difficult decisions when russia is struggling to figure out how to recently defend its own capital, back to you. a consistent state of shaping and probing and part of that counteroffensive whether or not they find new openings. nick paton walsh, thank you so much. remarkable reporting son saturday in the middle of all this. and bringing in our experts. global affairs kim dozier, david sanger, and retired u.s. army major mike lions, we appreciated you. nick paton walsh in the middle of his reporting from kyiv this weekend wrote a really fascinating piece and in it he said it s impossible to imagine putin s regime will go back to its previous heights of control from this moment, what does this mean actually for russia and for putin? well, we have to start, poppy, by saying we don t know but we do know that if you think about everything that we conceived about vladimir putin last week and what we think
overnight. the russian attacks come as ukraine nears the launch of this long awaited counter offensive we ve been talking about. ukr ukrainian troops were preparing for battle and calling for a decisive offensive. mike lions, good to see you. so, when we talk about this, what would this potential counter offensive at this point, what would this look like? just look at a map. two separate locations. i believe any counter offensive is going to cut the russian forces in half here. and threaten crimea. i think that is the issue for the ukrainian forces. they re not doing that until they have the combined arms, shock infeffect, tanks, bradley fighting vehicles, more men, more equipment. russia still has setbacks, lost a lot of men. but they re still russia. they can go on the active
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place to attack both sides. that would be pint of great vulnerability. it s the i don t think we should set by it. this man is, after all, a murderer. sarah? wow. sam kiley, thank you so much for being there. thank you to your crew including one of my favorite photographers. i thank you both for putting yourself in danger to bring us those stories. let s bring in our u.s. retired army major mike lions. president zelenskyy is saying not for sure that bakmut has gone to russia. the wagner group is saying it has. why is it significant? propaganda, that s all that s going on here. this is the twilight point. there is nothing more to be gained. the city flattened fundamentally. it shows ukrainian resilience and russian military failure. they re trying to claim a victory that just isn t there. okay. so, also, a shift in the biden
vladimir putin was not inside the kremlin at that time. major mike lions, thank you for all of that. in the next hour, we ll talk about the claims from the kremlin. how the u.s. might respond, what they re role in all of this is from the white house s john kirby. he ll be live in studio coming up. also this morning, another regional bank showing signs of real trouble. we re talking about pac west bank. confirming a report that they are weighing strategic options including maybe a sale. exploring strategic options that, is wall street lingo for please help. the news sent pac west stock tumbling yesterday. shares cut in half in after hours trading. first republic failed on monday. jp morgan case came in and bought up the assets. it was the third regional bank to collapse this year. this comes as the federal reserve psyched interest rates by a quarter basis point. the tenth hike since march. last march, i should say. fed chairman jerome powell did hint maybe a pause is around the co