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Shoemaker. sometimes in the fargo for some things that are supposed to happen dont happen but it does appear ukrainians request for old soviet era fighters the pirates on —- the pilots know how to fly that has been greenlighted thing coming in from poland. how big is that? >> thank you for having me on. certainly they will breathe a sigh of relief tonight in kiev. its not clear how many planes are even available to be transferred from poland or baltic states into ukraine whether or not it is b...

Enough of them on to the road to evacuate as refugees that that will crush the will of the ukrainian people, and thats not working. the ukrainian people are being incredibly brave, and incredibly resourceful, and incredibly resilient. the question about airplanes is an important question, and im happy to see that the vice president is on her way back into the region to have the conversation. we have to get the conversation out of the media so we can talk through the various components of how tho...

Over the past few hours. ukrainian official claims this video shows an aerial defense system shooting a russian missile out of the sky. ukraine and the u.s. fear the russian plan to encircle the city after the government and go after the government and could in the process inflict widespread human rights abuses. ukraine acknowledges one of the fighter jets has been shot down over kyiv. it claims it has inflicted 800 casualties on russian forces since the invasion started. obviously we have not b...

Administration approved last weekend. and within 48 hours, the first planeloads were arriving in places like you described. airfields in poland, romanian, and other countries to neighboring ukraine. these are all weaponry that youve listed, theyre coming out of existing military stalks. probably out of germany. they were flown to these air bases near the ukraine border and theyre put on trucks, shifted western ukraine where the ukrainian commanders can pick them up and distribute them within the...

Were back now with the breaking news coverage. russia brutal war on ukraine begins its second day. with battle lines quickly changing, where could the fight be heading? joining me now to discuss. retired lieutenant general. thank you. appreciate you jumping in to help us with the segment. if you have anymore to add well take it. otherwise ill ask you about a map. i want to put it up. russia launched more than 160 missiles. thats according to a senior u.s. official with major population centers u...

That they had intelligence that would lead them to believe there was going to be an attempt as part of a russian invasion to decapitate the political structures within kyiv, within the capital, within the state, the independent state of ukraine in order to turn it into a vessel state, with the heavy level of bombardment that has been recently seen in kyiv, the pressing of paratroopers down towards and attempting or succeeding in taking over airfields, the lozenge of operations coming in from bel...

Stuff up and down from poland as everyone is doing. eventually, they are going to stop that. the russians will cut it off. theres airfields we can go there that have no lights on them at night, just like we have in many of the counties in america. we can slip in and slip out of there. and we can take covert action against the convoy. we have capability to do this. and other axes of advance. im looking for is some imagination and some spine. applied to this problem, while we still have the opport...

Significant increase in ukrainian armament, absolutely. >> and in addition, we know the u.s. is trying to work out a deal for poland to provide fighter jets to ukraine. these would be russian-made, soviet-era jets that ukrainian pilots know how to operate and then the u.s. would be backfilling or restocking what poland is giving up with f-16 fighter jets that would be sent to poland. we know time is of the essence because ukraines airfields are dwindling. >> thats right. heres the -- one of the ...

Those kind of things, and certainly keep it don conventio to be clear, that i think the department of defense would be considering, anyway, to recommend to the president. >> it certainly seems like a number -- actually, all of the russian strikes in the west just in the last several days have been aimed at airfields in two cases and in the case of what happened just yesterday or early this morning -- the timing is a little bit confusing here -- a military base. it certainly seems like trying to ...

Kyiv, the capital, kharkiv and mariupol here in the southeast. >> sam, thank you so much. please stay safe as we see increased bombardment there in that area. thanks. joining me now is cnns chief national security correspondent jim sciutto. i think whats notable overnight in terms of the strikes, these are places we havent been talking about. tph dnipro and lutsk. >> to hit airfields here expands the air campaign, the missile campaign. but it also makes me think when i saw two airfields, one t...