and to enforce a no-fly zone. that is all that the ukrainiukr have in the moment in their arsenal. >> thank you very much. i want to go to retired air force colonel said rick layton and steve paul cia of russia operations. colonel, let me start with you. you hear mathew chance talking about russian state tv, claiming that syrian fighters are going to ukraine to help russia. the implication is that there could be what 15, 16,000 of them putting out these incredibly high numbers. what does this tell you? >> well, erin, it tells me that they are going to brutalize this war effort. they will do what they can to make this look like aleppo or their syrian cities in the sense of a war. and the effort to bring these syrian forces in also means that putin may not trust his conscripts to do the job because