be democratically devoted person, in fact, he was always a kgb agent and right now he performs as he is a natural person, putin s kgb agent. thank you so much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you. and now outfront retired army general mark hertling of the 7th army. you heard there from the former prime minister, kasyanov saying that shows how nervous putin is about the coming offensive. from a military standpoint, what would russia be trying to do with those strikes? they re trying to interfere with their connection between the political body and the decision makers in the kyiv government, president zelenskyy with his field generals, general zaluzhnyy. there s been messaging on the internet saying that president
zelenskyy has approved that plan. now i think russia is really it s not just going after ukraine as former prime minister k kasyanov said but more to interfere with the command and control structure between the political leaders of kyiv and the front lying generals all along the front line. and there s reporting out there we talked about earlier in the show where some of these missiles they re useing are millions of dollars apiece. this is precious arsenal for russia. what do you make of that? well, it certainly is for russia and they are running out of these missiles, but they ve been reports they ve been running out for a long time. you happened to mention some of these missiles cost millions of dollars. the missiles that shoot them down also cost millions of dollars between 3 and 4 million a copy so it really is a race to logistics and a race to technological advantage and i think what happened last night with the drone strikes accompanying missile strikes in the evening and f