evelyn farkas speaking to me earlier. at a special meeting of the un security council. the american secretary of state antony blinken said president putin had shown contempt for international law and the world must not let him get away with it. his comments came as the ukrainian military continues to make gains in the east of the country. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports now from the newly liberated city of kupiansk. this is kupiansk. ukraine calls it liberated territory. during our visit with an army escort, it doesn't sound that way. explosions in distance. every few minutes, more shelling. explosions. and it is soon very clear that war isn't far away. loud explosions. come on, come on, come on! well, we've just had to run and take cover in the building. there's been what sounded like heavy incoming fire. it's pretty clear that the russians are continuing to target kupiansk, even though they've been pushed out. dangerous. understood, understood. they want us away from the glass. a few minutes a

evelyn farkas speaking to me earlier. that's the picture in russia.y condemned at a special meeting of the un security council. the american secretary of state antony blinken said president putin had shown contempt for international law and the world must not let him get away with it. his comments came as the ukrainian military continues to make gains in the east of the country. 0ur senior international correspondent 0rla guerin reports now from the newly liberated city of kupiansk. this is kupiansk. ukraine calls it �*liberated territory'. during our visit with an army escort, it does not sound that way. explosions in distance. every few minutes, more shelling. explosions. and it is soon very clear that war isn't far away. loud explosions. come on, come on, come on. a few minutes ago, we heard there's a russian helicopter doing some shelling and it was nearby us, so we need to go to save your life and going from there. is this happening a lot in kupiansk? a lot of attacks? yes, yes — every day, kupiansk under russian shelling and russian artillery. q

evelyn farkas, she's the former deputy assistant secretary of defense for russia, ukraine and eurasia. evelyn is also the executive director of the mccain institute. also with me retired u.s. army major mike lyons. good to have you both. major, let me start with you on what alex just reported there, that some of these 1300 protesters have been conscripted directly into the army. now, there was obviously a morale problem, a training problem before. but if you add people who oppose this war in the army now, that obviously doesn't solve the problem. >> not at all. and we know that there are people that are deserting from the russian military. the bottom line is vladimir putin has to get as many bodies as he can to ukraine as fast as possible. this is about a mobilization drill. he's going to go through 11 time zones in russia to get as many people as he can to the front. the original number was 300,000. he'll try to get 50 to 100,000 there in the next few weeks. if he doesn't do that then ukraine has real opportunity to overrun certain areas that russia has been holding for the past six

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evelyn farkas is executive director of the mccain institute and a former pentagon official responsibleington. can we start with the reservists called up, the draft and people trying to flee the country. some reports are saying that people are getting knocks on the door at four in the morning, no choice they have to report by 3pm, or whatever. but what is so interesting is the location, geographically, for where these calls are being made. what do you read into that? i calls are being made. what do you read into that?— you read into that? i think this mobilisation - you read into that? i think this mobilisation is - you read into that? i think this mobilisation is more i you read into that? i thinkl this mobilisation is more of you read into that? i think i this mobilisation is more of a public relations and terror... alliance a stunt, but move as opposed to a real military move at this point because i am unclear how quickly they can actually mobilise 300,000 people who are supposedly or reserve of and equip them because we do not know if the russians have the equipment, and then make s

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