to recognize the independence of the breakaway republic. right now, what vladimir putin wants, i think, is to resolve this crisis, but do it with the upper hand. he has 200,000 troops on the border, and if he accepts the summit with president biden, and by no means we are sure that he would, he would want to take the sort of an action first and discuss the ramifications of that if president biden would agree to that. sandra: jake sullivan over that weekend on the russian invasion. what it would look like, describing it. extremely violent. any military operation of the size, scope, and magnitude of what we believe the russians are planning would be extremely violent. it would cost the lives of ukrainians and russians, civilians and military personnel alike. we also have intelligence to suggest there will be an even greater form of brutality. it will be a war waged by russia
step back, though, and focus on the new developments in the last few hours and the past day. one, here in kyiv, you re seeing them advance out and move to here, kherson. kherson has a critical bridge that the russians were able to take and open up a canal that was shut out of after 2014 that can now provide fresh water into crimea. they moved overnight, they re advancing on mikalav. when you zoom in here, this is a population center, but it s also a river with a major bridge and a bridge crossing. if they can cross this bridge here, if they can move further to the west, they ll essentially be able to move unimpeded all the way to moldova. they have a force there in in a breakaway republic. that force, should they be able to bring it together, they ll be able to advance to here from kherson today to mykolaiv and if
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the way through, this is izyum, the battlepo point where you re seeing the russians connect their troops from north and those out of the donetsk there are military officers of the russian army being killed here over the last week. significant losses in armor formations in the south, which is where you started off, mika. in mykolaiv, kherson is what we saw in week two. russians coming out of crimea, taking kherson this is where the mayor was replaced, and they were trying to talk about a breakaway republic then you saw them try to advance to mykolaiv. again, this was such a critical battle for them. they lost. russians lost in voznesensk. they tried to advance an entire tactical group major devastation like you ve seen seen. ukrainian defense forces, citizens of the town, defending
international communities and we will continue to push for until this work comes to a conclusion of russian forces. there was a briefing that the ministry of defense but sought every morning about this time and intelligence opt out as they call. it all to share it with our viewers an to your view on this and particularly on the second point about reports suggesting that russia may seek to state a referendum to legitimize the area as a breakaway republic similar to denounce. what s your interpretation of what that means? well, it s quite clear that vladimir putin s regional intention was having a very fast war to capture ukraine and two install a puppet government. that it s clearly not working out. so it s not quite obvious that