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ukraine. jim? anderson, thanks so much. this is cnn tonight. i m jim sciutto live from lviv in ukraine, along with the great laura coates in the u.s. the pentagon says tens of thousands of russian troops have now amassed in eastern ukraine. one of putin s commanders claims their new goal is to take full control of not just the donbas region in the east but southern ukraine to provide a land corridor to crimea and perhaps go further. still, president zelenskyy expressed hope and defiance tonight. translator: we will defend ourselves as long as necessary to break this ambition of the russian federation. the armed forces of ukraine continue to deter attacks by russian invaders in the east and south of our country. and i am grateful to each of our defenders who are bravely holding on. in this new offensive, they continue tonight in the region. this is the push and pull of the front lines. the russians launched for air strikes on the southern port city of mariupol ea ....
World shape of russian business elite, i will say. you have written about what you phrased as a collective putin. tens, perhaps hundreds of people trying to figure out what decisions putin needs to make. explain what that is, how that works. oh, yeah, that s very funny. and, you know, it still works. unfortunately, it still works. that s a system created by putin when everyone, every single part of the huge army of russian bureaucrats is trying to guess what their bosses want them to do or want them to say. they don t have to make conclude orders. they just have to the bosses have to hint or putin himself, he might say do what you have to do. and all of all of the bureaucrats would try to guess ....
Mad at everybody. i m sorry, that s another signal i get that he s kind of isolated himself, but i m wondering, if more did what your dad did to speak out against it and risk jail and punishment and abuse, do you think things would be different? some speak out once they ve had their assets taken away and they re out of the country and all, but do you need to see more of that or is it too late for that? i think in practical terms, when we speak about the top russian business elite, that may be too late for them to change the course of events. i think what is not too late is for the wider society in russia to speak out. putin cannot afford to fight on two fronts. he cannot afford to fight in ukraine and fight in russia to control the public dissent. unfortunately, that has not happened yet as people are afraid. and as you ve well covered in ....