it would trigger sanctions and somehow cut russia off from the global economy. but he s willing to take that risk because what he really wants is a subserveiant ukraine. he s made clear to him what his goal is the idea that ukraine which he s always thought of as fundamentally part of russia can be an independent state, can choose its own foreign policy, its own economic policy. and the biden people have been i think appropriately tough and provided assistance to ukraine and rallied the european countries together. but without being foolish in trying to provoke some kind of a war. because that would be you know, that would be a catastrophe for everybody. the united states does not want to go to war. the ukrainians don t want to go to war. the europeans don t. everyone is trying to see is there some diplomatic path where you can address some of russia s security concerns without conceding on this fundamental
we re always so grateful to have you. welcome to new day. i m christi paul. good morning, christi. i m boris sanchez. let s talk about what s happening this morning and i want to show you some of it right now. missile strikes, lighting up the skies overnight. this over the capital of kyiv, as war is ravaging the country s largest city. we re talking about nearly 3 million people there. that what you re seeing is from a security camera the moment a missile hit an apartment building in kyiv. according to the interior ministry, active fighting is takes place on the streets and an adviser to president
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going to be able to effectively occupy a country of 40 million people with 200,000 troops. is this going to be a long and bloody guerilla war. and you look right now, the first stilts i ve seen, that there are 3500 russian casualties. let s just say that s off by half. you re talking about, what, 5,000 russian casualties in the next three days. that s more than they ve seen in any military action in living memory. that s going to start to impact the russian public and drive those protests in moscow and st. petersburg and elsewhere. that s the defeat mechanism for russia. and, matthew, i want to ask you about this approach from the ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy. there are indicationsncouraged leave the country. despite the fact he s posting selfie videos on social media that he s going to stay and fight and defend his homeland.
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