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Hours or day,s, they do more. can you tell us what more we can do? >> on the humanitarian front, we have to do everything we can and i think we are stepping up to that plate in a big way along with our allies and especially by the way with the polish people. they deserve a lot of credit for their response to an overwhelming refugee crisis thats only 12 days old. with million of refugees. but on the military front, we need to help resupply the ukrainians with especially anti-aircraft, anti-missil...

Insurance _ package, and this will be our insurance policy against supply disruption. similarly, the leaders also discussed food prices and global— also discussed food prices and global food security. and here too the commission will come forward with options to address these important issues. putins wore has also fundamentally altered europes security— also fundamentally altered europes security environment. to defend europe, — security environment. to defend europe, we will need differen...

Expert warn that russia could target the united states in the form of a cyberattack. russia cyber capabilities have been on display in 2015, breaching ukraine power grid, leaving hundreds of thousands without power in 2017, russia unleashed a malwar attack in ukraine that spread across the globe, and cyberattacks coinciding with their invasion, impacting the ukraine government web sites. what about the united states? what would a cyberattack u.s. look like? joining us now former chief software o...

Hands just of ukrainian military forces? or has that been set up in any way to be given out to people in the event of decapitation of the central government? >> i think at this point its very much centralized within the military. at least my last conversations that were, you know, involved with the u.s. military and with ukraine special forces. but when you come to a resistance type of insurgency, at that point all bets are off. and its more about who has the will to fight, not necessarily who h...

Been saying for some time now, that russia has amassed forces along ukraines borders in belarus, positioned the assets, the heavy weaponry, the soldiers, the service members it would need to undertake an invasion of ukraine at a moments notice. that has been true for some time now. we have not seen any data points that alleviate the profound concern we have been expressing for some time now. so the invasion remains potentially imminent. >> pentagon officials say russian military capabilities alo...

Diplomat, joseph burrell said they are going to be committing $500 million in lethal weaponry that is going to go directly to the ukraine, and clearly he said, not just ammunition and small arms and that sort of thing, but including fighter jets. the idea would be some of the countries of the european union, former soviet bloc countries, poland, have made 29 jets that ukrainian pilots could fly. if they can get those jets perhaps through poland to the ukraine, they could have -- strengthen their...

Thank you. we want to bring in experts to discuss what can come next as russian forces former state department official and policy advisor to the campaign. former major general in united states air force nick mcguire and senior law enforcement advisor charles marino. we just have a quick time so we will get to you in the next hour and thank you for being here. general come i want to start with you because we have this conversation during a commercial break what air force capabilities and other j...

Resistance against the army of occupation. >> my gulf of mexico question, and beginning you will, given the imbalance between the two militaries, what kind of fight do you expect from the ukrainians now? and do you except that insurgency to eventuate going forward. >> i think the ukrainians are better than when russia launched the proxy wars in the donbas. but they lack the overwhelming firepower of the russian military today. they lack the air power. they lack the missile power. the electronic ...

That they will show that they have a deterrent effect on being the. the united states just announced yesterday that they are sending some more capabilities in fact that region. a couple of them that really stood out to me and the announcement were f-35s. some of the united states most advanced fighter aircraft. apache helicopters. 32 of these attack helicopters. that was very telling to me, it sends a signal to russia that the u.s. is bringing in this capability to pull on and some of those neig...

Defense official who is overseeing the delivery of weapons and security assistance to the military, $60 million package was transferred to ukraine by november of last year as concerns about russia grew. in late december the white house authorized $200 million worth of military aid and that aid by the end of january, that had all been delivered, we are told. in terms of the $350 million in u.s. military aid announced last friday, we are now told $240 million worth of it, about 70% to include anti...