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terrain that s in the donbas region. it s very conducive to high end armor warfare where you put your tanks and armored vehicles in attack formation, supported each other, supported by artillery and air support and overwhelm a defender. they are not doing that. committing forces piecemeal as they did for the battle of kyiv and essentially roadbound, makes them very susceptible to the ukrainians here. now, why the russians should have an advantage here. it does not look like they are going to. gillian: general, i want to make sure i get this in with you because it grabbed my attention. medvedev, now serving a senior post in the russia foreign ministry said if finland and sweden join nato, russia is going to bolster its nuclear defense in the baltic sea, sounds like a nuclear threat,
we re hearing that russia added more forces. we heard from russia s top diplomat saying talks will continue, that, you know, give diplomacy a chance. we re hearing a different story from the pentagon, that russia is adding more forces this evening, deploying them in attack formation. general breedlove, the former secretary general, the supreme allied commander said that they were bunched together, trying to get the attention of u.s. spy satellites. now have left the giant parking lots and are arraying on the border and ready to attack. the state department as you mentioned announcing they re moving the embassy. for days the state department has said they re not closing the embassy now. we ve heard officially today the u.s. embassy here in kiev has been shuttered and the core team that was here is moving to a
you know the russian military well. does the world have a good sense of what their current capability is? no, they do not. they are looking at numbers, john, and that s a great question. i was thinking about it today. during desert storm and yes i am that old i was a young major and when 7th corps, which i was a part of, they had 140,000 troops in saudi arabia. 140,000, four divisions, bunch of calgary regiments and some artillery. the corps commander, general franks, put those troops and all their vehicles in an attack formation and rehearsed the attack into iraq. we have not seen that with the russian forces. and truthfully, they have not maneuvered as a large-scale forgs. now, that is not saying as as steve just said, that s not saying they can t do it but i got to tell you, if they do attack, writ large with 100,000 plus troops in ukraine a large country with 40 million people it s gonna be ugly not for the ukrainians, although certainly it would be for them,
was a part of they had 140,000 troops in saudi arabia, a bunch of cavalry regiments and some artillery, the crew commander put those troops in all their vehicles in an attack formation and reversed the attack into iraq. we have not seen that with the russian forces. and truthfully they have not maneuvered as a large scale force. now, that s not saying as steve just said, that s not saying they can t do it. but i ve got to tell you, if they do attack writ large with 100,000 plus troops into ukraine, a large country with 40 million people, it s going to be ugly not for the ukrainians although certainly it would be for them, too, but for the russians. they will be dysfunctional and a disaster. general mark hurt llg, steve hall, thank you both for being with us tonight. we re going to have a live report from moskow later in the hour. next, though, looking at a live shot between the bridge between detroit and windsor,