The children across the country have been displaced and out of their homes. neil? neil: thank you, alex. let s go to kirk lippold on what he makes of vladimir putin s statgy right now. sounds like a take no prisoners strategy and sounds like he s going to double down and triple down. a general hired to do this job that was butchering civilians in syria. what do you make of this? what you re seeing is first, thank you for having me on what you re watching is vladimir putin is in fact taking a step back. becoming president of russia and turning the war over to his generals. the general known as the butcher of syria like you mentioned is ruthless. what we re seeing in eastern and southern parts of the country is that he s pausing all the units, consolidating forces, getting in reinforcements and supplying
Them. granted you ll have a lot of green and new recruits but he s leveraging what russia has. that is a great number of bodies that can overwhelm the ukrainians. at this point europe is going to have to come through as well as the united states quicker and faster and more lethal weaponry. we re not doing that. germany is pausing and poland is really proving to be the champ in this. neil: commander, what type of weapons change for ukraine or its needs change given the fact that this will become a ground war now? i m wondering how heavy artillery changes in the process. neil, i think you re going to see what you just touched on. they need heavier artillery with longer dianswer thes, no battle hardened tanks and more stand-off weaponry that they can
Latest inflation data saying that 70% of the oil run-up and the energy run-up we saw in the month when retail inflation was moving ahead at an 8.5% clip was the result of the ukraine wear and vladimir putin. ken langone back with us. the home depot co-founder. ken, he s not taking the blame for any of this inflation. that s clear. you know, interestingly enough, many surveys around including one that show as strong number of americans agree with him, constantly blaming this on vladimir putin, you know, on the greedy oil companies is registering. what do you think of that? well, i think it s sad. you can t address a problem until you think you have a problem. we have a serious problem. this inflationary pressure began long before russia went in to ukraine. this is a year ago. go back and look at your clips a
Reach out and touch the russians with. they re still vulnerable in their supply chains because they still do not do logistics well. but what you re seeing now with the general, he s beginning to integrate and coordinate how this campaign is now going to be conducted. that s very bad for the ukrainians. up until this point, it s been piecemeal. it s not be coordinated. that s how they pushed the russians back and allowed them to achieve the victories that we re seeing that pushed them out of the area around kyiv. we re not going to see that as yo go further south. so what you ll see now with this integrated strategy is a more ruthless approach, it s a no prisoners taken, they re going to slaughter at will. if the reports prove true, they re going to begin to use chemical weapons other than this
Out in the rush of those that did. meantime, half a world away, focusing on something that was all of the focus. that is ukraine. still very much a concern, especially amid reports from vladimir putin that he s up the ante considerably. alex hogan in lviv with more. alex? russian president vladimir putin says that peace talks have reached a dead end. meanwhile here on the ground, the death toll continues to rise. we ll break town the latest from ukraine and tell the stories of some of the people that are helping civilians getting out of these conflict areas. that s coming up after the break. nobody told you? subway s refreshing with better ingredients, better footlongs, and better spokespeople. because you gotta you gotta refresh to be fresh watch: serena williams. wonder woman.ta serena. wonder woman. serena.