level of ambition. it is also notable, as phil black said in his live shot, they are now seeming to double down on mariupol. they ve already devastated that city, but now they are seemingly positioning themselves to storm this steel plant. does that signal a russia that is poised to have even bigger ambitions? they seem to be struggling just to say victory when it comes to a city that they ve already devastated mariupol. i think it s them constantly repositioning, and respining their failures early on in the war into successes. so i think getting back to the map you showed, this is them readjusting their war aims. right, two months ago they said they were going to take over all of ukraine, they were going to have a victory parade in kyiv. you had the dress uniforms and the tanks heading toward kyiv. now they re focused on basically creating a landlocked carved up ukraine, and achieving, it should be said, their goals from
communications and cryptic communications. that allows maneuver elements that are smaller than the armor elements to move around them, harass a victim in the rear, and also those switchblade drones that will lure over a target and blowup. the ukrainians need an advantage here. the united states has got supplies and logistics down, we have done this over and over again. for my money, i am not sure why it is taking so long. julia, there is reporting putin may be may 9th as a critical point in this conflict. what is the significance of that date for russia? stephanie, the significance of that is great. it is the victory day. they were anticipating there would be a victory by that time. they were expecting to march in kyiv, a lot of their troops have arrived with their dress uniforms, expecting just that. a lot is determinative of the outcome of the next defensive in donbas, like jason said. this is crucially important that the ukrainians have
very late in this campaign. meanwhile, we maneuver capability of the ukrainians on the ground really beg and plead for the javelin type anti missiles. in the same breath, they need communications and cryptic communications. that allows maneuver elements that are smaller than the armor elements to move around them, harass a victim in the rear, and also those switchblade drones that will lure over a target and blowup. the ukrainians need an advantage here. the united states has got supplies and logistics down, we have done this over and over again. for my money, i am not sure why it is taking so long. julia, there is reporting putin may be may 9th as a critical point in this conflict. what is the significance of that date for russia? stephanie, the significance of that is great. it is the victory day. they were anticipating there would be a victory by that time. they were expecting to march in kyiv, a lot of their troops have arrived with their dress uniforms, expecting just that. a
they have been chased out of that part of ukraine. i think the pentagon official is right, it is a victory for the ages. i know we have a lot of war still going on. i know there s suffering, but just in terms of this military campaign, absolutely nobody expected this. you know, the russian army showed up around kyiv early on and they had packed their dress uniforms for a scheduled victory parade once they took kyiv within three days. that was their expectation. now it gets even more dangerous i would think. they re reassembling in the east. odesa is a clear target. if they get odesa they can cut off the ukrainian economy, and the russian the russian philosophy, the russian playbook will not change and it will get worse i would bet given putin s behavior and his isolation from reality. the playbook has always been destroy and terrorize. we have seen the destruction. everyone has seen the films, and
came from behind the door, just started shooting at them. city officials using this as an opportunity to say that the city needs change. the mayor talking about how the city needs to be saved. many of the officers we ve been out here all morning who work at the 32nd precinct are not even at work today. many have been given the time off to grieve. we have been seeing they re coming here to pick up their dress uniforms because they have to attend a wake. services for the now dead officer. we re still waiting on word of the condition of the other officer who was shot. he was moved to nyu last night. as to the investigation, really, the big question is what ultimately led up to this. what was going on in the suspect s mind. we have yet to hear from police. we know police say he was armed with an illegal gun. it was a gun that was stolen from baltimore. now the city, of course, focusing on the number of illegal guns here on the streets of new york city.