the russians have made it strategic, made it important for them. but as matt bradley said, to try to register a win? a had not had a win in this war. so they are looking for one. and then you get this mix, this big story coming out of the russians. as matt described, says that they have taken this soledar where as the russian ministry of defense maybe not. not entirely clear. and as matt again said, ukrainians are disputing it as well. so it is more of the russians trying to register a win. putin also replaced his war commander after just three months, what does that say about the military right now? it is further of what i just said, and that is that they are in disarray, they are backbiting and
so it is more of the russians trying to register a win. putin also replaced his war commander after just three months, what does that say about the military right now? it is further of what i just said, and that is that they are in disarray, they are backbiting and is saying that the military, that the defense ministry is not doing well. and saying that they haven t really taken it. putin has put in place a third commander of all the activity in ukraine, so it is in this array, putin is in trouble, he doesn t have the people, he doesn t have the leadership and he doesn t have the equipment. and he doesn t have the morale. putin knows that he s in trouble, so he s changing things to try to get himself out. he s in trouble, but he
fearful of traveling by train after the attack on the train station last week. they are in fear and despair. they do not dare too take the train anymore. we see them moving more and more taking private cars and moving by roads. ashley: president zelenskyy is calling for international support including sanctions and military aid. he met with boris johnson yesterday. johnson promised ukraine additional help is on the way. also troubling allies is russia s new war commander tasked by vladimir putin to take the next face of battle.
richard engel on the ground there, the struggles, the resistance the russian forces have run into, as well as the low morale many of those forces are experiencing right now. i m going to read some reporting from the new york times, quote, russia is running its military campaign against ukraine out of moscow with no central war commander on the ground to call the shots according to american officials who have studied the five-week-old war. how prizing is that? why do you think russia s running things this way? honestly, it s not that surprising. give the president credit for being a little bit careful about overestimating this. the russian military has always been a central used military, they don t distribute commands down to the command level. so those decisions that you expect to see if the field that react to battlefield conditions go all the way back up to the top. this is a country that has established a totalitarian
about the president s comments today, when you were asked about information that putin is being left in the dark by his advisers. do you think much less confidence in the intelligence, from the podium and other top officials he seems to be self isolates but you don t have hard evidence and you said from the podium that we feel putin was had led by the russian military. why the disconnect? i don t he is a disconnect. we are looking at a painting of a picture of a strategic failure for russia. i think you can draw the appropriate conclusion, we wouldn t put it forward if we didn t have confidence in this. part of this is definitely a psyche ops campaign aimed at putin a former intelligence officer himself. the new york times is reporting that russia is running the military campaign out of moscow with no central war commander on the ground in ukraine. senior u.s. officials and independent analysts tell the times that the lack of a