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Entire part of the region in order to have control over this incredibly strategically important area. and yet at the same time, they are still struggling up in the north around kyiv. we are hearing that they are still trying to encircle kyiv from the north and really struggling with that. do you think that that is still a military priority for russia, and will they be able to actually achieve it? >> abby, it is a military priority, yes. it's the capital city. if putin cannot control kyiv, he's not going to be able to control ukraine. frankly, if he controls kyiv, i still doubt he's going to be...

Point, putin cannot let the russian military be embarrassed in ukraine. >> that's the difficulty that he's put himself in. he's basically boxed himself in and the russian people along with him. and so i believe the response will be let's toughen up, let's toughen our resolve, the colonel who was killed is a hero of russia. therefore we will move forward in his name. that's the kind of message that i think they will, you know, seek to disseminate among the population in russia, and a lot of population is going to buy that message. they're going to see these people who have given their lives in ...

Allies in that recent speech. now beijing has to measure, is it going to be the worth the potential economic pain, secondary sanctions haven't kicked in yet, but those could really impact china. and europe, the u.s., and asean countries who largely are honoring these moves against russia, they're china's largest trading partners so what i'm watching for is when china starts distancing, well, if it starts distancing itself from putin, then he's really politically finished. >> kim, you look at these measures that david culver was delineating there, allowing the ruble to fall further, denying air...

Keeping mission, and denaziification mission using putin's words. what is really happening here is the elite forces of russia, the parachute regiments, this would be something like losing a colonel in the 82nd airborne division. this is the kind of thing that really gets to the core of a professional military in russia and it's decimating their ranks and basically a waste of their military talent. >> let me ask you this, you can read this two ways, this cows russia, the losses so severe, it thinks about pulling back or the opposite, and it pushes forward and harder and more ruthlessly. the fac...

Trying to encircle the capitol of kyiv. the mayor of kyiv says they have enough supplies to last a couple of weeks. this morning 12 humanitarian corridors were set up to try and get even more civilians out of ukraine and ukrainians of all ages are pushing ahead, like 84-year-old valentina just outside kyiv praying with every step she took. >> translator: dear jesus, she whispers, let us live through the day and destroy putin and let live ukraine. >> about 2 million people are displaced inside ukraine. another 2.5 million have left the country altogether. many of them are children like the girl...