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Perverted way to protect russian-speaking people by destroying their cities. and of course, they try to do this with the other ones. that is why ukraines enhancing its capabilities, including partners from the west, in order to resist, and to counter attack. with the russian performance so far on the ground, i firmly believe that the counter defensive is very real. >> andre, thank you for taking time to speak to us again. we learn a lot from you. former ukrainian minister of defense andre, we ap...

It is really long overdue the cia change its old position on china to this new approach. the way the silent partnership is unfolding has to do with the chinese mandarin phrase, i love to teach you. it means a kind of deception maneuver that splits the difference so you have the term silent partner director burns is using. but what that means is, china wants to help russia but in kind of a subliminal way if you will. that they can deny to the rest of the world that they are in collusion for the a...

Artillery from the battlefield is a requirement. president zelenskyy needs mobile defense. go ahead. >> sorry to interrupt. there are two different views of the battlefield now in terms of both that aid. ukrainian capabilities and also whether russia has solved some of the problems they had in the north. you speak to some folks who said ukrainians have the advantage in the east. able to push the russians back. others including the u.k. prim minister who fears the russians can grind ukrainian mil...

Somewhere else. i mean, this is a classic way to react when one of your units has been encircled, you counterattack or attack somewhere else to force them to have to drain off resources. this is something that we could help with longer range weapons and more capabilities for the ukrainians. the second classic way of course is directly counterattack in to the encircled region. that will be a lot more difficult because i dont think that ukraine has the mobile capabilities right now, im just not su...

To some of the office politics that happen, some of the social norms and morays that happen. what impact do you think that has had on them? >> great impact. first of all, weve asked these individuals to not only succeed in school and graduate in a virtual environment, now were saying, no, right, we basically turned their world into needs to adapt to a virtual environment and now that they have done that and you are coming out in the workforce, were saying for get all those skills and capabilitie...

Zelenskyy also made clear that he is open to talks with president putin despite the obvious personal risks to himself, and potentially by doing that. so, on the one hand, he is open to talks, and on the other hand, he is still very much trying to beef up his own military capabilities to fend off the russians, and in fact, he announced today, that u.s. secretary of state antony blinken and lloyd austin would be in kyiv tomorrow to meet about what kind of weapons kyiv would need to defend itself f...

This particular issue of this deal they signed this week, mr. secretary, will. or the chinese have been tryingp to expand their footprint in the pacific, in particular in the south pacificri for an awfully long time. they began by building outut a set of islands calledut spratleys. basesutut military on there after they promised president obama t they wouldnt and when they did, he did literally nothing. the solomon islands and other islands in the pacific arere places where they can park t a mis...

Just got to get it to the right spot as rapidly as possible inside ukraine. ukraines a big place. >> lets talk about the presidents remarks today, president joe biden nodding to the fact that the public doesnt know everything being sent to ukraine. >> we wont always be able to advertise everything that we, our partners are doing to support ukraine in its fight for freedom but to modernize teddy roosevelts famous advice, sometimes well speak softly and carry a large javelin, because were sending ...

Together, and it was responsible for about 12% of ukraines steel shipments back just before the invasion. so this is a big, big prize for them. but from a combat perspective, this is one of the toughest environments they can go into. its no wonder they want to surround it and in essence stafb it out. >> im interested in hearing about -- we learned today that new drone that the air force developed for ukraine, its called the phoenix ghost drone. the pentagon says it provides similar capabilities ...

Change that. that is true. but they can see what is going on. there is an increasing appetite to do more with the uk. if you look at the security and defence side of it, maritime propulsion, electric maritime propulsion, electric maritime propulsion, electric maritime propulsion of ships, collaboration on a new aero engines, on undersea capabilities, on cyber, helicopters, space, a huge newjoint agenda. that is being driven by contemporary events. it is a positive thing. it is a great opportunit...