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Russian air force, they do not get the same number of flight hours that the u.s. air force gets. they don't have the same kind of precision munitions. one of the things the cia director confirmed today is that they are dropping dumb bombs, very few precision weapons. that's why they're not hitting the targets. they may be aiming at civilian facilities, but they're hitting things with 500-pound dumb bombs that have no precision, so they may have an excuse for why they're not violating war crimes. it's because they don't have the precision to hit the targets they're aim at, but there's no milita...

Motivated. >> russian president -- i -- i -- if i were to hazard a guess is -- is all in. he's been all in from the beginning, and he's drawn deep. there is no negotiation right now that -- that looks acceptable. it's weakness. um, his forces are bogged down. um -- um -- like a river boat gambler, i think that he may again try to double down even more. formations -- even more formations coming in. more redoubled artillery, more rockets. though a lot of the precision munitions are gone. so -- so, this is grim and this is awful for the ukrainians. but there's almost as if there is a mutual stran...

Widening, nuclear sites, many, many more people are going to be on the move and the conditions are only going to get worse for those people, ari. >> cal perry reporting. stay safe and thank you. for context we turn to barry mccaffrey, four star army general. what do you see in these gruesome images in this siege-style tactics and what if anything does it reveal about the state of russia's invasion? >> ari, they use this in syria. they use this in grozny. i think it is enhanced by putin's desperation for a stalled military invasion. additionally, they're probably running out of so-called prec...

Jim, well, you know, we think that ukrainian troops, it's all just -- it feels like it just covering their tracks at this point. >> right. that's exactly right. they are just -- they're denying this is even happening. i think zelenskyy video that he showed the congress presented that raw picture of what is really happening. and these are war crimes. how can they be anything else? this is deliberate targeting of civilians. they're saving their precision munitions for those targets that like logistics, the airport that we saw earlier. that's what the pgms and precision guided munitions are being...

Difference between both of these. >> right now we're watching the russians increasingly use what's called dumunitions. tell us about this. >> artillery and rockets aimed in a general direction. certain range. they go hit what they hit. we have seen an increased in terms of precision munitions i think for one reason. one, the russians want to make sure that the world knows that they have this capability with the hypersonics in particular. we don't have it. they do. watch us. we just used this thing. but we're going to see an increase in terms of the dumb weapons because they don't have to waste...