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From the south where they came up out of ukraine in an attack in different directions. in other parts including crucially the convoy that we've kept an eye on coming out of belarus, the north, that remains stalled. the russians are encountering a number of problems including morale issues, food shortages and more. perhaps to try to bolster their forces and plug those shortages, the u.s. believes that russia is looking to bring in foreign fighters, particularly syrians, to add to their already massive force they've moved into ukraine. here's john kirby. >> we do believe as i said to jen, they a...

Encircling the city, turning off the electric grid, turning off the food, bombarding the population. that phase of the war is going to be brutal. but the russians may well be having morale problems also besides competence. they don't look very good at the battalion level either. a rough go though, ukrainians are fighting back. >> a rough go indeed. the images on the right side of your screen, devastating. jeremy, how concerned are you now that russia has control of this nuclear plant, the biggest in europe? they can just shut it down and put the whole region in the dark. >> yeah, actually thei...

Very good point. that their heart does not seem to be in it for some of these russian soldiers. when we have seen those confrontations with extraordinary ukrainians, they are not firing at them. they seem to retreat in large part. i have seen some of those russian soldiers firing into the air. but that's the limit of the action they have taken. on the other hand, the russian forces keep coming. this, remember, is a huge army. a huge military power. so while we can talk about morale problems among the russian soldiers, remember, this is an army that will just keep coming and coming as vladimir ...

You can see there the red strike areas where russian troops are present, mostly in the northeast and the south. the ukrainian military digging in. this artillery unit firing at russian forces north of kyiv. meanwhile, the pentagon says that giant russian convoy outside the capital is still stalled in place. and a senior u.s. defense official says russia is now trying to beef up its forces with foreign fighters. cnn previously reported that moscow was poised to deploy 1,000 more mercenaries. >> we do believe, as i said to jen, that they are having morale problems. they are having supply problem...

Extraordinarily expensive war with their economy in tatters at home. >> so i think that's becoming the x factor here, joe. if the economic sanctions devastate the russian economy, they amount to economic war against russia that could force russian escalation, but it's also going to enfeeble the russian war machine. the reports that we have been getting, talking to pentagon officials last night, of widespread dissent, criticism, morale problems within the russian military, i think are increasingly mirrored at home. there are reports of growing disagreements among senior russian officials around...