian force can't go longer than a day or two without fuel. they are certainly low on food. they don't have the medical support that they need from that resupply column. so you're talking about what started as a 70,000-person army of russia going into that area that is now near encircled by the ukrainians. and without getting any resupplies. so that's something i'm watching very closely. the other point i'd make on this i...