he s there. he s got 120-30,000 troops there. it s in under his, you know, aegis as such. they are neighbors. he can invade. so i think then the question becomes what is the price he is going to pay on the ground? would the ukrainians fight? would be there a blood-letting on the part of the russian forces? would they be sending them home in coffins, et cetera? so, that is one element where the ukrainians fighters would fight and then there would be possibly insurgency against the russian personnel. and then, he s got to contend with will we in fact put more and more troops into the nato countries near him? and then, what is his response going to be? is he going to, as he s been suggesting, put some troops in cuba? or venezuela? and then, at what point do we counter that? so, this is something we have to be very careful about and i actually i praise the president for taking measured responses. i know that he s being pushed to do much more but there is one thing i wish he would do. i
u.s.? i think the options are very limited for us. i think in this particular case he is there, he has 120,000, 130,000 troops there. it is under his, you know, aegis as such, the neighbors, he can invade quickly. then the question becomes what is the price he is going to pay on the ground? would the ukrainians fight? would there be blood letting on the part of the russian forces? would they be sending them home in coffins, etcetera? that is one element where the ukrainian fighters would fight. then there would possibly insurgency against the russian personnel and then he s got to contend with will we in fact put more and more troops into the nato countries near him? what is his response going to be? as he has been suggesting put troops in cuba or venezuela? this is something we have to be very careful about and i praise the president for taking measured responses. i know he is being pushed to do.
company should have no trouble paying taxes. my question is if you re building this why didn t you think about this before you built it or we ll cross that bridge when we get there. you have one job, which is to get the boat to the ocean. you have to figure out how to do that. yeah, they should have thought about that. reporter: should be straightforward. . this is messed up. all right. appreciate it. great story. reporter: thank you. the office of uk prime minister boris johnson rocked by the resignation of four top aides in one day. this comes in the wake of the british government partygate scandal where investigators are looking into several office gatherings that happened over the past two years that violated the country coronavirus restrictions. cnn s scott mclean is live for us in london with more. this was a blood letting. reporter: well, brianna, look, these don t dispell the perception that things are a little bit chaotic at downing street. boris johnson in one day
off from basic supplies, food, water, communication. getting information out of that city has been difficult at the best of times, described as hell on earth with the sound of explosions consistent throughout the night. one ukrainian official said anytime someone steps outside a bomb shelter, they are risking their lives. even inside, people are dying, this comes days after that drama theater was struck by russian bombardment. two-thirds of that building troyed. we have yet to though how many survivors have come out from under the rubble of that building. but what s really concerning is that russian sources say russia is going to increasingly be using these very brutal tactics that put families, that put innocents right at the heart of this tragedy, that mean more blood letting, that s because as russian forces increasingly lose on the ground we re hearing that
from an orphanage have been evacuated safely from sumy. many are disabled and all under the age of 4 spent time in the basement sheltering from the attacks. we ll have reports from turkey, poland, arlnd at the white hous. take us through the message. reporter: we ve been hearing very consistently from president zelenskyy who has addressed at times russian troops directly. he another video message today urging them to come to the table and end the blood letting.