over a country of invading an area. what they re trying to do is isolate these cities and in particular isolate kyiv so they can decapitate the government of volodymyr zelenskyy. the problem so far for the russian military is ukraine, the ukrainian military, is fighting ferociously. they re fighting back. i can t really speak to what the citizenry is doing. i don t have a lot of fidelity on that. but according to officials who have been looking at a lot of intel, satellite imagery, they ve been studying this, the ukrainian military is putting up quite a bit of a fight. you re seeing the difference i think igor talked about that, russia has a conscript military with a lot of young kids who may be who have been fed a diet of russian propaganda and heard
squeak through most of ukraine. the losses will be significant for the russian military, it is a conscript military they don t have the motivation, some leads on troops they are reports that they don t know why they are there fighting. morale is not great. but you can expect fierce fighting for about half the ukrainian military in the eastern part of the country and that s wasting this double envelopment we have the tank units from the north and the area. you ll start to start seeing them move south and then. you ll start seeing forces from the south and some of those amphibious forces that landed, they are start moving north, they are going to meet up and then they re going to move to the east and there s can be very vicious fighting with the ukrainian military because half the ukrainian armed forces are in that area.
in the russian military, as well as the fact that putin sent a conscript military in ukraine without telling them why they were there, or even that they were going there. so there are a lot of issues going on with the russian military. that s in the eastern part of the country. in the west, where you saw this attack two days ago on this airfield that cal perry just talked about, the pentagon says that that attack did not actually get any of the weapons that are being funneled into ukraine right now coming from nato countries. pentagon press secretary john kirby spoke about this afternoon during his press conference and said that weapons are continuing to go forth from different sides. so, it s been this horrific story of an aerial bombardment