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messages of condolence from it members of parliament. we'll have more on the funeral plans for queen elizabeth and take a look at the future of the monarchy. good morning, welcome to "way too early" on this monday, september 12th. thank you for starting your day with us. we'll begin with the war in ukraine. ukrainian forces are claiming major victories on the battlefield after recapturing large parts of the territories in the eastern partst country. ukrainian troops on saturday took back the strategic city and areas around the country's second largest city. that forced russian forc...

Facilities kept russian leaders on the move and disrupted their communications making it more difficult for them to direct combat operations. none of this is what russian president putt yun was expecting. if anything, putin thought the whole ukraine chapter was going to be a short one. a ten day operation that russia would easily dominate. but almost ten months into this war, ten months, ukraine has defied even the wildest expectations. but those successes come at a price. russia's ground forces have not been able to defeat ukraine. the battle in the air, that is an entire dlifrn matter. using...

Take a number of months. that will likely happen at existing u.s. bases in germany most likely. i would be very surprised if that is already on going considering the feeling that white house and the defense have had for some time about providing these systems. so it's very likely that this won't kick in and have active effects in ukraine for some months. but it is very good and will be helpful to ukraine that the process is starting now. >> how does putin take this? he's had a lot of -- he's been ratcheting up the rhetoric. does this have an escalation effect? i mean, we've been saying the phr...

Into ukraine. our teams on the ground reporting on going assault including explosions to day heard from kyiv. here's video that shows explosions in northeastern ukraine earlier today. >> they held a rare session on the crisis after puttin' put russia's nuclear deterrent put them on alert. americans should not be worried about a nuclear attack. but putt yun is facing a global united movement that really at foreign policy levels has a type of solidarity. the pentagon cautioning putin has significant combat power. at a face-to-face mighting with russia today in belaruse, there was no reported bre...

Military. do you think that has forged any reconsiderations of things that were not really on the table two weeks ago? >> yeah. i think so. i think many of us d.c. i'm following the russians since i was in russian military since ways 17 years old. putt yun put 20 years in trying to modernize and professionalize them. you know, bringing in professional contract soldiers instead of conscripts, arming them with new model technology primarily nuclear forces have been modernized. but this is a real mess. they didn't look well organized