again, hard for me to speak to a plan that we don t have perfect visibility on. so the idea of carving ukraine up, i can t speak to that specifically. it is entirely also possible that what they are doing in the east could be an effort to fix ukrainian armed forces in that eastern region so that they can t come to the defense of others. but again, they have not achieved success in the major population centers to date that we see them trying to move on. tony. you mentioned earlier that the russians hadn t fully demonstrated an integrated combat arms capability. this is something that the u.s. practices all the time at the national training center and marines do also. what are you not seeing that would demonstrate seamless combined arms capability by the russians? again, i don t want to speak too much specifically on russian
recruiting efforts. we do we do believe that the accounts of them, the russians seeking syrian fighters to augment their forces in ukraine, we believe there s truth to that. so it s interesting that mr. putin would have to find himself relying on foreign fighters here. who they are going to be, how many they are getting, what they re going to pay them, all of that we don t have perfect visibility on, but we re in no position to refute the accounts that they might be seeking to recruit syrian fighters. since you mentioned that, it s kind of interesting that the russian president is trying to rely on foreign fighters, do you have an assessment despite all the troops he has inside of ukraine now why he has to go and tap into foreign fighters, especially in syria? i can t get inside mr. putin s head. he has pretty much all the
we do we do believe that the accounts of them, the russians, seeking syrian fighters to augment their forces in ukraine, we believe there s truth to that. so it s interesting that mr. putin would have to find himself relying on foreign fighters here. who they re going to be, how many there will be, what they ll pay them, we don t have visibility on. we re in no position to refute they re looking for syrian fighters. reporter: it s interesting that the russian president is trying to rely on foreign fighters. despite all the troops he has inside ukraine, why does he have to go and tap into foreign fighters? i can t get inside mr. putin s head. he has pretty much all the combat power he assessed that
recruiting efforts. we do believe that the accounts of them the russians seeking syrian fighters to augment their forces in ukraine, we believe there s truth to that. so it s interesting that mr. putin would have to find himself relying on foreign fighters here. who they re going to be, how many they re getting, what they re going to pay them, all of that we don t have perfect visibility on. we re in no position to refute the accounts that they might be seeking to recruit syrian fighters. since you mentioned that it s interesting that the russian president is trying to rely on foreign fighters, do you have an assessment despite all the troops he has inside of ukraine now why he has to go and tap-in to foreign fighters especially in syria? i can t get into mr. putin s head. he has pretty much all the
0 there for this white house. that could mean more high prices to come. john: it s stunning from a lot of americans that we would rather buy oil from iran and venezuela than doing the former. sandra: we re going to dig into a lot of what she said today. thanks for joining us. i m sandra smith. john: i m john roberts. the story with martha stars right now. martha: thank you, john and sandra. good afternoon. i m martha maccallum at fox news head quarters in new york. as russia escalates the bombing of civilians in ukraine, they re being accused of committing war crimes, russian is, in places where russian tanks roam the streets and people are running for their lives. so today president biden speaking with macron of france, boris johnson of the u.k. and shots from germany. you heard the back and forth with peter doocy and jen psaki to cut all off oil imports from russia. this is a major means of funding this war and the killings that we re seeing with many asking why is it okay