managed a, and it would be an extremely tough fight for the kremlin and rationality hasn t always been on this side. erin? no, how quickly they move to defend themselves and to fight as we just heard the kharkiv governor say for their dignity and for their honor. no abatement in that sentiment. nick paton walsh, thank you so much there from mykolaiv. i want to go to retired army brigadier general mark kifet, and ronald marx, former cia official who oversaw actions against russian spying operations and our reporter on the ground in kyiv, matthew chance. thanks to all of you. general kimmet, ide l d like to start with you. you heard that putin s appetite has only grown with the eating. we do know 10% of his military assets that he deployed have failed to do what they wanted
this and will he keep putting in thousands and thousands of troops to take these cities? well, the governor of kharkiv when i spoke to him today spoke it me in russian, okay? and i say that because he is one of many in kharkiv who speak russian, right? as the first language and also ukrainian. we see that across all of ukraine. it is not a proxy for wanting russia to be in charge of their country, not in any case, okay? and that is something that perhaps putin fundamentally misunderstood. you heard the governor you didn t hear him, but he told me, putin thought he would be welcomed with flowers and that didn t happen. so the cia director today, mark, says that putin went to war based on a set of assumptions that he s been proven wrong on every single count. do you believe putin so completely miscalculated something that was blatantly obvious to anyone who spent any time in that country? i would hate to be his briefer right now. i m sure he s got a lot of