happening in belarus between putin and lukashenko they re watching closely. they re suspecting they could be plotting a ground invasion on kyiv although it comes with a caveat often misinformation is used by both the cukrainians an russians to try and throw off the other side. will rippley live in odesa, thank you. and out front now retired army lieutenant general mark hurtling, he s a cnn analyst. as russia keeps terrorizing ukraine with just this brutal barrage of deadly missile strikes, what do you think is going on here? do you think putin is trying to open another front in this war? he is, pam. but before we talk about that, can we talk about the disparity between ukrainians dancing in the subway continuing to be resilient and russians
we re facing a situation now in warfare. i m going to simplify what will just said. warfare is made up between constant shifting of offense and defense. forces are either in the attack or defense. russia is attempting to go back on the attack. they haven t been able to do it. they ve been on the defense for about two months, while they ve been hitting ukrainian civilians with rockets. but they want to go back and regain territory for a variety of reasons. ukraine wants to continue with their offensive, but the offensive operation takes a lot more people and a lot more logistics. so, it s going to be extremely difficult for both of them to transition ukraine into more attacks, russia into attack to gain more ground. they re going to try to put ukraine on their back feet by attacking in different directions. retired lieutenant general mark hurtling, appreciate it. now to the texas investigation on the police response to the shooting at robb
leader saying that he would be prepared to speak with president putin of russia to end this war. and dmytro kuleba, the foreign minister, saying, look, as long as that is conditional on russia withdrawing from ukrainian territory, then the ukrainians are all in favor of that. bit he made it clear, he didn t see any suggestion at this moment, no green shoots at all of any peace process taking place, particularly with this continuing threat of more missile strikes happening over ukraine. matthew chance, appreciate it. thank you. joining us now, general mark hurtling. what s your reaction to these packages? sounds i mean, what do you make of that? sending cow animal eyes to embassies? well, the foreign minister said it was weird. anderson, i would give it a different word than that, which i probably can t repeat on air. but it s just strange. it s almost mafia-like. it s like putting a horse s head in someone s bed.
russian held crimea at the moment and those trainers are working with russian forces to help them use these drones to maximize their devastating impact that we are seeing on the ground. so really tonight, woclf, punching a huge whole in the lies we have been hearing from iran and russia on this issue of drones and weaponry being supplied. very important development indeed. thanks for all your excellent reporting. we re grateful to you. stay safe over there. right now, i want to bring in retired lieutenant general, mark hurtling. general, let me get your reaction first of all to that report. how challenging is it for ukraine to counter this growing threat that russia poses with these iranian made drones? it s extremely difficult, wolf. because you have to have several layers to deal with different types of incursions into your country. ballistic missiles, rockets,
within morale of the force. as if somewhat didn t have enough morale problems, this is going to generate more. they don t know who to trust, and they re not getting the right kind of recruit. mr. putin also said yesterday that he s made major mistakes in terms of recruiting forces. he s recruited married men, older men, men with health problems. well, gee whiz, that s that hits the big three. and when you re talking about getting a lot of forces to the battlefield, my guess is it is not going to work out well for mr. putin or the russian force. general mark hurtling, always great to have you on. thanks so much. thanks, pam. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. inflation is affecting virtually all of us across the country, but many military families, they are feeling an even bigger pinch from rising prices. journalist kaj larson joins us next to explain. team s devices. so you can easr