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between the russian and ukrainian people that don t want the war. told that this is a peacekeeping operation to remove nazis and that s false. and the russian people have not had to bear the cost yet with regards to casualtys. those seem to be pouring in by the thousands by ukrainian accounts. if that is true that is a lot of casualties. during afghanistan 15,000 russian soldiers died. 45,000 5,000 have potentially died here and the sanctions haven t been priced in so putin has a lot of instability to face in the short term that he wasn t counting on. he counted on a swift victory. he has bad options likely to get worse as the campaign grinds on.
it is not our war was something we might have been able to say three weeks ago. now now. that piece, mika, from anne applebaum in the atlantic. in his latest piece for the daily beast entitled u.s., ukraine, and nato have a secret weapon against russia, patience, david argues the longer the war in ukraine rages on, the more the kremlin stands to lose. he writes this. there will be atrocities, in fact, because putin recognizes he cannot achieve either his gel of swift victory, nor can he afford the costs of protracted urban warfare to take key cities or hold them against an insurgency. it is only through atrocities that he can hope to break the will of the people of ukraine and pressure them into settling for some cease-fire terms the russians might find acceptable. the problem for the west is that such atrocities will certainly trigger increasing pressure to
its combat mission and yesterday, the ukrainian military said it had killed more than 15,000 russian troops and had destroyed more than 500 tanks, 1,500 armored vehicles, and almost 100 aircraft, and more than 120 helicopters. u.s. officials say russian forces are struggling on many fronts from supply lines to logistics. according to the times, quote, the pentagon has seen that indications that some russian troops had been evacuated because of frostbite joining us now, one of the reporters on the this story, pentagon correspondent for the new york times, john isman an iraq war veteran and explosives officer also with us, general twitty he served multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan. prior to his retirement in 2020, was deputy commander of the
in the same place they were last week. obviously, mika, vladimir putin is very frustrated, firing intelligence officials. generals have been killed. now, on the front page of the new york times, a former general echoing what he says he told putin in january, that this was a, quote, pointless war. interesting to see what happens with him. he s definitely confronting a resistance that he did not expect, vladimir putin is. joining us now, peter baker of the new york times. heidi retiker. and elliott cohen, chair in strategy at csis. and joining us, retired four-star army general barry mccaffrey. good to have you all on board this hour. general mccaffrey, a lot coming in over the past 24 hours, talking about the problems russia is having, not only in the north of ukraine but