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>> reporter: yeah, this is really interesting. obviously the fog of war, right? it makes it difficult for the united states to track the weaponry once it crosses the border over poland where so much of that equipment is kind of hitting a staging ground for that equipment to cross over into ukraine. once they pick it up and bring it back over the border, the u.s. has very little visibility into where it goes. it's difficult to track every weapon especially the smaller shoulder fired missiles as they enter ukraine. what we do know though is the russians have not been successfully intercepting th...

Completely bereft of allies and, yeah, lukashenko is not exactly the greatest ally to prove that you are not diplomatically isolated, being that he is one of the most diplomatically isolated leaders in the world but it's better than nothing. but i think this is really also a check-in because it's true that even though belarus has been the staging ground for attacks, they haven't committed troops. they are facing their own domestic pressures. now, they are facing a food crisis. now, they are facing an economic crisis. and this is all because of putin's war and lukashenko has a lot to be angry w...

Sound that have explosion. let's play that. [ explosion ] you can barely hear it, but it is there sort of echoing across. that could have been a breaching explosive. it could have perhaps been stun grenades. we just don't know at the moment. and we don't know, do we, what's happened to the hostage-taker, do we? >> no, we don't know. and i can tell you, that was the first time i had a chance to listen to that audio of that explosion. i can tell you that here on the ground it was much clearer than that. we are here in the staging ground in the parking lot of a catholic church just up the street ...

Avoid civilian casualties. the administration counterterrorist program is still very weak it's over the horizon program with enough intelligence. i've got to tell you although isis is not what it was when donald trump broke up on the ground it is surging especially in africa and afghanistan. writers are flocking to afghanistan there been huge gains in africa and were not doing anything about it. griff: the awful criticism of the counterterrorism team. if indeed isis is having some success in reconstituting, what shod they be doing that they are not doing as far as you see? >> we need to be tra...

Belgian system running that. joining us, matt bradley and keir simmons in moscow. matt, you heard sirens going off earlier, you had to hide in the bunker. what is the latest happening where you are, and let's talk about the agreement to talks between russia and ukraine on of all places the belarus border with apparently lukashenko giving -- promising safe passage to the ukrainian delegation. >> yeah, i mean, i can tell you, i'll start off with the talks. there's no reason for zelenskyy, the president of ukraine, to trust alexander lukashenko, because of course, belarus was used as a staging gr...