we saw some blistering fighting for weeks and weeks, it s unclear according to military analysts whether or not those units will be able to be reconstituted fast enough to create the kind of blitzkrieg attack that even president zelenskyy of ukraine has been signaling, saying that this is really going to be a game changer in the fight. so it s possible that if russia hasn t healed itself and its military so far that russia could see another massive humiliation with this next assault. garrett? very interesting stuff from matt there. courtney, he kind of set you up. talk to us about what you ve learned about russia s pivot to the east over this donbas region. reporter: so there s a couple big differences in what we ve seen from russia over the last two months or so on the several different axes of attack to what we will likely see in this coming offensive. so number one, matt laid out the terrain that is very different there. it s more rural. there aren t large population
been seeing through the weekend on russian television. russian television almost moving to a war footing and making unverifiable claims of attacks on eastern ukraine, even today claiming that the group of ukrainians tried to cross the border into russia. again, automatic of this looks like the drumbeat of war, looks like the russian media and government preparing the russian people for war, or maybe they re still just threatening. evelyn, let s talk about the potential military signs of how you see this developing. do you see it potentially as a slowly developing isolated incursion and putin sends some back to the east, the separatists? or do you expect what president biden indicated, kind of a blitzkrieg attack on the capital itself? chris, up until president biden said what he did on friday, i was convinced that vladimir putin would use his military, seize the area in the
prospect he would be satisfied with a limited milled military objective, but not the political one, the toppling of the government? he achieved none of his objectives. this was designed for a blitzkrieg attack that would topple the government. it seems though the problem that we have seen clearly is that this vladimir putin is really in the destroy ukraine in order to save it approach. unfortunately, it s not just that he is stymies and he is resorting to the tactics. this is the rush sian playbook,o attack civilians, create terror. you bring in the artillery and bomb barding cities. that s part of the plan. that s what the artillery is there for. that s what they have done in aleppo. it s what they are doing in ukraine. it s hard when you have vladimir