need to accept that it cannot now or in the future become a member of nato. the humanitarian catastrophe continues to play out, united nations saying three million refugees have had to run for their lives, flooding the border of ukraine s western neighbors and will move further into europe, putting strain on the european countries receiving three million plus refugees. todd: especially as that number continues to grow. jonathan hunt live. thank you. congressional candidate campaigning hard on joe biden s focus on wokeness in the military as europe faces all-out war. biggest since world war ii, military focus is woke train. i know this woke indoctrine
russian troops were allegedly reverted. the u.s. says russia is bringing in reinforcements from georgia which russia invaded in 2008. the top russian general claims everything is going according to moscow s battle plan. and that the military focus will now turn to eastern ukraine. the general insisted 1300 russian troops have died in the fighting, the first casualty update in weeks. the ukrainian officials believe russia s casualties are far higher than the kremlin will admit. on friday, a blunt message to pro-russian separatists fighting in eastern ukraine. translator: i want to warn all the traitors in ukraine who has battled with the enemy in crimea years ago. you switched sides because you thought you would live better, right? not because you want to repeat the tragic fate of your colleague who died on those ships or somewhere else on land or at the sea in ukraine.
of ukraine s done best region in the east. while trying to stay their failure to seize most major cities was actually part of the original plan. and that signaling by russia, might be a sign that they have given up on taking over the entire country, and are trying to cut their losses. for the latest on the ground and ukraine i want to turn to cal perry, who is live for us. cal, good evening to you. the russians say they are shifting their military focus in ukraine. tell me about how you read this. what does this mean? so, look, in the last 48 hours the news coming out of this country is that this counter offense in the capital is not only working, but ukrainian military is starting to push back russian forces. we heard tonight in what has become a nightly address that from the president, the zelenskyy, he says up to 16,000 russian troops could be dead. that is the highest estimate we have seen. we know the ukrainian government benefits from putting out a high estimate. but nato put
poland or meeting nearby. because we are reasonably close to the border. and also what s interesting about this is it follows the claims from a russian general yesterday that they are doing some kind of a shift in strategy, right? that they are shifting strategy now after the beginning of the invasion of ukraine, the general announced on friday that the first stage of moscow s military plan is complete and now his claim was they were going to focus on eastern ukraine. again, i bring that up because i m in the far western part of the country. if the military focus his claim was on the eastern part, that s hundreds and hundreds of miles away, nevertheless, we now hear explosions and see smoke coming from that hill behind you. we ll keep this shot up. i do want to bring in a reporter who is following that angle for
failure to seize most major cities was actually part of the original plan. and that signaling by russia, might be a sign that they have given up on taking over the entire country, and are trying to cut their losses. for the latest on the ground i want to turn to cal perry, who is live for us. carol, good evening to you. the russians say they are shifting their military focus in ukraine. tell me about how you read this. what does this mean? e so, look, in the last 48 hours the news coming out of this country is that this counter offense in the capital is not only working, but ukrainian military is starting to push back russian forces. we heard tonight in what has become a nightly address that from the president, the lewinsky, he says up to 16,000 russian troops could be dead. that is the highest estimate we have seen. we know the ukrainian government benefits from putting out a high estimate. but nato puts russian troop losses somewhere between 7000 and 14,000. that is a horrible lo