Inside. ukrainian military says it killed five russian soldiers as they attempted to assault the facility. joining us now is cnn military analyst retired army general james spider marks. spider, tell us what would it mean for russia to officially declare war on ukraine. it seems that russia is now at war with ukraine already. yeah, i think, brianna, this is a distinction without a difference. they really are at war. what they ve been declaring is this is a special operation, but there really is no difference between what we ve seen, the devastation that they ve caused, the number of battalion tactical groups, those organizations that have been invaded ukraine. and in many cases about 25% of those have been destroyed. but there s no difference between that and the declaration of war. so and, oh, by the way, putin as an allutocrat can mobilize whenever he wants to mobilize.