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(PNA photo by Joey Razon) MANILA - Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief, Gen. Andres Centino said this year's "Balikatan" exercises served as an opportunity for Manila to showcase and test the capabilities of military assets that it has acquired and developed in the past few years. Speaking at the closing ceremony of this year's exercises on Friday, Centino said these include the new air assets of the AFP like the S-70i Black Hawk and the AgustaWestland helicopters, the ...

Kind of capabilities sent into ukraine and every atrocity depicted on our screen and the latest this morning of the terrible bombings, west will galvanize to do more. we have more extreme sanctions being put in place as a result of the atrocity we saw in the week of bucha. well continue to see pressure to deliver more and more capable weapons for ukrainians not only to defend themselves but frankly to push russian forces further out and ultimately out of the territory of ukraine. that now seems ...

Their legs. they were impacted. theyve been hit hard. they obviously are now trying to refit their operation and try to restore their capabilities. and we shouldnt give them that opportunity. they have to keep the pressure on. this is the most important moment to be able to hit back at the russians. and impact on their ability to be able to restore their effectiveness. so this is an important opportunity, the united states has to provide whatever weapons are necessary to the ukrainians so that t...

With technology that is perfect for the defense, eight-person teams with anti-tank and anti-missile. but to do this, they need offensive weapons, and thats the thing today, weapons. so this is the t-72. this is the form of a bmp. the czech republic has already started providing these to the ukrainian military. the ukrainian military is familiar with it. there are questions about what the germans or other nato countries would turn in. theres logistics. these things run on a lot of gas and need a ...

Systemic solution, not a short-term one. what do you make of that argument and that assessment? >> well, i think its remarkable just listening to courtney detail the movement of one patriot. its hard for me to remember any conflict that weve covered at the pentagon, courtney and i for all these years where they talked about individual weapon systems, one patriot here, a certain number of javelin and missiles here. it just underscores the importance of how delicate western aid into ukraine is and...

Sustainment problems and unable to have any great speed. so to what you were just saying, this is an opportunity for the ukrainians, is this also maybe on the other side of that an indication of just how long of a slog this will be as the russians have this difficult to bring those troops, the hardware in. >> you know, look, i think we need to understand that there is only one thing that putin understands and that is force. im not saying sanctions arent important, or sanctions have their impact ...

Own capabilities but we still have to depend upon the ukrainin soldiers to make the russians pay as much as possible, but we also need to sanction the generals immediately. i had wrote about this in "the wall street journal" and already we need to be contemplating an international criminal court at this time for this specific purpose. the way that we did for the crimes in yugoslavia as well as elsewhere. >> general mark kimmett, thank you so much. we appreciate you being on the show. >> thank yo...

>> they are against the geneva convention. 500 bullets coming and shredding civilians. its to kill people who are standing in line to get their train. >> so this is a terror attack in the middle of a war. >> its a terror attack designed to intimidate and keep hostages there so when the russians come in, the civilians cant leave. >> we keep hearing give them more, give them more. what is more and what is it that, you know, is there some offensive capabilities we need to be giving them at this poi...

Anti-rocket and mortar systems to protect against attacks like these. >> is there anything that we can do, when i say "we," nato, to help create humanitarian corridors? is there a line can you do without being the full no-fly? if people want to leave a war zone, lets at least help them evacuate safely. >> i think we can do it in the west but i dont think we can do it in the east. the countries along the borders in the west like poland and romania, they might be able to provide capabilities to le...

(Photo courtesy of PAF) MANILA - Philippine Air Force (PAF) FA-50PH jet fighters will conduct "dissimilar air combat tactics" (DACT) with Hawker Hunter aircraft of the US Navy on Friday, the last day of the two-week "Balikatan" exercises. "The last flight of the FA-50s of the 5th Fighter Wing with the Hawker Hunters of the US Navy will be on April 8, they will do DACT," said PAF spokesperson, Col. Maynard Mariano, in a message to the Philippine News Agency Thursday....