detained across russia for protesting president putin s partial mobilization of reservists to reinforce his troops fighting in ukraine. also a sharp rise in the demand for flights out of moscow. prices have doubled and tripled for one way fares, direct flights to places that do not require russian visas are sold out through friday at least. joining us now with this new reporting on russia s internal military strife, katy bowe, this is fascinating what you revealed from your sources. tell us about this division inside the russian military. yeah. so over the last ten days we have seen the ukrainians exceed all expectations with the counter offensive and put the russians on the defense in the northeast and south. there hasn t been a lot that russia has been able to do to counter these ukrainian advances. and part of the reason, my sources are telling me, is that the russian military is really divided internally over what the strategy should be here to push back on ukraine, w
bertran. good morning. what is the president doing right now? i know that he said some words just a short time ago. reporter: yeah, good morning, laura, so right now the president is meeting with members of the north atlantic council which is the main political and policy making body of nato. and of course in that meeting is turkey. and one of the biggest diplomatic achievements of this entire summit has been turkey s dropping of its opposition to sweden and finland actually joining the alliance, obviously something that has been the main topic of conversation over the last two days is the expansion of nato. so that will obviously be discussed. the president met with erdogan yesterday and praised him for allowing this bid by sweden and finland to move forward to join the alliance. so they will be discussing all of this. of course the enhanced force posture that the united states is providing to nato, providing to europe am mid the russian invasion of ukraine and the threat