wondering why the drone was there, probably providing the targeting information and fired two neptune missiles. even going back to the days of the soviet union, they have never really invested in or taken the time to learn the damage control to save ships like i was fortunate to do on board u.s.s. cole with that class destroyer design. the taking of that ship was a huge moral victory for ukraine because it sent the signal no matter where you are, russia, no matter how important you think certain targets are, we can reach out, and touch them. we will destroy them if that s what it takes to get our country back. neil: you know, it s interesting, kirk, that the russian leader is saying right now, ukraine, you re going to pay for this without saying that this was the sinking of that ship. but he s been threatening a lot of people and threatening finland and sweden, seriously
russian forces in ukraine and it s just nonstop. only i think with the departure of russian forces, the full scale of their brutality is clear. and there are hundreds of bodies on the street and journalists seeing on the ground what my team has been saying for week. right now the de-mining, and retreating from russian troops have deliberately leaving moneys. they re mining corpses, children s toys, churches. and explosive deviced de-mined and half of the ukraine territory, could potentially be contaminated with mine fields. you ve got a commander saying that 11,000 individual munitions have been removed in the last week alone. this is a major issue. the mines are along roads, in the gardens of churches,
ability to touch the ukrainians where they are rather than getting the close contact that we ve seen up until this point. neil: back to the finland, sweden thing if i can, commander, finland s prime minister seems to be set, maybe as soon as this week, announced that she would like to join. that finland would like to join n.a.t.o. sweden, maybe not that far behind. then what does russia do? i think what russia would do, they ve made the threat they ll introduce nuclear weapons into that region and they re already there at the storage facility what does that mean? what president putin is saying, he would actually move lower yield battlefield nuclear weapons closer to the borders of those countries, so that it would decrease the response time that any european country would face if they were to actually use them. it is a threatening move, but i think what you would see, neil, if putin begins to move those
the prosecutor said that the russian troops killed them for no reason. neil, there s so much death here, but so much life. a population filled with hope that they will be able to push back this russian offensive. even as air raid sirens continue to sound in this capitol city, people are out and about, walking their dog and holding hands and they desperately want life back to normal yet, russian forces continue to fire on this city. neil: trey yingst giving you an unfiltered view. kirk lippow, the last time i was talking to him, that putin will be upping the terror and the u.s.s. cole commander coming in to talk to us. it s that important to us. good to see you, i appreciate you coming in.
hand and to her head, but the bullet actually did not penetrate the skull, she will recover without surgery. reporter: the last update we had all three were upgraded from critical to stable. they seemed surprised they didn t see more surviving victims here, and we are told all three were asking about their colleagues there at the navy yard. kimberly? all right, mike emanuel, thank you for that update. we will have more updates on the victims later in the program. let s bring in from the d.c. bureau the former commanding officer of the uss cole. commander, thanks for joining us this evening. we understand you talked to people inside the building and you also have plenty of experience having spent time in that facility as well. tell us about it. i did. i was texting the two former ship mates of the naval academy classmate as the attack was on-going, then i spoke with two officers who were actually on board uss cole with me when we were attacked that managed to