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Up the russian reserves. we were told to look at that as an indication that he would need an occupation force if he went with the invasion. we see him standing next to lukashenko of belarus. there's indication that putin will move military equipment behind the exercises, the so-called exercises that were supposed to end with 30,000 russian troops in belarus, 60 miles from kiev on the border in belarus. we saw that pontoon bridge that was -- that appeared in satellite images on a river that is near the ukraine border. that is the direction that tanks would be moving if they were to cross in to ...

From world war ii, talking about their experience back then and how it mirrors today and sending the message of putin to leave. for putin, it's probably relatively straightforward, or it was before he started this for. his military objectives, he is unlikely to achieve them now. it is to, it was to decapitate, to replace a leadership of ukraine with a puppet regime. clearly, the will of the ukrainian people is to resist. it is an indomitable will and they are not going to tolerate a regime change. that means a potential occupation force. russia does not have the force structure to occupy a cou...

The coast and this, we're told, is under siege. and then what? then what happens? obviously the people who have stayed behind, the ukrainians who have stayed behind don't believe they are now under russian occupation. so now what? soldiers stay there? what happens in these places? >> this is going to be the so-called $64,000 question, alisyn. is it going to actually work the way the russians want it to? if the russians maintain control of these cities, they will have an occupation force, in essence, there. if they do that, that will not be sufficient. we've already seen the reaction of all kin...

Reinforcement. you put your finger on exactly what they need. they're calling up reinforcements. listen to this, jesse, from a far away fast east of russia. takes almost a week by train according to the people that know more about this than i do. but it gives you a sense now they -- another thing to watch here, jesse. they have only brought up a limited amount of reserves and they are in belarus, some of them may have moved. in we initially thought that would probably be used as an occupation force. but putin, we got to understand putin will pull out all the stops, i mean, all the stops to tak...

Allied supreme commander and alexander vinman retired now works with the new democracy initiative. lieutenant commander, when you look at the state of affairs on the ground, putin says it's going to plan, we saw some of the devastation, what's your assessment? >> it's going far from planned, frankly. i think putin can no longer achieve his military objectives, not the one initially, to roll into cities unopposed, to topple the ukrainian government and replace them in a puppet government, relatively quickly, to soften a blow from the west. he can't do that because frankly, even if he was succes...