two of the options that the u.s. military and u.s. intelligence are looking at are double envelopment. they re coming in from multiple sides. we have a map that lays out the locations where they believe russian military would potentially move across the border. so, this would all start most likely from the air. air strikes. missile strikes. artillery strikes from across the border. the russian military could move in from several different sides potentially from the north moving down potentially from belarus and roug russia and dowo the capital kyiv. there are six different routes they can take from the east and the southeast that would bring them potentially all the way over to the river. that would essentially take over about 50% of ukraine s military, if they were to take that territory. now the officials that we spoke with said most likely what they
college level blueprint of how you would stage forces to conduct a multi-axis envelopment into a foreign territory that you re invading. number two, alex, i m thinking about cyber. you mentioned the possibility of cyberattacks, as did andrea mitchell. i think that s going to be the first thing that moves across this border, even before those attack helicopters and missiles, which will surely follow. and third and finally, to your question, how do you defuse this? the only path at this point is through the mind of vladimir putin. we have to convince him that this is a misstep, a significant strategic misstep for him, and i ll close, i don t think putin has a lot in common with an american president from 100 years ago, teddy roosevelt, but it used to be said about teddy roosevelt that he had to be the bride at every wedding and the corpse at every funeral,
original plan in that secondary effort was to do a surrounding and envelopment movement for the ukrainian forces in in the donbas. but they haven t executed that plan very well. they are still stalled in in and around kharkiv, i m sorry, and mariupol is just become a a scorched-earth city right now. you re exactly right, that i think the russian forces did not come into this fight with enough ground forces to truly occupy any of the places they thought were their main objectives. so, what they ve done is they have reverted to the same kind of tactics that they used in idlib and other places within syria where they bomb cities, caused a refugee flow, and then bombed the next cities that those refugees go to. it s a it s a rinse-and-repeat kind of tactic, which is just incredibly horrific. and what about kyiv? so we are seeing that column of
not physically see this individual for over one year. and to bolster his case, michelle s lawyer introduced a set of text messages that the prosecution had not mentioned. ones where she tried repeatedly to help conrad, have you thought about getting professional help? like, i think i m gonna go away to a place to help me over come my eating disorder. where are you going? it s called mclean hospital, envelopment, massachusetts. i think it would be so good for you and we would get through our issues together. michelle carter was trying to talk him out of it. go to mcclain hospital. they will help you. she had nothing but resistance from conrad roy. one of the main points of your argument was that conrad roy had tried it before. he researched various ways to take his own life. that this was not something that was just created by michelle carter. right. michelle for a year
o donnell: all right, chip. thank you. tonight the u.s. is tracking north korea s every move after new satellite images were inleased that could indicate the north is stepping up its onoduction of long-range missiles, which could matentially reach the u. s. barry petersen in south korea reports on why the next few days could be crucial. reporter: in this just- released video, north korea s eem jong-un presides over a meeting with his military that ended with an ominous threat. as the official north korean tentral news agency put it: the sustained and accelerated envelopment of military capability for self-defense. translation: north korea may be mping up its nuclear weapons program that some officials sped had been sloasincwee ate statement follows another not-so-veiled threat earlier this month of what the north called a christmas gift to the united states, widely interpreted as a potential ballistic missile or nuclear weapons test.