we ve been seeing indications even in what s left of the russian independent press that soldiers, at least some of them, up until the final hours and days until the invasion truly thought they were just on exercises in belarus and that they have now been sent into a conflict they don t understand, they don t want against people who speak their language who are yelling at them obscenities in their language. it must be confusing for at least some of them. indeed. thank you very much. russia has now launched more than 380 missiles since its full scale invasion of ukraine began days ago according to a senior pentagon official. now ukrainian officials say they suspect russia used a cluster bomb during its attack on the city of kharkiv. joining me is admiral starvidis.
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analyst, senior pentagon official as well. so, the administration has been reluctant to sanction russian oil because of gas prices already high. acting almost alone on this ban. we don t import that much from russia but how large of an impact will this have on russia if the world keeps buying? i mean, listen, the united states imports russian oil. not much gas, i don t think any coal. but europeans are much more dependentant. e when i saw announcements that they were going to phase down russian oil, it made more sense to understand that from a european perspective because there s so much more dependent on the resources. it s going to have an impact on the markets. we ve seen the price go up. and if you drive 40 miles one way to work, it s deeplyfecting
so it is possible that these aircraft, these migs could be used in the future, but given the risk, the very serious risk of bringing them into the country right now, you have to ask is the risk worth what they would be needed for right now, which is not an immediate need? no that makes sense. i appreciate it, courtney. i want to bring in general hodges now. we jumped into the deep end of the pool. let s back up here i want to review some of the things were we told by a senior pentagon official. the situation on the ground broadly in ukraine, russia has fired more than 700 missiles to date, no real russian troop progress in the last day or so, they also confirm that russia has been using what they call dumb bombs, nonguided missiles, potentially like the kind of thing we saw richard engel talking about in mariupol. and they also say they re not sure if this is by design, or if it is because of problems in their equipment. and finally the pentagon says the patriot defensive weapon
clutches. split screen at the state of the union in dc tonight. the whole world is watching. a 40 mile long massive convoy of innumerable russian military vehicles. toward the city of kyiv. for, now it appears to not be moving. as senior pentagon official telling nbc news today that that convoy may have slowed down because russian forces are already running out of fuel, and even food for their troops. today, russia launched the brunt of its attacks from the air rather than the ground. they are not shooting only add military targets, which is with the russian government has repeatedly claim. today they hit the main radio and tv tower in kyiv. that knocks tv stations off the air in the capital. and ukraine s second largest city in kharkiv, close to the russian border, this is an area called freedom square which was hit by missiles today. it s a cultural center.