very grim for the ukrainians. jon: a lot of the military experts we have been hearing from say 11 days for this russian invasion to not even capture the capital city, that poor performance by the russians. >> it is. thanks for having me on tonight, jon. you have two ways to look at this. the russian army and air force are being heartily embarrassed and we thought that might be a down side for putin if he was to have his high prestige military forces engaged only to find out that they weren't ebb close to the readiness state they thought they were in. we kind of assumed it would be that way. however, there is another line of thought. the varsity team is not engaged at all. there are elements and chapter