for more on all of this, and more, let's bring in michael weiss, who's director at new orleans magazinestory of russian military intelligence. michael, thanks for coming back on the program. your thoughts on the possible visit to ukraine, from secretary blinken and austin? if true, they would be the highest level u.s. officials to visit since the beginning of the war. obviously, we saw the british prime minister there. we've seen other senior european officials, and it may appear, according to zelenskyy, that now you have the state, secretary of state, and secretary of defense heading there. >> yeah, that's right. and the secretary of defense, i think, is going to germany to meet with some 40 countries that have committed arms and other material support to ukraine. so this would be a tremendous show of solidarity on the part of the united states, with the zelenskyy government. the government which, we might, it was not supposed to last this long. remember the claims that he was gonna be about 72 hours before the russians had a swift and easy route of ukraine, and did their wishing chang

let's bring in michael weiss. he is a retired nypd detective who worked in the counterterrorism bureau, michael, thanks for joining us. it's good to be with you. thank you for having me be clear. this is not being investigated as an act of terrorism right now. but the police commissioner says she's not ruling anything else so much we don't know at this hour. we have this handgun. we know that the gun jammed. we've got this area. give me your take on where this investigation is right now. well what they're saying when they're saying it's not being technically investigated or looked at as an act of terror. that does not mean that the investigation has kind of stopped in that direction. the jttf the members of the fbi joint terrorism task force, along with detectives from the nypd will continuously obviously investigate this incident if it doesn't go down the path of terrorism well, they can also reopen an investigation and definitely go back into that direction. just because it's kind of moving away from that. now th

joining us now, news director for new alliance magazine investigative reporter michael weiss who of coursekraine for about a week. including a stop in kyiv. and some of the suburbs that were really devastated. tell us what you saw. >> yes, so i went to a town called borodyank and closer to the border than bucha where the massacre took place and this town practically does not exist anymore. the russian jet fighters had bombed a series of apartment blocks on the main thoroughfare, one was so badly bombed that the entire center column of the apartment had just, the building rather, had just collapsed. and the emergency services there are pulling people from the rubble. one building that was still intact, i was with a former bbc journalist bob sweeney, we went inside that building and russian soldiers had looted every single apartment. there were jewelry boxes open. and obviously, the contents had been stolen. one young couple, their wedding photos had been strewn about the bedroom and some kind of gratuitous manner disgust and degradation. and the worst, someone, a russian soldier had defecat

. >>> michael weiss joins us now.rt there about the idea with peace talks, referred with a lot of skepticism all along and we heard from third party reports of other countries and ukrainians and there might have been something there a while ago and we stopped hearing about it. >> in the first week, putin and em saerss were looking for a -- em sarries were looking for a dim diplomatic off-ramp and they could not sack the capital, as had been anticipated, and all of that is now kind of dissipated. in fact, i mean forget about the sinking of the m oskva, today, last night, there was a huge explosion in russia 60 miles from the ukrainian border and all of the analysts i'm talking to, a ukrainian missile struck a fuel depot, inside russian federation territory, two strikes, and this is not the first act of sabotage the ukrainians have conducted allegedly behind enemy lines. this is a guy, he started an unprovoked war, he could not achieve his objectives, and re-set the strategy irobjectives and let's take the donbas and mo

. >>> michael weiss, one of our favorite on the set with us here today, michael, let's start with thegy on the east with the donbas and suffered a devastating loss with the warship sunk and also air strikes in kyiv over the weekend and also in lviv. >> the interesting thing, jonathan, the ukrainians are presidenting the fight in donbas before the russians get their ducks in a row and trying to encircle an encirclement in izyum, a key strategic city for them, town for them, if they try to create that horseshoe occupation which is what it seems that putin is going for before the may 9th victory day parade claiming that all of theic objectives are met. and with foreboding, the russians will push an offense and that said, mariupol, a city that is meant to fall in many, many weeks ago, still holding out. and down to their last ukrainian defenders. and all projections indicate that this city will fall. but the purpose of this fierce stallen grad style resistance has been to essentially distract the russians there while the ukrainians can kind of prepare for the big battle of the east to com

. >>> michael weiss now, investigative journalist who focuses on russia. he covered the wars in iraq and syria. thank you for joining us krooups gaining more ground and now we are told hitting russia in russia. >> absolutely. there are pressing counter offenses east and west of kyiv i have seen credible reports they might have liberated dozens of towns and villages. irpin one of them. they have recaptured an airport where the paratroopers tried to create an air bridge to allow the russians to come in via helicopter and transport plane to engage in their now completely collapsed blitzkrieg to decapitate the government in kyiv yeah i mean they are actually pushesing the russians back out of the country i have seen videos and images of absolute devastation dead russian soldiers. i can't show it on social media. it is gruesome i have also seen civilian fatalities dead by the side of the road it shows an indiscriminate non-concern for human life. >> brutal and horrific michael even with these victories the pentagon warned russia is not going anywhere, just repo

. >>> joining us now, investigative journalist michael weiss who joins from lviv.it has dominated the news for days. have those images reached the ukrainians in lviv and what are you hearing and what is your sense how they could impact possible peace walks? >> they have absolutely reached. every ukrainian has been discussing the aross ties in bucha, they're absolutely horrifying and i rode in with a ukrainian from mariupol and given what she has seen in bucha, she expects to be far worse to be uncovered when mariupol is eventually liberated. the russians have been mercilessly bombarding the city for weeks now. 150,000 probably are trapped in there. and the news in bucha has eclipsed what i have been trying to get at here, which is the strategic assessments from the military intelligence officials and although i do have some updates if you like, jonathan, the in terms of the resources and what the ukraines have got and what they still need. i managed to find out that their supply of drones is far higher than has been publicly advanced. almost twice as many as they u

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