the fact that you have different leadership at the head of the intelligence, the head of the dni is bill burns. ahead of the sea and i is billboards. this is our people with a lot of and have a relationship with the president and his national security team. they are seeing the wisdom of exposing what russia is doing. so, there won t be these questions about like you said these little green men that the whole world will know if russia does decide to invade, if putin does decide to invade again. let me correct with i just said, that we know who is at fault here. independent of the rest of the world, is it calling putin s bluff? is saying, getting ahead of the news if you will, getting out in front of this misinformation, or disinformation is that putin s achilles heel? is this the sort of tactical play that the u.s. has been looking for vis-à-vis putin? i think it s the right tactical play, i m not sure who s winning.
that we know who is at fault here. independent of the rest of the world, is it calling putin s bluff? is saying, getting ahead of the news if you will, getting out in front of this misinformation, or disinformation is that putin s achilles heel? is this the sort of tactical play that the u.s. has been looking for vis-à-vis putin? i think it s the right tactical play, i m not sure who s winning. because remember putin is telling the whole world that his people, and its people inside ukraine that all this is about nato expansion. when in fact nato expansion, he completely invented this as a crisis. it wasn t a change of policies about ukraine joining nato and brussels. there wasn t a change in policy in washington under president biden. president zelensky hasn t changed his views. he said today when he s been saying for a long-time. he s a long term drain that he
incredible. new this morning. u.s. intelligence officials believe that russia is resorting more and more to using heavier fire power, more devastating weapons, i m told by u.s. officials. this after a recent setback and delays in its invasion strategy, this new intelligence suggests that russian forces will be more willing to cause collateral damage. what does that mean? that means killing civilians, direct targeting of non-military assets. similar to what we saw this morning. this russian missile strike in the city of kharkiv in the northeast of this country. that s an administrative building, in an instant. at least ten people dead, dozens injured from that attack. after that government building bombed by putin s army. our reporters and correspondents this morning on the ground throughout ukraine, russia, back home as well. let s begin though with cnn chief international
how they responded to putin s putting the nuclear forces on alert, and they are noting that we have not actually seen any forces move. we haven t seen any bomb or nuclear bombs, okay, and we have not raised our level to def con 3. so that was very wise because, right now, we have put putin in a corner. we don t want to push him over the line. yeah. okay, so that is daunting to describe those very real risks. in the more immediate term, we now have russian forces doing what u.s. intelligence indicated for weeks, that they are unleashing full force of the russian military on multiple cities at once, intention to cut off those cities, including the capital, decapitate the leadership here and take over the country. i m told by u.s. officials that as this is happening, russia s
into nuclear war, so we have to be very clear headed. in terms of that, you know, that question about nuclear war, as you say, could quickly get into nuclear war, we have heard a number of people make the point in the last day or so that with putin saying, nuclear on high alert, he would in no way hesitate to use whatever he has in his arsenal which does include nuclear weapons. what is the planning happening, right, take us inside those moments, what are the briefings happening, what are the discussions happening at this moment, as we re watching everything unfold, as we re watching that 40 mile long convoy and as there are, increased concerns about what putin will do next, as he doubles down? well, it makes me think of newton s third law. for every action, there s an equal and opposite reaction. and so you will see, and we have seen the biden administration being very, very careful about