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So leman is a city of donesk. putin doesn't have control over some of the areas that he claimed. what's going on here? >> that's true even when he annexed it. what we're beginning to discover is that the annexation was more a political move than any reflection of actual russian control. the issues that he's had with his conventional military, the inaccuracy of some of their precision weapons or non-precision weapons, their difficulty just for getting enough troops to hold the territory were told before it was taken and they're true now. the reason that's a bigger concern to many american offic...

Mitigate what they all believe to be a nuclear catastrophe if it continues to be a front line location, which it is. there is no sign at all of demilitarization by the russians. they are using it as a fire base and the ukrainians committed a few days ago they used precision weapons against russian targets not far from the power plant. ukrainians are talking about shutting it down completely and the action of last resort. a station that provides a fifth of ukraine's electrical power. kate? >> absolutely. the largest nuclear power plant in all of europe. sam, thank you so much. i really apprecia...

Markings on buildings of shellings. >> his pledge to keep inspections going is falling short of ukraine's demands that russian troops leave the power plant. >> unfortunately, we haven't heard the main thing from the iaea, which is the call for russia to demilitarize the station. what can we do without it. >> ukraine's launched a counteroffensive against russia this week. in the long-term, ukraine may not be able to keep its promise not to fire on target close to europe's biggest nuclear plant. now given the increasing scale and violence of the ukrainian offensive, it does remain very difficult...

This talks again to the grinding nature of this conflict, that it's become an artillery battle between the two armies. and the laser guided rocket systems for more precision weapons. right now it's this grinding conflict and no sign really of either side making substantial gains, at least for now. >> that is not good news. david mckenzie, thank you. let's continue this discussion. demetrius is a russian-born expert on geopolitics and cybersecurity. great to have you on. you were one of the few russia watchers who believed a full invasion was coming in the build up to february 24th. here we a...

General hurtling, do you share any of that concern that perhaps the u.s., the west, nato is cutting it too close, not pushing forward the weapons to the degree and with the speed that's necessary? >> i don't, jim. i don't share that at all. in fact, i think that nato has been very effective and efficient in getting weapons to the ukrainians. there have been some challenges on the front line with the logistics trail within ukraine. but that is up to ukraine to do. they have been given the kinds of long-range, precision artillery pieces that they need. general clark mentioned three or four days ...