the intelligence community. it s not as simple as vladimir putin choosing to launch these nuclear weapons. he s got a command-and-control issue. his own people and defense have to sign up on that and i m not sure they would. i think at this point it s a threat from vladimir putin. we are seeing threats from his national security advisor who served as president as well as the chechen leader. trying to do what kim jong kim n does which is extort us with nuclear blackmail and the biden demonstration needs to stand strong and not let it happening. of fox news alert. recovery efforts continue bit more than community still underwater days after the storm. edge of the state left completely cut off by the storm.
we bake bread for our defenders. many ukrainians across the east are in need of aid. some have survived living under russian cold and now face an uncertain winter like victoria who waits for supplies with her family. the older child was frightened. when they started bombing us with aircraft, my daughter was two weeks old. the russian battlefield losses are especially concerning when you look at what putin s closest allies are telling him what to do. the chechen leader said putin should use low nuclear weapons in this fight. we know putin is cornered. he s externally and internally pressured. martha: we know pride and humiliation are two huge factors for vladimir putin. thanks. with that, we bring in mike pompeo, now a distinguished fellow at the hudson institute
it is interesting. i think the aim, one of the aims of the annexation and the ceremony we saw, the scenes on red square on friday would counteract the effect of the mobilization on public opinion. which has rattled it. it is the first time that this war has started to affect russians lives and we have seen that in protests and a mass exodus of fighting age men. i think the initial signs that it has not slowed down, the sense of fear we see in russia, especially around this mobilization. we see on russia s tightly controlled state media, signs of frustration, scapegoating creeping in. nobody overtly could say that president putin did this but a former russian commander said on russian tv did criticize the commanders involved in the conflict. similar, the chechen leader has supported the war and sent
around 30 people dead. today, it is another, with 24 reported dead, among them 13 children. so this is how russians do their war, and so i guess, sure, we can expect that they would escalate now we are seeing the success of the ukrainian army on the ground. and where do you think that escalation could go? i mean, given the success of the ukrainians in lyman today, a chechen leader has suggested that russia should consider using low yield nuclear weapons in pursuing such aims. do you think that has become a possibility? you think that has become a possibility? that possibility is already quite possibility? that possibility is already quite high, possibility? that possibility is already quite high, because l possibility? that possibility is i already quite high, because we possibility? that possibility is - already quite high, because we have heard these threats for quite a period, more than a week, and most experts consider it is quite high. however, it won t change the course of t
a month of russian occupation that we saw some of those terrible war crimes emerging just a few months ago. now as the count inter offensiv progresses, we re able to see what has gone on. things not clear as we d imagined where even this sunday we saw more fighting going an as russian forces try and retake control of a town that is crucial to their supply lines to the front lines in the donbas. melissa bell, cnn, kharkiv. the pro-kremlin leader of the chechen republic has offered some rare public criticism of russia s defense ministry and its handling of the war. he s calling for changes in russia s military tactics in the coming days, saying mistakes have been made on the battlefield. his comments posted in an audio message on his telegram account. the chechen leader has supplied thousands of fighters to the russian campaign.