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>> still today russian bombs are pushing closer and closer to nato territory. russia launching six missiles at lviv earlier today. the city only 43 miles from the polish border. let's bring in our military analyst, retired lieutenant general hertling. when you hear general mckenzie here, that's a point you've made, that the russian army is demonstrating incompetence and with that comes morale problems. and so you have that on the table, but yet, i also just want to bring up this close-up of where we've seen progress around kyiv, the russians wanted to take kyiv in days. we're in week four. the...

Unusually emotional while meeting with u.s. military officials last week. in the document, u.s. officials said it revealed a revealing moment from a russian general. and defense officials say this could hint at growing morale problems inside putin's armed forces. >> reporter: with russia's war in ukraine stalled, and the u.s. saying morale is a problem for russian forces, cnn has learned of a rare meeting in moscow between u.s. and russian military officials, which according to a u.s. readout of the meeting, contained a quote, revealing moment from major general evgeny, a general with extensiv...

This reaction? >> you make an important point here. we don't know the motivation specifically behind his reaction, his words or him walking out without shaking hands. this is purely the impression of the defense attaches who were there but their impression and insight of what was happening was -- they wrote this in the readout, the fire in his eyes and flustered demeanor are scripted. the two attaches say they had never witnessed such an outburst at such a meeting. the readout concludes i'm done and it gets so flustered at the mention of this. the morale problems we've heard anecdotally. >> or...

Concludes at the very least it is clear that morale problems among russian forces are not limited to front line troops. the readout describes only the impressions of the u.s. officials and does not definitively explain his behavior. such readouts are typically too sensitive to be made public. >> readouts of this type are important because they give us an insight, a potential insight, into what the russians are really thinking, but it also shows there is some kind of a morale problem within the russian hierarchy and it extends possibly all the way up to the top. >> the russian ministry of defen...

And get back to your rhythm. ♪ don't play around with cold and flu symptoms. cnn was given an exclusive inside look at a russian military leader getting unusually emotional while meeting with u.s. military officials last week. according to a readout of the encounter that was obtained by cnn. in the document, u.s. officials describe what they viewed as a revealing moment from a russian general. and as cnn's barbara starr roars, defense officials say this could hint at growing morale problems inside vladimir putin's armed forces.