sandra: a senior u.s. defense official says the movement towards the capital is stalled, the official also says 80% of russian forces prestaged for the invasion have now entered ukraine. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is at the pentagon with the latest from there for us. i ve just come out of a briefing with a senior u.s. defense official tells us there is no discussion right now of setting up a no fly zone and as you mentioned, more than 80% of russian prestage combat power is now deployed inside ukraine. some russian units have been captured, they have evidence that some russian soldiers have surrendered even without a fight. we are told of the that the main advance on the capital that long convoy that we have seen images of, there is no
happening and we are preparing defenses, we have scrimmages and incursions into the city. we pushed them back and annihilated everybody that was trying to move in. we are trying to keep the city unencircled, the russians seem to have the north, blocking the east, and landing in the south, we are pushing them back. and the point is kyiv is basically trying to create a situation which has supply lines open and the city itself, we are preparing for the column of russian weapons, and rush troops coming to the city. sandra: i want to follow up with the latest we are hearing per u.s. defense official, 80% of the russian prestaged combat power is now deployed inside ukraine. their estimation. on the main advance into kyiv, describing no appreciable
thank you. victor and alisyn, back to you. so according to a senior u.s. defense official, nearly 100% of russia s prestaged combat power is now inside ukraine. and russia is trying to supplement its forces in ukraine with foreign fighters. this is all while russian forces are increasing bombardments in major cities including kharkiv and kyiv over there and mariupol. let s discuss that with general wesley clark. he is the former nato supreme allied commander. general, thanks for being with us. let s look at the map and i want to walk through where we re seeing some of the strength at least of the russian forces thus far. the areas in red here is where the russian forces have a presence. we know they early on came here in the south. we just heard from nick paton walsh, he s in odesa. and we know that ukrainian officials say that russia is preparing to encircle central