Attorney asking the judge to provide him with psychiatric care. linsey? janai, thank you. now to that breaking news, a major setback for russiany and their war in ukraine. the flagship of their black sea fleet has subbing. russia says that a fire onboard their warship ignited amm ammunition. the ship sinking while being toed for repair. ukraine, however, claims the ship was destroyed by its missile strike. the lost casts a long shadow as russia gears up for that major offensive in eastern ukraine. abc s james longman reports in from kyiv tonight. reporter: tonight, humiliation for vladimir putin. russia saying its largest and most powerful vessel in the black sea has sunk. ukraine said it had hit the moskva with two cruise missiles. russia only admitted to a fire near its ammunition store. either way, the ship is gone. russia s ministry of defense saying the ship lost its stability as it was towed to port after what they say was a fire on board. adding, the ship sank in a stor
That would be another phase of an operation. all of the other options he has available as well. sandra: is it a defective declaration of war from putin to say this, considering they do not hold all of the territory and they have asked for russiany assistance? probably will not use that kind of phraseology. he will use that justification i m sure he is doing in his speech that gives him the legitimacy, the political legitimacy to move outside of what is presently owned by the russian separatists into the entire region. and of course we have naval infantry off the coast that has the capability to move ashore and establish help to establish a land bridge along with the ground forces that would be part of an invasion. all of that would likely take place within the next 48 hours.
Before. and what we have to do, steve, is to show as america peace through strength. through strength. we must have a determined military. we must have a military that has the money to do what it needs do who putin is showing us is he not backing down. is he willing to lose. he is going to go all the way. they have already had their vietnam and they are not going to have another vietnam. they are going all the way and going to win because huge gentleman ha dean stopped them. we must be ready continue with sanctions and continue to hit, to hit but we must do strength canada says we are not going to buy russiany produce oil. why won t joe biden step up our energy production here in america so we don t have to depend on russia and our allies
Harder target soldiers in the field and that s a multifaceted operation we see from the russians on the common basis. some of it spilled over as well to latvia and lithuania. trace: i wonder because there have been so far, dustin, no crippling cyberattacks against ukraine, do you think that could be coming or is that part and parcel of a bigger picture that we are seeing that we haven t really seen this dominant military impact? so maybe that s why we haven t seen these major cyberattacks and may be that the entire campaign is not going as planned? yes, it has been surprising because in 2015 and 2016, 2017, we saw a variety of attacks by the ukrainians there russiany essentially used it as a playground for them to test a lot of the offensive cyber capabilities. because there hasn t been this kind of major scale greater
Higher. as far as we can tell, none of those contacts, we re told nobody told anything to the fbi about russians trying to get in touch with them, and several of those individuals up on the screen right now, they lied about those contacts with the russians. exactly. and that s the key. lying about it, never mind the very questionable behavior during the campaign of not raising their hands and saying to the fbi, this just happened, i got a call from russian x, russian y. and, look, a lot of those characters in the trump world you just put up have different stories with regard to their contacts with the russians. some, it s because they have had genuine business relationships. michael flynn is probably the most prominent of that. maybe paul manafort as well and those who work for paul manafort, like rick gates. but in other situations, the most infamous, i guess you would say, is the trump tower meeting in 2016.