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Have a numerical advantage. they outnumber the ukrainians in forces. they certainly have a lot of capabilities left. i would go so far, of the amassed power mr. putin had available pre-february 24th, he has a lot left. >> tell us what you're hearing again. there are reports that russian soldiers are refusing to fight and follow orders. >> we continue to get indications mostly out of the donbas fighting. not only junior enlisted soldiers but some officers are disobeying orders, refusing to fight. i mean, they still have unit cohesion and morale issues. they have command and control issues. >> w...

Here. what we would tell you this morning, we still assess mariupol is contested, that it hasn't been taking by the russians and there is still an active ukraine yann resistance. so they continue to fight for that city. . >> we are hearing, john, of these audio recordings that the ukrainians have intercepted of russian troops talking how they are killing prisoners of war. are you confident they are authentic and is the u.s. working with ukraine to verify them? . >> we have not been able to verify those recordings. certainly we are aware of that. i would just tell you broadly speaking, brianna,...

Military and the challenges that they're even having now as they try to move into the donbas? >> yeah. you know, it's a great question, joe. you saw that they announced a new general who's going to be sort of running the whole show now. it's clear that they are trying to learn from the mistakes that they made in the early days and weeks of this war, command and control, unit cohesion, operational maneuvers, trying to make sure they're maneuvering forces in a more efficient way. the integration of air and ground, which was deeply lacking in the first few days of the war where air commanders wer...

Those missiles and rockets land. >> let's talk about what's happening in mariupol. the control of that city comes down yto ukrainian forces holdig down to a dozen groups. how can ukrainian fighters do that? >> yeah, the news from mariupol continues to get more grim by the day. there is a steel plant where we're told a deputy city official there says that about a thousands people are holed up in this steel plant holding on for as long as they can. cocomplicate matters even worse today, russians were not allowing -- they closed off the city. no one allowed in or out. there's talk of creating fil...

Logistics and sustainment and still have command and control problems. again, it remains to be seen. david. >> you say that the russians are conducting shaping operations. i have also said that there's been active operations going on in the donbas since the beginning of this invasion. for the last eight years. we absolutely have seen and we have acknowledged that we have seen offensive and defensive operations by both the russians and the ukrainians in the last several weeks. there's no question. i've said a few minutes ago we