they are having supply problems. they are having fuel problems. they are having food problems. they are having they are meeting a very stiff and determined ukrainian resistance. bret: brit, that s not to say eventually they are not going to bombard each of these cities into submission. but they are not exempt phi ago stellar military move. no. exactly right, bret. and haven t come anywhere near breaking the back of ukrainian resistance which has been quite extraordinary. the problem is, of course, the more brutish russia becomes and it has already and will continue to, in order to do that, the greater the reign of destruction and death and misery will be on the people of ukraine and, you know, those streams of refugees pouring out of there into what we used to think of as eastern europe now almost part of western europe. are only going continue to crease. this is going we are going to be dealing with this for a long time. and a lot of the decisions in
combat power that he assessed that he assembled. our assessment he has all of it inside ukraine now. the ground forces in particular. so he has a lot of combat power available to him. we assess that he has the vast majority of it available. i can t begin to speculate why he would need help from foreign fighters. we do believe that they re having morale problems, they re having supply problems, they re having fuel problems, they re having food problems. they re having they re meeting a very stuff and determined ukraine resistance. we still maintain that they are several days behind what they thought that they would be in terms of their progress. i can t i cannot get inside mr. putin s brain as to why he would find support from foreign
surround the capitol went. russia is taking more casualties than expected. they re having morale problems. having supply problems, fuel problems, food problems. they re meeting a very stiff and determined ukrainian resistance. john kirby confirmed reports that the russians are recruiting foreign fighters to help them in ukraine, syrian fighters experienced in urban warfare. they re on a recruiting mission. not clear and can t speak to the quality of recruits but shows the russians have taken losses and need more help. putin has committed nearly 100% of his prestage combat power inside ukraine. firing an additional 25 missiles in the past 24 hours, mostly short and medium range from mobile positions inside ukraine. u.s. officials say there s no consideration being given to
be balanced out. the attacks against the oligarchs, who knows if that will work. they are targeting private jet seems to be good. and they will not like commercial aircraft s fly over there. it so i guess people will be eating at home for a while. to the attack against the central bank seems to be the most devastating if you are holding russian government debt that is like a drunk bomb. that s worse than a junk bond. so i don t know what they are going to do. but that s pretty strong. the food problems could be serious, because the last time they could not export, i think they had the arab spring, and that s who purchases all of the russian and ukrainian wheat, there is abandonment and everybody went wild, that something to look out for. if they respond to this, all of these crippling sanctions with cyber and even cutting the underwater cables that deal with our internet, that could get really crazy. hopefully it does not escalate to that.
tonight on all in. civilians under attack in ukraine. [noise] they re shooting at schools, hospitals, they re shooting everywhere, all the time since the last three days. a desperate attempt to flee the repetition bombardment and a growing refugee crisis in ukraine. they re having moral problems. they re having supply problems. they are having fuel problems. they re having food problems. exactly where the russian army s right now as they move to encircle kyiv. plus, thousands of russians harassing while protesting the war. tonight, the cost of dissent in russia and the cost of relying on corrupt regimes for energy.