James Clapper: “They want to be seen as part of that club.”

this is the standard Russian -- Soviet Russian way of war. Surround a city if they can and they are having trouble doing that, put it under siege, strangle it, prevent supplies, medicines, food, water, et cetera and then bombard the city…

Putin is committed to conquering, if he can, which I think will be impossible, all of Ukraine.

The frequency with which they are occurring, tells me that they're kind of in - they realize they're kind of in a jam.

I expect this report will be filled with ambiguity as well and people depending on their leanings will extract what they want out of this report.