kromatorsk. and mariupol. that is a brazen move. i m sure it was spun back home to show we have the ability to move about. but the fact that, you know, a few scattered clouds or whatever the way the russian armed forces is not a good sign, the way forward of course, if you re a western military planner, ukrainian military planner, you d like those cues to know what they re going to do. the fear is how the artillery is going to be used instead of more ground troops. it did sound like we re defending the motherland, we are grateful, we are victims in all of this. almost a que for further mobilization of troops, further push and intensity in the battle field which, by the way, we have been seeing. we have been seeing in the last few days in the donbas region. we ve seen it also, you mentioned krematorsk, luhansk with the school shelter being
to, we re not going to invade. clearly he intends to subjugate ukraine. i think it is the beginning of a significant campaign and it is starting as a military planner would put it together, which is to say take out the air defense systems, take out the command and control, terrify the population to put a huge refugee burden on the outgoing government, terrify the international community. if that s not shock and awe, i don t know what is. i think the next thing you are going to see are going to be pretty serious movements of troops and tanks led by and there go the air raid sirens in real-time. we are watching the history channel unfold in real-time here, by the way. we are on a rocket ride back to the 1930s. geez. richard haass, you have a piece out, the west must show putin just how wrong he is to choose
the russians to know it. so we won t know that. but those strikes will continue during the day and maybe into the night. at the same time, the russians have launched from the north ground assaults into the direction of kyiv. now, kyiv is so close that it s time for and i hope president zelenskyy now he s declared martial law, get those barricades up. get the civil defense out there. be prepared to fight every street, every block in kyiv because if you don t, once those russian troops get in there, you won t be able to organize that defense. i m hopeful that the ukrainian forces will prevent the russians from ever getting to kyiv. but any sensible military planner would tell you that you might have defense in depth. and the final ring of that defense is the defense of kyiv itself. i believe the russians are going to kyiv. they want a regime change. they re targeting mr. zelenskyy, president zelenskyy and his top people.
and a force continue the fight through the exploitation force the second headquarters. all of these indicators, if you are a military planner or advisor you have to take these under consideration. you can t discard anything. when you add up all these together you look at a major offensive across multiple fronts exactly what i would do. you create more problems than ukraine can solve and go for a massive and immediate strike. dana: look backwards. when crimea was taken, this was something that was considered quite bold by putin and the pushback might not have been what it needed to be. jim clapper reflecting on that now. i wish we as an administration had been more aggressive in 2014. what s the difference is in eight years, putin clearly is a lot more emboldened than he was
last week, russia claimed that it had taken hostomel airport, but british military intelligence today said it is still being held by ukrainian forces. western officials believe the invasion so far is not going according to plan. brigadier general mark kimmitt is with us. among many senior army positions he served as assistant to the supreme allied commander europe; and then went on to become assistant secretary of state for political military affairs, under george w bush. general kimmitt, good evening. the us assessment was that kyiv would fall within one to four days. we are outside that window now. this gives the ukrainian army some time. as a military planner, if you are writing ukrainians now, would you be telling them about the way to defend kyiv, and what preparations would you be making? kyiv, and what preparations would you be making? well, if there is one thin the you be making? well, if there is one thing the russians you be making? well, if there is one thing the russians