and the russians must be thinking that if they keep the pressure up, even if it is inefficient, eventually, the ukrainians will crack at more than one place simultaneously and that will give them their chance, then, to move forward, to use encircling actions to grab a big piece of territory that they can then bargain with. in ten years of the soviet army, the red army, fighting in afghanistan from 1979 to the late 1980s, russia lost roughly 15,000 troops. now, already, the most conservative estimate of troops killed in this war so far is around 7000. ukraine says it is more than double that. that is a lot of funerals taking place in russia. choral singing it might seem that russia is prepared to throw unlimited amounts of resources at what it
potential of mother earth, when they see this because they re not seeing it now. when they see this, they will take to the streets in tens of thousands and already, there are thousands of people risking going because their demonstrating on streets of russia. so i think we have to keep pressure up, intensify it if we can on the sanctions part of it. sanctions won t change everything. they will make life hard for the russian people and hopefully take to the streets at that point. but i hope there is let s i m sure the people who are in ukraine dealing with this are saying that is going to take time and i don t know if time is really on their side at this point. we ll have to talk to you more another time. thank you secretary. appreciate you joining us this evening. thanks so much. next, a young woman in kharkiv dorkcument what is is happening and says it s harder to leave than live with the bombardment. , his future became my focus.
even told the military what they were in for, but ben hodges who used to be the commander of the u.s. army in europe thinks putin only has a short window of time before things are so mired down and he can t move in any direction with great force. what he said this morning. the next ten days are decisive. if we poor it on, the russians will run out of the ability to keep attacking. john: ten days, maybe 14 at the outside. if ukraine keeps the pressure up, russia will not be able to make more strategic moves. they will run through the ammunition supplies. pentagon told us they have not seen russia try to bring in more ammo. if ukraine can hold out and stop them over the next 5, 10, 14 days, and if russia does not resupply, more of a stalemate on the ground and maybe putin will want to talk. john: talking about what is the biden white house to help
sophisticated weapons and ramp the pressure up, and it was going to happen now is that putin is going to get wilder and wilder and give more and more threats and we ve got to be very careful because he s a wounded tiger he s caged, but he s going to try to expand the conflict even though in a weird way to win while his losing in his primary objective of taking ukraine. sean: general kellogg, is that your assessment as well? yeah, looked at sean, thanks for having me. he s creating generational hatred is what he s doing right now, and if i had to write a book on this campaign right now and title it, it would be out of the forest, movie, stupid is as stupid does. shelling those cities is just actually stupid because one, he s creating rubble and you never want to fight in rubble in cities. he s getting absolute hatred of the ukrainian people, and it just makes no sense to me. he s not going to take kyiv. it s a huge city, it s a 2,000 year old city they are not quick to give up, th
perhaps didn t need to take so long at all. and anoosheh ashoori was born in the u.k. and trapped in iran, and part of his nationality is american and it is hard to get him out. the issues are extremely complex and i m not party to some of the detail about that. but we ve got to keep the pressure up, you know. obviously the house encountered some change over the recent months, i think in iran especially, a bit of a change there with, the government changing, and so on, and so it s very, if there is a new window of opportunity, we must press harder and press to fully open so that all of the detain and the longstanding issues can be resolved. labor is completely content