point many people question his sanity, we would not allow such things to happen and so neither does putin. it s an existential battle for him. going to do everything possible, going to switch to a different strategy coming forward to make sure that ukraine does not enter the western orbit of influence and especially nato, which he warned us many times. it s a redline for and he s not bluffing. >telling us this morning the russians are aiming at civilian targets in ukraine. that s why officials are stressing the need for more air defense systems. this attack is significant. the first time they ve hit the city center of kyiv for a long time. they did little in the outskirts, they ve gone for the heart of kyiv but we know this bridge was not only a link to transporting troops and surprise, this is beyond
0 it is so frustrating the media goes on with it. we are out of time. i know you have a strong view but the media are so corrupt. thank you for watching. never miss a show and we will see you next sunday when the across ukraine set to meet with his security cancel days after the humiliating explosion that shut down a strategic bridge linking russia to its annexed territory. calling it an act of terrorism. russian born former u.s. defense intel officer and she joins us now. quite a morning to have you on the program. did you expect this level of retaliation following the explosion of that bridge? 100% i expected it. based on the attacks in russian territory to be met with forceful retaliation. just because the rest of the world does not acknowledge crimea as russian the putin regime do consider it russian territory and the same with the four annexed territories. and so he will not stop to hear, he will only escalate and our own president joe biden she has recently warned us about
to leave our fighting age men. they are being encouraged to stay in the ukraine, putting up a weapon where they can get it, and resist the advancing russian army. and resist, they are indeed doing. one bit of news that has been coming from the south of kiev is two russian il 76 pair troop transport aircraft s, kind of the usc five galaxy equivalent have been shot down. there 30 miles from each other. especially with an insertion point of the south of kiev and those two transport planes went down with paratroopers on board so that will show as big losses for the russian army, trace. indeed it is, mike backed he was a news breaks, mike, let s go to rich edson he is standing by life at the pentagon. ridge from one of the latest where you are? what we are looking at here are two separate story lines in one hand you have nato and the u.s. bolstering their forces
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superiority below 15,000 feet because of the stinger missiles so they are now seeing that the aircraft are vulnerable and low operations and approaches to runways. the other pressure point, the russian span of control. they ve got fighting going on at 15 or 20 significant locations. can they pull together air strikes and the ground forces moving to terrain objectives and that is a special force element. very complicated and i hope with ukraine s resistance, maybe we ll start to see the wheels come off of the russian operational momentum. so many open questions on the kyiv front really quickly offered to get the president out of ukraine. because of how significant the level of danger he s under it. his response is i need ammo, i don t need a ride. imagine that from the leader of a nation that s facing death. how significant is that show