to base this on any kind of global or international norms or standards that most other countries in this world would adhere to, i think is not likely to be the case here. i think he is doing this based on what he sees as his priorities and his objectives. this is a legacy item for him. something that he hopes will last longer than even he is in power, however many more years that will be in russia. it s something he sees as a long term goal. so, most likely, he will focus on that area, the breakaway area, and beyond. all the way up, there s a river that kind of cuts that from almost the eastern half of the country, most likely he will focus on everything east of there. but i should point out, the assessment is that he will then continue on to the western part of the country. so, it s not as if the belief is that he s just going to focus on and bill to ukraine. the belief is that his goals ultimately taking back the entire country.
that a cease-fire assists the russians to, they can move their forces around, and get them re-supplied without getting shot. one anticipates that this cease-fire is probably not going to last very long. we have to recall that one of the principal objectives, tactical objectives, is to seize all the coastline on the southern part of the country. especially that area, like mariupol, that abuts the russian-speaking breakaway area of donetsk. so their move to have a cease-fire, gets them to an opportunity to reposition forces right along that line they want to seize, and ultimately, they expect to take over the russians expect to take over that entire coastline, on the sea of azov, and on the black sea. so that no further evacuations
cutting off ukraine from the sea. let s pick up there from what frank was saying about odesa there s fears of an amphibious assault, as he said. but there are also russian troops heading towards troops heading towards the city of kherson, and there s russian troops permanently stationed in transnistria an unrecognised breakaway area in moldova taken by russian backed separatists in 1992. so odesa is preparing to be hit from all sides. i m joined now by sergiy tetyukhin the deputy mayor of odesa. thank you forjoining us. we are seeing what is happening in mariupol and concerns about a port city being hit and there are also concerns about odesa facing a similar fate. tell us what is happening on the ground.
nato away from states that are near russia s border and to negotiate nato s mandate. i think putin sees weakness in joe biden, right now. he sees biden down in the polls and i think that putin sees an opportunity to drive a very hard bargain with president biden. gillian: now, at the sort of zenith, putin had 100,000 troops stationed along the border with ukraine paired we learned over the last week, that they have drawn 10,000 of those troops down. they say it is in advance of this sort of diplomacy, this round of diplomacy, they will have with the united states. what is the real reason? i think the troops are probably there is a negotiating ploy. but look, we had to realize that there is a possibility that there could be an invasion. maybe in eastern areas of ukraine, near the done boss region. the breakaway area of ukraine. may be other areas of the nation that are mostly ethnic. i don t think there will be a major invasion of the country because this would be very
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