the first few days they made a direct push on kyiv, and i think they hoped to decapitate the government here. that convoy remains stuck about 50 miles outside the capital, so instead they ve focused on the north, the east and the south, and if you look at the map, they ve managed to control lots of oaz borders, and it s pretty clear they will soon control all of the black sea areas of ukraine. yes, it■ç appears that s their focus now. they re actually moving down from the northeast of kyiv, coming at the city from two direction, but they ve got a couple of major cities. they re surrounding mariupol, they re flattening kharkiv, odesa seems next on the list are. they re now taking a more slow, you know, labored way because this is not going to happen in days or weeks. it seems that this is now a plan for months. rachel: benjamin, we ve had several guests on at the last hour, we started at 5 a.m. this morning. some of our guests have said,
because you didn t settle for ordinary. same goes for your equipment. versatile, powerful, durable kubota equipment. more goes into it. so you get more out of it. pete: news alert, moments ago ukrainian president zelenskyy sending a message of hope to ukrainian s saying soon he will be able to tell his people to come back home and claiming 10,000 russian soldiers have died. rachel: this has western intelligence officials report to more russian commanders are killed in ukraine. the announcement coming a day after ukrainian reportedly killed a top russian general in a decisive blow to invading army. so what can we expect next from the russian military? pete: retired u.s. navy captain gary was the first soviet born citizen to be
i d love to see lindsay graham in camo, how about that? because he loves war. rachel: listen, i agree with you 100%, and i will say this, some of the most bellicose voices coming for the no-fly■ç zone are people who had ptsz from january 6th if ptsd from january 6th, you know what i m saying? they talk a big game, but it s other people s children who are going to fight. maybe war unites congress before it unites us, i don t know, it seems that way. i would say this, those senators are there to represent us, but i m glad they re listening to him rachel: sure. i m glad they re getting a firsthand look at what the president of ukraine has to say. but at the end of the day just like will started this segment with, a no-fly zone, no matter how you do it i ve heard general kellogg you could do it in a tapered way, listen, at the end of the day, russia spends narratives to justify spins narratives to justify their next