is that putin wants? translation: putin wants to take over, to control us. that war speech he made was awful. he... i'm sorry, he's a devil, he won't stop. that's the fear here. even as ukrainians prepare to resist in any way they can. sarah rainsford, bbc news, dnipro. in the us, the pentagon said that while the ukrainians are resisting quite effectively, president putin has significant combat power at his disposal. earlier, i spoke to sascha—dominik dov—bachmann. he is a professor in law at the university of canberra and has academic expertise in military and war studies. he told me the momentum of president putin's offensive in ukraine has stalled. the original assessment was that the ukrainians would not fight back the way they did. and also that actually the russians would be welcomed.