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here to get us some answers is barry mccaffrey, he is also an msnbc military analyst. i just said, it appears that nato is now not going to involve article five after an explosion in poland that killed two. they are saying that it was likely an accident by a ukrainian air defense effort. the, volodymyr zelenskyy says that it wasn't. i think it is a person that ukraine and western allies have disagreed publicly like this. what is the fallout from all of that, and what does ukraine's road to peace look like right now? >> certainly it is a dangerous situation for ukraine. as you mentioned there, under massive attack from the air on their water, and electrical grids. more than 400 500 missiles fired at them. the good news is, the biden administration full -- have put massive humanitarian economic, and military aid into ukraine. and ukrainian military, with enormous courage, has won three major offensive operations. putin is stuck with a disaster, the logistics are not working, his -- are fleeing russia two adjoining nations. i think in the longer run, it is good news for u

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. >>> joining us now, barry mccalf -- mccaffrey. good to see you.ikes are being reported across ukraine, including kyiv. president zelenskyy said it's the beginning of the end of the war. does he have that right? >> it's clear that ukraine is winning, both politically in terms of pulling to the an international support, economic constraints on russia, the armed forced have been magnificent at a high cost. what is clearly also happening, the russians in the last 24 hours fired more than 85 missiles targeting the energy infrastructure of ukraine. it's knocked a lot of it out. it is unlikely that will end the war. but it does show you, it seems to me, that putin is 100% committed to his political survival to continue the fighting. he is doing very badly. this war isn't over. i don't think it's going to slow down during the winter. a lot of discussion about valley forge, fighting picking up in the spring. this is a fight to the death. the russians are doing very badly. >> russia is destroying so much of the infrastructure. in kherson, there's no power.

joining us greg mowry and barry mccaffrey, former member of the national security council now an msnbc military analyst. we saw president zelenskyy describe this as a major escalation. tell us more. >> yeah. in terms of the russian missiles, the russians have been doing this for the past month and this was perhaps the biggest, not only in the past month, but in the war. close to 100 missiles. every major city. they did damage. power out here in kyiv, half the city has lost its lek tlisty. you may have -- the video you were playing there, that apartment building on fire. we were there just a couple of hours ago. people were standing around saying, you know, why are you hitting this place? what are the russians doing? absolute -- they are no longer in shock because it happened so many times, but they are just, there is this bewilderment of why it's happening. this was an ordinary apartment building. as we were standing at in the darkness, the light came on the ukrainians are good at turning the lights back on after the russians knock them out with these attacks. the question is can they