this. president biden is set to speak in a few hours and all of this is occupied and announced a referendum this week. . and it s important to put some degree of qualification as to what russia says it s going to do. 300,000 is a lot. it is as people with military experience and those and the manpower has been pretty bad and it s likely the groups russia has called on have already been tapped to join the war. with it right equipment to actually be impactful because they ve really been struggling to keep their armed forces together over the past six months. this is an enormous task for russia while it s already on its back foot. but it will lead to some dramatic days ahead. these have these four referendum happening in freshly occupied areas. no doubt about it, these are just a number that we re going to hear on monday and tuesday that they allegedly claim that people in those areas want to be part of russia. russia will say, okay, we consider you part of our territory. what
consider you part of our territory. what does that do to the actual front lines here? russia is still losing over most of them. it is in the town that we were yesterday seeing some limited success but does this specter of weather center, the not so blunt nuclear threats, and i should add a caveat to the nuclear threats we were hearing. while putin was clear, he didn t extend that to the use of weapons of mass destruction. an important caveat there but startling rhetoric, one that should chill people six months into a slow defeat here. the latest for us on the ground in ukraine. thank you. joining us is former colonel