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>> yeah. good question, victor. the -- right now, i think the russians are, again, time isn't on their side. as all the world, global condemnation, the sanctions, even trouble within their own population, troops getting shaky, russian troops getting shaky inside of ukraine, being staggered by the will and depth of ukrainian resistance, they need to -- they need to finish these urban fights, whether in kharkiv and kyiv. they don't have huge troop densities and i think they're trying to intimidate. they're trying to terrorize. they're trying to find a way to get the ukrainians to surrender, but ...

Group of people, of killers that work sort of as shock troops, you know, for the russians, but they're not terribly disciplined but they are quite bloody, and so yeah, it's certainly possible that putin tried to use these people to kind of threaten and scare ukrainians and others that these out of control killers are coming this to find zelenskyy. what i don't necessarily believe is that the russian fsb, the internal security service gave ukrainians information on this stuff. there's a lot of games going on here, deception games. ukraine has been under attack by misinformation, disinformation,...

And it's not just the actual word, it's the tone in the voice. that's an exhausted soldier. pleading for help. as a battlefield commander myself, you get pretty turned into the tone of people's voices. number two, they are failing with a terrible battle plan. they came in on to many axes. they depleted their forces. the cranes are scoring real hits. and number three, way too many conscripts, reservists and these are not the kind of hardened, shock troops. this is not the u.s. first marine division. these are, in many cases, scared, young russians who had no idea what they were getting into. th...

You can hear them they (speaking foreign language) you can hear them they are saying, i urgently need food, refuelling, water, and how do you assess the russian military offensive right now? >> they are failing in three ways. number one, logistics. and it's not just the actual word, it's the tone in the voice. that's an exhausted soldier. pleading for help. as a battlefield commander myself, you get pretty turned into the tone of people's voices. number two, they are failing with a terrible battle plan. they came in on to many axes. they depleted their forces. the cranes are scoring real hits....

Reports they sent a lot of shock troops from moscow and other places here to do crowd control, but also if they come up with conscription, if you see the russian government call for conscription mostly the lower class is what ends up participating in the russian army. if it starts trickling into the middle class you will have a very dynamic situation in russia that will send a shock wave back through a country that doesn't understand what is going on here right now. >> clint watts, thank you very much. joining us to talk about all of this former u.s. ambassador to european bill taylor and fo...