could easily happen here in kyiv. so yeah, i mean, the russians right now you said are outside but i wouldn t say they re surrounding the capital but any means. they re still north of the capital here northwest pushing into the northeast but the southern routes are open. what we re seeing now is a slowdown in the russian advance. the russians were trying to have to wage a conventional war but found a very well sustained insurgency where the ukrainians have been using tactics to stop the russian advance particularly in a city on the northern edges of kyiv, which is what is called urpine. ruckss russians are trying to push. when you look at the resources they have, many analysts believe at some point they could very well push into the capital.
get. there isn t as much footage. there isn t as much detail of the just this unending carnage and if people watch russian tv, which most russians do. most russians have it in the background, there are two things happening. one, they re being told russia is waging a special military operation to restore peace or to put a stop to violence, which denazify ukraine depending what you listen to but the biggest thing is how they re being told this, which is in the very sort of routine tone. the news at the top of the hour was five or six minutes. you hear a story about ukraine and then the next story is a romanian fighter plane went down while on a rescue mission and seven people died. it s in the context of things
nato to provide, you know, air cover, they re not going to do that. poland is reluctant to send the planes over that they re willing to give directly send them across, what the u.s. has offered so far in terms of military assistance, is that enough or what pleas would you make to your european counterparts and also to the united states? do you need know? at first, we need these planes. the jet planes which poland can provide to us but u.s. government says is too dangerous to give us planes. why dangerous to give planes if they give us javelins and give us any other systems. because the most problem why mariupol today is steadily bombed is all about we don t have planes to shut down the russian planes. and if we get these planes, it will be easier than now and we need not only hand held air
at, that his invasion of ukraine is not going well. he is not been able to take over the country as he suspected and as the chinese and probably been discussing with him after the olympics thinking okay, wait until the olympics are over and then start your invasion. so now they want to be having to be stuck with seven putin at the world s edge, or getting ostracized from all of this economic opportunity. the threat of consequences that the united states has laid on china would be economic sanctions. that is something the deeply worries the chinese, again as, the entire world is looking to come out of this global pandemic. in a way, china, and i said this before, is, in a sense, the potential winner in the game of thrones, if russia is no longer a superpower. i think it s clear, they are no longer. they have exposed themselves by doing this invasion. this disastrous invasion. but, china moves up then.
of ukrainians. there are thousands of them and highly trained ukrainian military backed by the best tank killing machines in the world that we provided them. russia approaches a meat grinder and they know it and they re scared. so what would be the, you know, the case for doing it? it does seem to me that they ve faced, you know, a very determined population. we made it clear we don t want them there. we face it in iraq. iraq had a government people didn t support. so they weren t fighting for the government. there is nobody fighting for the government. in this case, they are going to fight for that government. they are going to fight for each other. it seems to me i guess i keep saying this, it doesn t seem sane to take the city but they are determined to do it. what would be the case for trying? they will attempt it. they don t have to take the same they aren t trying to get everything out like we did in fallujah. the iraqi government wanted