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Protect it. what is concerning about it is we re focussed on that. everyone is telling me why don t we just send in airplanes. why don t we send in helicopters to destroy that. you have any of those for me? i m not sure i can use the limited number of aircraft to strike a resupply convoy right now, specially one that has air defense systems within the convoy proper. i also as the ukrainian commander am thinking i have 25 meter targets that i m shooting at. i can t afford to go after a 100 meter target just yet because i m trying to survive the fights going on in the various cities. they will eventually get to this convoy, trust me, john, they will. but right now it is not the priority in any commander s mind. if you have the means to hit it, you certainly would. general, here is one area of concern, all the areas in red now on this map under russian occupation essentially. what happens if this area of red here starts to encircle kyiv all ....
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Real threat to our interests. he has an opportunity because it s who he is to say, look, our western allies matter. we had a president who basically told us that our friends don t matter and that it was all about china, but that russia presents a real threat, that if you go to the gas pump and pay more, your food costs more it s because of what he s doing as dame frum was saying earlier. there s an opportunity and really an imperative to take the american people to school to explain why we re taking this stand, to explain why the preservation and democracy in europe matters and to be very clear it doesn t mean that we are going to send american fighting men and women to fight and die. we have allies who will stand shoulder to shoulder with who will lead this fight, but that we have to stand up for these principles and keep the pressure on and that there should be a constituency for this. this is not a far off land where we re not interconnected. if ever there were an opportunity, it ....
Heard from cnn s jim sciutto that the current u.s. intelligence assessment is that vladimir putin and the russian military could increase the intensity of their attacks on ukraine with little concern for ukrainian, civilian casualties. of particular note right now is this convoy, here is a satellite image of it right now. it s anywhere from 17 to 40 miles long. it s moving ever closer to the ukrainian capital of kyiv. back with us, cnn military analyst and former army commanding general for europe and the seventh army, lieutenant general mark hertling. mark, when you see this convoy, and you can show us where it is on the map, what are your concerns with it? well, first of all, john, it is a long convoy. it s a resupply convoy. they have military kinetic equipment, tanks, air defense systems and other kind of killing machines within that resupply convoy within it to ....
What kind of cruise missiles are they launching? but can you talk to us a little bit, clarissa, about this i mean, miles and miles long convoy of russian military vehicles that is north of kyiv. what is the concern there? reporter: i think there are multiple concerns. first of all, there s just the psychological impact that that has, right? for the people, the 2.9 million ordinary people living here in this city, it brings about a state of terror, to see that amount of weaponry headed your way. as of last night, it was just about 17 miles away. we can only assume it s significantly closer today. but there are multiple scenarios and threats that this could present. the most obvious one is the possibility that this city will be completely undersiege, that it will be totally encircled, that people will not be allowed to move in and out, that supplies will not be able to move in and out, that ....