Have more funding, more weaponry go that route. they ve brought someone on to help coordinate it all. joining me is retired u.s. army major mike lyons. let s start with mariupol, the city that really so much of what s happening is focused on. is it clear that russia is in control of the city? they likely are in control of the city. the bottom line forces are surrounded here at the steal factory. commanders expect losses in these things. if you put a cordon around mariupol, if you come around the city, the bottom line it would take a division, 4,000 men of armored and infantry vehicles and the like to come in to try to pierce that area that the russians control. the ukraine military doesn t have that. they ve traded it off, put that to the donbas region. it is a difficult decision from their perspective. they should be negotiating to
What are you hearing since we last spoke 90 minutes ago? where are we? well, pretty much the same. four axis of advance certainly into ukraine proper itself. some of that resistance is having some impact on the russian advance but the outcome is predictable. they will be able to achieve all of their military objectives. it is just a question of time is a factor here. ukraine military doesn t they have the will to be sure and they have a fair amount of skill but they just don t have the capabilities and resources that the russians have. the thing that i have always said that where putin is involved i believe in a little bit of a strategic overreach here and one of the factors i think that it will undermine him rather seriously is the same thing that happened to him in 2014. remember, it was the people of