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Invasion. and they say the air force and navy, despite these air force mishaps lately, these terrible mistakes theyve made, have suffered minimal losses. so, what do you take away from that that theres more russians on the ground now that there were at the beginning? >> it is not a surprise to me, erin. and, as you remember, weve talked multiple times about something i call battlefield math about a year ago. and when russia entered this conflict, they had 190,000 soldiers allegedly. that seems l...

>> reporter: retired army general michael repass says artillery could blunt the russian offensive. >> the artillery that were giving them is a method to counter that artillery fire that the russians are pouring on to the ukrainian troops, and also to the civilian communities. >> reporter: the russian plan calls for sending some 90,000 troops to encircle the ukrainian army in the east. artillery plus real-time battlefield intelligence provided by the u.s., could give the ukrainians a fighting cha...

Borrow -- is deja vu all over again. this is what i lived in the 70s and 80s living on the german border, facing off against the soviet dominated pact. its about battlefield distribution. we provide a very large number of capabilities of systems, and you need to have the right number of systems where the enemy is going to present. the enemy has a vote, and you need to be prepared when youre on the defense, which is where we are with ukraine, to be able to manage what we used to call and now we c...

About 55 to 60% are the logistics forces. so what youre talking about truly is the majority of the casualties are coming in the combat forces. so its even -- its even worse than you would consider when you start doing the battlefield calculus and the battlefield math. >> seth, in that context, ukraine asks for more weapons from nato and the u.s. obviously has been providing a significant amount of weaponry to ukraine and defensive capabilities as well. but when you look at the incredible losses ...