to claim it s all the fault of the west and that he is carving out some crazy little victory by anna singh swaths of territory. in reality you create is ignoring putin and continuing to fight and push russia back. they are strong. and they are determined. i want to play some sound from national security adviser jake sullivan. this was on yesterday s talking on putin s declaration. let s take a listen and then we ll talk about it. it is straight out of putin s playbook of deceit, disinformation and aggression. we have been warning about it for months. there is no stronger more partisan rebuke of what russia has just done. no more timely rebuke and no more assertive statement that we can make through resources and not just through words that we are going to continue to help ukraine defend its territory. the fight even president xi and
and it s starting to make putin look weak. putin has basically launched this war to look like a strong man to create a foreign enemy to shore up domestic support. if this war boomerangs back and shows him to be weak, he could potentially lose power. that s the ultimate good outcome for us. the ukrainians push russia back and putin is no longer aloud to stay as leader of his people. brian: who knows what they could do with poland if they were successful here. general kellogg said they look like belgium with nuclear weapons. this emerged from their summit with china. vladimir putin actually said, he
and it s starting to make putin look weak. putin has basically launched this war to look like a strong man to create a foreign enemy to shore up domestic support. if this war boomerangs back and shows him to be weak, he could potentially lose power. that s the ultimate good outcome for us. the ukrainians push russia back and putin is no longer aloud to stay as leader of his people. brian: who knows what they could do with poland if they were successful here. general kellogg said they look like belgium with nuclear weapons. this emerged from their summit with china. vladimir putin actually said, he acknowledged that beijing has
they said ukraine would lose in three days. russia has lost more than 50,000 soldiers. almost the whole of their money overseas is tied up. gas revenues are plunging. and most importantly because of all these military losses ukraine has retaken strategic territory in northeast ukraine that russia had taken over. and it s starting to make putin look weak. putin has basically launched this war to look like a strong man to create a foreign enemy to shore up domestic support. if this war boomerangs back and shows him to be weak, he could potentially lose power. that s the ultimate good outcome for us. the ukrainians push russia back
will be able to push russia back, but ultimately they have to get russia out of the country completely in order for them to have a victory. all russia needs to do is to keep it grinding on, alex. and it is grinding on. sam kylie in kyiv, thanks for that tonight. let s go to moscow and senior correspondent frederik pleitgen. from russia s perspective at the six-month mark, do they think things are going to plan in ukraine? what s the feeling among russians? the russian government, alex, are trying to say that everything is going to plan although it appears that the goalposts seems to have been shifting and one of the things that in the beginning the russians thought that it could be over in a couple of days and now we re six months on and it s been interesting. i ve been watching russia state tv and it s been reference to the fact that it s been going on for a very long time very often and it s not something that they