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ukraine. jim? >> anderson, thanks so much. this is "cnn tonight." i'm jim sciutto live from lviv in ukraine, along with the great laura coates in the u.s. the pentagon says tens of thousands of russian troops have now amassed in eastern ukraine. one of putin's commanders claims their new goal is to take full control of not just the donbas region in the east but southern ukraine to provide a land corridor to crimea and perhaps go further. still, president zelenskyy expressed hope and defiance tonight. >> translator: we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition ...

What happens specifically for soldiers trying to holdout against increasingly determined and numerous russian troops, john? >> melissa, live in kiev, thank you. let's hear from mark hurtly. served for u.s. army europe. general, thank you. president zelenskyy calls it challenging, when you look at bakhmut, if you are in the room trying to debate military strategy, smart to give it up and give it up or holding some strategic on the battlefield or in terms of public opinion, public moral to keep it? >> yes, john, all the above. any consequential city. before the war population,

And resources there? sam kylie, good to have you there in dnipro. thanks so much. the british prime minister says it is a realistic possibility that putin wins this war. but i got a very different assessment when i spoke with a member of the biden administration this morning. have a listen. >> ultimately, putin will see that this is not the end game he bargained for. as thousands of body bags are coming home, his economy is kraekting by double digits, inflation is up, shelves are empty, people can't travel, the country is in default, that's not a win for putin. >> that's the biden administra...

Adviser said today that compared to our previous movements, this time feels different. and he laid out in stark terms when what an invasion would look like. >> given the type of forces, the ground maneuver forces, the artillery, the ballistic missiles, the air forces, all of it packaged together, if that was unleashed on ukraine, it would be significant, very significant. and it would result in a significant amount of casualties, and you can imagine what that might look like in dense, urban areas, along roads and so forth. it would be horrific. it would be terrible. >> a lot of conflicting inf...