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But just failed miserably on a mass scale. can you go into that? >> i can. yeah, what has been surprising to me about this operation is i want to remind everyone this was a war of russias choice. theyve had months, if not years, to prepare for this. theyre making a set of critical assumptions proven to be faulty. i think they assumed the ukrainians would not resist them and that proved false. they are making mistakes that they are capable of doing elsewhere in syria. they are capable of having s...

Least 20 additional fighter jets in operation after receiving recent shipments of spare parts making repairs possible. at the same time, u.s. troops have begun training ukrainian soldiers on how to use howitzer artillery and rounds that have arrived in europe. the training is taking place outside of ukraine and will last about a week. the how wiltzers are part of an $800 million military aid package approved by the biden administration last week. of course well be hearing from the president in a...

In eastern ukraine. were in a critical window of time where theyll set the stage for the next phase of this war. and the united states and our allies and partners are moving as fast as possible to continue to provide ukraine with forces that they need. the weapons they need, the equipment they need. their forces need to defend their nation. last week i signed an $800 million package of security assistance to ukraine that included new capabilities like artillery systems and armored personnel char...

White house today, he said he would speak softly and carry a large javelin. the u.s. has provided about 40,000 of the anti-tank weapons what is new is the amount of artillery being sent. unthinkable a few weeks ago. the u.s. has provided $3.4 billion in lethal aid since the invasion began. half in the past two weeks alone. heres what is in this latest package. >> dozens of howitzers and 144,000 rounds of ammunition to go with them. we sent thousands of anti-armor and drones, rifles, radar system...

Thought on testing this inter-ballistic missile putin says it will give his enemies something to think about how do you view that risk? >> well, the russians have been modernizing the lucan the nuclear triad, ive seen farmers i didnt watch muscles with reading the make up the triad. and we have not. hours have been atrophied and were just trying to make a down payment on that in this budget. so theres a lot more for us to do. the russians have a lot of bluster surrounding weapons systems, they h...

When you are a combat leader and asking different folks for capabilities on the battlefield, theres a lot of people that will quickly deliver for you. and in this fight, in the donbas, what ukraine is facing next is a requirement to be light on their feet, light from a standpoint of how much logistics tail they have so they can move very quickly, and a requirement for a lot of intelligence. so the kinds of equipment that you are seeing being delivered now are providing those things, as well as t...

Weapon until today. the pentagon saying it was developed by the u.s. air force for ukrainians specific needs in this area. similar to the switchblade drone that they are sending, this means it is a drone, classified project because theyre not telling us what it is, but possibly has both anti-tank, anti-personnel capabilities, developed by the u.s. air force again for specific ukrainian needs. and i emphasize this because when we looked up the company that the pentagon said was developing this dr...

The specifics of that either. the pentagon saying they simply, for security reasons, cant disclose any details about either of these systems. so it becomes very interesting. ukraine has potentially two classified u.s. weapons systems now joining its inventory. >> interesting to say the least. barbara starr, grateful for the live report from the pentagon. lets get insights from our military analyst, retired lieutenant general mark hertling. lets pick up where barbara just left off. talking abou...

Their military? >> you know, this is just -- its astonishing. they have had since the fall of the soviet union, 30 years so resurrect their military, and although they have pretty good equipment in some cases, they just have not shown the leadership and the capacity at the staff level to combine arms and services to gain and maintain air superiority, to handle logistics. this is the blocking and tackling of modern armored warfare, and they just cant do it. im not sure the war in the donbas is go...

That can have the potential to blow up even in some cases a tank. so it has an anti-armor capability. we dont know -- thats the switchblades. we dont know exactly how much of that is mirrored in these new drones. we asked the pentagon press secretary about that earlier today and he declined to give real specifics on its capabilities but did point out that this was something the ukrainians have specifically asked for. but not just these new drones. the howitzers is a huge deal. this announcement ...