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Every day ukrainian civilians. is that what you expect to happen, civilians taking up arms to defend your country? >> actually, you mentioned about this list, many ukrainians activists were kidnapped and killed. for example, a friend of mine, he later became a member of parliament and he was tortured and we have this experience like eight years ago, what happened in the capital of ukraine during the dignitary revolution. this is hybrid warfare. and putin, besides military attacks, he might use cyberattacks and the russian

The russians, and he's already using the word neutrality because he says rather boldly and correctly and tragically, but it is true, we're fighting alone. i think we need to watch what kind of russian reaction will be to what the president just said, but right now they need military assistance. they need economic assistance. they need assistance, as they tell me every day -- i talk to ukrainians every single day -- you know, for territorial defense. one of my colleagues yesterday said, mike, we need knee pads. i was surprised by that. he's like, well, yes, we need knee pads because when you ar...

Breaking news. the u.n. says it has recorded more than 750 civilian casualties in ukraine since the invasion began. that's not a real number. they don't pretend that it is. they say it is a lot higher and it certainly is. the tragedy is we don't even know. we showed you the russian attacks on an apartment building. we can't even tell you how many died there. nobody knows right now. putin is targeting more civilian sites with deadly strikes. now, our cnn crews across the country have spoken with ukrainians including some about 100 miles south of kyiv who are sheltering in a makeshift bomb shelt...

Just in moscow, alex any navalny as he is about to be sentenced for 15 more years, the russian opposition leader, he uses that moment to speak out against this war, i think that means that millions more share those preferences, they just don't want to express them because they don't want to go to jail. but the other thing you said, joe, is very true, too. it is not a democracy. it is a dictatorship. so the translation of those preferences into any influence over vladimir putin is going to be measured over months and years, not days and weeks. >> ambassador, president biden rolls out some new s...

Aren't really necessarily doing anything that hurts those elites, that hurts the russian elites and their families, frankly. i want to ask ambassador mcfaul, how do you feel about sanctions on putin's cronies and their families that are taking the plunder in the west and going and effectively affecting their lives because sanctions affect ordinary people and cause ordinary people, causing them to starve, what about going after elites and how could we do that? >> i'm all for it. i think it is a moment, it is a time -- by the way, the biden administration even before this horrific war was talkin...